Home » Jazz News
Jazz News
Timely announcements covering new album releases, tours, concert series, special events, job postings, crowdfunding campaigns and more. You can find more news by searching our website, viewing our news stream, seeing what's trending or reading our blog posts. Subscribe to our news RSS feed and/or embed AAJ news content on your website or blog. Learn about our news service here. Submit news here.
Steven Davis's “Perfectly Perfect” Soundtrack For Summer Love
Source:
Great Scott P.R.oductions
Jazz crooner Steven Davis ponders “What Happened To Romance,” his first big band album due June 23, led by the original song featured in an international television commercial. Nashville, TN: Bolstering the belief that romance is always en vogue, crooner Steven Davis plies his big voice backed by a big band on the swinging set “What Happened To Romance,” a charming meditation on love marrying timeless traits from another era to today’s passionate demand for originality. The 14-track disc comprised ...
Continue
Reading...
Right On! DW3’s “Truth” Is Spreading Fast
Source:
Great Scott P.R.oductions
With an active summer festival season on the horizon, things are already heating up for the throwback R&B vocal group on the heels of a new album release and a hot radio single featuring Brian Culbertson. Los Angeles, CA: A twelve-song set of smooth old school soul strewn with modern day sensibilities, retro R&B vocal group DW3’s just released sophomore disc, Vintage Truth, is letting the music be its guide to the top of Billboard’s Most Added and New & ...
Continue
Reading...
Jazz Royalty “Open Up” “The Vault” To Help Departed Friend’s Family
Source:
Great Scott P.R.oductions
New single from the late guitarist Jeff Golub debuts in the Billboard Top 20 ahead of Tuesday’s album release with sales benefitting The Golub family. New York, NY: A few days prior to New Year’s Day, the day guitarist Jeff Golub passed away at age 59, his frequent collaborators Steven Miller, Rick Braun and Bud Harner put the finishing touches on Golub’s 13th solo album, The Vault, a collection of previously unreleased songs and reimagined early career gems that were ...
Continue
Reading...
Distribution Deal Brightens Shashaty’s “Brighter Day
Source:
Great Scott P.R.oductions
Jazz-pop saxophonist’s just released album will get a boost from BFD/RED pact; radio-friendly set produced by Steve Oliver driven by national airplay for “Dream Ride.” Los Angeles, CA: Brighter Day, the sixth album from saxophonist ShaShaty that was released earlier this month by the newly formed A.H.I. Records, will benefit from the muscle of a new distribution deal with BFD/RED, a division of the New York-based Bob Frank Entertainment distributed by Sony’s RED Distribution arm. Steve Oliver produced the eleven-song ...
Continue
Reading...
“Traveler” Visits Barnes & Noble, Bossa Novas Onto Billboard Chart
Source:
Great Scott P.R.oductions
World beat purveyor Lawson Rollins boosted by in-store play for his newly released album; the virtuoso guitarist to be profiled in Guitar Player magazine. San Francisco, CA: The guitar-guided world music excursions that you hear this month in Barnes & Noble stores throughout the United States come from the recently released Traveler, the critically-hailed fifth album from globetrotting guitarist Lawson Rollins. Debuting upon release in the Top 20 of the iTunes world music chart, the disc produced by Rollins and ...
Continue
Reading...
Blake Aaron Spins Soulful Guitar Tales On “Soul Stories,” Coming May 5
Source:
Great Scott P.R.oductions
"Wes Side Story” bodes to be the fourth single from the set to enter the Billboard Top 10. Aliso Viejo, CA—Guitarist Blake Aaron utilized an unconventional approach when constructing his fifth album, Soul Stories, which will be released May 5 by Innervision Records. To maintain his presence on radio and in the marketplace while juggling a busy schedule as a first-call session player, featured sideman and in-demand producer, he issued a variety of singles with three cuts—the retro funk-disco energizer ...
Continue
Reading...
DW3 Pays “Tribute” To Their Late Drummer-Mentor Ricky Lawson
Source:
Great Scott P.R.oductions
R&B vocal band goes retro on their sophomore album, Vintage Truth, due March 17, with assistance from contemporary jazz luminaries Dave Koz, Brian Culbertson, Paul Brown, Greg Adams and Elan Trotman. Los Angeles, CA: At the untimely passing of the drummer Steely Dan’s Walter Becker described as having perfect timing, Ricky Lawson was only four songs into producing the sophomore album by R&B vocal group DW3. Lawson, who had an extraordinary GRAMMY-winning career collaborating with Michael Jackson, Eric Clapton, Phil ...
Continue
Reading...
Saxophonist ShaShaty Set To Embark Upon A “Dream Ride” Leading To A “brighter Day”
Source:
Great Scott P.R.oductions
Vibrant radio single precedes the artist’s Steve Oliver-produced album, due March 3. Los Angeles, CA: It’s a new dawn for veteran contemporary jazz saxophonist ShaShaty, who will release his sixth album entitled “Brighter Day,” on March 3 on the newly formed A.H.I. Records. His first collection comprised entirely of original songs in more than a decade, the set showcases the artist who had a hand in writing seven of the disc’s eleven songs that were produced by guitarist-vocalist Steve Oliver, ...
Continue
Reading...
Album Showcase
Trending
Award / Grant
How Can Album Notes Compete For A Grammy Nomination?
Performance / Tour
Smoke Jazz Club Announces October Line-up Including...
Recording
Macedonian Saxophonist Hristijan Risteski Releases...
Music Industry
Harvard’s Ming Mei Residency Concert Features...
Recording
Jelly Roll Morton - 'New Orleans Joys: The Earliest...
Recording
Dan Papirany Trio Captures Lyrical Interplay On New...
Recording
What Happened To The American Dream?
Featured Video
VOTE!
