Dan Willis Review

Brand new review of Dan Willis & Velvet Gentlemen’s newest album “The Satie Project II” is up on Jazz de Gama. Raul de Gama writes, “Dan Willis succeeds not only in revisiting important and beautiful work by Erik Satie and engaging in a new examination of its historical importance, but also in putting the music of this all-but-forgotten master in the brand new, contemporary orchestral context of an altogether new idiom: that of jazz.”

Read the full review here: Dan Willis and Velvet Gentlemen – The Satie Project II

Orrin Evans Trio at Pittsburgh Jazz Live Festival

Orrin Evans Trio will perform at Pittsburgh Jazz Live Festival in Pittsburgh, PA on Saturday, June 8. The performance begins at 1:15pm on the Penn Ave II Stage. Orrin play songs from his newest release “It Was Beauty” on Saturday. Orrin will also stay to perform with Sean Jones Quartet at the Penn Ave II Stage on Sunday, June 9 at 1:15pm.