Jazz News

Broadway Star Sutton Foster Will Present Concerts at the Kirk Douglas Theatre

Source: Michael Ricci
March 21, 2010

Tony-winner Sutton Foster will give two concerts featuring songs from her Broadway shows as well as her own selection of favorites at 8 p.m. April 29 and 30 at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City.

“An Evening With Sutton Foster" will be part of the Center Theatre Group's DouglasPlus series.

Foster won the 2002 Tony and Drama Desk awards for playing the naive heroine in “Thoroughly Modern Millie." She also has starred on Broadway in “Shrek: The Musical," “Young ...

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"Allowing Merger of Ticketmaster and Live Nation Was Pretty Immoral"

Source: Michael Ricci
March 21, 2010

As industry conference and festival South by Southwest enters its home stretch, independent label heads such as Matador's Gerard Cosloy and Domino's Kris Gillespie raised concerns about the recent merger of Ticketmaster and Live Nation, and they also spoke on the ever-controversial, all-encompassing 360-label deals. “Allowing the merger of Ticketmaster and Live Nation was pretty immoral," Gillespie said at the start of a state-of-the-union panel, becoming a voice of opposition from the independent community. The recent formation of Live Nation ...

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Jazz Heritage Center Presents The Photography of Herman Leonard

Source: All About Jazz Publisher's Desk
March 21, 2010

Jazz Heritage Center presents... JAZZ GIANTS: The Photography of Herman Leonard

Herman Leonard's first show in San Francisco in twenty years

Exhibit celebrates Jazz Appreciation Month

Free Exhibit on Display: April 5th - May 16th

PUBLIC CELEBRATION: APRIL 7TH - 6:30pm

(San Francisco) -- The Jazz Heritage Center (JHC), San Francisco's only permanent complex dedicated to jazz art and jazz history, announced today a special exhibit for April's Jazz Appreciation Month: Jazz Giants: The Photography of Herman Leonard--a collection of ...

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Michaela Rabitsch & Robert Pawlik Quartet Appear at Cape Town International Jazz

Source: All About Jazz Publisher's Desk
March 21, 2010

Festival, Africa's Premier Jazz Festival Saturday, April 3, 2010, 19:45 Cape Town, South Africa, Cape Town International Jazz Festival, Stage: Moses Molelekwa Master Class on April 4, 2010, time: TBA The Space Theatre Michaela Rabitsch, singer, composer and Austria's only and top female jazz trumpet player and her ingenious partner - composer and guitarist Robert Pawlik are pleased to announce their appearance at the 11th Annual Cape Town International Jazz Festival, presenting their junior release Moods. They present ...

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Jazz Venues in Manhattan

Source: All About Jazz
March 21, 2010

DARCY JAMES ARGUE'S SECRET SOCIETY (Tuesday) Part of the 40th-anniversary festivities for the New England Conservatory jazz program. At 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. Jazz Standard 116 East 27th Street, Manhattan (212) 576-2232 jazzstandard.net

JOHN BUNCH TRIO (Thursday) At 7 and 9 p.m. Brasserie Ruhlmann 45 Rockefeller Plaza, at 50th Street (212) 974-2020 brasserieruhlmann.com

REGINA ...

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Barb Jungr Releases the "Men I Love-the New American Songbook" CD

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
March 21, 2010

New York, New York - Barb Jungr is renowned for her unique vocal style and approach to arrangements and interpretations of a wide range of songs. When you hear her sing The Talking Heads classic track “Once In A Lifetime" on the upcoming release The Men I Love-The New American Songbook, you will find yourself caught up in the elucidation and forget who actually originally did the song to begin with. That is homage to the diverse talents of Barb ...

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Devin Gray + Gerald Cleaver Duet at KORZO (Brooklyn) on April 13th

Source: Michael Ricci
March 21, 2010

Tuesday April 13th, 11PM Devin Gray + Gerald Cleaver DUET Two Drums + Improvised music Konceptions @ KORZO 667 5th Avenue [bet. 19th + 20th streets] Brooklyn, NYC 11215 718.285.9425 korzorestaurant.com Subway: R or M train to Prospect Avenue There is a $7 cover charge per set. Korzo features amazing Eastern European cuisine and an impressive array of wine, bourbon, scotch and beers on tap. “The long-running progressive-jazz series Konceptions ...

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Urban Jazz Pianist Elisha "Atlas" Parris is Here... AtLasT!

Source: Michael Ricci
March 21, 2010

After being behind the scenes for the last 5 years as a record producer, music director, composer and songwriter, it's finally time for Elisha “Atlas" Parris to make a splash in the jazz community with his highly anticipated new urban jazz release, appropriately entitled “AtLasT!"

AtLasT! miraculously marries the straight-ahead jazz vibe of Miles Davis (Tune Up) with the soulful spirituality of James Weldon Johnson (Lift Ev'ry Voice), then skillfully weaves in Elisha's own urban jazz compositions (Beautiful Space, Tell ...

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