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Promote Your New Release with All About Jazz's Showcase Service

Source: All About Jazz
December 13, 2016

New Album Showcase, the longest-running promotional service at All About Jazz is a multi-feature opportunity to promote artist discovery, facilitate music sales, and drive social traffic. Service include: ✓ A bold, eye-catching look that includes a photo, an album cover, and a buy button on every All About Jazz and Jazz Near You page; ✓ A free Video of the Day (a $50 value); ✓ One free Spotlight event ad (a $40 value); ✓ A musician profile update (a $75 ...

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Festival

Zoot Fest 2014

Source: Ted Ricci
October 15, 2014

Jazz enthusiasts, get ready for a day of listening pleasure! Tickets are now on sale for East Stroudsburg University's fourth annual Zoot Fest, a day of jazz music honoring legends Al Cohn and Zoot Sims. Zoot Fest will take place from noon to 6:00 p.m. on Sunday, November 9, 2014 at the Innovation Center, located at 562 Independence Road in East Stroudsburg, with proceeds to benefit the university's Al Cohn Memorial Jazz Collection (ACMJC) as well as other initiatives to ...

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Award / Grant

Joanne Brackeen Receives BNY Mellon Jazz 2014 Living Legacy Award

Source: Ted Ricci
October 15, 2014

Jazz pianist, educator, and composer Joanne Brackeen was honored with the BNY Mellon Jazz 2014 Living Legacy Award in a special ceremony at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on Friday, October 10, 2014. The Living Legacy Award honors jazz masters from the mid-Atlantic region who have achieved distinction in jazz performance and education. Guests enjoyed a gala reception in the Kennedy Center Atrium including music by the Blues Alley Youth Orchestra Combo. In honor of the ...

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Performance / Tour

Arturo Sandoval Brings Fire To The Chicago Jazz Orchestra

Source: Ted Ricci
April 9, 2012

Can an aggressive Chicago jazz group transform itself into a radiant Afro-Cuban jazz band at the drop of a downbeat? Apparently so, if it's being led by the volatile Cuban trumpeter Arturo Sandoval. Not that Sandoval was officially conducting the Chicago Jazz Orchestra, which sold out Northwestern University's Pick-Staiger Concert Hall on Saturday evening. But once Sandoval took to the stage, the band became his, CJO conductor and artistic director Jeff Lindberg generally stepping to the side as if a ...

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Performance / Tour

Don Carter Trio Brings Jazz To Venues In Area

Source: Ted Ricci
March 30, 2012

Accomplished Jersey City jazz drummer Don Carter remembers his early days - back in elementary school - beating on his desk with his hands standing in as drumsticks. His teacher repeatedly asked him what he was doing, and he simply explained he had found the rhythm. He didn't pick up the sticks for real until he was a teenager. “Jazz has inspiration and good challenges," he explains today, in between performances at area venues. “Jazz itself can go from (one) ...

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Interview

Wayne Escoffery Honored In New Haven

Source: Ted Ricci
March 29, 2012

Articulate, well-mannered and courtly, Wayne Escoffery, one of today's finest, most exciting jazz saxophonists, speaks softly and creates passionate but never ego-driven music. Matinee idol handsome and a regal 6-foot-4 presence—non-musical attributes that have landed him modeling and acting gigs including bit parts on TV commercials for Grey Goose vodka and Mitsubishi cars—the London-born musician of West Indian heritage has been content to do his forceful, expressive speaking through his horn. A summa cum laude graduate of The Hartt School ...

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Performance / Tour

Orbert Davis' Orchestra And Vocalists To Sing The Praises Of Ella

Source: Ted Ricci
March 29, 2012

Music lovers probably will argue for all time over whether Ella Fitzgerald or Billie Holiday was the greatest female jazz vocalist of the 20th century. But whichever side of that debate you take, there's no question that Fitzgerald set a still- unmatched standard for scat singing and improvisational techniques of her own making. That she conquered both the swing and bebop eras, while also crossing over into mass popularity via the “Songbook" albums she recorded for Norman Granz, attests to ...

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Obituary

Bill Caldwell, Noted Wichita Jazz Musician, Dies

Source: Ted Ricci
March 29, 2012

Bill Caldwell, a gifted musician who brightened the lives and the musical arrangements of jazz enthusiasts all over the country, died this week at his home in Wichita. He was 49. Tim Henry, Mr. Caldwell's Wichita-based business partner and fellow jazz musician, found him dead in his home early Monday after he missed a rehearsal Sunday night. Henry and Richard Couch, who owns Couch Music at 131 S. Hydraulic, said Mr. Caldwell was a world-class musician who could play all ...

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