Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Festival To Include Jazz Vocalist, Actor Johnny Crawford
31 May, 2013
The Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Society will celebrate the life and music of Leon "Bix" Beiderbecke at the 42st annual Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Festival, August 1-4, 2013, in Davenport, Iowa.
This year's lineup will feature Johnny Crawford, jazz vocalist and actor. Crawford gained fame as ...
| Jazz "Musician's Artist" 100th Birthday Commemorated With New Fine Art Collection
31 May, 2013
In the world of jazz there's one artist collected the world over who's never played a note of music yet left an indelible mark on jazz culture and modern art & design.
David Stone Martin (1913-1992) was one of the most prolific and influential artists of the postwar era. With his signature hand ...
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Opera Soprano Kasondra Kazanjian Records Debut At Ocean Way
30 May, 2013
Lovely Lady Records, an adult contemporary and adult alternative label, has announced the November, 2013 release of classically trained and internationally acclaimed soprano Kasondra Kazanjian's debut jazz album.
Kazanjian recorded her new album in Ocean Way's famed Studio B. The collection of ...
| New Jazz-Inspired Album Lineage Uses Musical Deconstruction To Balance Past, Present And Future
30 May, 2013
Since he began to seriously pursue a career as a jazz artist back in the 1960s ,Dave Liebman has been on a transformative journey towards becoming a true original in the genre. After assuming sideman slots with the likes ofMiles Davis,Elvin Jones, and Chick Corea, to name but a few, he has certainly ...
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Matt Savage And Friends To Perform At Regattabar On June 18, 2013
29 May, 2013
Jazz composer, pianist and recording artist Matt Savage will return to the Regattabar in Cambridge, MA for a special concert on Tuesday, June 18th at 7:30 PM. Friends joining Matt on stage include Boston-area bassist and jazz great Bruce Gertz along with drummer Richie Barshay (who has toured with Herbie ...
| Tony Adamo Miles Of Blu CD Five Stars/Amazon
24 May, 2013
Tony Adamo is a hip cat, a bad cat! His rhymes and rhythms will have you grooving for life! His words are pure truth -- He has invented an entirely new genre: "HipSpokenWord!" He sings a bit, but his main thing: The hip words. Produced by master drummer Mike Clark, of Wolff & Clark Expedition and HeadHunters ...
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Music Therapy: Duboc Delivers A Revealing "Smile"
23 May, 2013
Thinking that everything had fallen apart, the tears streamed down Carol Duboc's face as she wrote the lyrics to "Smile," the title track to the soulful jazz vocalist's stunning sixth album that was released Tuesday (May 21) by Gold Note Music. She gazed at her young daughter's smile and found hope. ...
| Jazz Stars Lead Aspiring Musicians In Classrooms And Concerts!
22 May, 2013
Virtuoso Brazilian bassist Leonardo Lucini will teach and perform at Maryland Summer Jazz in North Bethesda this year. The artist and educator has toured internationally with Nestor Torres, Arturo O'Farrill, Alex Acuna, Federico Pena and Gregoire ...
The Maryland Summer Jazz Festival returns on ...
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Jazz Composer Steve Lindeman Debuts On CD With "The Day After Yesterday," June 11
22 May, 2013
Steve Lindeman's distinctive approach to modern big band composing is on ample display on his impressive debut CD, "The Day After Yesterday," to be released by Jazz Hang Records on June 11. The Brigham Young University professor's originals are performed by BYU's Synthesis under the direction of Ray ...
| Tony Adamo Miles Of Blu Random Act 2013
20 May, 2013
As the business and cultural landscape of improvisational music has evolved over the last year or two I am starting to notice a slight trend toward the inclusion of poetry and spoken word passages on some recordings and with incredibly mixed results. Tony Adamo is releasing a spoken word recording or ...
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Skope Reviews Canary Burton 'Piano Music From Cape Cod'
16 May, 2013
Drawing on her extensive background and jazz & classical influences, Cape Cod resident Canary Burton has released an album of piano music.
