Jazz News

Enter the 2009 Litchfield Jazz Festival Giveaway Contest

Source: All About Jazz
May 8, 2009

All About Jazz members are invited to enter The Litchfield Jazz Festival giveaway which includes free roundtrip airfare for two courtesy of Continental Airlines, a 2-night stay at the Starbuck Inn B&B in Kent, and a 3-day tent pass! We'll select one winner at the conclusion of the contest on July 6th.

Click here to enter the contest

(Following the Preservation Hall Jazz Band at AAJ automatically enters you in the contest.)

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Tonight: Darcy James Argue's Secret Society @ Galapagos 10 PM

Source: All About Jazz
May 8, 2009

Undiscovered Islands: Week One Tonight! 10:00 PM · Galapagos Art Space Darcy James Argue's Secret Society celebrating the release of Infernal Machines on New Amsterdam Records “Infernal Machines [is] a seven track marvel of imagination." --Time Out New York “a fully integrated sound world as current as it is timeless" --All About Jazz “one of the finest jazz records I've truly ever heard." --The Big City 7:00-9:30 - Kickoff party @ Rebar 10:00 Darcy James Argue's ...

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Professional Drum Shop 50th Anniversary Show

Source: All About Jazz
May 8, 2009

Hollywood's famed Professional Drum Shop celebrates it's 50th Anniversary June 6th at the Avalon theater.

The Pro Drum Shop on Vine Street in Hollywood has been the landmark destination for the world class drummers for over 50 years. The anniversary show features a short documentary film on the fabled drummers paradise with live music by Ronald Brunner Jr. with the Bruner Brothers and Emil Richards 17 piece All Star Big Band.

Pro Drum Shop 50th Anniversary Show Avalon ...

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Sten Hostfalt Quartet Live at Spike Hill NYC on May 18

Source: All About Jazz
May 8, 2009

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Jazz Great Benny Powell is Now on Twitter!

Source: All About Jazz
May 8, 2009

For all fans, friends and professionals who have an interest in Benny Powell's music: Yes, the noted jazz luminary has joined the Twitter nation to keep the jazz community-at large both far and wide-abreast of his next step in jazz. Want to know whether he's gigging around town in NY, touring with Randy Weston, teaching his performance ensemble class at the New School, promoting his current CD Nextep or just practicing on his trombone? To follow what he's doing, check ...

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Uptown Blues Bash Comes to Cambridge, Ohio on May 23

Source: Just Roots PR
May 8, 2009

Meltdown Productions and Cambridge Elks Lodge present the winners of the 2009 River City Ohio Blues CompetitionLong Tall Deb and the Drifter Kings and regional heavywights The Blues Cannibals and The Troubled Troubadours.

On Saturday, May 23, Award-winning Columbus act Long Tall Deb and the Drifter Kings will team up with Cambridge all-stars the Blues Cannibals and The Troubled Troubadours for a special blues event at the Cambridge Elks #448. The event is open to the public.

Partial proceeds from ...

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Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Brings Peer-to-Peer Jazz Education Program to Pittsburgh Public Schools May 11-16

Source: All About Jazz
May 8, 2009

Featuring Internationally Acclaimed Artists Antonio Hart & Lisa Henry Weeklong Series of Events Concludes with Concerts Open to the Public at Little E’s Jazz Club May 15-16 Washington, D.C. – The Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz will introduce its “Peer-to-Peer” jazz education program in the Pittsburgh public schools on May 11-16. Combining performance with information, these “informances” will be presented by five exceptionally gifted high school jazz students from Miami’s New World School of the Arts along with internationally ...

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Beat Kaestli @ Kitano Hotel (NYC) on May 20th

Source: All About Jazz
May 8, 2009

Beat Kaestli @ Kitano Hotel with special guests Wednesday, May 20th 2009, 8:00 and 10 PM 66 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10016 , 212 885 7119 No Cover/ $15 minimum - www.kitano.com

Line up: Beat Kaestli - voice Aria Hendricks - voice John Chin - piano Matt Wigton - bass Fred Kennedy - drums

After returning from his seventh European tour ...

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