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Bob James Added to 2023 Pittsburgh International Jazz Festival Lineup

7/26/2023

BOB JAMES, Grammy-Winning Keyboardist/Composer/Arranger and Jazz Fusion/Smooth Jazz Pioneer Joins the Lineup for the Pittsburgh International Jazz Festival Presented by Citizens on Saturday, September 16, 3:30 pm, at Highmark Stadium

James Is the 2023 PIJF Luminary Award Recipient

PITTSBURGH, PA, July 25, 2023 – Keyboardist/composer/arranger Bob James, who has shaped modern music for an astonishing six decades with over 60 albums as a leader, has been added to the lineup of the Pittsburgh International Jazz Festival (PIJF) Presented by Citizens on Saturday, September 16, 3:30 pm, at Highmark Stadium, 510 W. Station Square Drive.

Vocalist Lenora Zenzalai Helm Wraps Up 20-Year Journey with JOURNEYWOMAN

7/20/2023

The Award-Winning, Jazz Vocal Musician, Composer, Lyricist and Educator Lenora Zenzalai Helm and Her Tribe Jazz Orchestra® Nonet Unveil JOURNEYWOMAN,
Her New Album Chronicling the Challenges and Triumphs of Black Women

DURHAM, NC, July 14, 2023 – Hailed by Jazziz magazine as the ”voice of her generation” and a “national treasure,” Chicago-born, Durham, North Carolina-based Dr. Lenora Zenzalai Helm is a top-notch jazz vocal musician, an ebullient composer, an inventive lyricist, an inspiring bandleader and a dedicated educator at North Carolina Central University (NCCU). Helm encompasses all of the inventions and dimensions of jazz and the African Diaspora on her new recording, Journeywoman, featuring her Tribe Jazz Orchestra® Nonet. Helm’s new CD, her eighth as a leader, is a compelling 65-minute, multi-movement 12-track work, where she sings about the life of an allegorical woman named Journey, and her struggles with abuse, birth, death, self-definition and her victories through self-love, perseverance and affirmation.

James Weidman Releases SONIC REALITIES

7/14/2023

Pianist James Weidman Releases Sonic Realities
Available Now on Inner Circle Music

Weidman’s First Recording in 5 Years Features Bassist Harvie S and Drummer Alvester Garnett Performing Original Compositions and Works by Charlie Parker, Kurt Weill and Hale Smith

NEW YORK, NY, July 2023 – For the past four decades, the Youngstown, Ohio-born pianist James Weidman has literally been one of the most valuable players on the New York scene, as an indispensable sideman with a wide variety of jazz leaders, from singers Abbey Lincoln and Cassandra Wilson, to Steve Coleman’s iconoclastic M-Base collective to Joe Lovano’s Us Five ensemble. Weidman’s recordings as a leader showcase his profound, propulsive and poetic pianism, as does his long-awaited recording, Sonic Realities, with bassist Harvie S and drummer Alvester Garnett. Weidman sees this project as the latest in a continuum of jazz piano trios that have defined the music.

Get On Board the Jazz Train to Pittsburgh

7/5/2023

All Aboard The Jazz Train
to the Pittsburgh International Jazz Festival
with Stops in New York, Newark and Philadelphia
Departing September 14; Returning September 18

Tickets Are On Sale Now at https://pittsburghjazzfest.org

PITTSBURGH, PA, June 29, 2023 – ALL ABOARD, jazz fans in New York, Newark and Philadelphia! Join Pianist Orrin Evans, host of the inaugural Jazz Train, for an exciting ride and five days of music, fun, food and camaraderie at the Pittsburgh International Jazz Festival (PIJF), which takes place September 14 - 17 at the August Wilson African American Cultural Center (AWAACC) and Highmark Stadium.

Bob James Added to 2023 Pittsburgh International Jazz Festival Lineup

BOB JAMES, Grammy-Winning Keyboardist/Composer/Arranger and Jazz Fusion/Smooth Jazz Pioneer Joins the Lineup for the Pittsburgh International Jazz Festival Presented by Citizens on Saturday, September 16, 3:30 pm, at Highmark Stadium James Is the 2023 PIJF Luminary Award Recipient

Vocalist Lenora Zenzalai Helm Wraps Up 20-Year Journey with JOURNEYWOMAN

The Award-Winning, Jazz Vocal Musician, Composer, Lyricist and Educator Lenora Zenzalai Helm and Her Tribe Jazz Orchestra® Nonet Unveil JOURNEYWOMAN,Her New Album Chronicling the Challenges and Triumphs of Black Women

James Weidman Releases SONIC REALITIES

Get On Board the Jazz Train to Pittsburgh

All Aboard The Jazz Trainto the Pittsburgh International Jazz Festival​ with Stops in New York, Newark and Philadelphia Departing September 14; Returning September 18 Tickets Are On Sale Now at https://pittsburghjazzfest.org

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BOB JAMES, Grammy-Winning Keyboardist/Composer/Arranger and Jazz Fusion/Smooth Jazz Pioneer Joins the Lineup for the Pittsburgh International Jazz Festival Presented by Citizens on Saturday, September 16, 3:30 pm, at Highmark Stadium

James Is the 2023 PIJF Luminary Award Recipient

The Award-Winning, Jazz Vocal Musician, Composer, Lyricist and Educator Lenora Zenzalai Helm and Her Tribe Jazz Orchestra® Nonet Unveil JOURNEYWOMAN,
Her New Album Chronicling the Challenges and Triumphs of Black Women

All Aboard The Jazz Train
to the Pittsburgh International Jazz Festival
with Stops in New York, Newark and Philadelphia
Departing September 14; Returning September 18

Tickets Are On Sale Now at https://pittsburghjazzfest.org