Musing on Mingus w/ Shabaka Henley and Muziki Roberson
Bop Central and Reflections In Rhythm present Grapes & Grooves featuring multifaceted, award honored actor Barry Shabaka Henley and Muziki Roberson Ensemble Sunday October 16th, 3pm to 6pm at 5409 Bancroft Avenue (at Fairfax) in Oakland.
Renowned actor and Jazz fan Shabaka Henley collaborates ...
(Published: September 29, 2011) [read more]
VOLKER GOETZE AND ABLAYE CISSOKO, WHO EARNED CRITICAL ACCLAIM FOR THEIR DEBUT CD, SIRA, LAUNCH INTERNATIONAL TOUR IN OCTOBER
October 13 Show, at Culture Hub in NYC, Will Debut Goetze's Mande Symphony, A Multi-Media Event Featuring String Quartet, drummer Richie Barshay, and Visualist Joshue Ott
Duo, Performing Music from Sira, Will Also Appear at the Dalai Lama's Festival of Sacred Music in Los ...
(Published: September 29, 2011) [read more]
Los Angeles-based promoters Wavelength opens doors to affordable jazz publicity
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Los Angeles, CA - In these times of economic instability, a number of jazz artists are singing the blues, especially when it comes to finding affordable publicity services. The Los Angeles-based promotions firm Wavelength has felt their pain and is ready to assist them. ...
(Published: September 28, 2011) [read more]
Sony Complete Album Series- Miles Davis, Dexter Gordon, Woody Shaw, Wayne Shorter, and Wynton Marsalis
Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, is giving music fans early inspiration for the holiday shopping season this year, announcing a great assortment of iconic jazz, pop, rock, blues and soul artists to be showcased in the next round of The Complete Albums ...
(Published: September 28, 2011) [read more]
Chicago's FLIPPOMUSIC Releases the First Jazz Setting of the Tao Te Ching: Tao Tunes (Oppilf Records)
Dave Flippo's modern jazz quintet FLIPPOMUSIC has been blending various ethnic music with jazz since 1992. Their most recent project creates an ethnic collaboration through the ancient Chinese texts, the "Tao Te Ching" to create Tao Tunes. Flippo has adapted several translations into ...
(Published: September 28, 2011) [read more]
Dallas Museum of Art Celebrates the Women of Jazz with a Month-long Tribute
Join the Dallas Museum of Art for a month-long celebration of the women of jazz music during Thursday Night Live's Jazz in the Atrium program. Each concert features area and national ensembles with female bandleaders celebrating the history of women in jazz; from Mary Lou Williams to Ella ...
(Published: September 28, 2011) [read more]
Shemekia Copeland - Jazz at Lincoln Center - Nov 10-11
SHEMEKIA COPELAND
LAUNCHES THE BLUES SERIES
NOVEMBER 10 & 11 - THE ALLEN ROOM
Who/What:
There is a reason they call Shemekia Copeland the torch bearer for Queen of the Blues. Rare is the New York native who has been ranked as one of the world's top blues performers, but that is the ...
(Published: September 28, 2011) [read more]
Exhibition: Paris Blues Revisited: Romare Bearden, Albert Murray, Sam Shaw - Jazz at Lincoln Center
Jazz at Lincoln Center Marks the 100th Birthday of Romare Bearden and the 50th Anniversary of the Film Paris Blues with a New Exhibition:
Paris Blues Revisited:
Romare Bearden, Albert Murray, Sam Shaw
Art © Romare Bearden Foundation / Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY
Who/What: This ...
(Published: September 28, 2011) [read more]
Jazzmobile Presents First Annual Jazzy Awards Celebration, October 10, 7:00 pm
Jazzmobile Presents First Annual Jazzy Awards Celebration:
In Honor of Dr. Billy Taylor's 90th Birthday
Monday, October 10, 7:00 pm, Hudson Theatre
Special Performances by Dianne Reeves, Frank Wess,
Jimmy Heath, Wycliffe Gordon and the Jazzmobile Big Band
Evening Also Honors George ...
(Published: September 28, 2011) [read more]
The Afro Latin Jazz Alliance Celebrates 10th Anniversary
The Afro Latin Jazz Alliance announces that it will celebrate the 10th Anniversary season of the GRAMMY® Award-winning Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra (ALJO), directed by Arturo O'Farrill, in 2011/12 at Symphony Space on Manhattan's Upper West Side.
To commemorate the 10th Anniversary, the ...
(Published: September 28, 2011) [read more]
René Marie To Show Us Her Black Lace Freudian Slip
René Marie, the award winning jazz, soul and blues singer-songwriter whose voice has been compared by critics to Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughn, and her social advocacy compared to Nina Simone's and Abbey Lincoln's, will be releasing her new album Black Lace Freudian Slip (Motema ...
(Published: September 27, 2011) [read more]
Jazz Legend CHICO HAMILTON Releases "Revelation" CD Today
Chico Hamilton: REVELATION CD Release 9/27
Marking Chico's 90th Birthday, Previewed by Two EPs
Release Date: 9/27/2011
Label: Joyous Shout!
Tracks: Brushes, Evanly, No Way LA, Song for Lynne, Paul Ain't Home, Evan's Along, P & E, Stompin' at the Savoy, Because I ...
(Published: September 27, 2011) [read more]
Marc Hoffman Quartet Returns for 7th Annual Blues & Jazz Event
Quartet brings original jazz and standards to the City Club of Rock Hill
September 27, 2011 (Charlotte, NC) - Jazz pianist/composer/vocalist Marc Hoffman and his quartet will return to the City Club of Rock Hill this Friday, September 30, from 7 to 11 PM as part of 7th Annual Blues & Jazz ...
