Jazz News

This Week on Riverwalk Jazz: Fats Waller, Composer

Source: Don Mopsick
September 1, 2011

Riverwalk Jazz this week focuses on Fats Waller the composer. Fats wrote over 500 compositions in his short twenty-year career. His friend, the lyricist Andy Razaf said that “music poured out of Fats like water." The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM sattelite radio and can be streamed on-demand from the Riverwalk Jazz website. He called himself “the harmful little armful" but there was nothing little about Fats. His high-voltage personality would stun you, ...

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Third Annual Mark Murphy Celebration at Yoshi's Oakland Nov. 14

Source: Terri Hinte Publicity
September 1, 2011

For the third consecutive year, jazz vocal icon Mark Murphy will be celebrated at a fundraiser for the Jazzschool Institute's vocal scholarship named in his honor. One of the most gifted and original male jazz vocalists of the last 50 years, the six-time Grammy nominee has inspired generations of nascent jazz singers. The benefit concert will take place at Yoshi's Oakland on Monday, November 14, at 8:00 pm and will feature, among others, four Murphy protegees who have gone on ...

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Cecilia Wennerstrom releases CD in her new band Explicity

Source: Cecilia Wennerstrom
September 1, 2011

Cecilia Wennerstrom has started the free jazz project Wennerström Larsson Explicity together with her husband Sven Larsson. Sven played with Rolf Ericson in the 60s and 70s, with Sender Freies Berlin Big Band in the 70s and then as a regular member of the Swedish Radio Jazz Group until the mid-80s. He has been the first-call bass trombonist in Sweden for nearly forty years. Both Sven and Cecilia have been recording for Four Leaf Clover but now have their own ...

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Krisanthi Pappas CD Release Concert: Broadway Favorites ...and All That Jazz!

Source: Krisanthi Pappas
September 1, 2011

September 15, 2011, 7:30 PM Company Theatre 30 Accord Park Drive Norwell, MA 02061 781-871-2787 Price: $16 Krisanthi Pappas and her fabulous band (Bill Duffy on piano, Steve Skop on bass, John DiSanto on drums, Bill Vint on clarinet and saxophone) will present a lively concert of Broadway showstoppers including songs from 42nd Street, Chicago, Sweet Charity, Jersey Boys, Wicked, and many more! This show is not to be missed! ...

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SFJAZZ Announces Release of "SFJAZZ Collective: Music of Stevie Wonder and New Compositions, Live in New York 2011" - Season 8

Source: Marshall Lamm Promotions & Public Relations
August 31, 2011

SFJAZZ today announced the release of the SFJAZZ Collective's eight limited-edition set, SFJAZZ Collective: Music of Stevie Wonder and New Compositions, Live in New York 2011 — Season 8, of which a maximum of 5,000 copies will be produced. Available exclusively from SFJAZZ—presenter of this year's 29th San Francisco Jazz Festival, running September 15 through December 18—the deluxe, hand-numbered 3-CD set is the definitive recording of this all-star jazz ensemble's eighth year. Recorded live April 30-May 3, 2011 at famed ...

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Riverside Theater to Honor Phylicia Rashad & Roy Haynes During Annual Gala

Source: 319 Public Relations
August 31, 2011

NYC's Riverside Theater to Pay Tribute to Renowned Actress Phylicia Rashad and Jazz Great Roy Haynes During Their “Legacy to Promise" Gala on September 26th, 2011 Since its inception in 1960, The Riverside Theatre of Morningside Heights in New York City has aimed to bring a vibrant array of culture, performance, and arts to the surrounding community. Hosting a variety of programs from dance performances to film festivals, Riverside Theatre has provided the public with a multitude of enriching illustrations ...

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GPS2: "Orange Afternoons" - Dave Douglas, Ravi Coltrane, Vijay Iyer, Linda Oh, Marcus Gilmore

Source: Dave Douglas / Greenleaf Music
August 31, 2011

New music for a special quintet, GPS2: Orange Afternoons with Dave Douglas, Ravi Coltrane, Vijay Iyer, Linda Oh, and Marcus Gilmore. Tracklist:

The Gulf 9:01Valori Bollati 7:22Solato 8:18Orologi 11:38Orange Afternoons 8:24Frontier Justice 4:13

Orange Afternoons is the second volume in the Greenleaf Portable Series. The GPS is a nod to the shorter, more informal sessions that were for many years the backbone of jazz recording. The series also explores new formats for music to be released and distributed, as well ...

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Gaby Moreno "Illustrated Songs"

Source: Samuel Karr
August 31, 2011

This Guatemalan-Born/Los Angeles-based artist Is already a winner of the John Lennon Songwriting contest and has toured with Tracy Chapman, Ani DiFranco, Nouvelle Vague and Van Dyke Parks. She Has Had Songs Featured On TV Shows Such as MTV's “The Hills," CBS' “The Ghost Whisperer" And Received An EMMY NOMINATION As Co-Composer of The Theme For NBC's “Parks & Recreation." Now, Gaby Moreno is Winning Strong Praise From NPR, iTunes, Rhapsody & Many More For Her Just Released Bilingual Album ...

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