Jazz News

Violin Jazz Perform "The Music of Eddie South" on Dorian Sono Luminus - Now Available

Source: Michael Bloom Media Relations
May 23, 2010

On “The Music of Eddie South", Jeremy Cohen and his ensemble Violin Jazz shine new light on the music of one of the earliest great jazz violinists. Born in 1904, Eddie South was one of the most highly regarded jazz violinists of his time. A classical violin prodigy, he switched to jazz because of limited opportunities for African-American musicians and began his career playing in vaudeville and jazz orchestras with Freddie Keppard, Jimmy Wade, Charles Elgar, and Erskine Tate in ...

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Daren Burns' Onibaba at Asto Museum

Source: Michael Ricci
May 23, 2010

Daren Burns, fretted and fretless electric bass player, composer, and improviser has been playing and composing music for over twenty years. Much of his musical interest lies in the area of improvisation and how to make new systems for developing improvisation in new ways. In the last few years he has also become interested in Indian rhythmic and melodic systems.

Onibaba, exists between composition and improvisation and is described as being somewhere between the light and the dark, the ethereal ...

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Left Coast Jazz Weekend

Source: All About Jazz
May 23, 2010

The Jack Sheldon Orchestra Catalina Bar and Grill 6725 W. Sunset Blvd Hollywood Friday, May 21 & Saturday, May 22nd 8PM one show per night

L.A. Jazz Institute's East Coast Sounds Los Angeles Airport Marriott May 27-30, 2010 http://lajazzinstitute.org/ BOB BROOKMEYER/ NEW ART ORCHESTRA JOHNNY MANDEL BIG BAND 50TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION OF GERRY MULLIGANS CONCERT JAZZ BAND

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Jazz Drummer Matt Wilson a Single Band with a Split Personality

Source: Michael Ricci
May 23, 2010

Matt Wilson unveiled an expanded version of his working group at Iridium on Wednesday night or maybe it was two groups, depending on the whim of the moment.

Near the end of the first set, it was possible to imagine a borderline across the stage, as half of the musicians played a Mozart string quartet and the other half gradually muscled in, urgent and bleary, with What Reason Could I Give, an enigmatic ballad by Ornette Coleman. The two ...

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RIAA, Senators Blast Nations Lax on Piracy

Source: All About Jazz
May 23, 2010

Canada, China, Mexico, Russia and Spain have been named the “top- priority countries" with inadequate intellectual property enforcement by Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), who co- chair the Intl. Anti-Piracy Caucus, as well as Reps. Adam Schiff (D- Calif.) and Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.).

They were joined Wednesday morning on Capitol Hill by Recording Industry Assn. of America chairman-CEO Mitch Bainwol at a news conference designed to underscore the proliferation of illegal commerce of copyrighted works, which they ...

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Jazz War, Anyone? Jason Marsalis vs. 'Jazz Nerds International'

Source: Michael Ricci
May 23, 2010

Have you, as a listener, been suffering under the influence of Jazz Nerds International?

Jazz critic and blogger for the Ottawa Citizen Peter Hum wrote a terrific post Thursday on the latest installment in what's become known as “the jazz wars," a long-running culture clash pitting the music's traditionalists -- personified by nearly any member of the gifted Marsalis family -- versus what could be considered jazz's new guard.

A little background This new guard encompasses some of ...

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18th Annual London Jazz Festival

Source: All About Jazz
May 23, 2010

The London Jazz Festival in association with BBC Radio 3 is delighted to announce its first shows to go on sale, giving you a taste of what's to come in what has become the capital's biggest pan-city music festival.

Following its most successful year to date the Festival returns for its annual 10-day celebration of jazz from Friday 12 to Sunday 21 November.

Created and produced by international live music producers, Serious, the London Jazz Festival is now in its ...

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Composers Portman, Blanchard Top BMI Awards

Source: All About Jazz
May 23, 2010

Film composers Rachel Portman and Terence Blanchard took top honors at Wednesday night's Film and TV Music Awards ceremony held by Broadcast Music Inc. (BMI) in Beverly Hills.

Portman, the first woman to win an original-score Oscar ("Emma," 1996), became the first female to receive BMI's Richard Kirk Award in its 25-year history. The honor annually goes to a top film or TV composer for career achievement. “I hope I'll be the first of many," she said. “Writing music is ...

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