Music Industry News

The Spring Hill Music Group Announces the Creation of the Hillsboro Jazz Label

Source: All About Jazz

The Spring Hill Music Group, Inc. announces the creation of a new imprint set to launch February 27, 2001 from their Nashville base of operations. The label known as Hillsboro to be distributed by EMD (EMI Distribution) will debut with three releases by pianist Beegie Adair, violinist Antoine Silverman and guitarist Jack Jezzro. To celebrate the label's emergence, a 12-track sampler is being released to familiarize industry members from the radio, retail and press community with the label.

The Spring ...

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Subtle But Groovin' Soul Jazz Star: Jack McDuff Dies at 74

Source: All About Jazz

Jack McDuff, who was often known as Brother Jack McDuff, but later upgraded that honorific to Captain (an image completed by a jaunty, Count Basie-style yachting cap), was one of the handful of leading exponents of the soul jazz style created on Hammond organ by Jimmy Smith in the late 1950s. Soul jazz was one of the most popular (and populist) of all jazz-based styles, and remains so today.

Although it had its roots in the piano work of Horace ...

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Iris Lord...12 Famous Men

Source: All About Jazz

Iris Lord has achieved a sort of cubist expression with her new spoken word opera 12 Famous Men presented last week at the Knitting factory Hollywood. Cubism, usually associated with painting, such as Picasso, is defined as “... displaying several aspects of the same object simultaneously and by fragmenting the form of the depicted objects" “ Broken up, analyzed, and reassembled in an abstracted form." In this performance Iris Lord has separated the elements of story, action, and music and ...

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Giampiero Boneschi, Franco Cerri e altri - Jazz In Italy In The 40s

Source: All About Jazz

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Clifford Brown Jazz Festival Dates for 2001

Source: All About Jazz

The Clifford Brown Jazz Festival 2001 in Wilmington, Delaware will take place on Friday, June 22nd through Sunday, June 24th. This free event, in it's 12th year, will include a “jazz loop" to the local bars and restaurants once the performances are over on Friday and Saturday nights. Lunchtime concerts are planned from Monday, June 18th through Thursday, June 21st featuring local jazz artists. Further information will follow as the performers are booked. For more information, contact the Mayor's Office ...

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Such Monkey: i lnuovo CD del Pietro Vitale Jazz Combo (Altrementi)

Source: All About Jazz

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Jenny Scheinman Quartet - West Coast Tour (2/10 thru 2/25)

Source: All About Jazz

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 01.25.01 THE JENNY SCHEINMAN QUARTET Featuring: Jenny Scheinman - violin Dave Mac Nab - guitar Todd Sickafoose - bass Scott Amendola - drums Will soon be on tour in support of Jenny's new CD: (featuring all of the above-listed musicians) -- “Live at Yoshi's" (Avant 045/Koch distribution) The confirmed dates are: 2/10 Berkeley/Oakland, CA (TUVA Space) [opening for the Ashley Adams Trio + Wadada Leo Smith] 2/12 Seattle, WA (OK Hotel Lounge) [co-billed with the Mark Taylor ...

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JIMMY SMITH, KING OF HAMMOND B3, TAKES 'DOT COM BLUES' ON THE ROAD

Source: All About Jazz

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