Jazz News

Carefusion Jazz Festival Partners with Brooklyn's Barbes, Puppets & Zebulon

Source: Carolyn McClair Public Relations
June 17, 2010

CareFusion Jazz Festival New York Crosses Bridges for Concerts at Barbes, Puppets Jazz Club and Zebulon NEW YORK, NY- The CareFusion Jazz Festival New York is crossing the Brooklyn, Manhattan and Williamsburg bridges to present concerts at three of Brooklyn's finest clubs. Barbes, Puppets Jazz Club and Zebulon will host critically-acclaimed artists and bands in affordable concerts that range from free to $15.00. Sponsored by CareFusion, a leading global medical device company, and produced by George Wein's New Festival Productions, ...

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Are You a 'Jazz Nerd'? Jason Marsalis Revisits and Clarifies the Term

Source: Michael Ricci
June 17, 2010

In the wake of causing a minor firestorm in the online jazz community last month with a playful video decrying the influence of “jazz nerds," drummer Jason Marsalis emailed me a clarification this morning that both expands on the definition, shares his inspiration for the video and offers further talking points that amount to a calling for a truce in the so-called Jazz Wars.

As a few commenters on the post argued, the crux of Marsalis' issue with so-called jazz ...

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Violinist Mark Feldman Interviewed at AAJ

Source: All About Jazz
June 17, 2010

Violinist Mark Feldman started out in Chicago playing classical music and bar gigs before moving on to the Nashville scene. He emerged in New York's “downtown" circle with the likes of Arcado String Trio, trumpeter Dave Douglas, and composer-saxophonist John Zorn. His expressive, classically tinged technique was also sought for studio work with pop acts and film scores. For the last 10 years, he's been integral to guitarist John Abercrombie's quartet and has recorded several discs as a leader. Feldman ...

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Jason Moran Shows off His Older, Wiser Side On 'Ten'

Source: All About Jazz @ Spinner
June 17, 2010

Pianist Jason Morans star has been on a long steady rise since making his debut on Blue Note in 1999 with 'Soundtrack to Human Emotion.' Barely into his 20s at the time, Moran was playing with saxophonist Greg Osby and had studied under Jaki Byard and others. The debut won a lot of strong notices and he followed it up in 2000 with 'Facing Left,' which featured the debut of his trio Bandwagon, and 2001's 'Black Stars,' which added elder ...

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Pianist Howard Riley Interviewed at AAJ

Source: All About Jazz
June 16, 2010

Howard Riley gave his performance in Vilnius, Lithuania in September, 2009. It was his first visit to the country in a five-decade career, and one of just a few eastern Europe destinations made at the time, by the British free jazz pianist. The concert was recorded and released in 2010 as the double-disc set, Solo in Vilnius, by No Business Records.

AAJ Contributor Maxim Micheliov was on-hand to talk with Riley about his lengthy career as a performer and educator, ...

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Dr. John: Night Trippin' at the Grammy Museum

Source: Michael Ricci
June 16, 2010

Nearly two months into the worst oil spill in history, a Facebook group has sprung up for people who support British Petroleum and think the company has gotten a bad rap. Don't look for Dr. John's name on that page's friends list.

Let BP foot the bill, he interjected into “Black Gold," a song about the consequences of the “Drill, baby, drill!" mentality from his 2008 post-Hurricane Katrina album, City That Care Forgot, which won the Grammy Award for best ...

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Carefusion Newport Jazz Fest Discounts Tickets for Health Care Practitioners

Source: Carolyn McClair Public Relations
June 16, 2010

MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS INVITED TO ENJOY WORLD-CLASS JAZZ AT CAREFUSION NEWPORT JAZZ FESTIVAL Discounted tickets made available for health care practitioners Newport, R.I.--New Festival Productions today announced that discounted tickets are being made available to health care professionals who would like to attend the 2010 CareFusion Newport Jazz Festival in Newport, RI August 6-8. Generously donated by jazz impresario and festival producer George Wein, the discount is being provided in support of CareFusion's “Rhythm of Care," a program created by leading ...

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Playboy Jazz Festival, Day 1

Source: All About Jazz
June 16, 2010

Jazz writers like to grouse about how nothing changes at the Playboy Jazz Festival from year to year but the names on the program. Yet one can look at this stasis in a different way, as comfort food in bad times, as a ritual that one can depend upon and hopefully will never go away.

It certainly helped that there was a fairly even level of quality over most of the first day of the fest, with the knockout jazz-funk ...

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