SECRETS FROM THE JAZZ GHETTO: A Change Is Gonna Come

SECRETS FROM THE JAZZ GHETTO: A Change Is Gonna Come:   Jennifer Hudson: A Change Is Gonna Come  This is a big week, for the country and for me personally. We have a new President and a new ad...

Friday Musical Moments: George Kahn Quartet - Eva

Friday Musical Moments: George Kahn Quartet - Eva:   George Kahn Quartet: "Eva" on the charts  The start of the new year finds jazz radio stations across the US playing cuts from ...

Some Good Jazz News! (Album Release Party)

Join Some Good Jazz News, with Courtney Lemmon and Gina Saputo for the premier showing of Bad Guy/Speak No Evil

What If Wayne Shorter and Billie Eilish met for drinks?

 Bad Guy/ Speak No Evil

Composed by Billie Eilish and Wayne Shorter Arranged by George Kahn Performed by The Jazz & Blues Revue from PATH Jazz Night 2020, November 5, 2020 Donate to PATH: https://epath.org https://georgekahn.com/store

GEORGE KAHN: Why I Love Jazz

Going Baroque!

George Kahn Quartet - Going Baroque

"Third Stream Music" is a term coined by Gunther Schuller, in a lecture at Brandeis University in 1957, for a type of music which, through improvisation or written composition or both, synthesizes the essential characteristics and techniques of contemporary Western art music and other musical traditions.

From 1967-1977, Schuller served as President of the New England Conservatory where he formalized NEC’s commitment to jazz by establishing the first degree-granting jazz program at a major classical conservatory in 1969. By then there were many jazz artists experimenting with this idea, including Claude Bolling, Ran Blake, George Russell, Roger Kellaway and John Lewis and the Modern Jazz Quartet.

The third single from the upcoming George Kahn Quartet album is a tribute to the Modern Jazz Quartet. It is appropriately titled "GOING BAROQUE", but it was named way before 24 million Americans filed for unemployment. It is a 16 bar down-home lazy blues with a 16-bar fugue to kick things off. Enjoy!

If you'd like to know more about the George Kahn Quartet and our upcoming album, 

go to http://bit.ly/GeorgeKahnDreamCatcher

https://youtu.be/JNr36fR2Fa0

Oh Happy Day!

 I was thinking yesterday that there will come a time in the not too distant future that we will say, "Remember that month when there was no traffic, and the air was clear, and we were able to walk the dog and spend time and reconnect with our kids?"

Call me an cockeyed optimist, but I woke up this morning, singing this song. Here is an AMAZING virtual choir, featuring my friends Macain Treat, Crystal Starr and Courtney Lemmon (Courtney and Crystal are two of the singers in The Jazz & Blues Revue! http://jazzandbluesrevue.com)

 

By the way, today is the final day of my Kickstarter for the new album, DreamCatcher. If you have not pre-ordered your copy yet, today is the last day! Check it out here:

 http://bit.ly/GeorgeKahnDreamCatcher

https://youtu.be/-6FmVP5Kxko