Jazz News

Inauguration Party On! Los Angeles

Source: Michael Ricci
January 16, 2009

Obama is being called 'the artist's president. Inauguration Day gives folks a great chance to party like it's 2009. Whether your candidate won or not, Tuesday night will feature plenty of places to kick up your heels.

Plane tickets to Washington are sky high, and space on the National Mall is at a premium, but that doesn't mean Angelenos are going to miss out on Inauguration Day parties. From irreverent political art parties to electric car parades, Southern ...

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Carol Fredette Releases "Everything in Time" CD After a 10 Year Hiatus

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
January 16, 2009

New York, NY - January 12, 2009-When a legendary jazz figure like Stan Getz states, “She’s as good as they come,” surely long time vocalist Carol Fredette must feel that is a lot to live up to. With her long awaited release, Everything In Time people in the jazz community and critics alike are bound to be lavishing the vocalist with praise once again.

When you hear Carol sing and listen to her music, you know ...

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The Leonisa Ardizzone Quintet Swings Their Way into Your Heart on New Release

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
January 16, 2009

New York, NY-January 12, 2009-

The Leonisa Ardizzone Quintet adopts old-fashioned values and modern day recording techniques on their new release The Scent of Bitter Almonds…

The Quintet and the articulate and seasoned Leonisa Ardizzone takes swinging jazz tunes and then makes it a memorable trip for everyone. The vocalists’ soft and sensual style allows her the flexibility to present perfected phrasing and at times the most enjoyable scatting in between her quintet’s marvelous instrumental breaks. ...

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Andrew Wyeth American Artist Dies at 91

Source: Michael Ricci
January 16, 2009

Wyeth's watercolor and tempera landscapes and portraits made him one of America's best loved artists. He remained a figurative painter who prospered even in times when the genre was deemed passe.

Andrew Wyeth, whose durable and realistic paintings of rural Pennsylvania and Maine made him one of America's best loved artists, and made his paintings some of the priciest in the world, died today. He was 91. Wyeth, who divided his time between Chadds Ford, Pa., and Cushing, Maine, died ...

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Piano Lessons Online a Low Cost Win-Win for Students and Their Piano Teacher

Source: All About Jazz
January 16, 2009

Its tough trying to maintain an active lifestyle and wanting to learn piano at the same time. Not only that, but piano lessons with good teachers are expensive and its often really difficult to schedule lessons. So to fit it all in to a filled-to-the-gills schedule more and more students have turned to taking their piano lessons on the Internet. Theyve proven that not only is it doable, but that they have the brains and musical ability to improve and ...

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Place AAJ News, Articles and CD Reviews on Your MY MSN Page

Source: All About Jazz
January 15, 2009

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The Great Connecticut Traditional Jazz Festival Moves for 2009

Source: All About Jazz
January 15, 2009

The Great Connecticut Traditional Jazz Festival will present its 23rd annual festival July 31 through August 2, 2009.

The Festival has moved to a new location: Mountain Ridge Resort in Wallingford, CT. Mountain Ridge is a newly renovated event facility centrally located in bewtween Hartford and New Haven.

The Festival features fifteen bands from Louisiana, Connecticut, Massachussetts, New Jersey, Missouri, California, Arizona, including for their first Connecticut appearance Louis Ford and his New Orleans Jazz Flairs. Festival favorites Cornet Chop ...

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A Violinist in the Metro

Source: All About Jazz
January 15, 2009

A man sat at a metro station in Washington DC and started to play the violin; it was a cold January morning. He played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time, since it was rush hour, it was calculated that thousand of people went through the station, most of them on their way to work.

Three minutes went by and a middle aged man noticed there was musician playing. He slowed his pace and stopped ...

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