Music Industry News

New Haven's Firehouse 12 Announces 2007 Spring Jazz Series

Source: Improvised Communications
February 13, 2007

Firehouse 12 will launch its 2007 Spring Jazz Series on March 16th with a performance by Hartford-based trombonist Steve Davis' quintet featuring New Haven native, saxophonist Mike DiRubbo. This weekly series, which presents jazz and creative improvised music concerts in an intimate 75-seat performance space inside a state-of-the-art recording studio, will continue through early June.

All performances will include sets at 8:30 and 10:00 p.m. Tickets will be $15 for the opening set and $10 for the second set. Tickets ...

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Governor Proclaims April Jazz Appreciation Month

Source: All About Jazz
February 9, 2007

A proclamation issued by Governor Mitch Daniels today officially declares April “Jazz Appreciation Month," or JAM for short. Indiana now joins nine other states that have followed the lead of the Smithsonian Institute's National Museum of American History's Jazz initiative to increase awareness of this original American art form. Jazz roots run deep in Indiana and Indiana University's Distingushed Professor of Music and Chairman of the Jazz department--David Baker--is also the Smithsonian's Jazz Masterworks Orchestra's Artistic Director. Young Audiences of ...

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SFJAZZ Announces Election of New Board Chair and New Members to Board of Trustees

Source: Marshall Lamm Promotions & Public Relations
February 5, 2007

SFJAZZ ANNOUNCES ELECTION OF NEW BOARD CHAIR SRINIJA SRINIVASAN AND APPOINTMENT OF FOUR NEW MEMBERSTO ITS BOARD OF TRUSTEES (San Francisco, CA) -- Randall Kline, Executive Director of SFJAZZ, the leading non-profit jazz organization on the West Coast and the presenter of the San Francisco Jazz Festival, today announced the election of a new board chair and four additions to its board of trustees. Vice President and Editor in Chief of Yahoo! Inc. Srinija Srinivasan was voted in as the ...

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Joanna Pascale Gives Old Wax New Life

Source: All About Jazz
February 4, 2007

Philadelphia-area jazz singer has penchant for obscure musical gems Philadelphia jazz singer Joanna Pascale discovered her love of storytelling at age 15, when she heard her first Billie Holiday record. “I was attracted to the lyrics, and the passion behind them. I guess I was an overdramatic teenager," she said in a telephone interview. “That record just opened a floodgate." Twelve years and a music degree later, Pascale's enthusiasm for emotional narrative still burns bright. She'll be singing some story-driven, ...

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Philadelphia Jazz Calendar 2007 Features Area Musicians and Photographers

Source: All About Jazz
February 4, 2007

Philadelphia area jazz listeners can support local jazz musicians in need of medical care by purchasing a Jazz Bridge Project wall calendar. Developed by local jazz musicians and vocalists, this 12-month wall calendar on high quality paper features a prominent Philadelphia jazz musician with a personal quote highlighting their musical philosophy and the region's unique jazz history. Photographs are by local artists. About the Jazz Bridge Project

The Jazz Bridge Project is a non-profit organization established by a group of ...

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2006 NEA Jazz Master Curtis Fuller, Louis Hayes, Mulgrew Miller at the Proscenium Agency

Source: All About Jazz
February 1, 2007

The Proscenium Agency Opens its Doors in 2007 to Represent the Finest Jazz Artists: 2006 NEA Jazz Master Curtis Fuller, Louis Hayes, Mulgrew Miller, Buster Williams, Robert Hurst, Ray “Bulldog" Drummond, Carmen Lundy, Donald Harrison In concurrence with the 2007 IAJE Conference, a new agency was born, representing a fierce concoction of the world's most renowned jazz icons. In celebration of this formation, and in celebration of Curtis Fuller's 2006 Jazz Master Award, The Proscenium Agency held a week of ...

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Blujazz Productions Names Mitchell Feldman Managing Director of Chicago Based Cooperative Label

Source: All About Jazz
January 31, 2007

BluJazz Productions President Greg Pasenko today announced that Mitchell Feldman has been named managing director of the Chicago-based cooperative jazz label Pasenko co-founded in 1995 that specializes in producing and marketing independent jazz artists and ensembles. Feldman's jazz publicity and radio promotion company MFA provided those services for six of the past eight CDs released by BluJazz between the fall of 2005 and the fall of 2006. BluJazz's latest release, Offerings For A Peaceable Season by label co-founder and VicePresident ...

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Kermit Driscoll Gravely Ill with Lyme Disease

Source: All About Jazz
January 26, 2007

Though he has never released an album under his own name, the bassist Kermit Driscoll has had a considerable impact in adventurous jazz circles over the last 20 years.

Mr. Driscoll first emerged as a close compatriot of the guitarist Bill Frisell during an influential stretch from the mid-1980s through the mid-'90s. (Live, a 1991 Gramavision album credited to Bill Frisell, is especially worth seeking out for Mr. Driscoll's nimble rapport with Mr. Frisell and Mr. Baron, a drummer.) Mr. ...

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