Monterey Jazz Festival Announces New Staff Changes
Monterey Jazz Festival Announces New Staff Changes
Longtime Production Manager David Murray To Assume Artist Liaison Role
Bill Wagner Named As Production Manager For Festival
January 12, 2009; Monterey, CA; The Monterey Jazz Festival has announced that David Murray, the Festival's ...
(Published: January 12, 2009) [read more]
The Jamie Baum Septet Celebrates 10th Anniversary at Joe's Pub, NYC
The Jamie Baum Septet celebrates their 10th anniversary with a concert at Joe's Pub at the Public Theater. On the heels of the successful release of their second CD, Solace, on Sunnyside Records which has made several "Best CDs of 2008" lists, they will perform at 7pm on Saturday, January 24th. ...
(Published: January 09, 2009) [read more]
Happy 70th Birthday, Blue Note Records
Today Blue Note Records celebrates its 70th birthday. The label was born on January 6, 1939 when a young jazz fan named Alfred Lion recorded two of his favorite boogie-woogie pianists at a New York studio. That first session (Albert Ammons and Meade Lux Lewis - The First Day) proved to be the start ...
(Published: January 06, 2009) [read more]
Trombonist Clifton Anderson Appears with His Quintet at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola, Mon. Feb. 2
Trombonist Clifton Anderson will bring a stellar quintet to Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola on Monday, February 2 to showcase his new CD "Decade." The CD, which is being released January 27th, is Anderson's first for Doxy/Emarcy Records, and the Dizzy's engagement is his first as a bandleader ...
(Published: January 05, 2009) [read more]
Jazz Vocalist Hope Deans Infuses Soul, Heart and Music into the World of Jazz with the CD Release
ATLANTA, GA, January 2, 2009 -- Atlanta jazz vocalist Hope Deans has released a new CD, entitled "PRESENCE," that contains works by a number of the great composers including, Burt Bacharach, David Hall, Adolphe Adam, Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane.
Hope Deans performs each song with exquisite ...
(Published: January 03, 2009) [read more]
New Jazz it Up! Episode Features Roy Hargrove, Gloria Lynne, Vintage Sonny Rollins, and "Jazz For Obama" coverage
New York, NY - The second episode of season 2 of Jazz it Up! is now available!
To subscribe and see a five-minute preview of the new episode: http://www.jazzituptv.com.
Each episode of Jazz it Up! features two main artists; each performs two songs. This edition features ensembles led by ...
(Published: December 19, 2008) [read more]
Looking To The Light, New Release for the New Year
Indigo Dream Music releases a new single, Looking To The Light, an original song by Sylvia Winsby. Glowing jazz harmonies warm up the winter holiday season in this duo recording featuring Murray Low, Grammy nominated pianist, with Sylvia's heartfelt vocal. Their sound feels like a private ...
(Published: December 19, 2008) [read more]
Mark Rapp to Appear on Travel Channel Documentary
"Newport Jazz" Travel Channel's high definition documentary featuring the 2008 JVC Newport Jazz Festival and the destination of Newport, RI is to premiere on the Travel Channel on Friday, December 19, 2008. Mark Rapp is a part of this amazing documentary. Please check www.travelchannel.com as ...
(Published: December 18, 2008) [read more]
Oberlin to Premiere Jazz Opera by Harvey Pekar and Dan Plonsey on Jan. 31, 2009
OBERLIN, OHIO (December 10, 2008) -The iconic underground comic book author Harvey Pekar will make his operatic debut at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Leave Me Alone!, an autobiographical jazz opera. A collaboration by two Cleveland natives, the opera combines a libretto by Pekar with music ...
(Published: December 12, 2008) [read more]
Experimental guitarist Terrence McManus premieres two projects in NYC.
Experimental guitarist Terrence McManus will present two very special concerts in the New York City area over the next three weeks. The concerts are premieres of two new ensembles, The Dream of the Ants and Transcendental Numbers, and both will perform sets of newly composed music.
On Tuesday, ...
(Published: December 12, 2008) [read more]
Apartment and real estate sales in Istanbul
Istanbul, one of the most diverse and unique cities in the world, is now a city where foreign citizens can live and live freely. Property for sale in Istanbul is one of the most curious topics in the world. These prices, which are quite different alternatives, vary with the characteristics and ...
(Published: December 11, 2008) [read more]
Straight No Chaser Launch Online Advent Calendar
Atlantic Records' a cappella group Straight No Chaser has launched an online Christmas advent calendar just in time for the holidays.
Stop by every day leading up to Christmas Day to get a new surprise, including exclusive video, audio, wallpapers, buddy icons, drink recipes and lots of ...
(Published: December 11, 2008) [read more]
Jobim, Piazzolla and Other Jazz Oriented Music at Free 1/14 "Latin Lovers"
New York Festival Of Song (NYFOS, www.nyfos.org), whose recent "Fugitives" program was acclaimed as "Profoundly moving (New York Times)"and "Extraordinary - what we want all concerts to be," (New York Daily News) presents its fourth annual program with The Juilliard School on January 14, 2009 at 8 ...
