Ebe Gilkes is the icon of jazz in Barbados where he has entertained audiences for over 57 years with his exceptional virtuosity on the piano. His trio and quartet have…
"Forgive me if I don't have the words. Maybe I can sing it & you'll understand." Ella Jane Fitzgerald - an American jazz vocalist, a notable interpreter of the…
“Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a personal style, a trademark, so to speak. They confine themselves to one type of playing. I have no one style. I play…
January 27, 2014
“Jazz is about being in the moment” Herbie Hancock
January is traditionally jazz month in Barbados. BJS applauds Naniki Caribbean Jazz Safari and Honey Jazz 2014…
“Christmas will always be as long as we stand heart to heart and hand in hand.” Theodor Seuss Geisel, American writer, poet, and cartoonist, widely known as Dr. Seuss,…
“You must own it to play it.” Roy Haynes – American jazz drummer & bandleader, among the most recorded drummers in jazz, with a career lasting more than 60…
Barbados Jazz Society was on air at VOB Radio 92.9FM, Sunday December 1 with our first segment of the BJS Jazz Hour. Listeners who tuned in to…
"Change is always happening. That's one of the wonderful things about Jazz music." Maynard Ferguson Canadian trumpet and flugelhorn player and bandleader. Ferguson came to prominence in Stan Kenton’s…
"Players are coming from other backgrounds: rock, folk, ethnic music. It's changing Jazz for the better." Billy Taylor - an American jazz pianist, composer, broadcaster, and educator. Dr. Taylor…
"The most important thing I look for in a musician is whether he knows how to listen." Duke Ellington - American composer, pianist, and big band leader. Ellington is…
"I just fell in love with the integrity of the music & that was it.” Tierney Sutton – Gifted American jazz vocalist and arranger with a strong, wide-ranging, uncluttered…
"The people who know nothing about music are the ones always talking about it." Nathaniel Adams Coles, known professionally as Nat King Cole. An American jazz vocalist, Cole first…