Jazz News

Monterey Jazz Festival's Next Generation Jazz Festival April 1 - 3 in Downtown Monterey

Source: Chris M. Slawecki
March 16, 2011

Monterey Jazz Festival's Next Generation Jazz Festival Celebrates 40th Anniversary

America's Top Young Jazz Musicians from 10 States Compete for Spot on Monterey Jazz Festival Stages

Monterey Jazz Festival Artist-In-Residence and Two-Time Grammy-Nominee Joshua Redman to Participate

The Monterey Jazz Festival, a nonprofit leader in jazz education since its inception in 1958 and JazzTimes Readers' Poll multi-year winner for Best Jazz Festival, is proud to announce its annual Next Generation Jazz Festival, April 1ש, 2011 in downtown Monterey. The weekend-long ...

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Special Event with Jason Moran & Glenn Ligon March 23 at the Whitney

Source: Chris M. Slawecki
March 16, 2011

Special Event in Conjunction with Glenn Ligon: America On The Death of Tom: An Evening with Glenn Ligon and Jason Moran, moderated by Terrance McKnight, Wednesday, March 23 at 8 pm. Tickets are $8 General Admission and $6 Students/Seniors Glenn Ligon's most recent video, The Death of Tom, expands on the artist's career-long exploration of American history and literature, as well as his interest in the relationship between abstraction and representation. To make the piece, Ligon re-created the final scene ...

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Club d'Elf: New Albums & Tour

Source: rock paper scissors, inc.
March 16, 2011

Deep Trancing: The Hypnotic Grooves, Camel-Skin Bass, and Unifying Spirit of Club d'Elf

The music of Club d'Elf flies through North African trance, glitchy turntablism, improvisation, and rock psychedelia, but it's playfully altered states of musical consciousness that truly guide the band. Witness founder Mike Rivard's first night in Morocco, the country that had fired his musical imagination for more than a decade: In a strikingly vivid dream, he felt himself swimming upwards in the air as fantastic landscapes, mountains, ...

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Introducing Distortion Free, Pitch and Tempo Change Audio Software to the Broad Based Consumer Market

Source: James Todd
March 16, 2011

Doylestown, PA—Todd, Michael & James, Inc (TMJ) released today, Song Surgeon Version 3, its “best in class" audio software for pitch (key) and tempo change. Song Surgeon yields high fidelity, distortion free audio for use by musicians, transcribers, translators, dance studios, and churches (for music worship). Song Surgeon Version 3 features not one, but two separate algorithms for pitch and tempo change. It yields unparalleled quality, until today available only in higher end recording and audio editing software costing hundreds ...

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Chicken Raid Music Festival 2011 in Atlanta GA March 19-20

Source: 9th Floor Music
March 16, 2011

The Chicken Raid is an annual two-day music festival and benefit honoring the late Atlanta country blues legend Mr. Frank Edwards (1909-2002). The Chicken Raid offers a range of high quality local, regional, and national musical talents. Proceeds from this year's festival will be shared between the Edwards' estate and Music Maker Relief Foundation (MMRF). MMRF is a non-profit committed to helping pioneers of American music meet their daily needs. 2011 performers include Music Maker artists Beverly “Guitar" Watkins, Roy ...

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Torben Waldorff Tours Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Canada and United States in 2011

Source: Braithwaite & Katz Communications
March 16, 2011

Torben Waldorff on tour in March-April featuring music from the new critically acclaimed release American Rock Beauty, Torben's third out on ArtistShare. The band will feature Montreal based Joel Miller on saxophones, Jon Wikan of New York on drums, Torben Waldorff on guitar. Mattias Welin/Fraser Hollins/Matt Clohesy on bass. On tour the band will play in Scandinavian cities Copenhagen, Oslo, Malmo, and stateside, Toronto, Montreal, New York City. Critics have praised Waldorff's previous efforts for their spirit, balance, and the ...

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Saxophonist Daniel Bennett releases "Peace and Stability Among Bears" on April 16, 2011

Source: Daniel Bennett
March 16, 2011

Critically acclaimed New York saxophonist Daniel Bennett is releasing the third installment of his Bear Thompson trilogy on Saturday, Apri 16, 2011. The Boston Globe calls Bennett's music, “a mix of jazz, folk, and trance." The new album is entitled, “Peace and Stability Among Bears." The disc features Bennett on alto saxophone and flute, Chris Hersch on guitar, Jason Davis on bass, and poly-meter guru Rick Landwehr on drums. Landwehr is the author of “Drummer's Guide to Odd Time Signatures" ...

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Official release party for Jeremy Noller's "Music Notes" - April 7th at Drom in NYC

Source: Jeremy Noller
March 16, 2011

Announcing the release of Music Notes, the debut album from drummer/composer Jeremy Noller. Charting a distinctly accessible intersection between contemporary jazz and traditional West African rhythms, Noller taps players from NYC's diverse musical realms to perform original compositions and arrangements. The result is a savory broth of jazz and world music that is an expression of Jeremy's unique musical journey. Music Notes flows seamlessly through musical landscapes, carving space for ardent jazz fans (Noller's quartet retakes Wayne Shorter's “Speak No ...

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