Jazz News

B.D. Lenz Packs New Album with Firsts

Source: DeBlaze & Associates
March 8, 2009

“Hit It and Quit features Will Lee, Joel Rosenblatt, and Nick Rolfe"

“Part of the reason for his accessibility is that he not only fuses jazz and rock, he complements it with warm chords of funk, soul, and rhythm and blues." - New York Times

“(Straight Up)... so damn near perfect that it makes a listener want to head straight up there in a pilgrimage to quality." - Jazz Improv

What: New CD release Hit It and Quit by B.D. ...

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Melvin Gibbs Interview

Source: All About Jazz
March 8, 2009

Melvin Gibbs interview This interview is part of the book project “under your skin" which will include Interviews with: Anthony Braxton, Ornette Coleman, Public Enemy, Taj Mahal, Yusef Lateef, Bill Frisell, Bob James, Skip Mcdonald, Erika Stucky, Living Colour, Dj Rob Swift, Marilyn Crispell, Dick Griffin, Billy Bang, Kahil El Zabaar, Michael Ricci - All About Jazz, Val-Inc, Chico Freeman, Esperanza Spalding, Eddie Henderson, Dinosaur Jr, Lydia ...

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Cachaca Jazz & Samba Club Needs Your Support

Source: All About Jazz
March 8, 2009

A special note from Titus Ribas of Titus Ribas Cachaca's landlord is having a hard time to adjust to the new economic times and is refusing to see what is unraveling and grant a break. Somebody suggested to make an email campaign to let the landlord know how important is to support each other to make it through this crisis and avoid a domino effect that will affect EVERYONE. If you love Cachaca and recognize what a tremendous loss ...

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New York Jazz Scene

Source: Michael Ricci
March 7, 2009

Jazz Listings in The Big Apple

DAVE ALLEN TRIO (Thursday) Dave Allen leads a group with two creative rhythm partners: the bassist John Hebert and the drummer Ted Poor. At 8 and 10 p.m., Bar Next Door, 129 Macdougal Street, West Village

MOSE ALLISON TRIO (Thursday) Mose Allison, Ratzo Harris on bass and Tom Whaley on drums. (Through March 15.) At 7:30 and 9:30 p.m., Jazz Standard, 116 East 27th Street, Manhattan

MARCO BENEVENTO TRIO (Saturday) ...

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Jazz Los Angeles

Source: All About Jazz
March 7, 2009

Jazz Music in L.A.

Saturday

Pharoah Sanders Quartet @ Jazz Bakery 3233 Helms Ave., Culver City This saxophonist's 1960s musical forays with John Coltrane are the stuff of jazz legend--furious, creative innovation that led audiences to new and unfamiliar musical...

Billy Childs Jazz-Chamber Ensemble @ Warner Grand Theatre 478 W. Sixth St., San Pedro The Grammy winner performs selections from his new album on piano with his jazz- ...

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Chicago Jazz Mission This Week, Is ...

Source: All About Jazz
March 7, 2009

True, it would be physically impossible to catch all 10 of the best jazz shows playing this weekend.

But that doesn't mean you can't try:

Ari Brown 9 p.m. Friday at the Green Mill Jazz Club, 4802 N. Broadway; $12; 773-878-5552. Leonine tenor saxophonists never have been in short supply in Chicago, which has given the world Von Freeman and Gene Ammons, Johnny Griffin and Clifford Jordan, Eddie Harris and Ira Sullivan, and scores more. Ari ...

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Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr to Headline NY Concert

Source: All About Jazz
March 7, 2009

Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr are teaming up to headline a benefit concert in New York City.

The former Beatles will headline the Radio City Music Hall concert on April 4 for the David Lynch Foundation. Other performers joining the two superstars include Sheryl Crow, Eddie Vedder, Moby and Bettye LaVette.

Tickets go on sale on Monday at 11 a.m. through ticketmaster.com.

The David Lynch Foundation provides funds to teach students how to meditate so they can “change their ...

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Horton Foote Playwright, Screenwriter Chronicled Small-Town Southern Life Dies

Source: Michael Ricci
March 7, 2009

Horton Foote, whose bittersweet stories of heartbreak and regret set in small Southern towns earned him wide popular acclaim as well as two Academy Awards and a Pulitzer Prize, died Wednesday. He was 92.

Foote died in his sleep at his apartment in Hartford, Conn., said Paul Marte, a spokesman for the Hartford Stage theater company. Foote was in Hartford with his family, including his actress daughter Hallie and son-in-law Devon Abner, who are appearing in a stage adaptation of ...

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