Jazz News

George Duke, Marcus Miller, David Sanborn (DMS) at the Keswick Theatre on June 2nd at 8pm

Source: Michael Ricci
May 19, 2011

Fans of the crossroad where funk meets jazz should save the date for when George Duke, Marcus Miller and David Sanborn join musical forces for a legendary performance at the Keswick Theatre on June 2 at 8PM. The possibilities of this super Soul-Jazz summit are endless as the realm of their catalogues and capabilities span decades. Each performer, a multiple Grammy Award winner, is critically acclaimed, commercially successful and professionally in-demand. Together they will gifting audiences with extra long sets ...

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Rockwired.com Announces New Weekly Online Radio Show "Jazzed & Blue"

Source: Chris M. Slawecki
May 19, 2011

With the daily online radio show Rockwired Radio Profiles continuing to shine a light on indie music from throughout the U.S. and abroad and the weekly show Aboriginal Sounds' coverage of contemporary Native music, Rockwired.com has been keeping busy. Now, the online radio station will be launching a new weekly online radio series entitled Jazzed and Blue: Profiles in Blues and Jazz. This new show is tentatively scheduled for June/July 2011, every Sunday at exclusively at Rockwired.com.

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Elkano Browning Cream Releases Second Album "2"

Source: Chris M. Slawecki
May 19, 2011

Elkano Browning Cream is synonymous with hypnotic and contagious rhythms and a sound that evokes memories of the great Hammond Organ Trios from the glory years of Blue Note Records, personalized and realized through the filter of the nomadic and multicultural members of the trio. The project is headed up by Basque Mikel Azpiroz (Fermin Muguruza, Australian super band The Waifs), an expert of all types of keyboard instruments, concentrates his energies in the basic Hammond Organ Trio format, focusing ...

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Shelly Berg plays James P. Johnson This Week on Riverwalk Jazz

Source: Don Mopsick
May 19, 2011

Shelly Berg, pianist and Dean of the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami, plays the music of James P. Johnson with the Jim Cullum Jazz Band this week on Riverwalk Jazz. The show is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, Sirius/XM and can be streamed from the Riverwalk Jazz website here. Pianist James P. Johnson is a little-known genius of American music. His style of piano playing became known as 'stride' and was a bridge ...

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Glorious Days and Nights: A Jazz Memoir By Herb Snitzer

Source: Lucy Clark
May 19, 2011

Glorious Days and Nights: A Jazz Memoir By Herb Snitzer University Press of Mississippi ISBN 978-1-60473-844-5 Hardback, $35 Herb Snitzer tells the story behind iconic photographs of jazz greats Nina Simone, Miles Davis, Thelonius Monk, Dizzy Gillespie, and more “For any jazz lover who has ever wished to have been around in the Golden Age, Glorious Days and Nights offers a wonderful glimpse of what it must have been like." —Colette Bancroft, ...

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Stefon Harris, David Sánchez And Christian Scott Go The Distance On Collaborative Recording "Ninety Miles"

Source: Michael Ricci
May 19, 2011

Special 2-Disc CD/DVD Package, Ninety Miles, unites North American, Puerto Rican and Cuban jazz artists and will be released June 21, 2011 All distance is relative, especially where geopolitical borders and ideologies are involved. We speak one language, they speak another. We follow our system, they follow theirs. When we focus on the differences, a relatively short stretch of land or water starts to look like a yawning chasm. But when we look at each other as individuals and focus ...

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Jazz at the Bar on Fifth Continues Its Nightly Jazz Programming, June 2011

Source: Seton Hawkins
May 19, 2011

The Bar on Fifth continues its exciting collaboration with Artist in Residence, Antonio Ciacca, who will continue to perform and curate concerts seven nights a week this June. In addition to Antonio's performances, June's calendar includes: June 1-10: Soulful jazz guitarist Lucio Ferrara's musical resume includes collaborations with some of the greatest names in jazz today, including Benny Golson and Joey DeFrancesco. June 12-15 and June 18-19: Wielding a deeply rooted post-bop approach that results in potent performances of originals ...

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Sten Hostfalt Trio featuring Dave Miller, Blaise Siwula Live at National Underground (NYC) May 21, 2011

Source: Sten Hostfalt
May 19, 2011

Celebrating the two Spring 2011 Sonus Rex NYC CD releases Now Matter and Moneytown Sonus Rex NYC proudly presents Sten Hostfalt Trio featuring Dave Miller and Blaise Siwula in concert at National Underground, Saturday May 21 2011. National Underground 159 E Houston Street New York NY 10002 9pm / $11 Dave Miller—drums Blaise Siwula—alto/tenor saxophone Sten Hostfalt—guitar Award-Winning, critically acclaimed guitar virtuoso phenom, composer and bandleader Sten Hostfalt's unique original artistry carries ...

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