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Festival

Ron Della Chiesa: Aficionado Hosts Friday Night Jazz Festival Concerts

Source: All About Jazz
June 23, 2009

George Wein and his jazz festivals have been a tradition in Newport for the past 55 years, but there's another mainstay that music lovers have come to anticipate--Ron Della Chiesa as the host of the Friday night concert at the International Tennis Hall of Fame at the Newport Casino, 194 Bellevue Avenue. This year, Della Chiesa teams up with Jazz Festival 55 to host Etta James and the Roots Band with openers Howard Alden/Anat Cohen Quartet on August 7. “I ...

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Recording

New Studio Album of Barbra Streisand

Source: All About Jazz
June 23, 2009

Columbia Records proudly announces the release of Love Is The Answer, the eagerly-awaited new studio album from Barbra Streisand, available everywhere on Tuesday, September 29. The first full-length collection of new studio recordings from eight-time Grammy award winner Barbra Streisand since 2005's Guilty Pleasures, and first new Barbra Streisand album since Live In Concert 2006, Love Is The Answer presents the artist as a cabaret and jazz singer of emotional clarity, depth and maturity, offering the listener a warm and ...

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Festival

Vico Jazz Festival in Naples

Source: All About Jazz
June 23, 2009

One of the most eagerly anticipated annual musical events in Naples is set to make its return to the city in just a few weeks. Now in its eighth year, Vico Jazz aims to promote the art for on a national and international scale and has worked hard over the last few years to set up cultural programmes around the region. As usual, the event takes place in the 17th century cloister of the Chiostro della Trinita, meaning it is ...

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Anne Walsh's Brazilian Jazz-Pop Confections Turning Heads

Source: Great Scott P.R.oductions
June 23, 2009

A celestial voice with a refreshing outlook arrives on the jazz-adult pop scene with today's (June 16) release of Pretty World by Anne Walsh from A To Zink Music. Her classically-trained voice gracefully guides a dozen dreamy compositions brimful of hope, optimism and romance. Walsh's classy collection of elegant standards, sensual Brazilian jazz rhythms and dramatic ballads enchants with warmly produced live instrumentation meticulously performed by noted musicians. For her debut jazz outing--previous releases include concept albums of lullabies (the ...

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Performance / Tour

Steven Pasquale - Star of TV's Rescue Me - Debuts at Feinstein's with the John Pizzarelli Quartet

Source: All About Jazz
June 23, 2009

FEINSTEIN’S AT LOEWS REGENCY, the nightclub proclaimed “Best of New York” by New York Magazine, and “an invaluable New York institution” by The New York Post, continues its 10th Anniversary season with the debut of television and Broadway star STEVEN PASQUALE for one night only on Sunday, June 28. He will perform romantic jazz-tinged classics from his debut CD Somethin’ Like Love on PS Classics. In his first live performance of material from the album, he will be accompanied by ...

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Kurt Elling Releases New Live Album

Source: On Target Media Group
June 23, 2009

The new live CD from Grammy nominated jazz vocalist Kurt Elling, Dedicated to You: Kurt Elling Sings the Music of Coltrane and Hartman, is in stores today (CD & digital) via Concord Jazz. Dedicated to You is Kurt Elling's eighth overall album and second release on Concord Jazz. The 12-track live collection features an all-star cast of musicians including saxophonist Ernie Watts, The Laurence Hobgood Trio and string quartet, ETHEL. The album was recorded in January 2009 at the Allen ...

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Book / Magazine

ByrneJazz Releases Linear Jazz Improvisation "Polytonal Triad Etudes (Book 5)"

Source: All About Jazz
June 23, 2009

Jazz Artist/Educator Ed Byrne's new advanced improvisation book is now available! ByrneJazz.com announces the release of Ed Byrne's new jazz improvisation method, Linear Jazz Improvisation Polytonal Triad Etudes." New! Linear Jazz Improvisation: Polytonal Triad Etudes (Book 5) This book offers enough advanced modern vocabulary to keep you occupied for at least a year! It begins with an 8-bar pantonal line based on triads, and then develops it in a variety of mind-blowing ways. Learn to sing and play it ~ ...

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Eyal Maoz - Asaf Sirkis Duet: "Elementary Dialogues" (Ayler Records)

Source: All About Jazz
June 23, 2009

Liner notes by Lukas Ligeti: Eyal Maoz and Asaf Sirkis share a long history of collaboration. Beginning at school in their hometown of Rehovot, Israel, their friendship and musical association continued through numerous bands in Israel and has persevered despite the fact that they eventually both emigrated and now live on different sides of the Atlantic, becoming mainstays of the creative music scenes of London (Sirkis) and New York (Maoz). Individually, Maoz leads a number of bands in New York, ...

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