Jazz News

Celebrated Prog Duo Days Between Stations Return To Recording Studio To Record New Album

Source: Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
December 1, 2010

Los Angeles, CA—Possibly the most talked about debut CD of 2007 was the critically acclaimed eponymous release by California prog duo Days Between Stations. An enigmatic collaboration between Sepand Samzadeh and Oscar Fuentes, Days Between Stations creates music that is both beautiful, challenging and exotic—all heavily draped under the progressive rock banner. With influences that range from Tangerine Dream and Radiohead to Brian Eno, Genesis and Pink Floyd, Days Between Stations weave an aural fabric that takes the listener on ...

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Holiday Redux: Marc Hoffman Release Remixes of Two Christmas Classics

Source: blueplate pr
December 1, 2010

(CHARLOTTE, NC)—Just in time for the holidays, recording artist Marc Hoffman has released remixed versions of two popular tunes from his jazz-flavored Christmas Time CD: “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas," and “Good Christian Men Rejoice." Both are available for downloading on iTunes. “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" features Hoffman on piano and vocals as he spins a soft, soulful interpretation of the song introduced by Judy Garland in 1944 in the musical “Meet Me in St. Louis." (http://www.marchoffman.com/mp3s/merrylittlechristmas.mp3) ...

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"Albert King with Stevie Ray Vaughan - In Session" Scheduled for November Airing on PBS

Source: conqueroo
November 30, 2010

Deluxe DVD of historical blues summit released on Stax Records LOS ANGELES, Calif.—PBS has announced that the Albert King with Stevie Ray Vaughan — In Session program will air as a special on its stations beginning November 27 and throughout the month of December (check local listings). Grammy Award winning bluesman Robert Cray will serve as special fundraising host on the public television broadcasts. In 1983, when legendary blues guitarist Albert King, then age 60, was joined by his disciple ...

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Composer Craig Marks Releases the Soundtrack to "Iron Chef America" and "The Next Iron Chef"

Source: Great Scott P.R.oductions
November 30, 2010

Woodland Hills, CA: Answering the demand of aspiring chefs of all abilities that have been lobbying composer Craig Marks to release the music from Food Networks popular primetime series Iron Chef America and The Next Iron Chef, the soundtrack was released today by CMS Media on CD and as a digital download available from www.ironchefmusic.com, iTunes, Amazon and other online retail outlets. In addition to composing and producing the Iron Chef America and The Next Iron Chef soundtrack that fans ...

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Jazz Monsters Invade Las Vegas

Source: other-now.
November 30, 2010

Jazz monsters spotted at the Freakin' Frog... For all the hype about Vegas headliners, the neon names everyone knows, the town is truly overrun with less-well known, fabulous players and voices most often seen as tuxedoed sidemen and slinky backup singers. Real monsters; many renowned worldwide for musical skills you seldom see shining, upstage in the shadows. It almost seems as if Las Vegas takes that great talent for granted. Often as not, their great passion (while not at the ...

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Rickie Lee Jones on Bix, Billie and the art of song

Source: Michael Ricci
November 30, 2010

Rickie Lee Jones, the acclaimed singer and songwriter, is on a short tour that includes a Saturday stop at the Temple Performing Arts Center, formerly the Baptist Temple.

Jones' smashing debut album of 1979, Rickie Lee Jones, brought a jazz-infused, bohemian-poet ethos to both pop music and fashion, and her idiosyncratic approach to composition and singing has influenced artists from Tori Amos to Norah Jones.

Her most recent album, last year's Balm in Gilead, reflected on family, friends, maturity, and ...

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The Sound of Hulu Static and Salad

Source: Michael Ricci
November 30, 2010

For over 15 years Peter Dragotta's most innovative music has been branded under the name pharmacopia. During the last three years between two side experiments producing a whole album on a mobile app (Pornhub Remixes 1+2) and a follow up album playing mobile apps of grooveboxes and instruments on multiple iPhones and a iPad (Mobile Music Diversions) he has been revisiting the AI (Artificial Intelligence) world of music creation that began back in 1996-97 with his monumental releases In Real ...

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Benoit Delbecq Awarded Prestigious Grand Prix de l'Académie Charles Cros for 2010 Songlines Releases Circles and Calligrams and The Sixth Jump

Source: GoMedia PR
November 30, 2010

"Plenty of forward-thinking jazz pianists have been painted with a modern-classical brush, but few have approached improvisation armed with the manual vocabularies demanded by Cage, Ligeti and the like with the same diligence and flair as Parisian keyboardist Delbecq." —Time Out New York Acclaimed Paris-based pianist Benoît Delbecq has been awarded the Grand Prix de l'Académie Charles Cros for his simultaneously released Songlines CDs, Circles and Calligrams and The Sixth Jump, it was announced November 25 in Paris. The prize, ...

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