Miles Davis Protege Wallace Roney Sextet To To Launch "Templar Jazz Series" At Detroit's Historic Masonic Temple On Dec. 30 & 31
28 December, 2011
Miles Davis Protégé Wallace Roney Sextet To To Launch "Templar Jazz Series" At Detroit's Historic Masonic Temple On Dec. 30 & 31The Detroit Masonic Temple Theatre Company will launch the Templar Jazz Series on Friday, December 30 and Saturday, December 31, 2011. Internationally renowned jazz trumpet ...
| Duets II, Behind The Scenes Of The Legendary Singer's History-making No 1 Album, On Thirteen's Great Performances Friday, January 27, 2012
28 December, 2011
Tony Bennett made music history with the Grammy-nominated CD Duets II when it debuted at the top of the Billboard Album charts, making Bennett the oldest vocal artist ever to achieve the number one spot. Recently nominated for three Grammys, including Best Traditional Pop Vocal, Best Pop Duo/Group Performance, ...
| "The Disharmonic Misadventures Of David Stein", A Funny, Far-out Musical Mystery Novel, Written By A Jazz Musician
23 December, 2011
"The Disharmonic Misadventures of David Stein" A funny, far-out musical mystery. A jazzy new novel written by a jazz pianist. Now available at Amazon.com. A bungling jazz musician gets caught in a crazy, comic world of musical intrigue.
David is a neurotic New York jazz pianist, stumbling through ...
| The Tierney Sutton Band Rings In The New Year With Two Grammy Nominations For American Road On BFM Jazz
22 December, 2011
The Tierney Sutton Band, a collaboration that has spanned over 18 years, has produced a catalog of nine extraordinary, critically acclaimed, chart-topping recordings. American Road, their latest and debut on BFM Jazz, just earned the ensemble their fourth consecutive GRAMMY nomination in the Best Jazz ...
| Don Byron New Gospel Quintet Set For Release On Savoy Jazz
22 December, 2011
An innovative, continually curious musical explorer like no other, Don Byron has signed with Savoy Jazz and is gearing up for the release of "LOVE, PEACE, AND SOUL," the debut album by his New Gospel Quintet. With jazz as his springboard, the virtuosic clarinetist and saxophonist has turned his ear ...
| Featured Christmas Week On The Jazz Network Worldwide Percussionist & Musical Evangelist William Johnson Shares His CD Project "Flor De Vida"
21 December, 2011
Latin Music is at the heartbeat of percussionist William Johnson. Influenced by the creativity of other musicians he admired inspired his new CD project "Flor de Vida" The threshold of this music took two years, incorportating sixteen musicians where a selected few were Grammy award-winning artists.
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| Crooner Frank Lamphere's Original Songs To Be Featured In Movie
21 December, 2011
Just eight days after being digitally released, two songs on the new EP, Frank Swings, jazz retro-pop crooner Frank Lamphere's (LAM-fear) first release of original music, have been licensed for inclusion in an independent film.
The New York-based film production company A May Sky Picture Entertainment ...
| Jazz Pianist/Composer Tom Wetmore Debuts With "The Desired Effect" On January 17, 2012
20 December, 2011
The buoyant grooves and graceful melodies heard on the forthcoming CD "The Desired Effect" serve to introduce a fresh new voice in jazz—Tom Wetmore, whose Crosstown Records will release the pianist/composer's exceptional debut, "The Desired Effect," on January 17.
The 29-year-old Massachusetts ...
| Monika Borzym's 'Girl Talk' Is The Album "Amy Winehouse & Adele Should Have Been Making All Along"
20 December, 2011
Respected jazz critic Christopher Loudon, in his recent JAZZTIMES 'Hearing Voices' column, praised 21-year old vocalist Monika Borzym as "one of the freshest, most enticing arrivals in some time." See his expansive write-up, below. Other key journalists have weighed in as well, describing Borzym's debut ...
| Trey Mcintyre Project, Steve Earle, Merrill Garbus, & Ed Helms Added To Phjb Carnegie Lineup
16 December, 2011
New Orleans jazz legends Preservation Hall Jazz Band are pleased to announce more special guests that will join them on stage for their 50th anniversary performance. OnJanuary 7th, 2012 at 8:00pm they will grace the Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage atCarnegie Hall, with special guests Trey McIntyre ...
