Home » Jazz News

Event 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.

Event

Georgia Mancio Curates Innovative Jazz At The Pizza Express

Source: Bruce Lindsay
August 18, 2010

GEORGIA MANCIO PRESENTS Wednesday September 22—Sunday September 26, 2010 Pizza Express Jazz Club, London 10 Dean Street, London W1D 3RW The Pizza Express “Mancio's performance—often within arrangements that would expose any weakness—puts her at the top of the ever-growing tree of jazz vocalists" —All About Jazz. Award-winning jazz vocalist Georgia Mancio presents a season of international and national artists in reflection of her far-reaching influences. In just a decade of professional work ...

Continue Reading...

Event

Isaac Hayes Highway Renaming Ceremony

Source: Stax Museum of American Soul Music
August 16, 2010

Event

Zomerjazzfietstour AKA Jazzbiketour Netherlands

Source: Michael Ricci
August 16, 2010

ZomerJazzFietsTour 2010 Groningen Saturday 28 August Prologue Friday 27 August On Saturday 28 August The SummerJazzCyclingTours 24rd edition shows the Reitdiep valley at its best. Cycling through this magnificent area of the province of Groningen, the Netherlands, north of the city of Groningen, you can make your pick of twenty-seven concerts in mediaeval churches and barns. The JazzBikeTour presents a varied programme featuring contemporary jazz and improvised music from the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, England, France and the United ...

Continue Reading...

Event

Big Barn Jazz: Michigan

Source: Michael Ricci
August 15, 2010

We love jazz and want to hear more of it, not just from a CD or an earbud, from living people! If all goes well, this will be a monthly show year 'round. Pull up a sofa and enjoy great jazz inside the Vineyard Café, Okemos, MI corner Jolly and Hagadorn (the big red barn, can't be missed). Click “like" above to get updates or call (773) 234-JAZZ for more information. Pass it on! Elden Kelly will be the house ...

Continue Reading...

Event

Symphonic Jazz Orchestra in Concert at UCLA's Royce Hall on September 25

Source: Susan Gordon
August 15, 2010

SYMPHONIC JAZZ ORCHESTRA IN CONCERT SPECIAL GUESTS GEORGE DUKE, LUCIANA SOUZA & RAUL MIDÓN Saturday, September 25, 2010, 8 PM at UCLA's Royce Hall Concert also Features World Premiere of “Elements," a SJO Commissioned Piece from Composer/Conductor Charles Floyd The Symphonic Jazz Orchestra (SJO), the only ensemble of its kind in the country dedicated to the unique American genre of symphonic jazz—music that blends the American language of jazz with European orchestral traditions—will perform in concert on Saturday, September 25, ...

Continue Reading...

Event

SXSW Panel Picker Voting Opens

Source: HypeBot
August 13, 2010

The voting for panels SXSW panels open yesterday The mega-conference was forced to delay the voting launch after receiving a record number of speaking proposals from people living across the United States and around the world—more than 2800 Music, Film and Interactive proposals total. To be fair to those whose proposals werestill being edited early this week, SXSW decided to delay the launch of the PanelPicker voting application until Noon CDT yesterday .Voting will stay open through Friday, August 27th. ...

Continue Reading...

Event

Harold Rayford Celebrates the Release of "I Am the Instrument" During the 2010-PAW Convention

Source: Tracy Williamson
August 12, 2010

In celebration of his first Live Project I Am the Instrument, Harold Rayford will make several concert appearances during the PAW (Pentecostal Assemblies of the World) convention in Minneapolis, MN, August 8㬊. Rayford will perform new songs from “I Am the Instrument" during the entire week of the PAW Convention, including the following dates: Thursday-August 12th-Aenon Bible College Banquet-2pm Friday-August 13th- PAW Youth Concert-6pm Harold will continue to promote “I Am the Instrument" while on his much anticipated Harold Rayford ...

Continue Reading...

Event

Grammy Award-Winning Artist Earl Klugh Brings His Weekend of Jazz Event to Kiawah Island Golf Resort This Fall!

Source: Michael Ricci
August 12, 2010

Kiawah Island, SC—After seven successful years and counting, GRAMMY-winning guitarist Earl Klugh brings his renowned 'Weekend of Jazz' to Kiawah Island Golf Resort. The first annual Weekend of Jazz at Kiawah Island Golf Resort will be held November 11-13, 2010, at the Forbes Five-Star, AAA Five Diamond Sanctuary at Kiawah Island Golf Resort, and will feature three incredible nights of music from chart-topping jazz supergroup FOURPLAY, three-time GRAMMY-nominated and multi-platinum selling saxophonist BONEY JAMES, Golden Globe nominee and bassist KYLE ...

Continue Reading...