Jazz News

Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey (JFJO) Offers New Studio Album for Free

Source: Calabro Music
January 29, 2009

Following a year that found the band winning a Guinness Cork Award and playing at Newport Jazz Festival & Lincoln Center, Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey is excited to announce a special gift for their fans to kick off 2009 & their 15th anniversary. As a thank you to all of the music lovers who have helped make the odyssey possible, JFJO is offering up a FREE DOWNLOAD of their new studio album entitled Winterwood. The album marks Reed Mathis' last ...

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February Jazz at Charlie O's with Special Tribute Tonight

Source: All About Jazz
January 29, 2009

FEBRUARY JAZZ AT CHARLIE O'S

Before I get to our February news, this is just a reminder that tomorrow night, January 29th, will be dedicated to Charlie when Don Menza will do a repeat performance of the Tribute to Stan Getz that he did last January for Charlie's birthday celebration. The four saxes will be Pete Christlieb, Don Menza, Gary Foster and Gene Cipriano with Roy McCurdy, drums, Mike Melvoin, piano and Chris Conner, bass. They played for Charlie's birthday ...

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Celebrate Great Jazz Experienced in Local Hangs

Source: All About Jazz
January 29, 2009

Jack Sheldon was hot at Jax last Thursday. Jennifer Leitham swung the bassline like mad and plunged into these beautifully dense solos with great washes of chords or hanging, aching notes

Drummer Dick Weller kicked it up crazily as Joe Bagg finessed coherent melodies (or chunks of Monk) from a piano last tuned during the Eisenhower administration. Jack just got hotter and hotter, those near perfect solos, the trumpet’s single notes celebrating the tune like Satchmo taking off into the ...

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Mose Allison Coming to the Jazz Bakery

Source: All About Jazz
January 29, 2009

That's right -- that incomparable master of irreverence, sly blues pianist par excellence, idiosyncratic songwriter ("I'm Not Talking"; “Your Mind Is On Vacation") and true American original Mose Allison is back! And that means just one thing -- you better get your seats early, because when the one and only Mose comes to town, it's standing room only!

MOSE ALLISON TOM WARRINGTON-bass The Jazz Bakery Culver City February 18 - ...

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Innerviewworld.com Interview: Marco Benevento

Source: All About Jazz
January 29, 2009

Marco Benevento is a young keyboardist whose jazz-rooted work has expanded to include indie rock, jam band and experimental post-rock influences. Born in 1977 and raised in the northern New Jersey town of Livingston, Benevento studied piano and befriended an aspiring drummer named Joe Russo in a junior high detention hall. After high school, while Russo migrated westward to Boulder, Colorado and fell into the hippie jam band scene there, the more jazz inclined Benevento moved to Boston to attend ...

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Irving Bush Trumpeter Played with Big Bands L.A. Philharmonic Passes

Source: Michael Ricci
January 29, 2009

Irving Bush, a trumpeter with a broad range of musical interests, including jazz and classical, who later in life served as personnel manager for the Los Angeles Philharmonic, has died. He was 78.

Bush died Jan. 8 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles of complications from multiple myeloma, according to Kazue McGregor, the Philharmonic librarian.

Bush started his career playing with many top-name big bands, including ones led by Harry James and Nelson Riddle. He also worked in the ...

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Paul Jones (Manfred Mann) Readies Solo Album; Eric Clapton Appears

Source: conqueroo
January 29, 2009

British vocalist’s solo album features Eric Clapton, Jake Andrews, Tony Marisco, Alvino Bennett, Ernie Watts and Mikael Rickfors, and is produced by Carla Olson

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Paul Jones is known to many as the singer and heart-throb of the British Invasion band Manfred Mann — the voice on mid-‘60s hits like “Do Wah Diddy,” “Pretty Flamingo,” “Come Tomorrow” and “Sha La La.” The new CD, Starting All Over Again, is his first solo album in decades. It will ...

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Gonzalo Rubalcaba: A Pianist Happy to Let Others Do the Driving

Source: Michael Ricci
January 29, 2009

About a year and a half ago the redoubtable Cuban pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba took a new band into the studio. He had broken in his sidemen, a clutch of young New York progressives, with a weeklong run at the Jazz Standard. It was minimal preparation, given the demands of the music involved, and yet it produced strong results: “Avatar,” released on Blue Note last year, is one of his warmest and most rewarding albums. Mr. Rubalcaba and his crew are ...

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