Jazz News

Renowned Jamaican Pianist Monty Alexander For Jazz At Lincoln Center

Source: CaribPR.com
July 7, 2010

NEW YORK, NY: The phenomenal sounds of Jamaica's acclaimed Commander of Distinction and renowned jazz pianist, Monty Alexander, is set to add to the excitement in New York City later this month as he returns for a five-day series of performances at Jazz at Lincoln Center. Alexander, who has the distinction of being named one of the greatest piano players in Jazz history for almost fifty years, is set to bring his `Summer Celebration` to Dizzy's Jazz Club at Jazz ...

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Jazz trumpeter Jeff Lofton tops Austin American-Statesman's Out and About 500: Music list

Source: Jeff Lofton
July 7, 2010

Austin, TX--Jazz trumpeter Jeff Lofton was featured on the Austin American-Statesman's 2010 Out and About 500: Music list. The reader-nominated list includes 15 categories listing what the paper describes as people “who are everywhere, all the time, often doing good, weaving the social fabric of Austin. Five hundred social units--couples or singles ..." Lofton's listing includes his wife, writer/publicist Dean Lofton, and says, “Austin has elaborated a long jazz history. Yet this South Carolina couple recently gave the scene a ...

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Legendary Pianist Ahmad Jamal Interviewed at AAJ

Source: All About Jazz
July 6, 2010

Ahmad Jamal, possibly the most influential of living jazz pianists, turned 80 years young on July 2, 2010. It is however, business as usual and instead of celebrating at home in his slippers, Jamal was wowing an audience at the Marciac Jazz festival in France.

Jamal is touring now more than ever before, and is in demand all over the world. Judging by his 2010 touring schedule, he does his best to oblige, with concerts in Australia, Brazil, and Canada, ...

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10 Ft. Ganja Plant Deliver The Roots on "10 Deadly Shots, Vol 1"

Source: Chris M. Slawecki
July 6, 2010

10 Ft. Ganja Plant brings the sound of roots, rocksteady and dub from the smokey hills and rough streets of Jamaica to the ears of their rabid fans around the globe. On 10 Deadly Shots, the mysterious reggae collective captures the vibe of classic reggae and distills it down to it's essence--without vocals. The tracks were mastered directly to vinyl with the digital / CD parts cut from the vinyl lacquer. This unique process lets these 10 gems breathe with ...

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Michele Choiniere Gives New Voice to Long-lost Franco-American Songs

Source: rock paper scissors, inc.
July 6, 2010

The Lone Songbird in the Woods: Michele Choiniere Gives New Voice to Long-Lost Franco-American Songs on La Violette

Along the borderlands between the US and Canada, a lone songbird sings with a voice clear, rich, and distinctly French. Her name is Michele Choiniere, and nestled in the northwestern Vermont woods, she continues a once thriving Franco-American oral tradition that recalls the bright cheer of kitchen parties, the wry pleasures of courtship, and the sway of a waltz.

Known for her ...

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Continuum, A Journey Through Jazz: Episode 12, "Sultry Sirens"

Source: J. Scott Fugate
July 6, 2010

SoulandJazz.com Presents: Continuum, A Journey Through Jazz Episode 13: “Sultry Sirens" Hosted and Produced by J. Scott Fugate, “The Jazz Evangelist" As always, the show is free, absolutely legal, fun for the whole family, and available for listening right now, right here: http://bit.ly/b1amSb The sultry summer sun continues to beat down here in the American southland where I reside--so I shall continue with sultry sounds suitable for the heat. Therefore, this episode consists entirely of vocal powerhouses singing and ...

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Nils Petter Molvaer "Hamada" available August 31st on Thirsty Ear

Source: Peter Gordon
July 6, 2010

"A highly original composer/stylist with the courage to radically reinvent himself." --BBC “Stunning growth and unexpected directional shifts make Hamada one of Molvær's most moving and challenging records to date." --All About Jazz “He mixes his evocative landscape sound with a fiercer, even threatening quality imparted by startling percussion eruptions and formidable resources" --The Guardian UK

It has been a number of years since Nils Petter Molvaer (NPM) released a new studio album. Entering his 14th year since his groundbreaking ...

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Trumpets Sound at CareFusion Newport Jazz Festival August 6 - 8

Source: Carolyn McClair Public Relations
July 6, 2010

Writer Eugene Holley, Jr. gives his take on trumpet masters performing at CareFusion Newport Jazz Festival NEWPORT, RI--Buddy Bolden blowing on the Mississippi, the clarion call of Louis Armstrong's “West End Blues," the revolutionary, reordering of modern music proclaimed by Dizzy Gillespie's “Night in Tunisia," to the walking-on eggshell artistry of Miles Davis; trumpeters have always heralded the infinitive variety of jazz's inventions and dimensions. Now, well into the change of the century, the dancing and daring diversity of the ...

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