While in Vegas, I was a bit off the beaten path. Case in point: I recorded in one of the city’s premier studios!
Click HERE for a preview of the song, Calicho Dress, featuring my incredible quintet.
Vicariously Vegas
From March 30-April 3, I was in Las Vegas for Grammy week!
Photos are up on the website. Click here to see them!
I’m In Vegas for Grammy Week!
I’m in Vegas!
At the generosity of the Bad Kids Klass’ Master Songwriter, Malik Yusef, I am honored to have been invited here to celebrate his three Grammy nominations.
So…..where’s the coolest jazz club? The best vegan restaurant? The chicest boutique and art gallery?
Yep, I like being off the beaten path. Contact me!
MAR 31 • NEA Jazz Masters Concert
On Thursday, March 31 at 7:30PM PT/10:30PM ET, the National Endowment for the Arts in collaboration with SFJAZZ will honor 2022 NEA Jazz Masters Stanley Clarke, Donald Harrison, Jr., Billy Hart, and Cassandra Wilson and kick off the 40th anniversary of the NEA Jazz Masters Fellowships Program with a free concert and online broadcast from the SFJAZZ Center.
2018 NEA Jazz Master Dianne Reeves will host the concert, which will include performances, video tributes, and remarks. The concert will also feature performances by 2022 honorees Stanley Clarke, Billy Hart, and Donald Harrison, Jr.. Additional performers include Ethan Iverson, SFJAZZ Collective, Mark Turner, Ben Street and many others.
Learn More (this is also the livestream link) by clicking here to link to the NEA event page.
A2IM Features Changamiré
The American Association of Independent Music (A2IM) has featured me as the owner of an independent company within the music industry. In 2021, I was selected into A2IM’s Black Independent Music Accelerator (BIMA) and could not be more thrilled with the program and organization.
Read the interview feature here.
JAN 27 • Conscious Listening
Music is in every area of our lives. But how closely are we really listening? To the music? To others?
Join me and master facilitator, Elizabeth Ross Holmstrom of Mindful Employer, for a virtual workshop on Jan 27 as we explore deeper listening in unexpected ways, to help foster more effective engagement with others. Hint: Jazz will be included!
Click here to register.
JAN 21 • Jimmy Greene Talk
On Friday, January 21, I will lead a post-performance conversation with saxophonist extraordinaire, Jimmy Greene, following his concert at The Kennedy Center.
Jimmy’s musicality is sensational. It makes sense that the concert has almost sold out.
I am beyond thrilled to be a part of it.
Clubhouse Icon Hails NJL!
The new Clubhouse app icon, Abraxas Higgins, named The New Jazz Listener as his favorite room on the 10M member app!
The New Jazz Listener is a weekly music-listening event, co-moderated by Marvin Anani and I, that aims to introduce jazz music to people who are curious about it.
Join the fun from wherever you are and while you’re doing whatever you’re doing on Sundays at 4:00-5:30 PM ET. Get started via our website here.
DEC 12 • 1-Year Anniversary Party!
The New Jazz Listener is the top jazz club on the Clubhouse app, co-founded by me and Marvin Anani in Denver, Colorado. Since its founding on December 10, 2020, it has been an amazing year of incredible music, cool cats and love. Come hang out with me on Sunday, December 12th at anytime between 4:00-5:30 PM EST, as I celebrate this milestone!
Our esteemed guests are Katea Stitt, daughter of the late Sonny Stitt; Abraxas Higgins, the top Clubhouse member in Europe; Jaleel Shaw, an award-winning saxophonist and Katja von Schuttenbach, jazz historian.
Click here to enter the event or to also register on Clubhouse!
Holiday Gifts by Changa
From pretty paper incense to a Gardenia Bath Bar to Japanese lacquered chopsticks, there are gorgeous unexpected gifts in Changamiré’s lifestyle collection for everyone special on your holiday list.
Click LIFESTYLE on the menu to shop.