(Published: September 27, 2011) [read more]
Kickstarter Updates: Ezra Weiss and the Rob Scheps Big Band with Greg Gisbert
The Kickstarter has reached 25% already! Thank you so much to our amazing backers! Please keep the amazing support coming - 75% to go!
Here are some video updates of the project:
Update #1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFldMowMs14
Update ...
(Published: September 26, 2011) [read more]
Top Artists Gather On-Stage for GIANTS OF JAZZ Concert at SOPAC 10/1
2011 GIANTS OF JAZZ
WHEN: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2011 at 9:00PM
LOCATION: SOUTH ORANGE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER (1 SOPAC Way, South Orange, NJ, 07079)
HOW: TICKETS $50. TO PURCHASE, VISIT http://www.SOPACnow.org OR CALL 973.313.ARTS
MEDIA CONTACT: APRIL THIBEAULT/AMT PR/ 212.861.0990/ ...
(Published: September 26, 2011) [read more]
Evocative piano instrumentals of Francesco Turrisi speaks language of pictures on second album 'Fotografia'
September 25, 2011 (Dublin, Ireland) Written by Robert Sutton. Each track on Italian pianist Francesco Turrisi's second album unreels like a frame from a film; it's no wonder he titled it Fotografia. Turrisi is a visionary composer, and his evocative music speaks the language of pictures. ...
(Published: September 25, 2011) [read more]
MEDDY GERVILLE IN CONCERT AT BRICK & MORTAR MUSIC HALL
New York, New York, September 25, 2011-In support of his newest CD release, Fo Kronm La Vi, Reunion Island pianist, songwriter, composer and vocalist Meddy Gerville will perform live at Brick & Mortar Music Hall in San Francisco, CA, on Sunday, October 9, 2011 from 4:00 to 6:00 PM. Playing with ...
(Published: September 25, 2011) [read more]
Rockwired.com's Jazzed and Blue Presents Multi-Instrumental Jazz Artist Kenny Love and His New Release'Case Sensitive'and Music from Red Hot and Red, Mozik, Dee Dee Bridgewater and Curtis Stigers
The latest edition of Jazzed and Blue: Profiles in Blues and Jazz is now available for download at Rockwired.com and features an exclusive interview with multi-instrumental jazz artist Kenny Love regarding his debut solo release Case Sensitive. In the opening segment, Love discusses the inspiration ...
(Published: September 25, 2011) [read more]
Will Calhoun Trio at Dwyer Center
The Uptown Tea Series
presents
Will Calhoun's Native Lands Trio
Sunday Sept 25 at 2 PM
Dwyer Cultural Center
258 St. Nicholas Ave.
at 123rd Street entrance
New York NY 10027
212-222-3060
Will Calhoun has toured or worked with musical royalty such as Wayne Shorter, Bobby Watson, Jaco ...
(Published: September 24, 2011) [read more]
New album from the Maureen Choi Quartet unites classical and jazz in harmonious marriage
September 23, 2011 (Detroit, MI) Written by Robert Sutton. It's like a siren's call, a lush, hypnotic melody that reels in the senses and then stimulates them. The sound of Maureen Choi's violin has that kind of effect. On the Maureen Choi Quartet's self-titled latest album, the ...
(Published: September 24, 2011) [read more]
Hidden Beach signs Jazz Legend Ramsey Lewis
"Ramsey, Taking Another Look"
Jazz Legend Ramsey Lewis Releases 80th Album Today
Three-time Grammy winner Ramsey Lewis, who rose to prominence in the early 1970′s, released his 80th album, Ramsey, Taking Another Look today with his Electric Band.
Lewis (who performed live in the KPLU studios in October 2009), signed with Los Angeles based boutique label Hidden Beach ...
(Published: September 23, 2011) [read more]
2011-2012 Jazz Season In Triangle North Carolina One of The Best Yet! by Larry Reni Thomas
Jazz music lovers in the central piedmont area of North Carolina, commonly called the Triangle, have dreamed about the long, luscious, ear-pleasing list of first-class jazz acts that are scheduled to appear in the area this season, 2011-2012. Congratulations again and a job well done to the ...
(Published: September 23, 2011) [read more]
This Week at The Cornelia Street Cafe
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
The Cornelia Street Café is a true New York City landmark, an epicurean destination, an artist's café that cultivates and inspires, and one of the few remaining Greenwich Village bastions for creative ...
(Published: September 23, 2011) [read more]
Renowned saxophonist Jay Patten returns with immaculate collection of jazz covers and original compositions
September 22, 2011 (Nashville, TN) Written by Robert Sutton. Saxophonist Jay Patten knows the presence of greatness. As a vocalist for the Glenn Miller Orchestra and currently the music director for country icon Crystal Gayle, Patten has breathed the air of stardom. But on Crystal Nights, the ...
(Published: September 23, 2011) [read more]
Petros Klampanis 4tet + Greg Osby and Inner Circle Music Artists @ CORNELIA STREET CAFE
On Saturday the 8th of October, Petros Klampanis Contextual 4tet returns to Cornelia Street Café, this time with 3 very special Inner Circlers: the saxophonist extraordinaire and Inner Circle Music founder Greg Osby, the young Portuguese singer with the ethereal voice Sara Serpa, the ...
(Published: September 23, 2011) [read more]
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