Jazz News

Jazz With Strings Attached at the Newport Jazz Festival

Source: Carolyn McClair Public Relations
August 4, 2011

NEWPORT, RI—Saxophones, trumpeters, drummers, and keyboards; those are the traditional instruments you often hear in every era of jazz, and, most likely at every jazz festival. But along the way, the stringed instruments have also made their mark. Guitarists like Wes Montgomery and Joe Pass; violinists like Ray Nance and Stephane Grappelli, and bassists like Ron Carter and Scott LaFaro, have advanced the artistic boundaries of their respective instruments. The artists appearing at the 2011 Newport Jazz Festival® Presented by ...

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SRIRecords.com Climbs The Rankings With New Look

Source: Shelly Liebowitz
August 4, 2011

One of the oldest sites on the internet, srirecords.com, is pleased to announce that its 13 year old website has climbed up into the top 500,000 worldwide and has broken the top 100,000 in the USA in overall ranking of websites, out of 420,000,000 websites (according to Alexa.com). They invite everyone to come and discover the newest features and latest releases and see for themselves why srirecords.com is such a popular destination on the web. New Website Features: The SRI ...

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North Carolina Symphony Concert Tickets On Sale Monday, Aug. 8

Source: Arthur Ryel-Lindsey
August 4, 2011

RALEIGH, N.C.—Tickets to the North Carolina Symphony's 2011/12 concerts go on sale to the general public on Monday, Aug. 8, at 10:00 a.m. They can be purchased online at ncsymphony.org; by calling North Carolina Symphony Audience Services at 919.733.2750 or toll free 877.627.6724; or by visiting Audience Services in person at 3700 Glenwood Ave., Suite 130, in Raleigh. The Symphony's 2011/12 concert season opens on Thursday, Sept. 8, in Raleigh's Meymandi Concert Hall with a powerhouse orchestral program headlined by ...

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Pianist/keyboardist Mike DiLorenzo revives '70s funk with jazz flavor on new album

Source: Lauren Rogers
August 4, 2011

Call it old school but the sweltering mélange of jazz, funk, and soul that characterizes pianist/keyboardist Mike DiLorenzo's new album Bring It Back defines timelessness. The early '70s was a golden age for R&B music as artists as diverse as Curtis Mayfield, Marvin Gaye, and Stevie Wonder adopted elements of jazz and filtered them through a pop framework, creating infectious, raw streetwise rhythms that lit dance clubs on fire. Their influence was so extraordinary that it can be felt throughout ...

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Jazz Pianist Mulgrew Miller & Vibist Steve Nelson Birthday Celebration At Smoke Jazz & Supper Club

Source: Dorothy Riley
August 4, 2011

New York, NY—- Beginning with the “Harlem Renaissance" of the 1920's and 1930's, spanning all the way to the present day, New York City, and Harlem, in particular have always been the natural home of jazz music. Now pianist Mulgrew Miller and his longtime collaborator, vibraphonist Steve Nelson, bring their music to the Smoke Jazz & Supper Club Lounge, located on the southern edge of New York's fabled Harlem neighborhood. The show, billed as a “Birthday Celebration," will take place ...

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Dave Douglas launches the Greenleaf Cloud Player

Source: Dave Douglas / Greenleaf Music
August 3, 2011

The Greenleaf Cloud Player allows for streaming of the full Greenleaf release catalog from Dave Douglas, Donny McCaslin, Nicole Mitchell's Indigo Trio, Curtis Macdonald, Michael Bates, and Kneebody. Also available for streaming are over 20 live sets, and the whole slew of unreleased Subscriber Series tracks. The Cloud Player can be accessed on the web and on your mobile device or pad. Active Greenleaf Subscribers have access to all this great music including an exclusive first listen of Dave Douglas' ...

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All About Jazz Upgrades Musician Profiles and Expands Free Service to Jazz Musicians

Source: Michael Ricci
August 4, 2011

All About Jazz upgraded its musician profiles—the page where musicians establish their central presence at the website.

In addition to significantly improving the appearance and speed of the page, new musician profile features include: Photo Slideshow (musician editors can select the six images)

Direct-to-fan communication through AAJ's internal message service

Improved calendar interface

Facebook “Like" and Twitter “Tweet" buttons

Embedded Twitter widget

Improved profile editing capabilities

Optimized for search engines If you are a musician and have a profile, ...

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Brazilian jazz and classical music unite on Dumee & Dijkgraaf Quinteto’s new album

Source: Lauren Rogers
August 3, 2011

All it takes is one listen to “Cipriano" to be reeled in by the sublime guitar work of Jan Dumee. The fifth track from Dumee & Dijkgraaf Quinteto's new album, Heloisando, “Cipriano" features some of the dreamiest guitar playing that can be found on any record this year. Oddly enough, Dumee's relationship with the guitar was not instantly formed. “I've never particularly had a fondness for the instrument," Dumee admitted. “Usually it was the music itself that attracted me. I ...

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