Burton and her inspiration have traveled from Idaho to Wash. DC, before settling at the sandy tip of Cape Cod's Provincetown, where her melodies might summon ...
| Preservation Hall Jazz Band To Release "That's It!" July 9th On Legacy Recordings
10 May, 2013
Preservation Hall Jazz Band was founded in 1961 to promote traditional New Orleans jazz in all its authenticity. Legendary players like George Lewis , Sweet Emma Barrett and Kid Thomas Valentine, all rooted in the formative years jazz, were its original stars. That generation is long gone now, yet ...
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Jazz/Soul Artist Kathy Yolanda Rice Releases Hot New Single, "Love Is Like A Sunny Day"
09 May, 2013
Kathy Yolanda Rice's new single, "Love Is Like A Sunny Day", released February 22nd on the Paintbrush Records label, is still climbing the charts. The song garnered spots on five CD Baby Charts after its release, and is still the top rated single in the Jazz/Cool Jazz category. It is also finding success ...
| Bass Player Antoine Fafard To Release Second Album 'Occultus Tramitis' Featuring Former Frank Zappa, Jeff Beck, Mahavishnu Orchestra, King Crimson Members!
09 May, 2013
Bass Player Antoine Fafard To Release Second Album 'Occultus Tramitis' Featuring Former Frank Zappa, Jeff Beck, Mahavishnu Orchestra, King Crimson Members!London, UK - Much to the excitent of music aficionados across the globe, the second solo album by composer and bass player Antoine Fafard, 'Occultus ...
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"Black Lace Blue Tears," Debut CD For Seattle-Area Jazz Singer Eugenie Jones, Due For May 28 Release
08 May, 2013
With the release of her debut album "Black Lace Blue Tears," Seattle-based Eugenie Jones emerges as a rising jazz vocal star with a deep-rooted sense of where she's headed as an artist. Jones's repertoire is based primarily on her own striking originals, and she also had a hand in all of the arrangements. ...
| TIME Premieres Mingus Tribute From No BS! Brass
07 May, 2013
TIME Magazine is exclusively premiering "Haitian Fight Song" from No BS! Brass Band's upcoming tribute to Mingus, 'Fight Song.' No BS! Brass was co-founded by Bon Iver trombonist Reggie Pace and features an all-star brass and drums lineup of first-call players who perform with Feist, Sharon Van Etten, ...
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Mingus & MJ Mix At Lincoln Center With No BS! Brass
03 May, 2013
No BS! Brass Band, co-founded by Bon Iver trombonist Reggie Pace and featuring first-call horn players who perform with everyone from Feist and Sharon Van Etten to the Wailers and Gladys Knight, will make their Lincoln Center debut August 8 as part of the free Lincoln Center Out of Doors series on the ...
| Artists From Across The Globe Grace The Stage In Istanbul For International Jazz Day 2013
02 May, 2013
In an unprecedented series of events worldwide, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz joined together to celebrate jazz as a universal language of freedom on April 30th. With events taking place in every country on the ...
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Jazz Music Producer Matthew Shell Collaborates With Pop Instrumental Grammy Nominee Arun Shenoy On New Single "Genesis"
02 May, 2013
Narked Records, in collaboration with MTS Music, is pleased to announce the release of "GENESIS" an exciting instrumental single forged out of the first ever collaboration between record producers Matthew Shell & Arun Shenoy.
The music on this track features guest musicians from around the world, ...
| International Jazz Sensation Keiko Matsui To Perform One Of A Kind Concert At Miami's New World Center With Special Guest Al Di Meola
01 May, 2013
For the first time ever performing at Miami's New World Center, celebrated jazz artist and pianist Keiko Matsui will join special guest Al Di Meola on Friday, May 31st at 8pm for a never before seen concert event featuring both artists as well as Keiko's band. Matsui is known around the world for ...
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