Jazz News

Lindsey Horner: Working Hard on Undiscovered Country

Source: All About Jazz
September 14, 2009

Lindsey Horner will be releasing his latest project, “Undiscovered Country" on ArtistShare in March of 2010. The band has already begun rehearsing the music for the new album. The project features a stellar lineup of diverse musicians, coming from all types of musical backgrounds, to create a musical landscape of fantasticly unique instrumentation. In Lindsey's own words: Saxophonist Erwin Vann, a native of Antwerp, Belgium, currently living in Brussels. I have known Erwin since 1988 and he was a part ...

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Jazz Services Tour This Autumn 2009

Source: All About Jazz
September 14, 2009

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Norah Jones New CD November

Source: All About Jazz
September 14, 2009

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Myron Walden a Jazz Saxophonist Who Embraces Earnestness

Source: Michael Ricci
September 14, 2009

The saxophonist Myron Walden was cultivated at Smalls, New Yorks magic garden for jazz musicians in the 1990s. There, in groups and on his own, he began to find his sound and style and temperament as an improviser, most often on alto saxophone.

Hes been methodical and emotional, energetic and honest, following chord changes with a focused tone until his long notes start to ripen and burst in the upper register.

Hes done this in various settings. One has been ...

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Kanye West Makes a Fool of Himself Interrupting MTV Awards

Source: Michael Ricci
September 14, 2009

At least the shocker this year was related to music.

The MTV Video Music Awards are always willfully chaotic, keeping alive the myth of pop as the provenance of rebels by placing a bunch of moderately edgy celebrities within a festive environment and fueling the mood with sexy performances, off-color jokes and “incidents" that are often staged, but good for a thousand Twitter tweets. One of these mostly bogus controversies usually goes a bit deeper, hinting at real issues of ...

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Jay Leno: Television is Dying

Source: Michael Ricci
September 14, 2009

Jay Leno's new show is surrounded by drama TV insiders hope NBC's cut-rate alternative to scripted content fails.

When “The Jay Leno Show" premieres tonight in its 10 p.m. weeknight slot, a fair number of industry insiders -- and not just rival executives -- will be rooting for it to flop. Jay Leno knows how to cope with pressure. Which is good, because this week he'll face a public test the likes of which few media personalities have to endure. ...

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Hot Jazz, Good Cause - Just Add Water

Source: Michael Ricci
September 14, 2009

Chicago Jazz Cruise for a Cause

The cruise will be happening on Monday, Oct 19th from 6pm Boarding, 7-10pm Cruising on the Odyssey, leaving from Navy Pier (Chicago) with an outstanding array of Chicago jazz artists performing on it, including the MikeFrostProject.

The proceeds will be benefiting the Vandercook College of Music Community Music Program's scholarship fund that provides private lessons for financially challenged kids in the Chicago area.

There are only 20 places left for the $80 per ticket ...

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Vocalist Pamela Rose's New CD - "Wild Women of Song: Great Gal Composers of the Jazz Era" - Due October 13

Source: Terri Hinte Publicity
September 14, 2009

For the last five years, San Francisco jazz and blues vocalist Pamela Rose has been investigating the music of women songwriters—particularly those of the Tin Pan Alley and classic blues eras—in her dynamic live shows. Both she and her audiences responded strongly to the repertoire, but Rose was surprised to realize that “even though we love and revere these songs, we don’t know the writers’ names.” Determined to bring these women and their contributions into the limelight, Pamela Rose has ...

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