Jazz News

Jazz Standard Grooves on in February 2010 with Several of Jazz's Rising Stars, Veterans, and New Music Ensembles

Source: AMT Public Relations
January 26, 2010

JAZZ STANDARD, one of the natio'ns premier jazz clubs, presents another month of great jazz in February. On February 23, we present the exciting group Afinidad led by pianist Edward Simon and saxophonist David Binney along with some very special guests. Grammy Award-winner David Sanchez leads his group February 4-6. The thrilling jazz vocalist Rene Marie makes her long-awaited return to our stage for Valentines Weekend from February 1114. Two dynamic and different trios round out the month with the ...

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Legendary and Trendsetting Bassist Anthony Jackson to Release His First-Ever Solo Record on Abstract Logix Music

Source: Abstract Logix
January 26, 2010

From his cornerstone role on seminal pop, fusion and jazz recordings with everyone from Chaka Khan and Steely Dan to Chick Corea and Quincy Jones, to his invention of the 6-string contrabass guitar and revolutionary use of a flanger pedal on the O'Jays' smash, “For the Love of Money," Anthony Jackson has long been the bassist's bassist. About the only milestone missing from Jackson's remarkable career is a solo album. Until now. Via the proposal and pen of his good ...

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Everything Clicks for Benin-Born Guitarist Everything Clicks for Benin-Born Guitarist Lionel Loueke

Source: All About Jazz @ Spinner
January 26, 2010

Like many artists who have explored and embraced music from across cultures, guitarist Lionel Loueke is wary about bringing exotic, unfamiliar sounds to mainstream audiences. Of course, in his case the audience in question is in Benin, where Loueke was born and raised. And the sounds are those of the modern jazz he embraced as a music student in Paris in the mid-'90s and has personalized in the decade since moving to the U.S. to study ...

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New AccuJazz.com Radio Channels Celebrate Upcoming Jazz Festivals, January Jazz Birthdays

Source: Michael Ricci
January 26, 2010

As part of its month-long celebration of Jazz in January, AccuJazz.com Internet radio is recognizing January jazz birthdays with a new streaming radio channel playing thousands of songs by jazz artists celebrating birthdays this month. In addition to that channel, AccuJazz has also launched channels highlighting this Spring's two biggest American jazz festivals: SFJazz and the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. The January birthday channel features the music of over 30 jazz musicians born in the month of January, ...

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Daniel Schnyder and Matt Herskowitz Play "Schumann and All That Jazz"

Source: Michael Ricci
January 26, 2010

Jazz + Robert Schumann? Why not? On February 3rd, the Lyric Chamber Music Society will celebrate Schumann's 200th anniversary by featuring jazz arrangements of Schumann's works by virtuosos Daniel Schnyder (saxophone) and Lyric's Composer and Artist-in-Residence Matt Herskowitz (piano), along with their own compositions and selected works by Grieg, Schubert, and Bach. For more information and to reserve tickets, call 212-239-9190 or visit http://www.lyricny.org/concerts2009-2010.html today. First-time attendees bring a friend for free! About the Artists: Daniel Schnyder is known as ...

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Martin Sexton to Release "Sugarcoating" Album April 6

Source: conqueroo
January 26, 2010

Sexton ranges American landscape searching for the truth

LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Sugarcoating, Martin Sexton's new album due out April 6, 2010, finds the one-of-a-kind artist doing what he does best: locating larger truths within specific details of the life he's living. “I write from personal experience -- my own hang- ups and quirks, good times and bad times. That keeps it real."

The Syracuse-born artist tracked Sugarcoating live off the floor in seven days with a remarkably cohesive studio ...

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DJ Logic Online Auction To Assist Manhattan School for Children

Source: Michael Ricci
January 26, 2010

Have the world-famous DJ Logic spin 90-minutes at your venue of choice. Manhattan School of Children Presents an online auction this January that features a unique experience to bid for DJ Logic to spin for any non-commercial non-profit event you hold in New York. The auction will run from January 15, 2010 to February 2, 2010, with the live event taking place on January 30, 2010. Proceeds go to Manhattan School for Children, P.S. 333. ANY/ALL PROCEEDS MUST BENEFIT MANHATTAN ...

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Chief Sandrell Rivers: 1947-2010 - Florida Cultural Leader

Source: Michael Ricci
January 26, 2010

By Holly Spillane

The South Florida arts world lost a dynamic leader and passionate advocate of jazz and blues on the first morning of the new year. Chief Sandrell Rivers' efforts affected countless area residents over a lifetime of service and tireless promotion of arts, culture and education. Through her associations with the Sunshine Jazz Organization, Diaspora Arts Coalition, The Urban League of Greater Miami, Miami-Dade County, Africa Reconnect, Inc. and others, she remained committed to the assertion that the ...

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