Jazz News

34th Telluride Jazz Celebration Just Around The Corner

Source: Michael Ricci
July 14, 2010

Telluride, CO--The annual Telluride Jazz Celebration will celebrate 34 years of bringing the best of jazz to Colorado on August 6-8. The 2010 lineup includes: The Stanley Clarke Band featuring Hiromi, Festival guest of Honor Toshiko Akiyoshi, Dr. Lonnie Smith, The Greyboy Allstars, Dianne Reeves, Hazel Miller, Raul Midon, Lew Tabackin, Chuchito Valdes and many more. By combining the finest of nature and art, The Telluride Jazz Celebration ranks among the world's most memorable music festivals. The intimate festival format, ...

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Veteran Musician Alfonzo Blackwell's Cutting-edge Modern Jazz Music, Radio News and Prince Talk

Source: One Creative Publicist & Management
July 14, 2010

As Contemporary Jazz Maverick Alfonzo Blackwell completes finishing touches on his forthcoming CD “Quintet: Portrait of Alfonzo Blackwell" for his founded Utopia Records imprint, the record label celebrates Blackwell's 15th Anniversary milestone in the music business, The Soulful Radio Network takes great leap with the major launch of new station in his honor and the music impresario speaks out on Prince's stand on the internet music marketplace. New York, NY--It's a very exciting year for Utopia Records Founder and CEO/President ...

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B.J. Jansen interviewed Suzanne Pittson on the Jazz Life

Source: JM Creative
July 14, 2010

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Khaira Arby's New Album and North American Tour

Source: rock paper scissors, inc.
July 14, 2010

Desert Defiance and Womanly Power: Malian Diva Khaira Arby Invokes the Mystery, History, and Heart of Timbuktu

For women, singing can be the road to personal power. When their voice is as strong as Malian vocalist Khaira Arby's, that power can move mountains, change minds, and win battles.

Arby's rich, potent sound aims to do just that on Timbuktu Traab (Clermont Music; August 9), shifting seamlessly between the edgy and progressive and the traditional and deeply rooted. Inspired by her ...

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Vocalist/songwriter/pianist Rachel Borovik Releases First Album, "Untangled"

Source: Michael Ricci
July 14, 2010

If you stroll by Wally's on Massachusetts Avenue and hear original music coming out of the doorway instead of “Giant Steps," you might be lucky enough to hear the jazzy-cool stylings of Rachel Borovik. Borovik, who released her debut record last month at this world-renowned jazz club, is part '50s lounge singer and part R&B radio starlet, with some neo-soul to wash it down. Untangled, Rachel Borovik's first full-length offering to the world, is a strong album. On the surface ...

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Janaka Selekta: 'Pushing Air'

Source: Chris M. Slawecki
July 14, 2010

Rising Asian Dub, Blog-Turned-Label Chaiwalla's Boombox is Pushing Air

Imagine a place where Indian classical folk traditions collide into the fringes of electronic music. Where the laid back space of dub reggae meets the energy of bass rattling dancefloors. This is the contoured landscape San Francisco based DJ and Producer Janaka Selekta evokes with his debut album, Pushing Air, out on the new label Chaiwalla's Boombox.

Janaka's upbringing is almost as diverse as his music, being born in Sri Lanka, ...

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2010 Pygmalion Festival

Source: Chris M. Slawecki
July 14, 2010

The Pygmalion Music Festival has just added of Montreal, Janelle Monae, Cut Chemist, Plastician, Darren Hanlon, Unwed Sailor, Turbo Fruits and Light Pollution to this year's lineup, solidifying 2010 as Pygmalion's most exciting year to date. As previously announced, this year's stellar lineup also includes Roky Erickson with Okkervil River, Built to Spill, Caribou, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, Cap'n Jazz, Surfer Blood, Holy Fuck, +/-, Those Darlins, Fang Island, Cults, Owen, Color Revolt, David Dondero and Common Loon.

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Michael Cuscuna on Ahmad Jamal: The Complete Ahmad Jamal Trio Argo Sessions

Source: Michael Ricci
July 14, 2010

The mid fifties was a fertile time for jazz; fresh, original ensembles were taking shape all over the country. The Modern Jazz Quartet, the Dave Brubeck Quartet, The Jazz Messengers and the Ahmad Jamal Trio immediately come to mind. Among musicians, each group had its imitators and its creative disciples who took its innovations one step further. But no group in this era was as pervasive in the 1957 incarnation of Jamal's trio with bassist Israel Crosby and drummer Vernel ...

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