(Published: December 09, 2008) [read more]
Mark Weber: The Next Michael Buble?
Buffalo, New York's Mark Weber just released his pop-jazz collection of old songs made new again, "When I Fall In Love," on amazon.com.
If you're a fan of Michael Buble, Harry Connick, Jr., Diana Krall, Nat "King" Cole, Frank Sinatra, or Dean Martin, you'll probably enjoy this ...
(Published: December 04, 2008) [read more]
Cedar Walton & Roy Hargrove - Jazz at Lincoln Center - Jan. 9-10
Cedar Walton & Roy Hargrove
Two Generations of Duo Tones
in The Allen Room - January 9-10, 2009
Who/What:
Pianist, composer and arranger Cedar Walton and acclaimed trumpeter Roy Hargrove join forces to make beautiful music in the second concert of Jazz at Lincoln Center's Duo Tones ...
(Published: December 04, 2008) [read more]
Red Hot Holiday Stomp - Jazz at Lincoln Center
Who/What:
Red Hot Holiday Stomp:
Jazz at Lincoln Center's annual holiday concert, Red Hot Holiday Stomp, in Rose Theater at Frederick P. Rose Hall: home of Jazz at Lincoln Center, will have a special host this year, trombonist Wycliffe Gordon. This family-friendly concert will also ...
(Published: December 04, 2008) [read more]
HUDSON GUILD SEEKS VISUAL ART WORK FOR \"Jazz and Art\" EXHIBIT IN 2009
Generations of visual artists have been influenced by jazz. Likewise numerous musicians and composers have been drawn to the visual arts as an additional means of self expression. The connection between these two art forms has produced some of the most exciting and important art of the 20th ...
(Published: December 01, 2008) [read more]
Give The Editors and Drummers Some: DRUM! Magazine Publishes 150th Issue
San Jose, Calif., November 20, 2008-Eighteen years ago, two drum/percussion magazine professionals, Andy Doerschuk and Phil Hood, lost their jobs with a prominent publishing conglomerate. In an economy that was certainly not thriving, the two men made a commitment to establish their own ...
(Published: November 29, 2008) [read more]
CRITICALLY-ACCLAIMED GRAMMY-NOMINATED VOCALIST JANE
MONHEIT SET TO RELEASE NEW CD, "THE LOVERS, THE DREAMERS
AND ME," JANUARY 20TH ON CONCORD RECORDS
Los Angeles, California. An ode to songwriters past and present whom Monheit greatly admires, "The Lovers, The Dreamers And Me" is a sumptuously sung passionate song cycle of 13 tracks produced by jazz veteran Matt Pierson. "The Lovers, The Dreamers And Me" is Monheit's ninth CD and will be ...
(Published: November 25, 2008) [read more]
NPR Jazz Notes Newsletter Now Available
Sign up today for NPR Music's "Jazz Notes," an email newsletter delivering you our best jazz features of the week, including Take Five: A Weekly Jazz Sampler, Live At The Village Vanguard, Jazz Profiles, Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz, and more. It will also include news on live concert ...
(Published: November 20, 2008) [read more]
Ravi Coltrane Live At The Village Vanguard: Listen Tonight Online at NPR Music
He bears the name of jazz royalty, and he's spent many hours curating, archiving and producing his parents' recordings. But when he picks up his own saxophones, Ravi Coltrane blows an original and distinctly modern strain of jazz, distilling but never seeking to imitate his family's ...
(Published: November 19, 2008) [read more]
Grammy Award-Winning Producer David Foster Releases CD+DVD
Uber songwriter / producer and 15-time Grammy winner David Foster assembled an all-star lineup for Hit Man: David Foster and Friends, released this November via 143 / Reprise (Warner Bros.).
The stunning collection of artists performed a one-night only show in Las Vegas last spring, which ...
(Published: November 18, 2008) [read more]
Straight No Chaser - Free Holiday Mp3
A cappella 10-piece Straight No Chaser have just released their Atlantic Records debut, Holiday Spirits, a captivating collection of 14 classic and original Christmas songs. The group is offering fans a free mp3 featuring two new tracks from the album.
Originally formed a dozen years ago while ...
(Published: November 12, 2008) [read more]
Jazz In January 2009
We're Havin' a "Heat Wave" at Centenary College!
Jazz In January at Centenary College
2009 will be the sixth year of Jazz at Centenary College in Hackettstown, NJ. It all started in July of 2004 with a series of four concerts during July featuring great jazz players in mainstream, ...
(Published: November 10, 2008) [read more]
Maria Neckam @ Bello Sguardo 11/5
Something to relax ... on The Day After ...
Maria will be singing her music for you at the beautiful "Bello Sguardo" (downstairs) tomorrow!
(410 Amsterdam Avenue, betw. 79th and 80th Streets, $5 cover)
Wednesday, November 5, 8:30pm
Maria Neckam - voice and songs and piano
Yotam ...
(Published: November 04, 2008) [read more]
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