Jazz News

An Evening with Lizz Wright Thursday, April 8 at Boston's Wilbur Theatre

Source: Sue Auclair Promotions
April 1, 2010

An Evening with Lizz Wright

One of The Jazz World's Most Celebrated Rising Stars Heads to Boston

Boston, MA--Jazz at The Wilbur will present “An Evening With Lizz Wright" on Thursday, April 8, at 7:30 PM at the Wilbur Theatre, 246 Tremont Street, Boston, MA 02116. The Yoko Miwa Trio will open the show. Tickets at $38 and $30 are on sale now at all Ticketmaster outlets, at the Wilbur Theatre Box Office, on line at www.ticketmaster.com or by calling: ...

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3rd German Jazz Meeting: April 23rd to 24th, 2010 in Bremen/Germany

Source: Michael Ricci
April 1, 2010

The third German Jazz Meeting will take place from April 23rd to 24th, 2010 during the music fair at the Congress Centrum Bremen. The showcase festival presents current German projects chosen by a jury consisting of experts, club promoters, radio and print journalists as well as representatives of the Goethe-Institut. Hence, this years German Jazz Meeting demonstrates - once again -- a vivid cross-section of contemporary German improvised music and jazz.

Participating musicians and projects in 2010 are: Andromeda Mega ...

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CCNY Professor's Musical Journey Down the Hudson to Debut April 10

Source: Michael Ricci
April 1, 2010

Mike Holober to Lead Westchester Jazz Orchestra in Premiere Performance

In addition to teaching in the Music Department at The City College of New York (CCNY), noted jazz composer and pianist Mike Holober serves as artistic director and conductor of the Westchester Jazz Orchestra (WJO). On Saturday, April 10, he will lead the ensemble in the premiere of his composition “Flow: In Celebration of the Hudson River." The concert, at the Town Hall Theatre in Irvington, New York, begins at ...

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Marco Benevento Announces North American Tour Dates

Source: Calabro Music
April 1, 2010

MARCO BENEVENTO Announces Spring/Summer Tour Dates New Album, BETWEEN THE NEEDLES & NIGHTFALL, In Stores May 11

Marco Benevento has announced North American tour dates in support of his forthcoming new album, Between The Needles & Nightfall. The Brooklyn-based pianist leads his trio for the majority of a 29-night headline run that includes a handful of April appearances surrounding the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and May dates on the East Coast and Midwest that are capped ...

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Las Vegas Still Dazzling Exhibition Revists 1968 Study Era of Design

Source: Michael Ricci
April 1, 2010

The photographs on display in “Las Vegas Studio: Images From the Archives of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown" have been rescued, in essence, from the cutting-room floor. It just happens to be one of the richest, most revelatory cutting- room floors in architectural history.

The exhibition, at the Museum of Contemporary Art's branch at the Pacific Design Center through June 20, features images drawn from the trip that architects Venturi and Scott Brown took with a dozen or so ...

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Ex-Rat Pack Famous Nevada Casino Closes

Source: All About Jazz
April 1, 2010

Before the Las Vegas Strip ruled the gambling world, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. helped make the Cal Neva Lodge one of Nevada's coolest casinos in the early 1960s. On Wednesday, roulette wheels will stop spinning and blackjack games will cease at Sinatra's old resort that straddles the Nevada-California border on Lake Tahoe's north shore at Crystal Bay. While the resort's current owner hopes to reopen the casino under a new outside contractor by year's end, some ...

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Redesigned YouTube Takes Aim at the Boob Tube, Trolls

Source: All About Jazz
April 1, 2010

YouTube will change the look of every single one of its video pages Wednesday afternoon with a redesign meant to reduce visual noise and clutter, make it friendlier to watch longer-form content, increase viewing time, and introduce new playlists that follow you around the site as you search, browse and watch. If you read our coverage of the stealth rollout back in January, you've already been able to access some of this redesign using a special link. YouTube is rolling ...

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Paul McCartney Rocks the Hollywood Bowl

Source: Michael Ricci
April 1, 2010

Its hard to think of much in the pop music world more impressive than a 67-year-old musician holding forth for nearly three hours, outdoors on a chilly March night, while delivering some three dozen songs, the least of which would be a career highlight for almost any other artist. Perhaps the only thing more mind-boggling than that description of Paul McCartney's sold-out show Tuesday in the first of his two nights this week at the Hollywood Bowl was the realization ...

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