| Jazz Maestro Mike Longo Plays With Renowned Musicians
16 December, 2011
With every new recording, jazz pianist Mike Longo digs a little deeper into the chemistry of the music, pushing himself and his band to more fully explore the intricacies of the rhythmic nature of jazz, attempting to go to new places where surprising results await. Longo named his new album To My Surprise ...
| Michael Buble's 'Christmas' CD Remains At No 1 For Third Straight Week! Sales Almost Half Million For The Week In US
15 December, 2011
Michael Buble's album 'Christmas', his holiday love letter to fans about his favorite time of year, has sold 479,377 this past week for a grand total of 1.7 million in the US alone. On the radio front, two songs "All I Want for Christmas Is You" and "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas" are ...
| Jazz Saxophonist Quintin Gerard W. To Perform Christmas Concert Benefit For The Dasha D. Blaylock Foundation
15 December, 2011
At 7pm (CT) on Saturday December 17, 2011, "Fnkysax" Quintin Gerard W. (NARAS, AFM, SESAC, HFA Affiliate) will reveal selections for a forthcoming 2012 Christmas Album for Musical Revelations, a Christmas concert to benefit Houston charity and action group The Dasha D. Blaylock Foundation . The event ...
| Al Di Meola "Morocco Fantasia" On DVD And Blu-Ray Jan 24
14 December, 2011
A high point of the Moroccan music festival is without doubt the Mawazine Festival in Rabat, Morocco. Al Di Meola's fantastic appearance in 2009 also represented a summit of different cultures and religions - Al Di Meola (guitar), Peo Alfonsi (2nd guitar), Fausto Beccalossie (accordion), Gumbo Ortiz ...
| Project Grand Slam Releases New Cover Of The Hollies Hit, "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother" To Benefit Victims Of Child Abuse
14 December, 2011
Project Grand Slam (PGS), the contemporary electric jazz group, has today released their version of the classic Hollies hit, "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother", with Special Guest Vocals by Joye Hennessey. The song is dedicated to the victims of child abuse, relating to the Penn State sexual abuse scandal.
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| Joseph Patrick Moore Submerges Into The World Of Electro-Jazz
13 December, 2011
Blue Canoe Records have released "XYZ Factor" from bassman, Joseph Patrick Moore. This bold, uber-current effort fuses elements of contemporary jazz, for which Mr. Moore is famous, with electronica and the delivery is a fresh and relevant EP that will appeal to his current fans and fans of electronica ...
| Michael Buble Jingles Another Week At No 1
11 December, 2011
Michael Buble is having a holly jolly holiday season as sales for his "Christmas" CD have exploded this week to a staggering 292, 501 units (up 29%), keeping the Buble franchise at No. 1 for a second straight week on Billboard's Top 200 Chart. Sales have now surged past the one million mark. With major ...
| Trombone Shorty Second Lines On Sound Opinions, Graces New Jazziz Cover
09 December, 2011
Trombone Shorty scores the cover of JAZZIZ magazine's Winter 2011/2012 issue, on newsstands soon. The feature follows his Downbeat cover story, still on stands.
Check out Trombone Shorty Orleans Avenue's recent in-studio performance on WBEZ's 'Sound Opinions' here: https://bit.ly/v5W0Pk. The show's ...
| "Boom Town" Takes Soul-jazz Saxophonist Richard Elliot To No1
09 December, 2011
Soul-jazz saxman Richard Elliot has been blowing up radio with the funky single "Boom Town," which has taken command of Billboard's BDSradio.com smooth jazz national airplay chart for the past four weeks. The track, produced by Elliot and fusion pioneer Jeff Lorber, is the debut single from Elliot's ...
| Dave Brubeck's 1959 Jazz Masterpiece Time Out Certified Double Platinum By RIAA
07 December, 2011
American jazz legend Dave Brubeck, who celebrates his 91st birthday today (December 6), reached another milestone recently when Time Out, his 1959 watershed masterpiece, was awarded Double Platinum status by the RIAA in recognition of sales of more than two million copies in the United States.
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