Jazz News

New Service Connects Musicians, Songwriters, Producers

Source: Chris M. Slawecki
December 23, 2010

GrooveZoo Announces Public Beta Launch to Connect Songwriters, Musicians, and Producers

New Service Enables Musicians To Utilize Online Cutting-Edge Tools To Connect, Learn, And Cross-Pollinate

SANTA CRUZ, CA: GrooveZoo has announced the public beta launch of its music service (http://www.groovezoo.com). The site connects songwriters, musicians and producers, which allows them to share and cross-pollinate their projects, recording sessions and ideas.

The core of the system is built around GrooveZoo's custom File Management Tool (FMT) where users upload, download and manage ...

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Author Anil Prasad Interviewed at All About Jazz

Source: John Kelman
December 28, 2010

He may not be a household name and you likely won't hear him mentioned in music journalism classes alongside Robert Christgau, Lester Bangs and Anthony DeCurtis. But for those familiar with his work, Anil Prasad is considered among the most knowledgeable, provocative and forward-thinking music journalists in the world today. In 1994, Prasad was dissatisfied with the lack-of-depth and diversity found in the conventional music journalism landscape and stuck out on his own to create Innerviews website, one of the ...

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Singer Kellylee Evans Interviewed at All About Jazz

Source: Fully Altered Media
December 27, 2010

In a sense, singer Kellylee Evans was fast-tracked into her career in music, deciding relatively late in her still-young life that she would plunge into show business waters; waters that can sometimes be murky and beset with storms. When the Toronto, Canada-area woman made a decision to drop pursuit of a master's degree to pursue singing—a decision made after a near-death experience—it wasn't long before she was working on her first recording, an album created with the aid of noted ...

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The Unexpected Grammy Contender

Source: rock paper scissors, inc.
December 23, 2010

GRAMMY Nomination Shines Light on an Untold Story: Chandrika Krishnamurthy Tandon's Soul Call Creates a Community “Totally Lost" in Song

When the GRAMMY nominations were announced earlier this month, a light shined on the untold story of a singer little-known in the music scene. This is the tale of a woman who scoured every corner of the planet in search of soulful music, while climbing the elite ranks of business circles. After years of intense study, she is taking an ...

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Ladies of Jazz Holiday Concert with Stephanie Jordan, Germaine Bazzle, and Leah Chase a Hit

Source: Sylvain Music Notes
December 23, 2010

By Vincent Sylvain A full house at the University of New Orleans Performing Arts Center Recital Hall reveled in the performance of special holiday concert by the New Orleans Ladies of Jazz; Stephanie Jordan, Germaine Bazzle, and Leah Chase in collaboration with the Music Alive Ensemble String Octet and Jazz Quintet this past Sunday, November 28, 2010. Primarily sponsored by the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation and under the direction of violinist Rachel Jordan, as promised the concert delivered ...

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UK Jazz Radio gives a voice to the Eastern European Jazz Scene

Source: Vanessa James
December 23, 2010

Pioneering station,UK Jazz Radio presents ,Victor Unikowsky's Rushour at 1:00am every Friday. This innovative show is hosted by the Russian guitarist who is now resident in the UK. Unikovsky is widely regarded as one of the most highly skilled guitarists in Europe. He began playing guitar professionally when he was 15 years old. At the age of 20, he moved to Petersburg to join the Philharmonic Orchestra. His rapid development as both a musician and composer enabled him to collaborate ...

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What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?

Source: Don Mopsick
December 23, 2010

Well, how about tuning into Riverwalk Jazz from The Landing in San Antonio? The show will be broadcast on public radio stations nationwide (check local listings) as well as Sirius/XM satellite radio and can be streamed from riverwalkjazz.org beginning today. We've got vocalist Topsy Chapman, a New Orleans native known for her role in the long- running off-Broadway hit revue “One Mo' Time," who is now in demand as a featured soloist at jazz festivals around the world. Topsy joins ...

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Jazz Organist Trudy Pitts

Source: Victor L. Schermer
December 23, 2010

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