Jazz News

Ottawa Jazzworksgala May 6th, Features Top Canadian Jazz Faculty and Jazzworks Participants from 16 to 82

Source: All About Jazz
April 26, 2010

JazzWorks will hold its second annual fundraiser, JazzWorksGala Thursday, May 6 at Arts Court 7:00 pm to midnight. The fundraiser features Montreal-based saxophonist Rmi Bolduc, Toronto jazz vocalist Julie Michels, and versatile Toronto jazz guitarist Kevin Barrett - all members of the JazzWorks faculty - plus a stellar list of JazzWorks jazz camp alumni for an evening of music, food and festivity.

One of the greatest alto sax players in Canada, Rmi Bolduc also teaches at McGill and Concordia universities. ...

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Pianist Neil Cowley Interviewed at AAJ...And More!

Source: All About Jazz
April 26, 2010

It's not an observation based on hard evidence, but the jazz world seems to be more awash with piano trios than it has been for many years. Whether it's a whim of fashion, a response to economic recession, a reaction to the over-digitization of music technology, or something else entirely, is far from clear. But there do seem to be a lot of them about, and many of them are extremely good.

So how does a piano trio ensure that ...

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8 1/2 Turns 50

Source: Michael Ricci
April 26, 2010

Is it possible? Can “8 1/2" be close to 50 years old? The calendar may say yes, but to see this classic of personal cinema one more time is to be in the presence of a kind of picture-making that defiantly remains forever young. First released in 1963, Italian director Federico Fellini's landmark examination of self-portraiture and the creative process opens a run at Laemmle's Music Hall in Beverly Hills in the first newly struck 35-millimeter print in almost two ...

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Steve Wozniak on Apple Security, Employee Termination, and Gray Powell

Source: All About Jazz
April 26, 2010

During last weeks iPhone leak saga, Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple, reached out to us with a story: The morning of the iPad launch, an engineer showed Woz an iPad for two minutes. For this he was fired. It's a story that paints Apple as many people already see the company: ruthlessly secretive, and even vindictive. It also sheds some light on the story of Gray Powell, an Apple engineer whose breach of secrecy was at once less intentional, more ...

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16th Annual Children's Athletic Games & Family Fair Jazz Festival in Conjunction with the Cure Network Corp at Victoria Regional Park in Carson on April 24th

Source: Michael Ricci
April 23, 2010

The Center for Community and Family Services, Inc. will sponsor its 16th Annual Children's Athletic Games & Family Fair. Opening ceremony begins promptly at 9:00am with the running of the torch into the stadium by former Olympic US Gold Medalist, Mark Crear, followed by the Parade of Athletes and presentations of Proclamations and commendations from State and Local politicians. HOSTED BY: David Fralick (Star of the Young & the Restless) and Royce Reed Star of (Basket ball Wives Vh1) and ...

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New Orleans / Jazz Fest Photos Wanted

Source: Michael Ricci
April 22, 2010

If you have photos from previous Jazz Fests or are planning to attend this year, please share your photos at the All About Jazz Gallery. gallery.allaboutjazz.com We're also looking for general New Orleans photos, photos of clubs, bands, musicians, Preservation Hall, parades, the culture, the landmarks... whatever you care to share.

We plan to feature select photos in our FEATURED PHOTOS box and as “photos of the day."

You can upload photos here. Be sure to tag them “new orleans" ...

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Waitiki 7 Releasing New Album "New Sounds of Exotica"

Source: rock paper scissors, inc.
April 22, 2010

New Sounds of Exotica: Tiki Classics Get Shaken, Stirred, and Perfected by the Masterful WAITIKI 7

Take one part diverse players with intense focus and killer chops, and one part neglected mid-century multi-ethnic hybrid music with origins on America's harmonious island paradise. Add a dash of Technicolor tropical dreamscape, a twist of wild birdcalls, and stir soulfully.

WAITIKI 7 serves up this polychrome cocktail, taking a new serious spin on exotica, the musical genre that leaped from Hawaii's fashionable bars ...

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Celebrate Hot Jazz Guitarist Django Reinhardt at the Freight & Salvage on May 8th

Source: Michael Ricci
April 22, 2010

Saturday, May 8th, Show 8:00 PM The Freight and Salvage, 2020 Addison Street, Berkeley, CA 94704 Tickets: $18.50 Adv./$19.50 Door (510) 644-2020 2010 is the Django Reinhardt centennial year and The George Cole Quintet is coming to the East Bay to celebrate his life and style at The Freight and Salvage on May 8th. Come hear stories of Django Reinhardt's life, hear his original music being performed and hear new compositions inspired by his music. Django Reinhardt taught himself to ...

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