Jazz News

All About Jazz Celebrates 15 Years on the Web with Relaunch

Source: All About Jazz
October 1, 2010

The web's leading jazz music website celebrates its 15th anniversary with a new look and new features All About Jazz, 9-time winner of the Jazz Journalist Association award for “Best Website Covering Jazz," has officially relaunched its website with a sharper, easier to navigate design. Readers who visited All About Jazz over the last three weeks observed the transformation firsthand, as upgrades were implemented on a daily basis. “It's a much cleaner interface and it's more robust. We made significant ...

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New Podcast "Jazz Now! Seattle" Debuts Oct. 1st Playing Seattle's Best Current Jazz

Source: Jason Parker
September 30, 2010

Seattle jazz musicians have a new outlet for their music, and jazz fans around the world have a way to hear all of the amazing jazz that's coming out of Seattle, WA. “Jazz Now! Seattle" is a new podcast that makes its debut Friday, October 1, 2010. “Jazz Now! Seattle" is hosted by Jason Parker and David Marriott, Jr., both working jazz musicians in Seattle. Because they are both active on the scene they will bring listeners an insider's perspective ...

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Bing Crosby Archive Opens Up Vault Once Again

Source: Jonas Music Services
September 30, 2010

Christmas Comes Early For Bing Crosby Fans Bing Crosby Archive Opens Up Vault Once Again New Bing Crosby CD & DVD Releases Set For November 9th From Collectors' Choice Music and Infinity Entertainment Group The Crosby Christmas Sessions (CD) & Bing Sings the Great American Songbook (CD) The Television Specials: Volume 2—The Christmas Specials (DVD) 7" Vinyl Single of Bing Crosby/David Bowie Duet—The Little Drummer Boy/Peace on Earth Once again, the Bing Crosby Archive digs deep ...

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Matthew Montfort and Bui Huu Nhut of Ancient Future Featured on Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC

Source: Michael Ricci
September 30, 2010

Matthew Montfort, guitarist and bandleader of the pioneering world fusion music group Ancient Future, was interviewed and performed on the Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC on Friday, September 24th, 2010. Kent Jones, the Rachel Maddow Show's pop-culturist, was in San Francisco September 23rd and 24th to cover the opening of the Music for People and Thingamajigs Festival. Matthew Montfort kicked off the festival by showcasing his unusual guitars: the Godin Glissentar, an 11 string fretless guitar, and the scalloped fretboard ...

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Stew & The Negro Problem Back on the Road

Source: conqueroo
September 30, 2010

STEW & THE NEGRO PROBLEM RETURN TO ROCK: BAND EMBARKS ON FIRST NATIONAL TOUR IN SIX YEARS FOLLOWING STEW AND HEIDI RODEWALD'S TONY-WINNING BROADWAY SHOW PASSING STRANGE

Kicking off on October 20 at Brooklyn Academy of Music, tour spans band's hometown Los Angeles plus Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, Davis and Ann Arbor

Los Angeles, CA: First there was the Negro Problem, a band that rose through the ranks of L.A.'s indie scene in the late '90s and early aughts. ...

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Soulive Announces US Tour Dates

Source: Calabro Music
September 30, 2010

Soulive Announces US Tour Dates Rubber Soulive Debuts at No. 1 on iTunes Jazz Soulive has announced U.S. tour dates for the remainder of 2010 in support of their ninth studio album, Rubber Soulive. The 27-show run kicks off this weekend with a New York City hometown blow out dubbed The Royal Family Ball at Terminal 5, featuring special guests John Scofield, Talib Kweli, Christian Scott, Big Sam and Maurice Brown, as well as Royal Family crew Nigel Hall, Lettuce ...

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Stew & the Negro Problem Are Back on the Road

Source: conqueroo
September 30, 2010

Kicking off on October 20 at Brooklyn Academy of Music, tour spans band's hometown Los Angeles plus Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, Davis and Ann Arbor LOS ANGELES Calif.—First there was the Negro Problem, a band that rose through the ranks of L.A.'s indie scene in the late '90s and early aughts. Deemed “L.A.'s best band" by the L.A. Weekly in 1992, the unit—propelled by Stew and Heidi Rodewald—recorded three critically acclaimed albums: Post Minstrel Syndrome (1997), Joys & Concerns ...

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SFJAZZ Announces SFJAZZ Collective Fall 2010 Concert Dates

Source: Michael Ricci
September 30, 2010

ALL-STAR OCTET FEATURES MIGUEL ZENÓN, MARK TURNER, STEFON HARRIS, EDWARD SIMON, MATT PENMAN & ERIC HARLAND, PLUS AMBROSE AKINMUSIRE & LUIS BONILLA PERFORMANCES DEVOTED TO REPERTOIRE OF HORACE SILVER AND COMPOSITIONS BY COLLECTIVE MEMBERS SAN FRANCISCO, CA—SFJAZZ the leading nonprofit jazz organization on the West Coast and the presenter of the 28th San Francisco Jazz Festival, running September 14 through November 20, today announced October 2010 concert dates for the SFJAZZ Collective. The award-winning all-star Collective roster includes veteran alto ...

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