July 2012 – Barbados Jazz Society raises funds for the Barbados Community College Music Department
One of the mandates of the Barbados Jazz Society is the support of up and coming young Jazz musicians through the music program at the Barbados Community College. The first fundraiser was held in July at the Member’s Mingle at the home of President Anne Smith where a trio of BCC-trained musicians entertained over 40 […]
February 19, 2012 – Barbados Jazz Society presents the Mike Sealy Group with Canadian Jazz Pianist Steve Koven
The musical synergies of eminent Barbadian guitarist Mike Sealy and Canadian pianist Steve Koven thrilled a packed house of jazz lovers at Divi Southwinds Sunday evening. Bassist Cecil Bascombe and drummer Vere Gibson set a steady groove for Mike and Steve. The Barbados Jazz Society thanks patrons and partner Divi Southwinds for their support.
September 14, 2011 Barbados Jazz Society birthday celebrations for jazz icon, pianist Ebe Gilkes
The Barbados Jazz Society partnered with the Barbados Cruising Club to celebrate with jazz pianist Ebe Gilkes on his 81st birthday.
Jazz in Barbados – December 7-13, 2012
. . . “Listening is more important than anything because that’s what music is; somebody is playing something & you’re receiving it.” Carla Bley,jazz pianist & composer Here’s what’s happening this week on the jazz scene . . . Friday December 7th CiCi and the Roger Gittens Trio @ The Waterfront Café starting at 8pm […]
The End of Jazz
How America’s most vibrant music became a relic by Benjamin Schwarz Musician, composer, scholar, teacher, perhaps a bit of an operator—albeit of a distinctly nerdy variety—Ted Gioia is also the sort of compulsive, encyclopedically knowledgeable enthusiast the jazz world engenders. (Dan Morgenstern, Will Friedwald, and the winningly neurotic savant and broadcaster Phil Schaap immediately come […]
