Jazz News

From Jazz to Avant Garde at Carnegie Hall

Source: Michael Ricci
March 15, 2010

In April and May, renegade Dutch composer Louis Andriessen comes to Carnegie Hall as holder of this season's Richard and Barbara Debs Composer's Chair. Highlights of his spring residency include:

A program featuring the New York premiere of Andriessen's Symphony for Open Strings as well as works by young American composers whom he has mentored on Friday, April 9 at 7:30 p.m.The program includes the world premiere performances of Missy Mazzoli's These Worlds in Us (new orchestration), Michael Fiday's Gonzo ...

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Pizarro: Tough Spot for San Jose Jazz

Source: Michael Ricci
March 15, 2010

Just a year after getting a much-needed rescue by AT&T, San Jose Jazz is struggling to keep its doors open until the late-summer festival. But the group's board isn't crying poor to the cash-strapped city. Instead, it hopes the thousands of jazz fans who flock to the festival each year or a company interested in those ears will help close a $120,000 shortfall before June. And leaders are putting their money where their hopes are. Board members Jan De Carli ...

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Ted Nash Helps Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Expand Repertoire

Source: Michael Ricci
March 15, 2010

Saxophonist Ted Nash might play with one of the best-known classic jazz ensembles of today, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, but it doesn't mean his composer side is stuck in the traditional jazz genre. “We tend to limit ourselves based on what people have done before us and what we have done before," he says. “It's an easy trap to fall into, when you're writing for a big band, writing in a format that's comfortable for everyone." Nash's latest ...

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Add a Little Jazz to Your Life with the 33rd Annual Atlanta Jazz Festival

Source: Michael Ricci
March 15, 2010

ATLANTA - Whether it's out-of-this-world improvisation or boogie-woogie notes of Big Band music that moves you, the 33rd Annual Atlanta Jazz Festival embodies the spirit of Jazz and will unite the City of Atlanta for 31 days of amazing music during the “31 Days of Jazz" this May. The month-long celebration culminates in Piedmont Park on Memorial Day weekend, Saturday, May 29 and Sunday, May 30, with music from local and nationally-renowned artists including Marcus Miller “Tutu Revisited the music ...

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A Dream for Music, but Label's Nightmare

Source: Michael Ricci
March 15, 2010

THE Apple iPad, which goes on sale April 3, will access video, applications and Web sites wirelessly no cords or cables needed.

But to move your trusty old music collection onto this wonder gadget and take it with you to work, or on vacation, you'll have to pull out a U.S.B. sync cable, plug the device into your PC and transfer those music files over. Its kind of a hassle, and it becomes worse when you buy a song on ...

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Las Vegas Strip Performances

Source: All About Jazz
March 15, 2010

Lionel Richie The Colosseum At Caesars Palace Mar 26 through 28th

Wayne Newton Tropicana Mar 16 through 24th

Blue Man Group The Venetian - Resort, Hotel, Casino 3355 South Las Vegas Boulevard Mar 14, 21 & 28, April 1st and 2nd

Metric House of Blues - Las Vegas 3950 Las Vegas Boulevard Mar 25

Jay-Z ...

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18th Annual Las Vegas City of Lights Jazz and R&B Festival

Source: All About Jazz
March 15, 2010

18TH ANNUAL LAS VEGAS CITY OF LIGHTS JAZZ AND R&B FESTIVAL SATURDAY, APRIL 24TH 2010 THE BIGEST NAMES IN SMOOTH JAZZ

Michael Schivo Presents, celebrating 45 years as Nevada's premier Pop, Rock and Jazz concert promoter, has again teamed up with Las Vegas Events (LVE) the Las Vegas mega producers of the city's largest tourists events, and KJLH RADIO FREE and KTWV THE WAVE IN LOS ANGELES to co-sponsor the 18th Annual Las Vegas City of ...

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Miles from the Strip Visions of Upscale Living Dim

Source: All About Jazz
March 15, 2010

Reporting from Henderson, Nev.-- At the time, it probably sounded like a can't-miss pitch:

Sunset-colored palaces. Three golf courses. Boutiques selling hand- painted silk gowns. A Ritz-Carlton. And a lake! A 2-mile-long desert lake, with marinas, an ice rink and a floating concert stage. Few plans embodied the hubris of Nevada's go-go years like Lake Las Vegas, the wannabe Tuscan village launched two decades ago 17 miles from the Las Vegas Strip. Over the years, Michael Jackson dodged paparazzi at ...

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