The Jazz Cruise

19/06/2024

Thomas Conrad, a columnist for Stereophile magazine, wrote this review of The Jazz Cruise '24.

The Jazz House All-Stars. All Photos: John Abbott Photography c/o Jazz Cruises

18/06/2024

Interview with Ken Peplowski about his latest album "Live at Mezzrow."

Saxophonist and clarinetist Ken Peplowski perseveres through a life-threatening illness to produce two remarkable albums.

17/06/2024

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Emmet Cohen - Piano
Ekep Nkwelle - Vocals
Caity Gyorgy - Vocals
Yasushi Nakamura - Bass
Kyle Poole - Drums

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Video Design: Alex Weitz http://abw-productions.com
Sound: Kelvin Grant [email protected]
Piano Tuning: Kaz Tsujio
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Special thanks to: The Jazz Cruise, JazzCorner, JazzTimes, Penn State, Mack Avenue, Lied Center of Kansas, & St. Cecilia Music Center

17/06/2024

14/06/2024

Eliane Elias Music, who has sailed on The Jazz Cruise several times, has just released a single "At First Sight," from her upcoming album "Time and Again."

Listen to Time and Again by Eliane Elias.

13/06/2024

Big news from Jazz Cruises today. The great vocalist/pianist Diana Krall will be performing on Botti at Sea II in 2025, offering guests of The Jazz Cruise a unique opportunity to sail back-to-back on both cruises and enjoy two weeks of great music. https://bottiatsea.com/

11/06/2024

The groundbreaking pianist and vocalist Hazel Scott was also born on this same day in 1920. Born in Trinidad, Ms. Scott become a star on both stage and screen, and was a regular performer at the famous club Cafe Society in NYC. She died in 1981 at the age of 61.

11/06/2024

Remembering Shelly Manne who was born on this day in 1920. The legendary West Coast drummer was an important influence on our own Jeff Hamilton, as well as dozens of other contemporary drummers.

10/06/2024

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Emmet Cohen - Piano
Dr. Eddie Henderson - Trumpet
Steve Davis - Trombone
Bass - Russell Hall
Evan Sherman - Drums

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Special thanks to: The Jazz Cruise, JazzCorner, Qobuz, JazzTimes, Penn State, Cliff Bells, Vail Jazz, Jazz Aspen Snowmass, Mack Avenue, Savannah Music Fest, Tri-C JazzFest, Arts Garage, Lied Center of Kansas, Rochester Jazz Festival, & St. Cecilia Music Center

10/06/2024

Emmet Cohen will be appearing with Ron Carter this week at Birdland Jazz Club in NYC.

Looking forward to celebrating music and life this week at Birdland Jazz Club with Maestro Ron Carter🎻 and Evan Sherman🥁. It’s a 5-night run June 11-15, Tuesday-Saturday, and tickets are still available for second sets! Link below 🙂

Tickets: https://www.birdlandjazz.com/tm-event/emmet-cohen-trio-feat-ron-carter/

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06/06/2024

Remembering Al Grey who was born on this day in 1925. Unfortunately, the renowned trombonist died in 2000, shortly before the frist sailing of The Jazz Cruise in 2001, so he never appeared on our cruise.

06/06/2024

Happy Birthday (tomorrow) to our friend Monty Alexander who was born on D-Day in 1944. Yes, that makes him 80 years old, but he still is a fountain of youth, both on and off the bandstand.

On June 6, 1944, the Allies during World War II brought together land, air, and sea forces landing on the shores of Normandy and able to invade N**i held Europe. Meanwhile, in Kingston, Jamaica on June 6, 1944, Montgomery Bernard "Monty" Alexander was born. 🥰

On June 6, Monty will be celebrating his 80th birthday at Dimitriou's Jazz Alley and we will be online at some time on Thursday/

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05/06/2024

Kurt Elling is on the road with SuperBlue, his funky collaboration with guitarist Charlie Hunter.

The one and only SuperBlue get back on the road this week!

Thursday June 6: North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC [double bill with Samara Joy]
https://ncartmuseum.org/events/jazz-at-the-ncma-presents-samara-joy-and-superblue-kurt-elling-charlie-hunter/?occurrence=2024-06-06

Friday June 7: The Vogel, Red Bank, NJ
https://www.ticketmaster.com/event/1D006046F1012466

Saturday June 8: Groton Hill Music, Groton, MA
https://grotonhill.org/concerts/superblue/

Kurt Elling 🎤
Charlie Hunter 🎸
Julius Rodriguez 🎹🎛
Marcus Finnie 🥁

📷: Krzysztof Szafraniec

04/06/2024

Emmet Cohen will be performing with Ron Carter June 11-15 at Birdland Jazz Club.

I’m beyond excited to join forces with one of the greatest musicians this planet has ever known— Ron Carter! Our 5-night run takes place June 11-15 at Birdland Jazz Club, and tickets are going fast. The incredible Evan Sherman will be playing drums! Hope to see you there 🤩

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03/06/2024

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Recorded Live at Box Jazz Club in Stuttgart, Germany - April 2024

Emmet Cohen - Piano
Philip Norris - Bass
Kyle Poole - Drums

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02/06/2024

One day tickets now on sale for the STL Jazz Fest on August 23 & 24. Headliners include Gregory Porter, Niki Haris, Eric Marienthal, Alonzo Bodden, Mindi Abair and Brian Culbertson Official.

Jazz Cruises is excited to announce STL Jazz Fest ’24, two nights of amazing music presented by Jazz Cruises, the GOLD standard of jazz at sea since 2001.

31/05/2024

Happy Birthday to one of our stellar hosts, Christian McBride, who turns 52 years young today. Bassist, bandleader, composer, radio host, educator, artistic director...he does it all.

