Jazz News

Charles Mingus Festival Highlights Include Historic High School Band Competition

Source: Michael Ricci
February 1, 2010

MANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC and LET MY CHILDREN HEAR MUSIC:THE CHARLES MINGUS INSTITUTE announce 2nd Annual CHARLES MINGUS FESTIVAL

Saturday and Sunday, February13 and 14 in New York City

SUE MINGUS and JUSTIN DICIOCCIO, Producers

The music and legacy of Charles Mingus will be returning to Manhattan School of Music on Saturday, February 13 and Sunday, February 14, when MSM collaborates with Let My Children Hear Music/The Charles Mingus Institute to host the 2nd Annual Charles Mingus Festival. This two-day ...

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John McLaughlin and Chick Corea Win Grammy

Source: Abstract Logix
February 1, 2010

John McLaughlin and Chick Corea win the Grammy award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual Or Group Category.

Chick Corea and John McLaughlin are truly kindred spirits. Both are brave musical explorers and singular virtuosos on their respective instruments. As young jazz artists, they both did stints with the legendary Miles Davis and appeared together on the groundbreaking jazz/rock/funk classic Bitches Brew.

Each later ventured out to form his own revolutionary band: McLaughlin's Mahavishnu Orchestra and Corea's Return to Forever. ...

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Introducing Jordyn Jackson's Debut Jazz Vocal Album "September in the Garden"

Source: Michael Ricci
February 1, 2010

While this is Jackson's fifth album, it is her first project focusing on Jazz vocals. September in the Garden showcases Jordyn Jackson's vocals and the incredible range of talents of the young Louisiana musicians who arranged, produced and performed on the album. Led by Beau St. Pierre and Jake Smith, who created the new instrumentations, tempos and overall arrangements of the album, Jackson re-envisions ten musical standards. Over the course of several weeks at Fudge Recording Studio in the Garden ...

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Grammys: That's Not My Music Industry

Source: One Working Musician by Jason Parker
February 1, 2010

Watching the Grammy Awards tonight I was struck with one thought: they might call that the Music Industry, but that has nothing to do with what I do as a working musician. I have been a professional musician for 15 years, and it's been my sole job for 9 of those years. But whatever that was on the TV tonight, that's not even close to my world.

And you know what? Rather than that thought being depressing it is actually ...

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Pianist Franck Amsallem Releases "Amsallem Sings"

Source: Michael Ricci
February 1, 2010

"I've always nurtured a special fondness for musician singers... with their capacity to meet the terrain of the melody head on, these instrumentalists do not sing like simple singers, but uncover in the hidden spaces of their projects unsuspected little side corners. Not an ounce of posing, all here is real, authentic... Amsallem has learned from the greats he mingled with during his twenty years of American exile the lesson of imperfection, the mastery that knows at each instant to ...

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First Edition Jazz & Sounds Festival in Ghent (Belgium)

Source: Press Dept
February 1, 2010

New festival in Ghent (Belgium) from March 22nd until 28th 2010 First edition Jazz & Sounds Festival Beginning in 2010, Gent Jazz Festival, De Bijloke Music Centre, Vooruit Arts Centre, University College Ghent--Faculty of Music and the University College Ghent--Faculty of Fine Arts (KASK) will work together in the annual initiative, the Jazz & Sounds Festival. This new festival will focus on the versatility of contemporary music. The first edition takes place from March 22 - 28, 2010. Improvisation and ...

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Tim Kuhl's - Pandora's Box @ Goodbye Blue Monday on February 4

Source: Two for the Show Media
February 1, 2010

From Tim Kuhl:

Hello AAJ Readers, Thursday Feb. 4th @ 11pm, I have a special free improvisation group performing at this years Sounds Like Brooklyn Music Festival presented by BAM. Very excited about this group... Tim Kuhl's - PANDORA'S BOX Jonathan Moritz - Saxophones Frantz Loriot - Viola Ryan Mackstaller - Guitar Pascal Niggenkemper - Double Bass Tim Kuhl - Drums ...

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Tonight! Michael Marcus Quartet at the Blue Note (NYC)

Source: Michael Ricci
February 1, 2010

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