Jazz News

Jacob Young/Roy Powell/Jarle Vespestad Release CD Anthem

Source: Michael Ricci
March 26, 2011

Organ jazz for today. Brooding, melancholic, lyrical, with intense ensemble playing. This collectively lead trio was born a little over a year ago as a project bringing together three of Norway's leading jazz musicians on Hammond B3 organ, drums and guitar. Jarle Vespestad and Jacob Young belong to the new generation of Norwegian musicians on ECM records. Roy Powell (UK) lives in Oslo with a background in British cutting-edge jazz having played with the Creative Jazz Orchestra and leading American ...

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ECM March 29th Releases!

Source: ECM Records
March 24, 2011

Don't miss these two new March 29th releases! Julia Hülsmann Trio Imprint Julia Hülsmann: piano Marc Muellbauer: bass Heinrich Köbberling: drums On the second ECM disc from the popular Berlin-based Julia Hülsmann Trio, the leader's themes stand out in stark relief, as if stamped or printed into the surrounding improvisation. “Imprint" offers highly communicative jazz in which melody, clearly-etched melody, is paramount. Hülsmann is a gifted jazz-composer and there are surprises amongst her pieces ...

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Jazz Arts Group 2011 Summer Camp/Workshop Opportunities at the Jazz Academy

Source: Michael Ricci
March 24, 2011

The Jazz Arts Group of Columbus (JAG) offers a stellar line-up of music making opportunities to engage all ages and interests with summer camps and clinics at the Jazz Academy community instructional space in the Lincoln Theatre complex. With nearly 5,000 square feet, the Jazz Academy is a premier facility for multi-generational and recreational music making, ensemble playing, after-school programs, technology instruction and lectures with world-class musicians. Join Sean Carney and the Sean Carney Band for CAMP Blues (June 13-17, ...

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Fred Hersch to perform at the Union County PAC Fazioli Piano Loft

Source: Danni Rumsey
March 24, 2011

Union County Performing Arts Center will present one of the most versatile masters of jazz piano. Fred Hersch will perform for one night only, on Sunday, April 3 at 6PM at the Fazioli Piano Loft at Union County PAC. Tickets are on sale now at $15; call the UC PAC box office at 732-499-8226, or visit ucpac.org Pianist and composer Fred Hersch has been called “one of the small handful of brilliant musicians of his generation" by Down Beat, and ...

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All About Jazz Musician Database Tops 30,000 Profiles

Source: Michael Ricci
March 24, 2011

The All About Jazz Musician Center is growing by the day and has just eclipsed 30,000 musician profiles. AAJ profiles work a little like Wikipedia, where musicians, fans, industry folks can create and maintain them. Most of the profiles are created by an individual, but we now create skeleton profiles from CD reviews and calendar date submissions. We're asking musicians and readers to claim unfinished profiles to contribute bios, upload photos, insert videos, and add related links.

To request access ...

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Columbus Jazz Orchestra Celebrates "A Night at the Apollo" with Broadway Actress/Vocalist Marva Hicks

Source: Michael Ricci
March 24, 2011

In celebration of Jazz Appreciation Month, the Jazz Arts Group of Columbus (JAG) steps out for A Night at the Apollo, April 13-17 at the historic Southern Theatre. Under the direction of Artistic Director Byron Stripling, the Columbus Jazz Orchestra and Broadway actress/vocalist Marva Hicks celebrate music greats like Dinah Washington, Ella Fitzgerald, Gladys Knight, James Brown, Otis Redding, Sam Cooke and many others whose careers were launched by this legendary finishing school! The world famous Apollo Theater is so ...

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90th Birthday Tribute to Candido Celebrated by Bobby Sanabria & Manhattan School of Music Afro Cuban Jazz Orchestra

Source: Chris M. Slawecki
March 24, 2011

Bobby Sanabria and the Manhattan School of Music Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra will be presenting a 90th Birthday Celebration honoring Candido Camero, NEA Jazz Master and the “father of modern conga drumming" on Friday, April 1 at 7:30pm in the School's John C. Borden Auditorium. The evening will feature Candido, who officially turns 90 on April 22nd, as guest artist. Showcased will be music spanning the living legend's career beginning with music from his Cuban childhood, followed by music from his ...

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Solomon Burke's Last Album 'Hold on Tight' Released March 22

Source: Universal Music Enterprises
March 24, 2011

Considered by many to be the greatest male soul singer of all time, a large man with a larger-than-life personality, Solomon Burke recorded his final album in October 2009 in Brussels, Belgium with the Dutch band De Dijk. One year later, on October 10th, the “King of Rock 'n' Soul" died on his way to Amsterdam where he was to perform with De Dijk. Now that masterful album, issued in Europe prior to his passing and reached platinum status, debuts ...

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