Jazz News

Jazz Celebration Big Band

Source: All About Jazz
September 2, 2009

Jazz Celebration Big Band...a 17 piece Jazz Orchestra, featuring vocalist Claudia Perry, will appear at the Temperance House, 5 South State Street, Newtown, PA, 18940 on Thursday, September 17, from 8-10:00 p.m. Reservations are highly suggested; 215-860-9975. Further info at www.temperancehouse.com $10.00 cover; dinner, alcoholic/non-alcoholic beverages available. Jazz Celebration Big Band performs music in the large orchestra genre; Count Basie, Stan Kenton, Buddy Rich, Maynard Ferguson etc. It's musicians have performed for/with: Tony Bennett, Aretha Franklin, Manhattan Transfer, The Four ...

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LA Phil Presents Corea, Clarke & White

Source: All About Jazz
September 2, 2009

LA Phil Presents Corea, Clarke & White – Wednesday, September 2, 8:00pm at the Hollywood Bowl with special guests Chaka Khan, Jean-Luc Ponty and Bill Connors John Scofield & the Piety Street Band Three musical masters – Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke, and Lenny White – converge again after a triumphant reunion year with Return to Forever. Enjoy a power trip through an acoustic, electric, funky, and rock fusion of jazz like no ...

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2009 Blues Blast Music Awards Update

Source: Just Roots PR
September 2, 2009

Buddy Guy's Legends 754 S. Wabash Ave. Chicago, IL 60605 Telephone: 312.427.1190 Thursday, October 29, 2009, 7:00 p.m. (Doors 6:00 p.m.) Tickets: $25 and are available online at http://www.thebluesblast.com/

Tickets are on sale for the 2009 Blues Blast Music Award Ceremony to be held at the famous Buddy Guy's Legends. The awards show will include confirmed appearances by nominees Kenny Neal, Nick Moss & The Flip Tops, Eden Brent, Albert ...

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Veteran Bluesmen Doc Maclean and Big Dave McLean Team up for 100-Date Canadian Tour

Source: Just Roots PR
September 2, 2009

DOC MacLEAN teams up with Winnipeg's BIG DAVE McLEAN Two Canadian blues veterans join forces to recreate early blues history at Hugh's Room Toronto

Hugh's Room 2261 Dundas St. W, Toronto Wednesday Sept. 9; doors at 6.30 p.m., show at 8:30 PM Tickets: $16.00 in advance / $18.50 at door Reservations: 416 531-6604. Dinner reservations recommended.

Doc MacLean and Big Dave McLean are among the handful of Canadian artists who ...

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Lives Washed Away in Katrina Remembered in Song

Source: Just Roots PR
September 2, 2009

Lives devastated by Hurricane Katrina are remembered in the song and video presentation of Washed Away The Ballad of Eddie Garrison by Philadelphia area based singer-songwriter Ray Adkins, bringing to the fore the challenges still faced in New Orleans due to blight, unaffordable housing, and vulnerable flood protection four years after the catastrophic storm. The

Adkins was inspired to write The Ballad of Eddie Garrison during a trip to the New Orleans Jazz Festival in the Spring of 2006, when ...

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Jazz That Dwells in the Present

Source: Michael Ricci
September 2, 2009

If you're the kind of fan who likes his music in little boxes—jazz in one, funk in another, hip-hop rhythms stashed somewhere else—"Double Booked" (Blue Note) by Robert Glasper and “Urbanus" by Stefon Harris and his band Blackout may not be for you. For Mr. Glasper, age 32, and Mr. Harris, 36, jazz isn't defined by an arcane set of rules. Nor is it defined solely by its past. To them, the question of whether jazz is dead, dying or ...

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Avant-Guitarist Keith Rowe Interviewed at AAJ

Source: All About Jazz
September 2, 2009

In early June 2009, multi-instrumentalist Keith Rowe made one of his rare visits to London to play a concert at Cafe Oto as part of Another Timbre's Unnamed Music Festival in a trio with saxophonists Martin Kuchen and Seymour Wright, before heading north to Leeds to play another set the following evening with the same trio. Having been in the audience for the first night of the festival--and seeing fine sets by Sebastian Lexer and Aleks Kowalski, Rhodri Davies, Lee ...

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Aziza Keyes Press Quotes

Source: All About Jazz
September 2, 2009

Aziza has been blessed with the beautiful gift of creating powerful music; which is inspiring, motivating and soothing. Her piano artistry and her soulful voice can send you into dimensions of contemplation and realisation - and awakening. Jazzoetry is truly beautiful.

Nobody can school an audience quite like the multi-talented Aziza. With a get down mix of smoothed out jazz grooves, R&B melodies and spoken word soul which she has aptly dubbed Jazzsoetry, the gifted composer, keyboardist and vocalist has ...

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