Jazz News

Lucky Peterson Interprets Tom Waits, Lucinda Williams, Ray Lamontagne, Robert Johnson & Blind Willie McTell

Source: conqueroo
July 9, 2010

Blues singer/keyboardist/guitarist's first album in seven years features Larry Campbell, Scott Petito and Gary Burke, and songs by Robert Johnson, Blind Willie McTell, Tom Waits, Ray LaMontagne and Lucinda Williams

WOODSTOCK, N.Y.--Lucky Peterson was discovered by blues legend Willie Dixon when he was three years old, released his first record at five and soon after appeared on The Tonight Show. Trained by keyboardists Bill Doggett and Jimmy Smith, Peterson went on to play behind Little Milton, Bobby “Blue" Bland and ...

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Premik Russell Tubbs & Friends, an Evening of World Beat & East-West Improvisations

Source: Michael Ricci
July 9, 2010

Join Premik Russell Tubbs with 4 other top New York players for this musical evening as we explore and explode in colorful rhythms and textures to bring one on a journey...an escape of the mundane.

Adam Klipple will be on keys and piano. Enough can not be said about Adam as his innate intuitive music sense coupled with astounding skill is something you wont forget. He has been described as a standout pianist who has gone to school on McCoy ...

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Jazz duo JT Project started at William Paterson University

Source: The JT Project
July 9, 2010

The JT Project Contemporary jazz Friday, July 9, 2010, 11:45 p.m. The Iridium Jazz Club 1650 Broadway New York, NY Down in the catacombs of William Paterson University's music department one afternoon in 2007, Jacob Webb, a freshman jazz major from Kansas, heard a voice that drew him in like a siren song. He followed the melody as it grew louder down the maze-like hallway of practice rooms. “It was the most beautiful ...

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Jazzmobile Presents Award Winning Jazz Vocalist, iTunes Lynette Washington with Dennis Bell Jazz NY

Source: Dennis Bell
July 9, 2010

Lynette Washington Location: Manhattan Friday, July 30th 2010 7:00 pm--8:30 pm--129th Street between 7th & 8th Avenues--Host: St. Nicholas Houses Residents Association-FREE Featuring Dennis Bell Jazz NY with Casey Benjamin-Saxophones, Noriko Ueda-Bass, Victor Jones--Drums

About Lynette Washington

LYNETTE WASHINGTON, jazz vocalist, is a native New Yorker, born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. Her extensive music career in jazz, R&B, and gospel, has taken her across the globe travelling as far as Australia. She has the ...

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Al Hirt Our Man in New Orleans

Source: All About Jazz
July 8, 2010

Paul Cacia was Al Hirt's lead trumpet player and contracted the brass section for what Al Hirt called his dream band, formed in the fall of 1979.

At the time of receiving the phone call to join Al Hirt, Paul Cacia was first trumpet for the Ray Anthony Orchestra, he immediately gave notice. The Al Hirt Big Band was based out of Al's New Orleans Bourbon street nightclub, leaving for road tours, on and off, concert dates and a television ...

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Willie Oteri and Dave Laczko release next WD-41 project

Source: Lori Hehr Public Relations
July 8, 2010

Following their critically acclaimed and well received 2009 release, WD-41, the duo of Willie Oteri and Dave Laczko, have teamed with the talents of beat jockey and multi- instrumentalist Dino J.A. Deane (John Zorn, Jon Hassell, Bill Frisell) and drummer Scott Amendola (Nels Cline, Charlie Hunter) for an extension of their exploratory sonic trip. The readers of All About Jazz, the largest and most quoted Jazz publication in the world, voted WD-41 to the number 24 spot in the “Top ...

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George Kahn And The Four Freshman In Concert August 8th

Source: Imaginary Friends
July 8, 2010

(Los Angeles, CA) The California Jazz Foundation will present The Four Freshmen and The George Kahn Trio at the Catalina Jazz Club, 6725 West Sunset Blvd. in Hollywood on August 8th at 5:15 P.M.

The Grammy-nominated Four Freshmen have dazzled millions of fans for six decades. They recently received the coveted Satchmo Award from the Sarasota Jazz Society.

The Four Freshmen continue to bring their unique brand of vocal harmony to global audiences, while touring the US and the world ...

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Juilliard Jazz, Celebrating its 10th Year, Announces its 2010-2011 Season

Source: Chris M. Slawecki
July 8, 2010

Season Opens with its Faculty Ensemble, Juilliard Jazz Quintet, on September 21

Guest Artists During 2010-2011 Season Include: Trumpeter Jon Faddis as Soloist with the Juilliard Jazz Orchestra in the Miles Davis/Gil Evans Arrangement of Porgy and Bess on February 25, Plus Bassist John Clayton Performing with the Juilliard Jazz Orchestra on October 19, and Trombonist Curtis Fuller with Juilliard Jazz Ensembles on November 2

Juilliard Jazz, under the direction of Artistic Director Carl Allen, celebrates its 10th season and ...

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