Jazz News

"Music To Melt To" As Line-Up For Anglesey's Summer Night Jazz Announced

Source: Gwen Sion
May 6, 2011

One of the UK's finest jazz singers and much loved performer, Clare Teal, has been announced as the headline act for Summer Night Jazz, an outdoor event to be held at National Trust's Plas Newydd Country House and Gardens on the Isle of Anglesey, North Wales on Saturday, 2 July 2011. Clare Teal and her band will be joined by rising star Amy Roberts and North Wales-based quintet Dr Jazz for a feast of traditional and contemporary jazz and big ...

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Next Week at The Cornelia Street Cafe- May 9-16

Source: Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity
May 6, 2011

The Cornelia Street Café 29 Cornelia Street Greenwich Village, NYC 10014

Showtimes: Weeknights: 6:00 PM, 8:30 PM, 10:00 PM, Weekends: 6:00 PM, 9:00 PM and 10:30 PM

NEW Cover Charges + Minimums:  Sun-Thurs-$10 cover + $10 minimum, Fri-Sat-$15 cover + $10 minimum 

Monday, May 9, 8:30 PM  CLASSICAL AT THE CORNELIA! Simon Mulligan, solo piano the third performance of our new Classical at the Cornelia Series, pianist and musical director Simon Mulligan ...

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The Art of Jazz Still Thrives with Saxophonist Sonny Rollins

Source: Michael Ricci
May 6, 2011

For all of the longtime jazz fans who habitually fret about what has become of the art form and whether it's endangered, Sonny Rollins offers a reassuring and typically philosophical response: “Jazz is a spirit. It is freedom. It is reality put into musical form. It will never leave until this planet leaves," says the revered 80-year-old saxophonist, one of the few still-active links to the bebop era of Charlie Parker. Rollins co-headlines the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival ...

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AAJ News Submission Guidelines (Update)

Source: Michael Ricci
May 6, 2011

When posting to All About Jazz News, please follow these five formatting rules. Better yet, consider applying them to your published material as they are industry standard and will ensure that your announcements look their absolute best. 1. Place song titles in double quotes (never use single quotes); 2. Italicize album titles with the <em> tag; 3. Never CAPITALIZE a word or the headline; 4. Bold sparingly; 5. Always hotlink your URLs. You can't click an unlinked URL. And with ...

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Local Jazz History at the Boston Public Library for Jazz Week from JazzBoston

Source: Chris Rich
May 5, 2011

A sense of place and history always attends Jazz Week. Booker Ervin was a mail man not far from where I live in the 60s. Johnny Hodges was born over in Cambridgeport. This year focuses on a region and two pianists. Both Events will be at the Main Branch Library in Copley Square. “North Shore Jazz, Then and Now," will occur on Thursday, May 5 at 6pm in the Rabb Room at Boston Public Library. Henry Ferrini and Jenny Chava ...

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Yank Lawson and Bob Haggart on Riverwalk Jazz This Week

Source: Don Mopsick
May 5, 2011

This week on Riverwalk Jazz, former Bob Crosby Orchestra members, trumpeter Yank Lawson and bassist Bob Haggart, are heard in rare live performance tracks of Crosby repertoire recorded with The Jim Cullum Jazz Band in a 1989 visit to The Landing. The hour-long public radio program is distrubuted in the USA by Public Radio International and Sirius/XM sattelite radio, and can be streamed on-demand from the Riverwalk Jazz website. The Bob Crosby Orchestra holds a unique place among bands of ...

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From the basement to the Montréal Jazz Festival: Guitarist Carlos Jiménez' self-taught road to success

Source: Lauren Rogers
May 5, 2011

On his latest album Undercurrents, guitarist Carlos Jiménez exhibits the cool self-confidence and keen precision of an artist at the top of his game, about as far as it gets from the kid who used to practice in his parents' basement. But every musician has to begin somewhere, and for Jiménez those tireless moments underground provided the key to his command of the instrument. “I'm initially self-taught," he revealed. “I would spend about seven hours a day in my parents' ...

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First Mesquite Jazz Festival Scheduled July 15-17 About 80 miles North of Las Vegas

Source: Chris M. Slawecki
May 5, 2011

Another first will converge on Mesquite when the inaugural Mesquite Jazz Festival is presented on the grounds of the CasaBlanca Resort July 15-17. Scheduled to perform at the event will be four groups including Reynolds Brothers Rhythm Rascals of Santa Ana, Calif.; Titanic, a Los Angeles-based group; Uptown Lowdown Jazz Band of Seattle, Wash; and Sally's Jazznuts. Activities will kick off Friday, July 15 at 7 p.m. in the CasaBlanca Showroom. Twenty Years of Jazz by Rose Marie Barr begins ...

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