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Performance / Tour

Randy Ingram Trio @ The Kitano, Wed. Oct 13th

Source: Randy Ingram
October 6, 2010

Randy Ingram Trio at the Kitano Randy Ingram, piano Matt Clohesy, bass Nate Wood, drums Wednesday Oct. 13th at the Kitano Hotel Sets at 8pm and 10pm 66 Park Ave, New York, NY 10016 kitano.com (212) 885-7000 (reservations recommended) no cover, $15 food or drink minimum In the words of mentor Fred Hersch, “Randy Ingram is among the vanguard of NYC jazz pianists." A ...

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Recording

Matt Nowlin Jazz Orchestra Debut Vinyl Features New Writing, Vintage Hi-Fi

Source: Matt Nowlin
October 6, 2010

Matt Nowlin Jazz Orchestra's debut, The Good News! calls to mind Jimmie Lunceford and the arrangements of Sy Oliver, while bringing to the forefront a new voice in jazz writing. In the hands of composer Matt Nowlin, swing is a vibrant feeling rather than a bygone era. The complete album can be streamed at mattnowlinjazzorchestra.bandcamp.com. The recording of The Good News! is as remarkable as its performance. The sound of the record is based on early stereo recordings of the ...

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Recording

Isabel Rose's 'Swingin from the Hip' Evokes Sinatra, Peggy Lee, Sarah Vaughn

Source: Seth Cohen PR
October 6, 2010

Isabel Rose's Jazz/Swing/Cabaret CD is “One Hell of an Impressive Debut" “Her voice is clean and crisp, and she revels in the kind of originality of phrasing that has marked the classic jazz vocalists from Ella and Frank to Tony Bennett and Sarah Vaughn" Lincoln Center Showcase, Joe's Pub Concert Set For This Month, as Isabel Rose Continues to Earn Raves Critical praise continues to grow for singer Isabel Rose and her “one hell of an impressive debut," 'Swingin' From ...

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Recording

Paquito D'Rivera's "Panamericana Suite," a Concert Recording, Due for Nov. 2 Release by MCG Jazz

Source: Terri Hinte Publicity
October 6, 2010

Few jazz artists have been as musically omnivorous—and dazzingly accomplished—as the Cuban-born alto saxophone and clarinet virtuoso Paquito D'Rivera. Equally at home performing bebop, tango, and classical as well as Afro-Cuban styles, D'Rivera displays his mastery of many genres on his new CD, Panamericana Suite, which will be released by the MCG Jazz label on November 2. Recorded live at Pittsburgh's Manchester Craftsmen's Guild for MCG Jazz in April 2008, Panamericana Suite takes its name from a piece commissioned by ...

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Contest

Enter the Mack Avenue "Danilo Perez - Providencia" Giveaway

Source: Michael Ricci
October 5, 2010

All About Jazz members are invited to enter the Mack Avenue “Danilo Perez—Providencia“ giveaway contest starting today. We'll select FIVE winners at the conclusion of the contest on November 4th.Click here to enter the contest (Following Danilo Perez at AAJ automatically enters you in the contest.) Good luck! Your Friends at Mack Avenue Records About Danilo Perez and Providencia “The future will be a reflection of what we say, think and do today. Let's use wisdom and our art of ...

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Performance / Tour

Paula West at Feinstein's

Source: Miller Wright & Associates
October 5, 2010

FEINSTEIN'S AT LOEWS REGENCY, the nightclub proclaimed “Best of New York" by New York Magazine, and “an invaluable New York institution" by The New York Post, continues its Fall 2010 season with the debut engagement of critically-acclaimed jazz vocalist Paula West from October 12-16 and from November 22-27. He will perform selections by Bob Dylan ("Shelter From The Storm"), Jimmy Webb ("Wichita Lineman"), Duke Ellington ("Everything But You") and Irving Berlin ("Suppertime"). She will be joined by the George Mesterhazy ...

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Radio

Riverwalk Jazz Presents "A Night at Bricktop's: Jazz in 1930s' Montmartre"

Source: Don Mopsick
October 5, 2010

Beginning Thursday, October 7, Riverwalk Jazz, heard nationwide on Public Radio International and Sirius/XM, will present a special broadcast on Ada 'Bricktop' Smith, who played barkeep to the “Lost Generation" of international ex-patriots living in Paris in the 1930s. The broadcast will feature frequent guest singer/actors Vernel Bagneris and Topsy Chapman, who offer narratives drawn from the memoirs of Bricktop and Langston Hughes. The Jim Cullum Jazz band is joined by pianist Shelly Berg and Django Reinhardt-inspired guitarist Paul Mehling. ...

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Performance / Tour

Peter Erskine's The Interlochen Concert: An All-star Trio Returns To Their Roots

Source: Amanda Nagle
October 5, 2010

Los Angeles, CA—The brilliant and highly versatile drummer Peter Erskine attended the Interlochen Arts Academy in 1968 as a high school student, graduated in 1971 and returned a few months later to play a gig there with college classmate pianist Alan Pasqua in the fall of that year. On April 8, 2009, Erskine, Pasqua were joined by bassist Darek Oles and performed at Interlochen again for the first time in 37 1/2 years. The results, heard on The Interlochen Concert, ...

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