Jazz News

Jamie Cullum Releases "The Pursuit" & Upcoming US Tour Dates

Source: Michael Ricci
February 1, 2010

JAMIE CULLUM LAUNCHES “ONE MAN BRITISH INVASION" OF AMERICA

GOLDEN GLOBE & GRAMMY NOMINEE ANNOUNCES MARCH TOUR DATES AND RELEASE OF NEW ALBUM THE PURSUIT ON MARCH 2, 2010

English singer/songwriter/pianist/multi-instrumentalist Jamie Cullum, who has been dubbed “a one man British invasion" (Hollywood Reporter), has announced a series of US tour dates to coincide with the U.S. release of The Pursuit on March 2, 2010. The album is Cullum's third for Verve Records and his first in four years. It ...

Continue Reading

Mushroom: 'Naked, Stoned & Stabbed' Available April 27

Source: Calabro Music
February 1, 2010

MUSHROOM: Naked, Stoned, & Stabbed Available April 27 from 4 Zero/Royal Potato Family

“Mushroom have long been knights traversing the plains and mountains of psychedelic rock." (The Wire)

Mushroom, a musicians' collective based in the San Francisco Bay area, return with their first album in three years, Naked, Stoned, & Stabbed, to be released April 27 through 4 Zero Records/Royal Potato Family. A new phase for Mushroom, the project was conceived as a cross-continental Cinema Verite travelogue of ...

Continue Reading

Oscar 2010: Best Song Submissions

Source: All About Jazz
February 1, 2010

The 2010 Academy Award nominations will be announced on Tuesday, February 2, 2010, at 5:30 a.m. PT in the Academys Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.

The 2010 Academy Awards ceremony will take place on Sunday, March 7, 2010, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center. In the US, itll be televised live by ABC.

Sixty-three songs are contending for a nomination in the Best Original Song category for the 2010 Academy Awards. Needless to say, there are ...

Continue Reading

Herb Alpert and Lani Hall

Source: All About Jazz
February 1, 2010

Herb Alpert's inner jazzman has always been integrated within something more significant: a haunting, personal trumpet signature riding atop a melange of American and/or Latin components.

Yet lately, his jazz roots have finally emerged into full view with a new CD, “Anything Goes" (Concord Jazz), and an intimately-scaled show with Alpert's wife, singer Lani Hall, and a small combo. “Anything Goes" is a multiple landmark for Alpert - his first mainstream jazz album, his first album of any kind in ...

Continue Reading

The 2010 University of Michigan Jazz Festival "Charles Mingus Day" February 13th at the Power Center for the Performing Arts in Ann Arbor, Michigan

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
February 1, 2010

The 2010 University Of Michigan Jazz Festival “Charles Mingus Day" will take place February 13th at 7:30p.m. at the Power Center for the Performing Arts in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The festival announced today that Congressman John Conyers Jr. would receive the first, “University of Michigan John Conyers Jr. Jazz Advocacy Award". This award is named in his honor and serves as recognition of extraordinary achievement in the world of Jazz by an advocate or patron. In recognition of Black History ...

Continue Reading

Jeremy Pelt Taking a Ride on Jazzs Main Line

Source: Michael Ricci
February 1, 2010

The trumpeter Jeremy Pelt has spent most of the last decade as a young exemplar, traveling the postbop continuum on his own steam, at his own pace.

As a bandleader he has plunged headlong into funk and dipped a toe in chamber orchestration, but the larger theme of his output seeks a footing on the bedrock of jazz convention. Hes still finding good terrain to explore there, as he proved at Jazz Standard on Thursday night.

Mr. Pelt, 33, has ...

Continue Reading

7th Annual Portland Jazz Festival

Source: All About Jazz
February 1, 2010

Is Jazz Dead (Or Has It Moved to a New Address)?-New Music from Norway

Contemporary American and Norwegian jazz artists come together during the 2010 Alaska Airlines/ Horizon Air Portland Jazz Festival presented by U.S. Bank, February 21 - 28, throughout downtown Portland, Oregon.

This years provocative theme is borrowed from the title of British jazz writer Stuart Nicholsons book on the globalization of jazz with a special spotlight on Norway, a forefront of redefining Americas indigenous art form and ...

Continue Reading

Grammy-Winning Composer Says Games Were His Big Break

Source: All About Jazz
February 1, 2010

Composer Michael Giacchino won two Grammys this weekend for his work on the Pixar animated feature Up. After his victory, he said that he had Steven Spielberg to thank for giving him one of his first gigs: Scoring a Videogame.

Giacchinos career got a kickstart when the famed film director hired him in 1996 to score the Lost World: Jurassic Park video game. J.J. Abrams played those videogames, Giacchino told Variety, then called him up out of the blue. That ...

Continue Reading