Norah Jones sells one million in first week!
NEW YORK (Top40 Charts) - Norah Jones' second album, Feels Like Home, sold 1.02 million copies in its first week of release - the highest sales debut for an album since 2001. That marks the best sales debut since 'N Sync's 'Celebrity' sold 1.88 million copies in its first week in 2001. "Feels Like Home" ...
| Natalie Cole has field for divorce
NEW YORK (Jazz news website) - The singer Natalie Cole has filed for divorce from Kenneth Dupree, her husband for a bit more than two years. Cole, 53, cited irreconcilable differences in papers filed in Los Angeles Superior Court. She married Dupree, a Baptist minister, in October 2001 and it was her ...
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Jazzman Frank Mantooth has died
GARDEN CITY, Kansas (Jazz Ambassadors magazine) - The music stopped in Garden City as the news was announced Friday. Frank Mantooth, the community's famous resident musician, an 11-time Grammy Award nominee and beloved figure, died Friday morning. Mantooth died Friday at his home from what appears to ...
| Norah Jones new album is called 'Feels Like Home'
NEW YORK (Norah Jones Official Website) - Further details on Norah Jones' upcoming second album, 'Feels Like Home', have been announced. The album is out on 6 February and according to her official website it features collaborations with Dolly Parton and The Band's Levon Helm and Garth Hudson. Jones ...
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Lou Rawls weds Nina Inman
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (Lou Rawls Fans Website) - Jazzman Lou Rawls married a flight attendant who's less than half his age on New Year's Day. Lou Rawls, 70, had been engaged to Nina Malek Inman, 33, for a while, the couple had not planned their impromptu holiday wedding. Rawls claims that after performing ...
| Diana Krall & Elvis Costello team-up for her new album!
NEW YORK (Diana Krall Fan Website) - Newlyweds Diana Krall and Elvis Costello have co-written six songs on the jazz singer's upcoming album. Diana's fansite reports that 'The Girl in the Other Room' is due out in April and sees Krall moving away from interpreting other people's songs and writing her ...
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Tony Adamo releases 'Dance Of Love'
NEW YORK (By Cheryl Hughey/The Jazz Nation) - Sensually poetic, Tony Adamo in Dance of Love is a diary of romantic paradise. Adamo combines thought provoking words with dark vocals that are reminiscent of Lou Rawls. "Midnight Caf�" with Grammy artist Ernie Watts on sax provides an invitation to passion. ...
| Norah Jones is recording in NY studio her new album
NEW YORK (Blue Note announcement) - Blue Note Records have confirmed that 8-time Grammy award winner Norah Jones is currently putting the finishing touches on her second album in a New York studio with a planned release date of February 2004. "I really can't think about the success of last year," says ...
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Elvis Costello marries Diana Krall
LONDON, UK (Toronto Globe & Mail newspaper) - It is the 'music' marriage of the year! Elvis Costello has reportedly married Canadian jazz singer Diana Krall in a wedding outside London. According to Toronto's Globe and Mail newspaper the couple, who have been together for a year, married in a ceremony ...
| Jamie Cullum has become the first British jazz artist to have a platinum album!
LONDON, UK (BBC/BPI) - Jamie Cullum's latest effort, Twentysomething album has sold 300,000 copies in the UK, the threshold for a platinum award, in just over a month. Cullum plays everything from jazz standards to covers of songs by Nirvana and Radiohead. His next single will be a version of Jimi Hendrix's ...
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Jazz saxophonist Buddy Arnold dead at 77
NEW YORK (NY online Jazz magazine) - Saxophonist Buddy Arnold, who played with jazz greats like Buddy Rich and Tommy Dorsey, has died aged 77. Arnold died of complications from open heart surgery, his publicist said. Born in New York as Arnold Buddy Grishaver, he began playing the sax at nine and was ...
| Deborah Resto - Sultry Latin Cool
NEW YORK (Deborah Resto Official Website) - The sultry rhythm that claims the beginning - and hell, the whole song - of the Latin pop song, "Let Him Hear My Heart" may remind you of a Toni Braxton excursion, but it is something more complex. Soul sister Deborah Resto entrances you in a romantic mood ...
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Omar Sosa live broadcast from Carnegie Hall
NEW YORK (WBGO Radio) - Omar Sosa's Octet performance on Friday, September 12 at Carnegie Hall's new Zankel Hall will be broadcast live at 10:00 PM by New York-area jazz radio station WBGO and recorded for later use on NPR's "JazzSet with Dee Dee Bridgewater", which is produced by WBGO. Sosa's concert ...
| Fiddler Howard Armstrong dies at 94
BOSTON, Mass. (Jazz online magazine) - Howard "Louie Bluie" Armstrong, a string-band fiddler who took his act across the country, mastering genres from bluegrass to jazz, has died. He was 94. Armstrong died Wednesday from complications after a heart attack in March. Armstrong taught himself to play ...
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Benny Carter dies
LOS ANGELES (Benmny Carter Official Website) - Pioneering jazz musician Benny Carter has died in hospital in the United States aged 95. Carter, a big band leader who helped break Hollywood's bar to black composers, had been complaining of bronchitis and fatigue, according to a family friend. He had ...
| Jazz flautist Herbie Mann mourned
NEW YORK (NY Jazz magazine) - Jazz flute pioneer Herbie Mann has died aged 73 after a lengthy fight against prostate cancer. The New Yorker was credited with pioneering the use of Brazilian and African sounds into mainstream jazz and his records helped usher in the Bossa Nova craze. Towards the end ...
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Jazz under the stars!
DALLAS, Texas (Jazz online magazine) - Havana NRG! will be performing a very hot showcase at the Annual Jazz Under the Stars event taking place Thursday, June 12th outside the DMA (Dallas Museum of Arts located in Downtown Dallas. Texas Musicians Featured in Salute to Creative Spirit of the Lone Star ...
| Diana Krall is recording tracks for her next cd
NEW YORK (Dianna Krall Fans Website) - Grammy and Juno Award winner Diana Krall said she has already begun recording tracks for her next CD project, with more recording sessions scheduled for next week in the San Francisco Bay area. Krall appeared Wednesday (May 20), at the 20th annual ASCAP Pop Awards ...
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Michael Brecker will appear to Puerto Rico
PUERTO RICO (Jazz news website) - The famous tenor saxophonist, and jazz composer Michael Brecker will arrive to Puerto Rico during next weekend. He arrives specifically this Sunday April 13th and he will be received for his musical partner Humberto Ram'rez. His visit to the Island has direct connection ...
| Toronto all jazzed up
TORONTO, Canada (Toronto Sun) - Ray Charles, Wayne Shorter, Joe Zawinul, Joshua Redman, Dianne Reeves and Wynton Marsalis are some of the major stars booked to play this year's du Maurier Downtown Jazz Festival, the 17th edition of the annual jazzathon. While the official festival runs from June 20 ...
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