Jazz News

Happy 70th Birthday, Blue Note Records

Source: On Target Media Group
January 6, 2009

Today Blue Note Records celebrates its 70th birthday. The label was born on January 6, 1939 when a young jazz fan named Alfred Lion recorded two of his favorite boogie-woogie pianists at a New York studio. That first session (Albert Ammons and Meade Lux Lewis - The First Day) proved to be the start of an illustrious history that continues to this day. Over the course of its seven decades in business, Blue Note has recorded virtually every major figure ...

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Sten Hostfalt Trio Live at Freddy's NYC January 12th

Source: All About Jazz
January 6, 2009

WHO: Sten Hostfalt Trio Sten Hostfalt - guitar, compositions Tim Luntzel - bass Marko Djordjevic - drums

WHEN: January 12th, 2009 at 10pm / no cover

WHERE: Freddy's NYC 485 Dean St. (Prospect Heights) Brooklyn NY 1/2 to Bergen or any train to Atlantic/Pacific

Impressive, Intense - TIME OUT NY Inimitable - PM NYC/PAPER MAGAZINE Groundbreaking - JAZZ REVIEW Editor's Pick - GUITAR PLAYER ...

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Melanie O'Reilly's "Jazz on the Bay" Wins Prestigous Award!

Source: All About Jazz
January 6, 2009

National Radio Award for Melanie O'Reilly's “Jazz on the Bay" --- This winning series includes “Women of Jazz on the Bay", featuring Vicki Burns, Anna de Leon, Susan Muscarella, Frankye Kelly, Tammy Hall, Faye Carroll,and Denise Perrier. Melanie O'Reilly, Celtic Jazz singer and educator, who hails from Dublin Ireland, and is based in Berkeley, CA, has just won PPI Radio Award/National Radio Award 2008 for her radio series “Jazz on the Bay". Melanie presents and co-produces this innovative series which ...

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Music Production in Action

Source: All About Jazz
January 6, 2009

UK Jazz trumpet player Adam Linsley has recorded a new CD to raise money for Lindsey Lodge Hospice in North Lincolnshire. “The hospice is an amazing place, they cared for my Mother in her later stages of secondary breast cancer offering both day care and then full time care in the last week of her life. They also provided amazing care for my family & friends." The recording is due to be released in January & will be available direct ...

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Enchanting Cellist Kristina Reiko Cooper Releases Jazz Album

Source: All About Jazz
January 6, 2009

Stone and Steel Combines Ancient and Modern For Unique New Sound New York, NY - The enchanting cellist Kristina Reiko Cooper recently launched her latest CD, Stone and Steel, a scintillating combination of the ancient and the modern. Cooper, a resident of New York City and Tel Aviv, is well-known for her adventurousness and her passion for new, popular and contemporary works. In her newest release, she takes some old classics Gregorian chants, songs of the ever-popular Elizabethan composer John ...

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Iva Bittov, Michel Camilo and Myriam Fuks Join Gypsy Violinist Roby Lakatos for Carnegie Hall Debut

Source: All About Jazz
January 6, 2009

CARNEGIE HALL CELEBRATES THE MUSIC OF HUNGARY FROM JANUARY 24 - FEBRUARY 14 Celebrating Hungary Performances Include Appearances by Ivn Fischer and Budapest Festival Orchestra, Roby Lakatos, Beta Palya, and Peter Etvs, Among Others From January 24 through February 14, Carnegie Hall presents Celebrating Hungary, a collection of concerts that place the spotlight on the folk, symphonic, chamber, and new music of Hungary with performances by leading artists. The celebration includes an eight-day residency by renowned composer, pedagogue, ...

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Reopening a Pianists Treasury of Chopin

Source: All About Jazz
January 6, 2009

Nadia Reisenberg: A Chopin Treasury Classical music has always produced superstar performers who thrill the public and claim widespread attention. But there have also always been dedicated artists with lower profiles who influence the field from within and enjoy productive and important careers. The pianist Nadia Reisenberg is a good example. When Reisenberg died at 78 in 1983, she was best known as a respected teacher at the Juilliard School, the Mannes College of Music (now Mannes College ...

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Pyeng Threadgill to Perform at Blue Note Jazz Club Late Night Grooves Series

Source: Inque Public Relations
January 6, 2009

New York Singer / Storyteller Pyeng Threadgill To Share Most Personal and Accomplished Music To Date From Her Forthcoming New CD During the Late Night Grooves Series at New Yorks Famed Blue Note Jazz Club On Saturday, January 10th Daughter of Jazz Great Henry Threadgill Will Also Share Bill for Progressive Black Female Showcase Voicing Between The Lines and a Coveted Hudson Opera House Appearance Critically acclaimed as one of the most inventive and visionary new voices in the progressive ...

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