Home » Jazz News

Jazz News

Timely announcements covering new album releases, tours, concert series, special events, job postings, crowdfunding campaigns and more. You can find more news by searching our website, viewing our news stream, seeing what's trending or reading our blog posts. Subscribe to our news RSS feed and/or embed AAJ news content on your website or blog. Learn about our news service here. Submit news here.

Video / DVD

Marcus Shelby Pays Tribute to Dr. King on April 4

Source: Braithwaite & Katz Communications
April 1, 2011

April 4, 1968 is a tragic day in our country's history. It marks the day that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, TN. Bassist/composer Marcus Shelby, whose family is from Memphis, TN, pays tribute to Dr. King on April 4 with 4 new videos featuring music from Shelby's widely acclaimed CD “Soul of the Movement: Meditations on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr." This is a very personal project for Shelby, who had several family members in the ...

Continue Reading

Recording

Previously Unreleased Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers on "The Sesjun Shows" out April 12

Source: Michael Bloom Media Relations
March 31, 2011

Double CD Features Live Sets Recorded for Dutch Radio U.S. Release by Naxos of America, Inc. & T2 Entertainment Naxos of America, Inc. and T2 Entertainment announce the U.S. release of a second CD from The Sesjun Radio Shows archives. Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers—The Sesjun Radio Shows, a 2-CD set, has an April 12, 2011 release date in the United States and Canada. Art Blakey is, of course, universally regarded as one of the major pioneers of modern ...

Continue Reading

Performance / Tour

SFJAZZ Announces Innovative Artistic Director Program to Debut with the New SFJAZZ Center in San Francisco

Source: Keely Garibaldi
March 31, 2011

SFJAZZ ANNOUNCES INNOVATIVE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR PROGRAM TO DEBUT WITH THE NEW SFJAZZ CENTER IN SAN FRANCISCO SFJAZZ Partners With Five Award-Winning Jazz Legends to Oversee Programming and Performances Beginning Fall 2012 at its Permanent New Home in San Francisco Inaugural SFJAZZ Artistic Directors: Regina Carter, Bill Frisell, Jason Moran, John Santos and Miguel Zenón San Francisco—When the SFJAZZ Center makes its debut in October 2012, SFJAZZ will also debut a first-of-its kind artistic director program designed to be as innovative ...

Continue Reading

Recording

Free Download of "He's Gone," From Grateful Dead Europe '72: The Complete Recordings

Source: 1888 Media
March 31, 2011

Grateful Dead's monumental boxed set EUROPE '72: THE COMPLETE RECORDINGS has sold out of the 7200 individually numbered, limited edition version just weeks after it was first announced. The dead.net exclusive release documents the Dead's momentous 1972 European tour, arguably the band's greatest, with over 70 hours of music featuring every note recorded during the 22-show jaunt. The now sold out limited edition version comes housed in a replica steamer trunk reminiscent of the ones prevalently used at the time. ...

Continue Reading

Video / DVD

New DVD Documentary - Stan Kenton: Artistry in Rhythm Portrait of a Jazz Legend (Jazzed Media)

Source: Michael Bloom Media Relations
March 31, 2011

Stan Kenton: Artistry in Rhythm: Portrait of a Jazz Legend Release Date: April 12, 2011 In recognition of the upcoming 100th birthday (Dec. 15, 1911) celebration of Stan Kenton in 2011 this almost 2 hour documentary by award winning jazz filmmaker Graham Carter, produced in association with the Los Angeles Jazz Institute, covers all facets of Kenton's amazing career and includes much of the groundbreaking music that was performed by the Stan Kenton Orchestra over almost 40 years. ...

Continue Reading

Event

Jazz Arts Group of Columbus Celebrates Jazz Appreciation Month

Source: Scott Vezdos
March 31, 2011

The sweet sounds of jazz will fill the spring air throughout the month of April. The Jazz Arts Group of Columbus (JAG) will help celebrate the 10th anniversary of Jazz Appreciation Month locally with a host of activities all month long. Each April, Jazz Appreciation Month (JAM) shines the spotlight on the extraordinary history of jazz and its importance in American culture. Through concerts, lectures, films, and other programs, JAM encourages people of all ages to attend concerts, listen to ...

Continue Reading

Radio

Clarinet Great Kenny Davern This Week on Riverwalk Jazz

Source: Don Mopsick
March 31, 2011

This week, Riverwalk Jazz celebrates Jazz Appreciation Month with never-before- broadcast tracks featuring the great reedman Kenny Davern. The hour-long program is carried in the US on the Public Radio International network, on Sirius/XM sattelite radio and can be streamed on-demand from the Riverwalk Jazz website. Kenny Davern was a kid when he first heard Pee Wee Russell play “Memphis Blues" and he knew then that he wanted a life in jazz. Over five decades, his world-class playing on clarinet ...

Continue Reading

Performance / Tour

Scott Amendola, Nels Cline & Trevor Dunn in World Premiere with Oakland East Bay Symphony

Source: Chris M. Slawecki
March 31, 2011

OAKLAND EAST BAY SYMPHONY PRESENTS THE HEIGHT OF ROMANTICISM, FEATURING THE WORLD PREMIERE BY BANDLEADER, COMPOSER AND DRUMMER SCOTT AMENDOLA FEATURING NELS CLINE OF WILCO PLUS TCHAIKOVSKY'S 4th SYMPHONY AND BERNARD HERRMANN'S SUITE FROM ALFRED HITCHCOCK'S FILM VERTIGO The Oakland East Bay Symphony (OEBS) presents an evening of intensity and drama with its concert The Height of Romanticism, held at 8 pm on Friday, April 15th at Oakland's Paramount Theatre. Venturing through two different eras and regions, OEBS will explore ...

Continue Reading