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Recording

Trombone Shorty's "Backatown" is Back At #1

Source: conqueroo
January 13, 2011

Trombone Shorty is nominated for a GRAMMY, Six Offbeat Awards, and is Elmore magazine's cover story, “Bound for Glory" Artists To Watch in 2011" LOS ANGELES, Calif.—In its 38th week of release, Trombone Shorty's Grammy-nominated Backatown returns to #1 on Billboard magazine's Contemporary Jazz CD chart this coming week. Backatown went immediately to #1 on its release in April of 2010 and held the top position for nine straight weeks, rarely straying from the Top Five in the past nine ...

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Performance / Tour

Stanford Lively Arts Presents Mingus Dynasty On Feb. 2 As Part Of Season-Long Celebration Of Jazz Legend Charles Mingus

Source: Robert Cable
January 13, 2011

The sound of jazz composer, bassist, and bandleader Charles Mingus lives on in Mingus Dynasty, the celebrated New York-based septet that makes a rare Bay Area appearance at Stanford's Dinkelspiel Auditorium on Wednesday, February 2 at 8:00 p.m. The concert is a centerpiece of Stanford Lively Arts's “Remember Mingus" series, continuing throughout the rest of the season with a number of musical demonstrations, conversations, and performances. The series is presented in partnership with Stanford Jazz Workshop and the National Jazz ...

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Recording

Danish Music Artist Nattefrost Takes Electronic Music To A Higher Level

Source: Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
January 13, 2011

Denmark—When you think about great electronic music artists, names like Edgar Froese, Tangerine Dream. Klaus Schulze, Kraftwerk, Vangelis, Kitaro and Jean Michel Jarre immediately spring to mind. Now Danish electronic music composer Nattefrost can be proudly added to this list of prestigious artists. As reviewer Paul Rijkens recently stated, “Nattefrost has become quite a 'household name' in serious electronic music!" Meaning “Nightfrost" in English, Nattefrost is actually the alias for musician Bjørn Jeppesen, who describes his work as “synthesizer based ...

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Performance / Tour

Dereham Jazz Society Presents Lakeside Jazz

Source: Michael Ricci
January 13, 2011

Dereham Jazz Society promotes Lakeside Jazz every Wednesday at The Lakeside Country Club, Quarry Lane, Lyng, Norfolk NR9 5RS Doors open 7.00pm, Music starts at 8.00 until 10.30pm Comfortable surroundings with Meals and Bar facilities available, excellent parking At various venues, we have had 12 continuous years of presenting the best in live jazz. All styles are catered for, including mainstream, modern, big band and traditional jazz. Contacts 01328 863511 or 01362 696741 or 01328 820179 What's on at Lakeside ...

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Radio

Bunk Johnson This Week on Riverwalk Jazz

Source: Don Mopsick
January 13, 2011

This week, The Jim Cullum Jazz Band celebrates the traditional New Orleans improvised ensemble style of Bunk Johnson. We'll hear his stories, part fact and part fiction, brought to life by the award-winning Broadway actor and Riverwalk Jazz favorite, Vernel Bagneris. The weekly hour-long Riverwalk Jazz public radio series is distributed nationwide by Public Radio International and XM/Sirius, and is streamed from their website. Bunk Johnson was a fine cornet player, a pioneer in the early days of New Orleans ...

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Performance / Tour

Pianist Russell Sherman Plays Gershwin Piano Concerto in F with NEC Philharmonia, Hugh Wolff

Source: Michael Ricci
January 13, 2011

Free Concert February 9 in NEC's Jordan Hall Making good on a threat or dare he issued on the occasion of his 80th Birthday, pianist Russell Sherman, NEC's Distinguished Artist-in-Residence, will perform the Gershwin Piano Concerto in F in a February 9 concert with the NEC Philharmonia and Hugh Wolff, Stanford and Norma Jean Calderwood Director of Orchestras. The 8 p.m. concert at NEC's Jordan Hall is free and open to the public. Interviewed last year by the Boston Globe ...

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Performance / Tour

ISSUE Project Room Welcomes a Plethora of Jazz Concerts in FEB 2011

Source: AMT Public Relations
January 13, 2011

JAZZ @ ISSUE Project Room in FEB 2011 All Doors @ 8:00PM, Concerts @ 8:30PM (unless otherwise noted) All events at ISSUE Project Room 232 3rd Street, Brooklyn, NY, Train F/G Carroll St-Smith St, Train F/G/M/R Fourth Ave-9th St (unless otherwise noted) To Purchase Tickets call Brown Paper Tickets at 800.838.3006 or visit issueprojectroom.org Artists and schedules are subject to change SAT 2.05 —Charles Gayle Charles Gayle plays double bass, tenor sax, ...

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Performance / Tour

Beegie Adair makes rare NYC appearance at Birdland with vocalist Monica Ramey, January 13, 6PM

Source: Maxx Myrick
January 13, 2011

Monica Ramey makes NYC debut at Birdland with special guest Beegie Adair Monica Ramey's CD “Make Someone Happy," is receiving nationwide airplay on jazz radio, including Music Choice and DMX. She makes her New York City debut, January 13, 2011, at Birdland with special guest the legendary Beegie Adair, a 2010 Billboard Japan Jazz Artist of the Year, who Michael Feinstein calls “a marvelously understated player whose interpretations of standards are just brilliant," jazz great Helen Merrill salutes her “inventive jazz sense, her wonderful ...

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