Jazz News

Trumpeter Chris Tedesco's Jazz CD "Living the Dream" Currently at Number 8 in the US for Jazz Radio Airplay

Source: Michael Ricci
May 5, 2010

Los Angeles based Trumpeter Chris Tedesco's jazz CD Living the Dream has been in the TOP TEN for three weeks and is currently at number 8 in the US for jazz radio airplay. An astonishing feat for a first timer to jazz radio, Chris has received rave reviews from Jazz Times magazine and jazz radio DJ's across the USA.

About Chris Tedesco

Chris Tedesco has distinguished himself as a one of the top call trumpet players on the ...

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Composer/Reed Multi-Instrumentalist Frank Glover Interviewed at AAJ...And More!

Source: All About Jazz
May 5, 2010

Intelligent and outspoken, Frank Glover began playing clarinet when he was eleven years old. On entering college, he trained for nearly two years at Indiana University before striking out on his own; upon the independent release of Politico in 2004, he was signed by Owl Studios and the album was re-released under that label in 2009. Initially training as a classical clarinetist who also plays saxophone, the music of John Coltrane grabbed him; he experienced a musical epiphany as a ...

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Who Needs Flash? The Tipping Point

Source: All About Jazz
May 5, 2010

In just months, from seemingly nowhere, Apples solo campaign to dethrone Flash as the de facto standard for web video has gathered enough momentum to get over the top. The question is no longer whether HTML5 will or should do the job, but when. Last week signaled the tipping point, when Microsoft confirmed HTML5 video support would be included in the next version of Internet Explorer, which is due later this year. That move will swing the percentage of browsers ...

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Richard Julian's "Girls Need Attention" in Stores Today

Source: Michael Ricci
May 4, 2010

RICHARD JULIAN New album Girls Need Attention

Available digitally and in stores today!

(Sample tracks here.)

Check out Richard's new blog

'The Brooklyn Lime: tequila, music, food, travel, whatever' here.

Upcoming Shows... NYC CD Release

Saturday, May 15th / 7 PM Rockwood Music Hall Stage 2 Amy Correia Opens Tuesday, May 18 - The Basement Nashville, TN - 7 PM

with Jedd Hughes, Brent Cobb, and Reed Foehl Nashville ...

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John Zorn's Masada: Seminar with Dave Douglas

Source: Michael Ricci
May 4, 2010

Monday, May 10, 7PM - 10PM Stone Seminar 19 Dave Douglas on the Music of Masada At The Stone in NYC When John asked me to present a seminar, I thought: why not take a handful of Masada tunes, old and new, and play them with people? We'll have charts in Zorn's all-but-indecipherable-but-incredibly-expressive handwriting, as well as some “cleaned up" versions. Bring your instrument as the goal will be to play as ...

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Chris Botti Blows into Worcester!

Source: Michael Ricci
May 4, 2010

Legendary Jazz Trumpeter, Chris Botti, Blows into Worcester! One Night Only - May 15, 2010 - Presented by Music Worcester

Worcester, MA, May 3, 2010 -- Music Worcester, Inc. presents jazz trumpet great, Chris Botti and Band on Saturday, May 15, 2010 at the Hanover Theatre for Performing Arts, 8PM. Sponsored by Fletcher, Tilton and Whipple, P.C., this appearance represents just one of Bottis 250-plus days on the road performing. Cream of the crop musicians in Botti's band round out ...

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The Tierney Sutton Band Scheduled to Jazz up Worcester in Smooth Style!

Source: Michael Ricci
May 4, 2010

Music Worcester presents The Tierney Sutton Band - One Night Only - Saturday, May 8, Tuckerman Hall (Tuckerman St., Worcester) 8PM.

The Tierney Sutton Band features legendary Jazz vocalist Tierney Sutton and her band of amazing, instrumental virtuosos Christian Jacob, Trey Henry, Kevin Axt and Ray Brinker.

From humble beginnings as a Wisconsin-born choir girl (unexposed to jazz until college) Sutton has grown up into her role as jazz vocalist. Educated at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Tierney became ...

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L.A. Based Band Infantree Gives Listeners Food for Thought on May 4th

Source: 1888 Media
May 4, 2010

Six-song Food For Thought EP produced by Niko Bolas (Neil Young, Crosby Stills & Nash, Melissa Etheridge) will be available digitally on May 4th.

Infantree is a Los Angeles-based band which formed in 2007 with Alex Vojdani (vocals, lyrics, guitar, keys) Matt Kronish (vocals, lyrics, guitar, banjo) and Donald Fisher (vocals, lyrics, keys, bass, mandolin, guitar) as high school students in Calabasas, CA before solidifying the line-up in 2008 with the addition of drummer Jordan Avesar who provided not only ...

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