Jazz News

Jazz Icon Sonny Rollins Kicks Off Kimmel Center Presents 2009/10 Season, September 25

Source: Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts
September 8, 2009

“...Rollins is still the reigning god of the tenor saxophone, one of jazz's most innovative and influential pioneers... a volcano of fierce inventiveness and raw, urgent power." Washington Post

“Nobody rivals his fluid mastery..." Boston Globe

Jazz icon Sonny Rollins kicks off Kimmel Center Presents 2009/10 season on Friday, September 25, 2009 at 8pm in Verizon Hall, as part of a 23-city international tour. Rollins, who turns 79 on September 7, is one of the few remaining titans of a ...

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SF Jazz Appoints Paul Contos New Director of SF Jazz High School All-Stars

Source: Marshall Lamm Promotions & Public Relations
September 8, 2009

Cory Combs, Director of Education of SFJAZZ—the leading non-profit jazz organization on the West Coast and presenter of the 27th Annual San Francisco Jazz Festival running October 10 through November 21—today announced the appointment of Paul Contos as the new Director of the SFJAZZ High School All-Stars. Founded in 2001 by Dr. Dee Spencer, the SFJAZZ High School All-Stars are selected annually by competitive audition. The All-Stars program provides advanced-level training in small and large ensemble performance, composition, jazz theory, ...

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On the Trail of Lenny Breau - On CBC Radio

Source: Michael Ricci
September 8, 2009

CBC Radio's unique weekly program called “Inside the Music"(hosted by Patti Schmidt) presents a documentary / soundscape focusing on Lenny Breau's music - keeping true to his character as much as possible, through his playing (some rarities and never before heard stuff), his voice (via archives), and narration by his son Chet Breau.

Also featured are the voices of Chet Atkins and Darcy Cotten. Produced by John Klepko

Sunday, September 13, 2009 3:00 p.m. ET - on CBC ...

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Marilyn Crispell Interview

Source: All About Jazz
September 8, 2009

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Vocalist Tierney Sutton Interviewed at AAJ

Source: All About Jazz
September 8, 2009

Vocalist Tierney Sutton discovered jazz while immersed in Russian language and literature studies at Wesleyan University. During her college years she also abandoned her earlier atheism and became engaged in a lifelong study of Man's spiritual nature. She has adopted no halfway measures in any of these pursuits. Though she hasn't yet written lyrics, she brings the passion of a poet to the use of language and lyricism in her singing. Her religious devotion is Dostoevskian in its upright clarity ...

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Tiny Tim's Richard Barone-Produced Album, 'I've Never Seen a Straight Banana,' to See Light of Day

Source: Michael Ricci
September 8, 2009

Never-before-heard album is collection of American and British songs dated from 1878 to the 1930s and will be released October 20 on Collectors’ Choice

NEW YORK, N.Y. — In 1976, at the age of 16, Richard Barone — known for his acclaimed solo albums, fronting the ‘80s pop trio the Bongos, and authoring Frontman: Surviving the Rock Star Myth — produced an album for the late Tiny Tim. As a high-school student in Tampa, Barone happened to notice an ad ...

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Rich Pagano + the Sugarcane Cups Evokes Solo Pete Townsend, Features Trey Anastasio

Source: Seth Cohen PR
September 8, 2009

Classic-Infused Rock and Roll Record 'Rich Pagano + the sugarCane cups’ Evokes A Sonic Landscape Reminiscent of Solo Pete Townshend, Plastic Ono Band, Levon Helm, More Entertainment Weekly Exclusive Preview: CD Features a Who's Who of Guest Artists, Including Trey Anastasio and Ian Hunter; September Release Confirmed, as New York Drummer/Music Producer Steps Out For First Solo Effort Hell’s Kitchen Production Results in a Collection That’s “Dirty, Hard, and Floatingly Cerebral...” 'Rich Pagano + the sugarCane cups', a classic-infused rock ...

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Explore Bogot by Bus with Guitarist Jesse Cook

Source: Michael Ricci
September 8, 2009

Festive World-pop single at radio ahead of September 29 album release, Extensive concert itinerary to support The Rumba Foundation If Jesse Cook was an actor instead of a Juno award winning guitarist, hed be considered a method actor, someone who immerses himself completely in the world of the characters he portrays to deliver authentic performances cloaked in realism. For his eighth album, The Rumba Foundation, which will be released September 29th by E1 Music, the Canadian headed to Colombia equipped ...

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