Jazz News

Star-Studded Lineup for the Smooth Jazz Cruise 2012 Includes Smokey Robinson

Source: Michael Ricci
May 3, 2010

Smooth sailing in the Caribbean with music legends and luminaries Star-studded lineup for The Smooth Jazz Cruise 2012 includes Smokey Robinson St. Louis, MO: Expect a Miracle at The Greatest Party at Sea. The stellar lineup to set sail from Fort Lauderdale to the Caribbean aboard The Smooth Jazz Cruise in 2012 was announced today by Jazz Cruises, LLC. Motown legend Smokey Robinson will make his debut on The Smooth Jazz Cruise that will be hosted by David Sanborn and ...

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Multi-Instrumentalist/Composer Fred Frith Interviewed at AAJ...And More!

Source: All About Jazz
May 3, 2010

Since emerging in the 1970s with the fearless British group Henry Cow, multi-instrumentalist Fred Frith has built a career that's as comfortable in the realm of contemporary classical music as it is the equally innovative arena of free improvisation. From collaborations with John Zorn to his latest “rock" group, Cosa Brava, Frith refuses to sit still; instead, constantly mining the farthest reaches of musical style for a personal amalgam that's as far-reaching globally as it is intimate in its reflection ...

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Kinky Friedman Announces First Tour of the West Coast in Two Decades

Source: conqueroo
May 2, 2010

Former Texas gubernatorial candidate, political commentator and self-proclaimed “author, columnist, musician and beautician" Kinky Friedman will perform on the West Coast this summer for the first time in nearly 20 years. Dates for the Go West Young Kinky Tour of 2010 start on July 26th in Vancouver and continue into August. Two members of Kinky's seminal band the Texas Jewboys, Little Jewford and Washington Ratso, will join him on the tour. No prisoners will be taken. Only the strong shall ...

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1st Annual NYC Undead Jazzfest June 12-13

Source: Kim Smith Public Relations
May 2, 2010

boomBOOM Presents & Search & Restore proudly announce The 1st Annual NYC Undead Jazzfest

On June 12th and 13th 2010 boomBOOM Presents and Search & Restore unleash the Undead Jazzfest on New York City

Hot off the success of Winter Jazzfest, these like-minded, ambitious concert presenters have revived the same two-day, many-artist, multi-venue formula.

For two Summer nights, one ticket will give jazz fans access to Le Poisson Rouge, Kenny's Castaways and Sullivan Hall -- three clubs with distinctly different ...

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Chico Trujillo's New Album 'Chico de Oro' out May 11

Source: Press Junkie PR
May 2, 2010

The superheroes of cumbia have a name. And that name is Chico Trujillo. Now celebrating its 10th anniversary, the band is at the peak of its powers. They play parties. They play stadiums. They play festivals. They play all over the world. And they can't be stopped. While the outfit's contagious, recklessly danceable sound is rich in drive and colorful instrumentation, it's not like the cumbia from Argentina or Peru or any other place you can think of. It's not ...

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Sones de Mexico Wins Silver Honors from Parents' Choice Awards

Source: rock paper scissors, inc.
May 2, 2010

Sones de Mexico's New CD Wins Silver Parents' Choice Honor

Sones de Mexico Ensemble was recently awarded the Parents' Choice Silver Honorfor their new album, Fiesta Mexicana: Mexican Songs & Stories for Ninos & Ninas and their Papas & Mamas.

Fiesta Mexicana is a bilingual, double-album for children and their parents that features old Mexican folk songs, stories of Mexican folklore with outrageous characters and special guest appearances by Dan Zanes and Ella Jenkins.

Sones actually began performing this educational ...

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The Concord Music Group Difference, According to Tift Merritt

Source: Michael Ricci
May 2, 2010

One of the comments that cropped up consistently in my reporting for our story running in Saturday's Business section on the Concord Music Group is that the people who run and work at the company are dyed-in-the-wool music fans, which isn't always the case in the record business these days. So I asked Tift Merritt, the Houston-born, North Carolina-reared singer and songwriter whose second album for the Concord-owned Fantasy label, “See You On the Moon," is coming out June 1, ...

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Charlie O's May Jazz Dates

Source: All About Jazz
May 2, 2010

Charlie O's is an intimate jazz club and restaurant originally established in 1987. We have been presenting live jazz performances seven nights a week from 8 PM to Midnight since August 17, 2000.

A great Intimate jazz club in the Valley Chuck Niles

Charlie O's May 2010 Schedule

May 1 Lanny Morgan John Heard Trio with Kevin Brandon, Roy McCurdy May 2 Closed Sundays May 3 Theo ...

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