Jazz News

Announcing the Winners of the "Dave Douglas - Spirit Moves" Giveaway

Source: All About Jazz
August 21, 2009

Philip Hilger, Bradley Linn, David Peterkofsky, Adam Meckler and Patti Wright, Congratulations! You're the winners of the Greenleaf Music “Dave Douglas - Spirit Moves" giveaway! Philip and Bradley will each receive a signed copy of the Spirit Moves Deluxe CD+DVD.

David will receive a copy of the Spirit Moves Deluxe CD+DVD, unsigned.

Adam will receive a copy of the Spirit Moves CD.

Patti will receive an MP3 copy of Spirit Moves. Each winner is also eligible to receive a free ...

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Actual Proof's "Paradigm Shift" Now Available on CD Baby

Source: Michael Ricci
August 21, 2009

Actual Proof's full-length debut CD is now available for download on CDBaby. Individual tracks, the entire album, or a hardcopy of the album can be ordered through the site.

About Actual Proof

Actual Proof is a unique jazz-fusion/funk quartet that utilizes mallet percussion (xylophone, vibraphone, marimba), keyboards, electric bass, electronic and acoustic drums. The group's music is groove-oriented and draws on many traditions including Jazz, Funk, Afro-Cuban, and World-Beat. The group is inspired by artists such as Herbie Hancock, Galactic, ...

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The Score: Rebirth of the Cool - Seattle Jazz Composers Ensemble Pays Tribute to Miles Davis

Source: Michael Ricci
August 21, 2009

By Christopher DeLaurenti Was any other revolution in jazz so suave? When Miles Davis led a two-week stand at New York's fabled Royal Roost in 1948, the music—composed and arranged for a nonet by Gil Evans, John Lewis (later of the Modern Jazz Quartet), Gerry Mulligan, and others—changed jazz forever. Revolution was already in the air: The sped-up, serpentine lines of bebop stymied mainstream musicians rooted in swing. Other contemporary experiments, notably the forays into unscored, chartless, freely improvised music ...

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Sleepthief "Labyrinthine Heart" LP to Hit Streets on 9.1.09

Source: Michael Ricci
August 20, 2009

With the release of The Dawnseeker in 2006, the debut full-length recording from the act Sleepthief brought critical praise as well as an adoring fan base to a new, and up and coming star. Driven by the desire to write real songs, and to work with and create music with other artists he's admired or whose career he's followed, Justin Elswick aka Sleepthief created a masterpiece of renaissance imagery and melodic pop that has since been modeled as a 'new ...

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AccuJazz Internet Radio Launches All-'90s Jazz Channel

Source: Michael Ricci
August 20, 2009

AccuJazz Internet radio continues its periodic roll-out of decade-based jazz channels with the launch of “Decade: '90s," a free, easy-to-use streaming jazz channel playing the best jazz from the 1990s. The '90s were a time of incredible diversity in the jazz world. It's impossible to tether the decade's jazz activity to any single style, concept, or trend. The one sure thing about jazz in the 20th Century's last decade is that the artists passionately continued to create meaningful music in ...

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LA Phil Presents Ask Your Mama - Inspired by Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz

Source: Michael Ricci
August 20, 2009

LA Phil Presents Ask Your Mama – Sunday, August 30, 7:30pm at the Hollywood Bowl Hollywood Bowl Orchestra George Manahan, conductor Jessye Norman, soprano Nnenna Freelon, vocalist de'Adre Aziza, vocalist The Roots Laura Karpman, composer Hot jazz, German song, Latin cha-cha and Afro-Cuban drumming come together in this collaboration between Emmy Award-winning composer Laura Karpman and world-renowned soprano ...

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The United States Army Field Band Assists Young Jazz Composer

Source: Michael Ricci
August 20, 2009

By Heather Santos Fort George G. Meade, Md.-- When the Jazz Ambassadors--America's Big Band, a component of The United States Army Field Band (TUSAFB), were approached by Atholton High School Senior Jonathan Engelberg to assist him in submitting his original jazz composition for a National competition, the band jumped at the chance. The student of former Jazz Ambassador, Gary Dailey, Engelberg came to the Field Band rehearsal hall armed with his score, “Low Tide." Providing the venue, as well as ...

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U.S. Army Field Band Soldier-Musician Wins State Award for Musical Composition

Source: Michael Ricci
August 20, 2009

By Heather Santos Fort George G. Meade, Md.--Master Sgt. Jeffrey Thomas Lopez, bass player for the Jazz Ambassadors - America's Big Band, won a 2009 Individual Artist Award in Music Composition from the Maryland State Arts Council (MSAC) for his original Latin-Jazz scores, “Gibraltar," “Blue Waves," “Las Mujeres," “Chile Sauce," as well as his original composition “Soldier of The Euphrates," a military march that pays tribute to the Soldiers serving in Iraq. Inspired by his experiences with The US Army ...

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