Jazz News

Joao Gilberto Plays Carefusion Jazz NY, June 22, + Concerts in Boston & Chicago

Source: Carolyn McClair Public Relations
April 21, 2010

CELEBRATE THE GENIUS OF JOO GILBERTO AT CAREFUSION JAZZ FESTIVAL NEW YORK ON JUNE 22, 8:00 PM, AT CARNEGIE HALL CareFusion Jazz Festival Takes Over New York June 17 - 26 Following CareFusion Jazz Festival New York, Joo Gilberto Makes Only Two Other Stops in the U.S. - Boston on June 25 and Chicago on June 29 NEW YORK, NY, April 20, 2010 - Experience The Genius of Joo Gilberto at the CareFusion Jazz Festival New York on Tuesday, June ...

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Owl Studios Releases Frank Glover's "Abacus", a Chamber Jazz Masterpiece, on May 11, 2010

Source: Michael Bloom Media Relations
April 21, 2010

Born and bred in Indianapolis, innovative composer-arranger Frank Glover may be one of Indiana's best-kept secrets. On his 2004 tour de force, the classically influenced Politico (reissued in 2009 on Owl Studios), Glover established himself as an accomplished clarinetist-composer with a penchant for long-form pieces that strike an organic balance between improvisation and formal structure. On Abacus, he expands on his large canvas vision with a stunning program of chamber jazz that alternately reflects the influence of classical renegades Igor ...

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Solitude: Phil Woods with the Depaul University Jazz Ensemble / May 11 Release

Source: Michael Bloom Media Relations
April 21, 2010

Jazzed Media announces the May 11, 2010 release of SOLITUDE, featuring Phil Woods with the DePaul University Jazz Ensemble. SOLITUDE features 10 original compositions by Phil Woods in fresh, big band arrangements crafted by Woods, Jim McNeely, Thomas Matta, Kirk Garrison, and the DownBeat magazine award-winning DePaul University Jazz Ensemble. Phil is featured as soloist on each of the selections, with his long-time colleagues - pianist Jim McNeely, bassist Steve Gilmore and drummer Bill Goodwin - joining the DePaul band ...

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Cameo-Parkway (Abkco) Reissues Coming from Collectors' Choice

Source: conqueroo
April 21, 2010

Six individual CDs including a doo-wop compilation kick off reissue program of long sought-after material

LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- On June 22, 2010, Collectors' Choice Music in conjunction with ABKCO Music & Records will begin a rollout of six reissues and compilations from the legendary Cameo and Parkway Records masters. The initial six CDs, including four twofers, are Rawhide's Clint Eastwood Sings Cowboy Favorites, Bobby Rydell Salutes The Great Ones/Rydell at the Copa, Chubby Checker's It's Pony Time/Let's Twist Again, ...

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The Eagles Close out Their Hollywood Bowl Run

Source: Michael Ricci
April 21, 2010

On Tuesday night at the Hollywood Bowl, Glenn Frey welcomed Eagles fans to the final show of the bands three-night stand there with a bit of sly self-deprecation. We are the ancient ones, he said. And this is the Eagles assisted-living tour. As lines go, its a good one, and it drew sympathetic laughs from an audience seemingly packed with well-preserved old-timers from the groups days on the early-70s L.A. club scene. Yet if the joke acknowledged the improbability of ...

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Facebook Shows off New Tools to Socialize the Entire Web

Source: All About Jazz
April 21, 2010

Facebook is launching a new suite of tools that bring the Facebook social experience to any site on the web. The company is releasing a set of products called Social Plugins, which any web publishers can drop into their website using one very simple line of code. These plug-ins will let visitors Like news stories, photos and so on. Once a user likes something, it instantly gets added to the appropriate section of their Facebook profile. The plug-ins are part ...

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The Gloves Come off in Fight Between Apple and Adobe

Source: Michael Ricci
April 21, 2010

After much coaxing from media commentators observing the subtle conflicts between Apple and Adobe Systems, the two technology giants appear ready to step into the ring. Mike Chambers, Adobe's product manager for the Flash video platform, published a blog post on Monday with a series of direct and harsh words aimed at Apple. The Cupertino-based maker of the iPhone said earlier this month it would block a program that would let Flash developers easily port their apps to Apple's mobile ...

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Rudresh Mahanthappa and Bunky Green from Different Generations but on the Same Page

Source: Michael Ricci
April 21, 2010

Rudresh Mahanthappa and Bunky Green are alto saxophonists born 36 years apart. The younger, Mr. Mahanthappa, matured in the 1990s in New York after studying at Berklee College of Music. Mr. Green played in clubs as a teenager in Milwaukee in the early 1950s, when jazz was still a vernacular language, then went on to New York and Chicago, working with Charles Mingus and Sonny Stitt. But at times during the late set at the Jazz Standard on Tuesday, in ...

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