Jazz News

Alaska Jazz Workshop

Source: All About Jazz
April 26, 2010

The Alaska Jazz Workshop is a non-profit organization designed to teach young people jazz. Based at the University of Alaska, Anchorage, professional jazz musicians take time to pass on their skills and knowledge to the next generation so that the heartbeat of jazz will will keep on beating and more young people will live fuller lives.

Summer 2010 Jazz Camp dates July 12-17th featuring AJW Instructors: John Damberg, Kerry Maule & Mark Manners

August 9-14th

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Hearts of Gold Announces Grand Opening of "The Thrifty Hog" Chic New Shop to Benefit NYC's Homeless Mothers & Children; Grand Opening Benefit, "Great Performances to Raise the Roof -- An Evening of Jazz," to be Held May 5, 2010

Source: Michael Ricci
April 26, 2010

NEW YORK, NY -- Hearts of Gold (HoG), a not-for-profit organization that fosters sustainable change in lifestyle and levels of self- sufficiency for homeless mothers and their children in New York City, today announced the grand opening of the organization's new upscale resale and consignment shop, The Thrifty HoG. The shop, located at 11 West 25th Street (between Broadway and Sixth Avenue), will open at the end of May, and will offer a selection of chic new and very gently ...

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First Annual Warwick Valley Jazz Festival Set for August 26-29, 2010

Source: Michael Ricci
April 26, 2010

The first annual Warwick Jazz Festival will be in the late summer of 2010 in the village of Warwick NY, August 26 - 29 This event, conceived and produced by local jazz musician Steve Rubin, in cooperation with the village of Warwick and local business will be an extension of a vibrant local jazz culture in the village. Warwick and nearby area is home to many jazz musicians including, but not limited to; Mark Egan, Jeff Ciampa, Bob Rosen, Richard ...

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Kinky Friedman Announces First West Coast Performance Tour in Two Decades

Source: conqueroo
April 26, 2010

AUSTIN, Texas -- 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 (a full list of venues follows). Two members of Kinky's seminal band the Texas Jewboys, Little Jewford and Washington Ratso, will join him on the ...

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Whitney Houston's Voice Fails Her in Sold-out London Concert

Source: All About Jazz
April 26, 2010

LONDON Hundreds in the audience walked out of Whitney Houston's comeback concert here Sunday as the singer once dubbed “The Voice" missed high notes, cut short her songs and apologized for her shortcomings. “She don't want to come, my soprano friend," Houston crooned after stumbling through a gravelly version of signature song I Will Always Love You. She blamed the air conditioning in The O2 arena, whose 20,000 seats had sold out for her first London performance since 1999. “Sometimes ...

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Enter the Abstract Logix "Autographed 4-CD" Giveaway!

Source: All About Jazz
April 26, 2010

All About Jazz members are invited to enter the Abstract Logix autographed 4-CD giveaway contest starting today. Three winners will win all four autographed CD's listed below at the conclusion of the contest on May 26th.

Click here to enter the contest

(Following John McLaughlin at AAJ automatically enters you in the contest.)

Good luck! Your Friends at Abstract Logix

John McLaughlin - To the One

With his new album To the One (Abstract Logix/Mediastarz), iconic ...

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Police Seize Computers, Property of Blogger Who Wrote About Supposed Lost iPhone

Source: Michael Ricci
April 26, 2010

Jason Chen with the alleged next generation iPhone. “We got it. We disassembled it. It's the real thing," he wrote. Police in San Mateo County served a search warrant at the home of Jason Chen, a technology blogger who had posted extensive information about a lost mobile device he claimed was an unreleased version of Apple's Inc. blockbuster iPhone. According to documents and accounts posted on Gizmodo, Chen's blog, police raided the blogger's house on Friday night and seized nearly ...

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Uplifting 'Treme' Has Potential to Surpass 'Wire'

Source: All About Jazz
April 26, 2010

Hurricane Katrina was a devastating, depressing debacle whose ramifications are still felt today. Lives were lost, homes were destroyed. You'd think “Treme," a new HBO series that takes place in New Orleans in the months after Katrina, would be a downer, that viewers would be treated to a humbling, depressing television experience. You'd be wrong. “Treme," through two episodes, is among the most uplifting TV series I've ever seen. This is one reason why Treme has the potential to be ...

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