Event News

LAJC Memorial Weekend Festival at the Blue Whale Thursday, Friday and Saturday, May 26-28

Source: Los Angeles Jazz Collective
May 22, 2011

The Los Angeles Jazz Collective is bringing an impressive collection of jazz artists together for a three-day festival at one of the newest and most promising additions to the Los Angeles jazz club scene. The players that have agreed to perform on the festival represent an emerging generation of jazz musicians in Los Angeles, artists who place a premium on creative improvising and original writing. Among the Los Angeles based artists to perform will be saxophone luminaries Bob Sheppard and ...

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Philly Jazz Musicians Joining Hands to Benefit African AIDS Orphans

Source: Michael Ricci
May 20, 2011

A Note of Hope: an evening of jazz featuring John Blake, Jr., Gerald Veasley, Sumi Tonooka, and Rosella Clemmons Washington May 20, 2011, 7:30 p.m. A Note of Hope is a benefit concert featuring Philadelphia's own John Blake, Jr., Gerald Veasley, Sumi Tonooka, Harry Butch Reed, and Rosella Clemmons Washington. All proceeds from the event will be invested directly into the mission of Covenant Mercies, a local charitable organization serving AIDS orphans in Africa. Consistent with the cause of Covenant ...

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Royal Family Affair: Soulive, Chromeo, Lettuce, Big G, Denson

Source: JamBase
May 19, 2011

DUMPSTAPHUNK, MEDESKI, DEITCH & SKERIK, JENNIFER HARTSWICK, BREAK SCIENCE, PIMPS OF JOYTIME, ZACH DEPUTY, ALSO CONFIRMED In celebration of its 13th year as a band, the preeminent soul funk trio Soulive has announced the inaugural Royal Family Affair—a three-day music festival from August 12-14 set in the beautiful Green Mountains of Vermont at Stratton Mountain Ski Resort in Bondville. Take a look at the full lineup below. Along with performances taking place on two stages and a late-night venue, the ...

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New York Press Conference on Elimination of Latin Jazz Grammy - May 22, 2011

Source: The Latin Jazz Corner by Chip Boaz
May 19, 2011

May 22nd PRESS CONFERENCE IN PROTEST OF GRAMMY TRAVESTY NARAS ELIMINATES 31 CATEGORIES FROM THE GRAMMY AWARDS OUTRAGED MUSIC COMMUNITY RESPONDS

On Sunday, May 22nd at 1 pm, world-renowned artists, celebrities, writers, activists and members of the media will gather at the world-famous Nuyorican Poets' Café, in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, to voice their opposition to the recent announcement by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS) eliminating Latin Jazz, as well as 30 other styles ...

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Vision Festival 2011: June 5-11 (NYC)

Source: Chris Rich
May 19, 2011

TRIBUTE TO A LIVING LEGEND Peter Brotzmann—Celebrating A Lifetime of Achievement

Each year, the Vision Festival honors the achievements of one living artist who has greatly influenced the world around them and paved the way for other innovators to move forward. On Wednesday, June 8th, 2011 Arts For Art and The Vision Festival will celebrate a Lifetime of Achievement by Peter Brotzmann. This great improviser was one of the first practitioners of the Free Jazz movement in Europe. ...

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The Wahya Consort Premieres "Mingus and Beyond" to Benefit The Humane Society

Source: Sound Visions Media
May 18, 2011

An exciting day of jazz events includes The Wahya Consort making their debut with a premiere of, “Mingus and Beyond," on Sunday June 12, 2011 from 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the Ojai Arts Center located at 113 South Montgomery Street in Ojai. The Wahya Consort includes vocalist Ellen Johnson, pianist Bevan Manson, percussionist Brad Dutz and bassist Rick Shaw performing music of Charles Mingus, original compositions and lyrics, and free improvised music. The Consort, in support of the ...

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Essentially Ellington Weekend

Source: Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes
May 16, 2011

Is it something in the nearby salt water? Much more likely is the strength of the local music programs at the secondary level—and in the schools that feed up to it. Bands from Washington State and Florida took the top four awards at last night's finale of Jazz at Lincoln Center's 16th annual Essentially EllingtonHigh School Jazz Band Competition & Festival. First Place went to the Dillard Center for the Arts in Fort Lauderdale. Second Place: Roosevelt High School, Seattle ...

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Members of Los Mua Equitos de Matanzas and Michel Herrera from Cuba to Perform at Fundraiser May 18 Benefiting the Chico O'Farrill School of Jazz

Source: Two for the Show Media
May 14, 2011

NEW YORK—The Afro Latin Jazz Alliance announced today that members of Cuba's legendary Los Muñequitos de Matanzas, as well as Cuban saxophonist Michel Herrera, will perform at its fundraiser benefiting the Chico O'Farrill School of Jazz (COSJ) to be held Wednesday, May 18, 2011 at the Metropolitan Pavilion in New York City from 6-9PM. Los Muñequitos de Matanzas, Cuba's premiere Afro-Cuban folkloric group, recently concluded a three-day residency at Symphony Space in their first visit to New York since 2002. ...

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