Jazz News

Tinatin Releases Debut Ep “Wild,” Focusing Attention On Potential Ravages Of Climate Change; Released On The Eve Of Annual Earth Day

Source: Carol Green, Redwood Entertainment
April 2, 2011

As catastrophic events continue to impact the very ground we walk on, from the devastating combination of earthquakes and tsunamis in Japan and Haiti to the potential ravages of climate change, Earth Day is a more urgent call to arms than ever. This year, the 41st annual cause, designed to inspire awareness and appreciation for our natural environment, culminates on April 22, with education, public policy and consumer campaigns in more than 175 nations. If music is the universal language, ...

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12th Annual Central Brooklyn Jazz Festival

Source: Chris M. Slawecki
April 2, 2011

12th Annual Central Brooklyn Jazz Festival—It's All Jazz, April 1- 30, 2011 presented by the Central Brooklyn Jazz Consortium/CBJC at venues from Coney Island to Williamsburg in Brooklyn.

This celebration is New York City's longest continually running grass roots festival dedicated to Jazz. The presentation offers more than 30 events on 23 days with over 100 artists performing in clubs, community organizations, colleges, faith based, and cultural institutions throughout the borough. Featuring international known and community artists: Carlos Garnett, Candido ...

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Blitz the Ambassador to Release "Native Sun"

Source: rock paper scissors, inc.
April 1, 2011

Blitz the Ambassador Brings the Pan-African Noise with Native Sun A blindingly bright clarity drives Blitz the Ambassador. With a spot-on sense of flow, he name-checks Basquiat and Lumumba, evokes lovelorn sighs on Accra buses, émigré alienation, history's shadows. All set to swirls of brass, distorted guitars, and the crackle and pop of old amplifiers. With a lightning-fast mind, the political boldness of Chuck D, and the sixth groove sense of Fela Kuti, the Ghanaian-born, New York-based MC, composer, and ...

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Garage A Trois Announce New Album & Tour Dates

Source: Chris M. Slawecki
April 1, 2011

On April 12, Garage A Trois will release Always Be Happy, But Stay Evil via Royal Potato Family. Aptly described by photographer John Margaretten as “a transformative, punkalectic, pornographic seizure of sight and sound," the modern day post rock/freak jazz supergroup will support the album with west and east coast tour dates in April and May. Garage A Trois, a force greater than the sum of its colossal parts, is comprised of Seattle-based saxophonics master Skerik, Brooklyn sound-sculptor/keysman Marco Benevento, ...

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The Bad Plus at Chris Jazz Cafe on April 16 & 17, 2011

Source: All About Jazz
April 1, 2011

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B.B. King, Chick Corea, John McLaughlin, Cyndi Lauper and Jan Garbarek, stars of the Heineken Jazzaldia (San Sebastian, Spain)

Source: San Sebastian Jazz Festival (Jazzaldia)
April 1, 2011

B.B. King will be opening a massive open-air free-entrance show in the Green Stage at the Zurriola beach on July 21. Heineken Jazzaldia (San Sebastian Jazz Festival) is due July 21-25. The Festival will have a new venue (the San Telmo Museum) along with the Kursaal Auditorium, the Zurriola beach and the Plaza de la Trinidad (Trinity Square). Other confirmed names are: Abdullah Ibrahim, Mavis Staples, Dave Douglas, Medeski Martin and Wood, John Scofield, Hiromi, Charlie Haden, Cassandra Wilson, Toots ...

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Join Sunset Jazz Piano Based Trio, Woodcock Group As They Celebrate The Release Of A Brand New Full Length CD, "Water Stories" On May 3rd

Source: Kl Ma
April 1, 2011

Woodcock Group's trio gives jazz listeners a piece of music works that evoke a great characteristic of eloquence impressive for an artist that has not even released its debut CD to stores, until now with Sunset Jazz. This Serbian jazz trio also composes and arranges its music and every song on this ten (10) song full length CD. Woodcock Group's new debut album, Water Stories (Sunset Jazz Recordings) gives jazz aficionados great evidence there are new music artists in jazz ...

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Kellylee Evans Wins Canada's 2011 Juno Award for Vocal Jazz Album of the Year

Source: Raul Li
April 1, 2011

Kellylee Evans has won Canada's 2011 Juno Award for Vocal Jazz Album of the Year. The album, entitled Nina (Plus Loin Music), is a tribute to jazz great Nina Simone. Other nominees for the 2011 award included Emilie-Claire Barlow, Nikki Yanofsky, Laila Biali and the late Jeff Healey. This was the Ottawa-based singer-songwriter's second Juno Award nomination and first win. “It was an honour to be nominated alongside such talented artists," said Evans. “And I am extremely grateful to have ...

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