Jazz News

Jazz Guitarists Kevin Eubanks, John Pizzarelli Featured at Gettysburg Festival

Source: Michael Ricci
June 9, 2010

GETTYSBURG, PA (June 9, 2010)--Gettysburg is best known as a town where the North met the South in 1863, but this June in Gettysburg, the East meets West--that is, the East Coast style of jazz meets the West Coast style of jazz in a dynamic Gettysburg Festival lineup.

Guitarist Kevin Eubanks, although a Philadelphia native, personifies the laid-back West Coast style of guitar playing, having performed with The Tonight Show for the past 18 years. Billed as the top headline ...

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Airborne Explores New Horizons

Source: Michael Ricci
June 9, 2010

Airborne the Musical Peacemakers of Contemporary Jazz are rising higher and soaring on New Horizons with their new and 7th CD to date. The warm, yet cool atmosphere of this wonderful project takes you on a magical and musical journey to a new day filled with joy and hope. Its Smooth Jazz theme rides on the successful inspiration of their last Chart Topping CD Winds of Change. Groove music with depth and character that is captivating and entrancing. Joyful Jazz ...

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The B3 Guru: Jazz Organ Legend Dr. Lonnie Smith Addresses His Life and Craft

Source: All About Jazz @ Spinner
June 9, 2010

With the passing of Jimmy Smith in 2005, Dr. Lonnie Smith (no relation) is now at the top of the Hammond B3 organ food chain. The latter Smith broke into the New York scene in the mid-'60s as a member of George Benson's quartet and quickly became the go-to organ guy for folks like Lou Donaldson, who is still a good friend and occasional collaborator. After burning out near the end of the '70s, Smith returned to music full time ...

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Vocalists Julia Dollison and Kerry Marsh Interviewed at AAJ

Source: All About Jazz
June 8, 2010

It's nice when people of similar interest and ambitions come together. Nicer still, when those things form the basis of a personal relationship; a partnership that results in the ultimate collaboration--marriage. For Julia Dollison and Kerry Marsh--singers who are also heavily involved in education, heightened by their successful operation of the jazz vocal program at California State University, Sacramento--their journey is starting to extend more outside of the classroom and into projects for music fans to enjoy.

Enter their new ...

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Singer/Guitarist Susan Tedeschi Interviewed at AAJ

Source: All About Jazz
June 7, 2010

A string of Grammy-nominated albums, along with a critically acclaimed and commercially successful DVD of her appearance on the American television program Austin City Limits, have helped to establish Susan Tedeschi as one of today's premiere blues artists. On top of that, she's performed in front of millions of music lovers by headlining numerous festivals and opening for music legends like B.B. King, Buddy Guy, Bob Dylan, The Allman Brothers Band, and the Rolling Stones.

Performing with her husband, Derek ...

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The Brown Indian Band: Fusion Lounge, Free Album!

Source: All About Jazz
June 5, 2010

The Brown Indian Band's Fusion Lounge is a chilled out, laidback sound of Indo-jazz fusion. The album features Dhiraj Kapadia on bansuri, Prashant Salil on santoor, Tony Dias on keyboards, Colin D'Cruz on fretless bass and Jayesh Dhargalkar on tabla.

The band led by d'Cruz, has floating members and has featured some of the most accomplished Indian classical musicians in concert with jazz virtuosos over the years. Indian classical music can be compared to jazz as both are forms of ...

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Abene Festivalo 2010-2011: Already in its 17th Year!

Source: Michael Ricci
June 3, 2010

The 17th edition of Abene Festivalo will take place on 26 December 2010 until 2 January 2011 on the theme “Africa in the climate change debate" with the patronage of Younous Djiba, engineer in geology at SOCOCIM. Musical shows, ballets, theatre, art exhibitions and seminars, traditional wrestling and street entertainment are featured in this annual festival with performances by Paco Diaz and Tony Essamaye (provisional programme here). This is an unmissable event for lovers of traditional music from West Africa ...

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Los Angeles Musician Nick Rosen Releasing Debut Solo Album "Into the Sky" on July 20

Source: Michael Ricci
June 3, 2010

Multi-instrumentalist and composer Nick Rosen boasts an impressive resume many artists would envy. In his short career, he has already recorded, performed and/or toured with the likes of jazz luminaries, including legendary bassist Henry Grimes, reedsman Bennie Maupin, and saxophonist Arthur Blythe, and also a variety of acclaimed artists such as Macy Gray, Esthero and Perry Farrell. At the age of 25, the Los Angeles native is ready to strike out on his own with his soul-bearing album Into the ...

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