Jazz News

ObliqSound Signs Vocalist and Songwriter Somi

Source: All About Jazz
March 12, 2009

ObliqSound is pleased to announce the signing of its newest artist, vocalist and songwriter Somi, whose label debut will release this fall. A finalist in the prestigious John Lennon Songwriting Contest for her single “Ingele" from her critically acclaimed album Red Soil In My Eyes (2007, Harmonia Mundi), Somi will perform at the 2009 SXSW Festival in Austin, Texas next week. She is the second female vocalist signed to seven-year-old independent label ObliqSound. “Somi is an exciting addition to the ...

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Temecula Valley International Jazz Festival

Source: All About Jazz
March 12, 2009

Live Jazz concerts Family Fun, Dixieland, Big Bands, Swing, Straight Ahead... an Art Faire, workshops and more! Take over Old Town Temecula for the 6th Annual Temecula International Jazz Festival July 10-12th. The Southern California Wine Country of Temecula comes alive again this year with Poncho Sanchez, Alex Ligertwood formerly of SANATANA, Kenny Burrell, Richie Cole, Dick Berk, Llew Matthews, Henry “Skipper" Franklin, Danny Green, Keni St. Lewis, Allison Adams Tucker, Jon Laskin, Ruby & the Redhots Mikole Karr & ...

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Live Jazz, Cory S. Thompson @ Bistrouge on Sunday on March 22, 8-11PM

Source: All About Jazz
March 12, 2009

Celebrate a night of Bebop and Vocalese @ Bistrouge. Just a few blocks from jazz legend Charlie Parker's home in the East Village. Come enjoy a night of jazz dedicated to the genre he helped develop. Cory S. Thompson and his trio will be playing classics from the Bebop era and the Vocalese that followed. Featuring songs by Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, Eddie Jefferson, Jon Hendricks, Kurt Elling and more. NO cover! Two drinks minimum. Party like a ...

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New Internet Radio Station Devoted to Pre-1940 Jazz

Source: All About Jazz
March 12, 2009

AccuJazz Internet radio continues its weekly roll-out of new, creatively programmed jazz channels with “Decade: Pre-1940," a radio stream exclusively playing jazz recorded before 1940.

For jazz fans who don't know much about what happened before bebop, the new channel is an essential education. The play list includes a variety of early jazz styles. Freewheeling New Orleans jazz by Jelly Roll Morton, raucous big band swing by Duke Ellington, and French gypsy jazz by Django Reinhardt all have a place ...

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Big Bad Voodoo Daddy Set to Release New Album

Source: Tracey Miller and Associates
March 12, 2009

Multi-Platinum Award winning little big bands tribute to legendary Cab Calloway entitled How Big Can You Get hits stores April 21st! New York, NY - Americas favorite contemporary little big band, the award winning jumpin jazz / retro swing Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, is set to release a new album entitled How Big Can You Get (Big Bad/Vanguard Records) on April 21, 2009. The 11 song CD, their eighth album, is a tribute to Cab Calloway, the legendary band leader ...

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The Music of Clarinettist Luciano at the BBC Radio!

Source: Chang Management
March 12, 2009

The BBC Radio 6 show “Fresh on the Net" by Tom Robinson has featured Divertimento #8 “Thamon" from the CD “Clarinet" by Luca Luciano and you have the chance to listen to Sunday show again till this end of the week on BBC.co.uk clicking on the “listen again" section on the right. Those were the words Tom Robinson used to describe Luca's music:

“Something I have been dying to share with you all week......such a virtuoso musical performance ...

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Midival Punditz: Hello Hello Release Date 31 March

Source: All About Jazz
March 12, 2009

This past decade has been marked by the rise of the Indian electronica scene and no single band has had more influence on its growth than the Midival Punditz. Comprised of New Delhi based producers Gaurav Raina and Tapan Raj, the Punditz have been repeatedly heralded as pioneers of a scene that has ushered in some of the freshest global music out of India. On their new, third studio album Hello Hello, the duo has successfully documented their own personal ...

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Peter Scharli Trio with Ithamara Koorax European Tour Dates Supporting "Obrigado"

Source: All About Jazz
March 12, 2009

The Peter Scharli Trio and Ithamara Koorax have announced the following perfomances in Switzerland and Germany to promote their recent CD Obrigado Dom Um Romao. Scheduled dates in Switzerland and Germany currently include:

Birrwil, Bren, March 18 Wdenswil, Wadin Jazz Club, Theater Ticino, March 19 Hochdorf, Rest. Braui, March 20 Luzern, Vasco da Gama, March 21 Luzern, Hochschule, Master Classes, March 23 Luzern, Hochschule, Master Classes, March 24 ...

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