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Book / Magazine

Jazz & Blues Florida March 2012 Online Edition Posted

Source: Charles Boyer
March 1, 2012

The new edition of Jazz & Blues Florida, Florida's free online source for information on live jazz and blues in clubs, concerts and festivals, is now available. Readers throughout Florida and visitors coming from around the world consult this site for information on the vibrant scene to be found throughout the sate. We are all about real music, made by real people, in real places. The March 2012 online edition of JAZZ & BLUES FLORIDA has been posted at www.JazzBluesFlorida.com. ...

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Recording

The dB's Make Their First New Album in 30 Years

Source: conqueroo
March 1, 2012

Falling off the Sky, due out June—on Bar/None, reunites original members Peter Holsapple, Chris Stamey, Will Rigby and Gene Holder. RALEIGH, N.C.—Falling Off the Sky is the first new dB's album in a quarter-century. It's also the first in three decades to feature the band's original lineup of singer/songwriter/guitarists Peter Holsapple and Chris Stamey, bassist Gene Holder and drummer Will Rigby—the same lineup that recorded the beloved early-'80s classics Stands for deciBels and Repercussion. Street date is set for June ...

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Advocacy

WBAI Broadcast Underlies Need for Pension Benefits for Jazz Artists: J4JA! Takes to the Airwaves

Source: All About Jazz
February 29, 2012

On Monday, December 26th, jazz vocalist Keisha St. Joan and Local 802 Recording Vice President John O'Connor appeared on the NYC radio program Building Bridges Radio: Your Community & Labor Report, produced and Hosted by Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash over WBAI,99.5FM. In the segment, St. Joan, as always, is particularly eloquent regarding the injustices suffered by musicians at the hands of club owners, and O'Connor fully explains the current J4JA! campaign in detail. The segment runs about 25 minutes—and ...

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Performance / Tour

National Jazz Museum in Harlem 2012 March Schedule

Source: Michael Ricci
February 29, 2012

This March, The National Jazz Museum in Harlem continues to offer a wide range of top quality free programming and affordable concerts from jazz's most celebrated musicians, educators and historians. For Harlem Speaks, our flagship public program of oral histories, we have two brilliant and fresh voices on the scene: pianist Matthew Shipp and bassist Ben Williams. It's a rare chance to hear them talk at length about the whats and whys of their lives. Jazz for Curious Listeners will ...

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Recording

Keyboardist Steve Weingart and bassist/vocalist Renee Jones create "Dialogue" of hooks and heart

Source: Lauren Rogers
February 29, 2012

Keyboardist Steve Weingart is having one of those years, a period in time that, once it has passed, he will be to look upon with not only fondness but also wonderment. He has just released his first collaboration with his wife, bassist/vocalist Renee Jones; moreover, the two are about to tour with G3. For those who aren't familiar with G3, guitar hero Joe Satriani performs throughout the world with fellow iconic axe men, this time including Steve Vai and Steve ...

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Recording

Classical Guitarist Patrick Appello Showcases 1846 Lacote Guitar on New CD, 'The Last Rose of Summer'

Source: Seth Cohen PR
February 29, 2012

A Bravura Performance on an 1846 Lacôte Guitar Shapes the Romantic, Historical Sounds of Classical Guitarist Patrick Appello Classical guitarist Patrick Appello delivers a stunning collection of 'romantic guitar' songs on his upcoming CD, 'The Last Rose of Summer.' The album, set for March 6th release, showcases the sounds of Appello's 1846 Lacote guitar and features works by Franz Schubert, Mauro Giuliani and Johann Kasper Mertz. Appello describes the instrument in greater detail: The guitar used in this recording is ...

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Festival

Jubilee Jazz 2012: Music to make Horace Walpole Spin?

Source: Shahnaz Hameed
February 29, 2012

He loved to entertain. He loved the quirky. He loved the arts and left us a little Gothic house at Strawberry Hill, whose very existence pretty much sums him up on its own. He used this lovely little treasure to indulge and share what he loved with his friends. With entertainment at the heart and core of Strawberry Hill House, we like to wonder what Horace Walpole would have thought of its use as the stage for the upcoming Jazz ...

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Radio

Blues Queens, Cakewalkin’ Babies & Songbirds: A Riverwalk Jazz Salute to Women’s History Month

Source: Don Mopsick
February 28, 2012

This week on Riverwalk Jazz, Carol Woods portrays women who were seminal figures in jazz with dialogue based on their first-person accounts, and Carol interprets important songs from their careers. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM satellite radio and can be streamed on-demand from the Riverwalk Jazz website. It may have been a man's world in the early days of jazz, but tell that to Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday—not to mention artists ...

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