Home » Jazz News
Video / DVD 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.
STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Gettin' Dirty with the Dirty Dozen Brass Band
Source:
St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week, we shine our video spotlight on New Orleans' Dirty Dozen Brass Band, who will be back in St. Louis to perform next Saturday, February 26 on a double bill with singer/pianist Jon Cleary at the Sheldon Concert Hall. The DDBB have played here numerous times in recent years, with their last visit coming in November 2009 at the Broadway Oyster Bar. The four clips featured today are all of fairly recent ...
Continue Reading
George Shearing, Ebullient Jazz Pianist, R.I.P.
Source:
JazzStage.net
George Shearing, the ebullient jazz pianist who wrote the standard “Lullaby of Birdland" and had a string of hits both with and without his quintet, has died. He was 91. Shearing, blind since birth, died early Monday morning in Manhattan of congestive heart failure, his longtime manager Dale Sheets said. Shearing had been a superstar of the jazz world since a couple of years after he arrived in the United States in 1947 from his native England, where he was ...
Continue Reading
Vintage Dizzy
Source:
Riffs on Jazz by John Anderson
Dizzy Gillespie: Livein '58 & '70 (2006), part ofthe Jazz Icons series of DVDs, presents another gem with these two concerts ofDizzy Gillespie. In the earlier date from Belgium, Gillespie is in a smallgroup setting—a fantastic quintet with Sonny Stitt on sax, Lou Levy on piano,Ray Brown on bass, and Gus Johnson on drums. The hip repertoire includes “BluesAfter Dark" (penned by Benny Golson), “Blues Walk" (Clifford Brown's ultra-coolfavorite), and the standard “Cocktails for Two." Gillespie is his ebullientself throughout, ...
Continue Reading
Jason Parker Quartet / Nick Drake / Jay-Z Mash-up by Hip-Hop Producer Spekulation - "Can't Knock The Hustle"
Source:
Jason Parker
Seattle's Jason Parker Quartet has recorded their latest album Five Leaves Left: A Tribute To Nick Drake, due out next month. Parker sent the mixes to his friend, hip-hip producer Spekulation for his input, and in return got back a 6 tracks cut up and remixed with Jay-Z lyrics! “Can't Knock The Hustle" is the first single from the “Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em" EP by Spekulation, available February 29th. “Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em" is a 6-track ...
Continue Reading
Happy Birthday, Wingy Manone!
Source:
Riffs on Jazz by John Anderson
Trumpeter, singer, and composer Joseph “Wingy" Manone was born on this date in 1900. As a boy in New Orleans, he lost an arm as a result of a streetcar accident, but this didn't stop him from taking up a musical instrument. His nickname has to rank as a bitof gallows humor, although Manone's 1948 autobiography was entitled Trumpeton the Wing. He used a prostheticarm so naturally when playing trumpet that his disability was not immediately noticeable. He first played ...
Continue Reading
