Jazz News

The Farm Aid 2009 Music Concert Event of the Year

Source: All About Jazz
October 3, 2009

The Farm Aid 2009 music concert event of the year, presented by Horizon Organic, will be October 4 at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in St. Louis, Missouri.

Farm Aid is the longest running benefit concert series in America, inspiring millions of Americans to support American farmers.

Musicians already confirmed for the Farm Aid 2009 music concert are Willie Nelson, Neil Young, John Mellencamp, Dave Matthews, Jason Mraz, Wilco, Jamey Johnson, and Phosphorescent. Farm Aid organizers will be updated the official ...

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Gustavo Dudamel: ready for the spotlight

Source: Michael Ricci
October 3, 2009

The day finally is here and L.A. is ready for him.

Gustavo Dudamel conducts his first concert today as the new music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. A live audience of 18,000 awaits him for the welcome party -- titled “Bienvenido Gustavo!" -- at the Hollywood Bowl. Many more are expected to watch and listen to him online and on the radio.

The nearly five-hour event -- which includes performances by several classical and pop groups -- begins at ...

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Josh's King Froopy Allstars AKA Extended Constellations

Source: All About Jazz
October 3, 2009

JOSH ROSEMAN’S EXTENDED CONSTELLATIONS AT BAMcafe Friday October 9th, 9pm. Trombonist, composer, producer and band leader Josh Roseman is presenting his most ambitious project, his 12 piece ensemble Extended Constellations at BAMcafe. The group features live electronics, a trombone choir, two drummers and an array of innovative soloists including Shane Endsley, Andrew D'Angelo, and Barney McAll. Their program is a blend of electronic and acoustic timbres, creative song structures and adventurous improvisation, with new long-form compositions commissioned by SF JAZZ, ...

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A Piece of Plastic Containing Minimal Ambient Jazz

Source: All About Jazz
October 3, 2009

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On Ka'a Davis Plays the Stone!

Source: All About Jazz
October 3, 2009

On Ka'a Davis with the Famous Original Djuke Music Players will gig at NuBlu

Saturday night, November 21st! during the series being billed as the 'Nublu Jazz Festival'.

Davis will be bringing his sounds of pulse beat jazzes he calls djuke music to the popular night spot. The guitarist who also is working electric violin will lead his group, the Famous Original Djuke Music Players.

Featured musicians with the 'Players' have been David 'Riddim-Athon' Pleasant (drums), Electric Meg ...

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Alex Mathias Residencies in Dublin

Source: All About Jazz
October 3, 2009

Saxophonist Alex Mathias is the up and coming new talent on the Irish jazz scene. Since graduating as a scholarship student from Berklee College of Music (Boston, MA) in 2006 he has already performed and toured extensively around Ireland, Europe and America with groups such as The Commitments, Republic of Loose and The RTE Concert Orchestra. His new group 'The Alex Mathias Quartet' features some of Ireland's most notable jazz musicians, Johnny Taylor (piano), James Little (bass) and Dominic ...

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L.A. Jazz Basin

Source: All About Jazz
October 3, 2009

Jazz Music Los Angeles Basin

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis

Trumpeter Wynton Marsalis directs the orchestra, residents at New York's famed Lincoln Center, in a repertoire which spans from New Orleans roots to New York. Orange County Performing Arts Center 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa Oct 01, 2009 8:00PM Royce Hall, UCLA 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles Oct 02, 2009 08:00PM

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Drummer Matt Wilson Put the 'Play' in Playing Jazz with His Quartet

Source: All About Jazz @ Spinner
October 3, 2009

Drummers have a reputation of being a little “different" than the rest of the players on the bandstand. There are jokes about drummers not being real musicians and how machines do their job better, often told by drummers themselves. No matter the genre, these musicians inarguably tend to march to the beat of their own making. So with this in mind it shouldn't be all that surprising that by the end of drummer Matt Wilson's set ...

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