30/05/2024

Look who's coming to Vic's in Las Vegas this weekend!

It's Two Nights in Vegas with Shelly Berg at Vic's Las Vegas!

Shelly Berg is a Steinway piano artist and five-time Grammy-nominated arranger, orchestrator, and producer. His newest album Alegría will be recorded with bassist Carlitos Del Puerto and Dafnis Prieto and released June 2024 on ArtistShare.

Prior albums Gershwin Reimagined: An American in London (Decca Gold), The Deep (Chesky), The Nearness of You (Arbors), Blackbird (Concord) and The Will (CARS) are critically acclaimed. Berg earned three Grammy nominations in the Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocal(s) category with jazz singer-lyricist Lorraine Feather and international superstar Gloria Estefan, and a fourth Grammy nomination as co-producer of Gloria Estefan: The Standards (Sony). He earned his fifth Grammy nomination as co-arranger of “I Loves You Porgy / There’s a Boat That’s Leavin’ Soon for New York” from the album Rendezvous (2018) featuring jazz singers Clint Holmes and Dee Dee Bridgewater with The Count Basie Orchestra.

Other recent projects include arranging, orchestrating and co-producing the Estefan Family Christmas album, and recording and/or performing with Tony Bennett, Steve Miller, Seal, Lizz Wright, Andra Day, Monica Mancini, Kari Kirkland, Carmen Bradford, Chris Botti, Renée Fleming, and Arturo Sandoval. He is also artistic director of The Jazz Cruise, and artistic advisor for the Jazz Roots series at the Adrienne Arsht Performing Arts Center of Miami-Dade County.

An award-winning educator with over 40 years of leadership in higher education, Shelly Berg is Dean and Patricia L. Frost Professor of Music at the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami. He was previously the McCoy/Sample Professor of Jazz Studies at the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California and a past president of the International Association for Jazz Education (IAJE). In 2003 he was honored as Educator of the Year by the Los Angeles Jazz Society and in 2002 received the IAJE Lawrence Berk Leadership Award. In 2000 the Los Angeles Times named him one of three “Educators for the Millennium.”

30/05/2024

So many jazz birthdays this time of year. Today is Ann Hampton Callaway's birthday. Here are some photos from Ann's recent sailing on The Jazz Cruise, during which she always lit up every room.

29/05/2024

Another regular of The Jazz Cruise celebrates a birthday today. Lafayette Harris Jr. Piano has sailed with us numerous times and the veteran pianist has become a favorite of our guests. Happy Birthday, Lafayette!

29/05/2024

Happy Birthday to Sean Jones, who has a larger than life presence, on and off the bandstand.

28/05/2024

Check out one of Cyrille Aimée's sets at Birdland Jazz Club last week.

Cyrille Aimée (vocals/ukulele), Michael Valeanu (guitar), Pedro Segundo (percussion), Tamir Shmerling (bass), Wayne Tucker (trumpet), Julian Lee (sax). Bird...

28/05/2024

Renee Rosnes is coming to the Village Vanguard next week with her all star quartet.

27/05/2024

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Recorded Live at Box Jazz Club in Stuttgart, Germany - April 2024

Emmet Cohen - Piano
Philip Norris - Bass
Kyle Poole - Drums

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27/05/2024

Happy Birthday today to our friend Dee Dee Bridgewater, who seems to get younger with every passing year.

27/05/2024

Happy Birthday, Miles Davis, the iconic trumpeter, composer and bandleader who influenced so many of the artists who perform on The Jazz Cruise.

Happy birthday, Miles Davis!

One of the most titanic presences and influences in all of jazz's history, Miles Davis literally rewrote the playbook for this music time and again, leading generations of artists into incredible new territories. Cutting his teeth in Swing Era big bands before landing a coveted spot performing with Charlie Parker, Davis would ultimately master the BeBop idiom even as he simultaneously (in collaboration with figures like Gil Evans, John Lewis, Gerry Mulligan, and more) helped coax the rise of cool jazz during the late 1940s and early 1950s. From there, Miles continued to grow and innovate: his iconic 1954 album Walkin' helped herald the arrival of the Hard Bop style, perfected through his efforts with what we now call his First Great Quintet, later 1950s works like Miles Ahead and Sketches of Spain were watersheds in the burgeoning Third Stream movement in the music, while Milestones and Kind of Blue demonstrated the incredible expressive beauty in Jazz's embrace of modes. As the 1960s unveiled, Miles formed yet another iconic quintet, and with them stretched jazz into some of its most creative and extraordinary spaces through albums like Nefertiti and The Sorcerer. While many jazz artists would have rested on their well-deserved laurels, Miles did not, and his late 1960s Fusion efforts In a Silent Way and Bi***es Brew proved profoundly influential, exploring rock instrumentation while also innovating in abstract textures and free improvisation. 1970s fusion works found Miles embracing intense dance grooves, with now-classic efforts like On the Corner or Agharta. While the late 1970s saw him step away from music, his return in the 1980s with iconic and award-winning albums like Tutu and Star People saw him embracing some of the latest sounds and developments in popular music of the day. Leaving behind an unmatched record of experimentation and innovation, Miles also left us in the hands of generation upon generation of artists who grew up under his mentorship and influence.

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26/05/2024

Celebrating our young, but somehow lifelong friend, Emmet Cohen who turned 34 years young today. He's become a vital part of the Jazz Cruises family.

24/05/2024

Belated Happy Birthday wishes to our longtime friend, host and All-Star Ken Peplowski who turned 65 yesterday. He makes every performance on The Jazz Cruise a bit more fun.