Jazz News

Annual Newport Beach, CA, Jazz Party Scheduled Feb. 11 Through 14

Source: Michael Ricci
January 20, 2010

By Larry Taylor

Big bands and an array of jazz stars will be featured at the 10th Annual Newport Beach Jazz Party, held Feb. 11 through 14, at the Marriott Hotel in Newport Beach, California.

Kicking off the Valentine's/Presidents Day weekend event Thursday night will be Ken Peplowski's Big Band Music of Benny Goodman. Clarinet player Peplowski, an alumnus of Goodman's last band, has put together an assemblage to salute the King of Swing. Also to be on hand opening ...

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Golden Globes: And the Envelope Goes To....

Source: All About Jazz
January 20, 2010

Best Original Score - Motion Picture

Michael Giacchino - Up Winner Marvin Hamlisch - The Informant! James Horner - Avatar Abel Korzeniowski - A Single Man Karen O and Carter Burwell - Where The Wild Things Are

Best Original Song - Motion Picture

“Cinema Italiano" Nine Music & Lyrics By: Maury Yeston

“I See You" Avatar Music By: James Horner and Simon Franglen Lyrics By: James ...

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A Discussion and Reading by Author Karen Chilton of Her New Book: Hazel Scott: The Pioneering Journey of a Jazz Pianist, from Cafe Society to Hollywood to HUAC

Source: Michael Ricci
January 20, 2010

In this fascinating biography, Karen Chilton traces the brilliant arc of the gifted and audacious pianist Hazel Scott, from international stardom to ultimate obscurity. A child prodigy, born in Trinidad and raised in Harlem in the 1920s, Scott's musical talent was cultivated by her musician mother, Alma Long Scott as well as several great jazz luminaries of the period, namely, Art Tatum, Fats Waller, Billie Holiday and Lester Young. Career success was swift for the young pianistshe auditioned at the ...

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Live Review: Mose Allison at Largo's

Source: Michael Ricci
January 20, 2010

Mose Allison fans couldnt have asked for a more ideal environment for the second performance of his two-night stand at Largo at the Coronet on Sunday night. The first winter storm of 2010 snarled traffic and might have taken a bite out of the evenings attendance, but there were few talents better suited to a rainy evening than the 82-year-old piano master. Allison is like an antidote to winter doldrums. In a show presented by the still-itinerant Jazz Bakery as ...

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Kate McGarrigle Canadian Folk Singer and Songwriter Dies

Source: Michael Ricci
January 20, 2010

Kate McGarrigle, the Canadian singer and songwriter who, with her sister Anna, recorded a string of critically acclaimed albums of literate and wistfully romantic homespun songs and then became the proud matriarch of an extended folk-rock-pop musical family, died Monday after battling cancer in recent years. She was 63. McGarrigle died at her home in Montreal surrounded by Anna and their older sister, Jane, as well as Kate's children, singer-songwriters Rufus and Martha Wainwright. “There were a lot of people ...

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Ringo Starr's Q&A at the Grammy Museum

Source: Michael Ricci
January 20, 2010

The Grammy Museum has landed an impressive roster of artists for its series of question-and-answer and performance sessions in the year since it opened at the L.A. Live complex downtown.

Among the participants: Brian Wilson, Smokey Robinson, Annie Lennox, Dwight Yoakam, Herb Alpert, Harry Connick Jr. and Clive Davis, Rage Against the Machine / The Nightwatchmans Tom Morello and Dave Matthews. But even in such rarefied company, a former Beatle commands special attention, which helped explain the star-dotted turnout for ...

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Dave Pell & Med Flory Quintet @ Cafe 322

Source: All About Jazz
January 20, 2010

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Brattleboro Arts Initiative and Vermont Jazz Center Benefit Cocert

Source: Michael Ricci
January 20, 2010

"Have To Help Haiti", a collaboration between Brattleboro Arts Initiative and the Vermont Jazz Center, is a benefit concert to raise desperately needed funds to support Haiti in the aftermath of the recent devastating earthquake. The event will take place on Thursday February 4, 2010 at the Latchis Theatre in downtown Brattleboro, and is being produced on a volunteer basis with 100% of the proceeds going to Pure Water for the World (PWW). Pure Water for the World started its ...

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