Jazz News

Jazz.FM91 Goes Global Via the Free Jazz.FM91 Mobile App

Source: Michael Ricci
May 27, 2010

Toronto, Ontario -- JAZZ.FM91's Mobile App has surpassed 100,000 downloads after its launch just over 5 months ago. The application, available free of charge from the iTunes Store, offers jazz fans worldwide the ability to stream content live from Canada's Premier Jazz station on their iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch. Trending reports show that a significant number of downloads come from outside of North America, including Europe and Asia. Part of JAZZ.FM91's mandate is to showcase Canadian jazz talent and ...

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Call for Entries - Music/Sound Sculpture

Source: Michael Ricci
May 27, 2010

The I-Park Foundation is pleased to announce its first Thanatopolis Prizes in music composition.

The I-Park Foundation, a not-for-profit international arts community sited within an expansive nature preserve in East Haddam, Connecticut, is seeking three separate music compositions for the Thanatopolis Project, an alternative memorial park/space in the advanced conceptual phase of its development. I-Park is looking for works that harmonize with the long-term goal of Thanatopolis, which is to re-imagine our cultural and personal relationship to death, memory and ...

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Summer 2010: Jazzmobile Heads Back to the Streets of New York

Source: Cheryl Duncan & Company
May 27, 2010

JAZZMOBILE'S SUMMERFEST RETURNS TO NEW YORK CITY Oldest Continuous Summer Jazz Festival to Return on June 21; Series Brings Top Talent to Neighborhoods Across the Five Boroughs NEW YORK, NY--New York's oldest continuous--and mostly free--summer jazz festival will swing into neighborhoods across the city this summer with an eclectic mix of artists. Among the more than 40 concerts throughout the five boroughs being presented in the Jazzmobile Summerfest are the next generation of jazz innovators, trombonist Wycliffe Gordon, saxophonist Yosvany ...

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Manuela Carrasco Headlines 2010 Bay Area Festival of Flamenco Arts & Traditions

Source: rock paper scissors, inc.
May 27, 2010

The Queen of Flamenco, the Soul of the Grassroots: Manuela Carrasco and Company Embrace Both Tradition and High Art in Rare Bay Area Performance

Like a flock of doves above her head, the delicate hands of Manuela Carrasco are enough to make audiences catch their breath and fall silent. Yet this international star, known in her native Spain as the Queen of Gypsy Flamenco Dance, remains strikingly down to earth, honoring the grassroots that sparked her art and maintaining traditions ...

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BossaBrasil Festival at Birdland: June 8-12, 2010

Source: Michael Ricci
May 27, 2010

DELTA Air Lines Presents BOSSABRASIL Festival Starring TWO LUMINARIES FROM BRAZIL EMILIO SANTIAGO and MARCOS VALLE Produced by Pat Philips & Ettore Stratta Birdland, June 8-12

BOSSABRASIL returns to Birdland with the fabulous sounds of Brazil. Launched in 2007, it is a celebration of Bossa Nova and rhythms of Brazil, Produced by Pat Philips & Ettore Stratta, known for their hit Brazilian Productions. From Rio to New York ...

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Claude Marc Bourget's New Release "Musiques de Ballet"

Source: SIX Media Marketing, Inc.
May 27, 2010

Claude Marc Bourget MUSIQUES DE BALLET / PIANO After offering us Second Time, Claude Marc Bourget is back with a second solo album, Musiques de Ballet (Ballet Music). Second Time, published under a New-York label in 2008, was quickly noticed by American and Italian Critics. Jazz review, Jazz Times, All About Jazz Italia have praised the work of Bourget. Susan Frances, from Jazz Review, wrote: “Bourget conveys deep emotions in his compositions allowing the notes to speak from ...

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Phil Spector Produces Wife Rachelle's Debut Album from Jail

Source: All About Jazz
May 27, 2010

It's been three decades since producer Phil Spector has used his 'Wall of Sound' recording technique in the studio but the legendary producer is getting back to work even as he serves jail time for 2003 murder of actress Lana Clarkson.

Spector is listed as producer and arranger for his wife Rachelle's debut album, Out of My Chelle, which she describes as “upbeat, mainstream adult pop with hints of R&B, rock and dance." The record is due out digitally on ...

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Crafting a Joke: The Arc of an Act

Source: All About Jazz
May 27, 2010

Comedy! Trying to make strangers laugh is crazy and more than a little narcissistic.

Yet even after I discovered that repeating memorized Steve Martin routines failed to make me popular at the one junior-high party I was invited to, I kept trying.

In 1999 I took stand-up out of my everyday conversations and started performing it in professional venues. I'm still fascinated by the evolutionary arc of an act.

You know instantly whether something works. You can tweak it on ...

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