Jazz News

Lauren Sevian's LSQ Plus Jacob Yoffee Quartet @ The Jazz Gallery

Source: All About Jazz
March 9, 2009

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SF Jazz adds Roots to the 10th Anniversary Sfjazz Spring Season

Source: Marshall Lamm Promotions & Public Relations
March 9, 2009

Randall Kline, the Executive Artistic Director of SFJAZZ—the leading non-profit jazz organization on the West Coast and the presenter of the San Francisco Jazz Festival today announced the addition of The Roots on Saturday, May 30 at 8:00pm at Davies Symphony Hall to the artist line-up for the 10TH Anniversary SFJAZZ Spring Season.

Grammy Award-winning hip-hop trailblazers The Roots are one of the most influential groups in music. Known for their prolific lyrics and live instrumentation, the legendary Philadelphia crew ...

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Portrait of Shakespeare Unveiled, 399 Years Late

Source: Michael Ricci
March 9, 2009

On Monday in London, Stanley Wells, the chairman of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, unveiled what he claims is the only picture of William Shakespeare painted during the playwright’s lifetime.

The trust explains the significance in a statement on its Web site:

Up to now only two images have been accepted as authentic representations of what Shakespeare may have looked like. One is the engraving by Martin Droeshout published in the First Folio of 1623. The other is the portrait bust ...

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Buster Keaton Just Might Be the Silent Clown Best Suited to Modern Time

Source: Michael Ricci
March 9, 2009

Cinefamily screens Buster Keaton tribute. The bill includes 'Our Hospitality,' 'The Navigator' and 'Sherlock Jr.'

Buster Keaton just might be the silent clown best suited to modern times, the man we love to watch, as purely American a film genius as the motion pictures have produced. A master of both movement and stillness, Keaton developed a comedy style that was as intellectual as it was physical.

And, just when we need him most, Cinefamily is mounting a rare big- screen ...

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KoSA Day in New York.. Latin Jazz Workshop March 29

Source: Writers House
March 9, 2009

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Detroit's Favorite, Five Time Detroit Music Award Winner Paul Miles to Play Columbus, Oh, March 28

Source: Just Roots PR
March 9, 2009

Special blues event features the band and solo winners of the 2009 River City Ohio Blues Competition.

On Saturday, March 28, Detroits celebrated musician Paul Miles will team up with Award-winning Columbus act Long Tall Deb and the Drifter Kings for a special blues presentation at the Thirsty Ear Tavern in Columbus, Ohio, from 9:30pm-1am.

This will be the first in a series of shows in Detroit, Columbus, and Marietta throughout 2009 as they get ready to compete in the ...

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Bernstein’s Workroom Will Head to Indiana

Source: Michael Ricci
March 9, 2009

Leonard Bernstein’s children have donated the carefully preserved contents of his main composing studio to Indiana University, which has promised to recreate the space.

Contents of the home studio in Fairfield, Conn., where Leonard Bernstein composed will be displayed in a re-creation of the room at Indiana University in Bloomington.

The items run from the deeply meaningful to the banal. They include Bernstein’s stand-up composing table; a conducting stool that may have been used by Brahms, given as a gift ...

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For Those We Love Jazz Benefit Concert

Source: All About Jazz
March 9, 2009

For one night only, JANE MONHEIT, Grammy Award winning jazz legend PAQUITO D'RIVERA, the Grammy Award winning vocal ensemble NEW YORK VOICES, and LOUISE ROGERS will perform on the same stage in a special concert to benefit the Alzheimer's Association, New York City Chapter. The concert, hosted by Bill Ritter of WABC-TV, will take place on Wednesday, April 22, 2009 at 7:30 p.m., at Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center.

Rogers and Peter Eldridge (of New York Voices) joined forces ...

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