Jazz News

Hans Koller European Jazz Price 2009

Source: Isabella Schrammel - Isilistening
January 14, 2010

We are glad to announce the winners of the various categories of the Hans Hans Koller Preis 2009, an initiative of the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, the Arts and Culture, the City of Vienna, the SKE-Fonds and the Austrian Music Office (AMO).

European Jazz Prize 2009

EUR 14.500.-- sponsored by the City of Vienna

Enrico Rava (Italy), trumpet

Adieu Tristesse and Bonjour Trieste!,at least for the time being, because the moment has come to honor a very special musical ...

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Preservation Hall Jazz Band to Perform at Historic el Campani Theatre in Antioch, CA

Source: Michael Ricci
January 14, 2010

The Preservation Hall Jazz Band (PHJB), based in the city known as the birthplace of Jazz, New Orleans, LA, will make its only Northern California appearance scheduled in 2010 at the historic El Campanil Theatre in Antioch on March 6. Sponsored in part by a grant from the Dean and Margaret Lesher Foundation and the support of the Antioch Music Foundation, the concert will be held on Saturday evening at 8 p.m.

The building in New Orleans that houses Preservation ...

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Javascript Hack Enables Flash on iPhone

Source: All About Jazz
January 14, 2010

A rather clever programmer has managed to get the iPhone to run interactive apps created using Adobes Flash platform. And because it works inside the Safari browser, it isnt subject to the dictatorial rules of Apples App Store. The software is called Gordon, and it doesnt actually allow Flash itself to work on the iPhone. Instead, Gordon is a JavaScript runtime written by Tobias Schneider which allows the browser to play and display .swf files (the Shockwave Flash file extension). ...

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Louis Moholo-Moholo with Lafayette Gilchrist at Jazzway in Baltimore on Feb. 6

Source: Michael Ricci
January 14, 2010

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Genre-Busting New Yorkers Gutbucket to Tour Europe, 2010

Source: Michael Ricci
January 14, 2010

GENRE-BUSTING NEW YORKERS G U T B U C K E T TO TOUR EUROPE IN JANUARY 2010 You can see the promo mailing with links to all the clubs here The meat of the matter is here: Gutbucket's Winter 2010 European Tour Dates: Saturday, January 16 jazzclub minden minden, germany Sunday, January 17 club hanseat salzwedel, germany Monday, January 18 GIG hannover, germany Tuesday, January 19 dumont aachen, germany Wednesday, January 20 workshop aachen, germany ...

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Teddy Pendergrass Soul Singer Dies

Source: Michael Ricci
January 14, 2010

He became the reigning sex symbol of R&B in the 1970s and '80s and then an inspirational figure after a car accident left him paralyzed.

Teddy Pendergrass, who became R&B's reigning sex symbol in the 1970s and '80s with his forceful, masculine voice and passionate love ballads and later became an inspirational figure after suffering a devastating car accident that left him paralyzed, died Wednesday. He was 59. The singer's son, Teddy Pendergrass II, said his father died at Bryn ...

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Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis "Portrait in Seven Shades" U.S. Tour in March 2010

Source: Michael Ricci
January 14, 2010

Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra will embark on the “Portrait in Seven Shades" U.S. Tour in March 2010. The band will perform selections from the suite as well as a repertoire to include tunes by Count Basie, Mary Lou Williams and others. Jazz at Lincoln Center announces the CD release of Portrait in Seven Shades, composed by jazz reedman Ted Nash and performed by the world-renowned Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis. Portrait in ...

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New CD by Mitch Marcus Quintet Due from Porto Franco Records Feb. 16

Source: Terri Hinte Publicity
January 14, 2010

During its ten-year San Francisco residency, the Mitch Marcus Quintet developed an edgy, innovative sound that attracted crowds as well as critical raves. The San Francisco Chronicle called the quintet “among the most provocative of Bay Area ensembles," and in 2007 the readers of SF Weekly voted them the city's Best Jazz Band. By the time tenor saxophonist/composer Marcus moved back to his native New York in the summer of 2009, the band had already recorded their third album, Countdown ...

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