Jazz News

Melvin Gibbs' free download series enters 10th and final week with a John Medeski feature

Source: Melvin Gibbs
January 26, 2011

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Good News For LA's Jazz Community

Source: Chuck Koton
January 26, 2011

The jazz community has, too often, endured bad news. This sad reality recently manifested in the deaths of legends James Moody, Lena Horne, Billy Taylor and Buddy Collette, among others. The loss of the music's great instrumentalists and vocalists to the ravages of time and disease is, of course, inevitable, though no less painful. Like these beautiful and talented human beings, night clubs and jazz radio stations, too, have come and gone. The Three Deuces, Birdland, the Village Gate, the ...

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Legendary Mothers of Invention Members Don Preston and Bunk Gardner to Tour East Coast

Source: Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
January 26, 2011

Los Angeles, CA—Don Preston and Bunk Gardner, both original members of the the legendary Mothers of Invention with Frank Zappa, are gearing up to tour east coast once again with The Don & Bunk Show. The duo will be playing a full range of Zappa's music from Freak Out to Zoot Allures. The evening will be full of the zany antics, wild improvisations and strange electronic music the early Mothers were famous for, along with the expert mastery of their ...

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All About Jazz / SonicBids MP3 Download of the Month: Lola Danza's "Mountain Rabbit" from Vision Quest

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January 26, 2011

All About Jazz has selected Lola Danza's “Mountain Rabbit" from Vision Quest as our featured SonicBids MP3 Download of the Month. You can download and listen to the track for free here. Enjoy! Your friends at All About Jazz and SonicBids

About the All About Jazz/SonicBids Download Program 6.4 million downloads and going strong! All About Jazz has offered a free full-length MP3 daily since 2005. We also select and feature at least one track per month through ...

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Cuban Legend Paquito D'Rivera Interviewed at All About Jazz

Source: All About Jazz
January 25, 2011

There is almost nothing Paquito D'Rivera hasn't accomplished since his arrival on the U.S. jazz scene in the early 1980s, when the young Cuban arrived from Spain—the first spot he hid when he defected from his home nation and its Communist rule that denied personal freedoms and forced musicians playing jazz to call it something else in order to avoid punishment. Since then, the 62-year-old reed man (alto saxophone and clarinet)/composer/arranger has won nine Grammy Awards in Latin, jazz and ...

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Pedro Luis Ferrer Releases "Tangible" New Music March 29

Source: rock paper scissors, inc.
January 25, 2011

Cuban Brass, Honey, and the Void: The Sensual, Spiritual World of Pedro Luis Ferrer on Tangible In the sheltered inner rooms of an old Havana house, an earthy philosopher plucks melodies and rhythms from the air and from Cuban music's rich soil. Working alone or with close friends and relatives, he turns dances from the sugar cane fields and troubadour trills into magical realist declarations of liberty, as grandchildren dash in and out, and chicken grills out on the veranda. ...

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Casting New Lives Signs Gordon Goodwin and The Big Phat Band

Source: Michael Ricci
January 25, 2011

Casting New Lives is pleased to announce that we now represent Gordon Goodwin and his Big Phat Band! “We are honored to represent an artist of Gordon's stature," said Brinka Rauh of CNL. Gordon and the Big Phat Band have a new CD being release in April on Concord Jazz. CNL will be booking Gordon's national tour to coincide with the album release. Gordon Goodwin is an Emmy and Grammy winning composer and is leader of the acclaimed Big Phat ...

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The 3rd Annual "We Are One Jazz Project" in Concert

Source: Michael Ricci
January 25, 2011

Project partners Howard Rees, (founder of Howard Rees' Jazz Workshops, Canada's oldest independent Jazz school), and Marilyn Field (founder of the DAREarts Foundation, well-known for its work in empowering children), proudly present a creative and timely solution to the issue of disappearing arts programs in schools. After four months of weekly rehearsals in Scarborough Junior Public Schools, they invite you to witness how the power & beauty of Jazz ignites change in young lives. In the 3rd year of our ...

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