Jazz News

Vibraphonist Tom Beckham CD Release at Smalls Jazz on December 16

Source: All About Jazz
December 16, 2008

December 16, 2008 - 10:30pm Smalls Jazz Club 183 West 10th Street New York, NY Featuring: Chris - Cheek - saxes Henry Hey - piano Matt Pavolka - bass Ferenc Nemeth - drums Recent Press “Tom Beckham has a refreshing approach to the vibraphone. He plays it with a gentle ear for harmony and development, with ideas that are wrapped in crystalline notes." -- ...

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Denise Donatelli Plays Dizzy's San Diego

Source: All About Jazz
December 15, 2008

Denise Donatelli comes to San Diego's Dizzy's Sun Jan 11th, her CD Release Event for What Lies Within featuring Denise Donatelli vocals, Geoffrey Keezer piano, guitarist Peter Sprague, Duncan Moore drums, Hamilton Price bass, & special guest saxophonist Bob Sheppard.

Denise continues to win audiences, performing at some of the city's leading jazz venues and jazz festivals throughout the country. She has performed with a long list of jazz luminaries and has been featured with the Stan Kenton Alumni Orchestra ...

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Saxophonist Tim Warfield Brings Holiday Jazz to Baltimore.

Source: All About Jazz
December 15, 2008

Critically acclaimed saxophonist Tim Warfield, will be appearing for one night only, this Saturday, December 20th, 2008, at Jazzway 6004. Tim will be appearing with a stellar cast of musicians to perform music from his holiday songbook. The group will feature special guests, vocalist Joanna Pascale and the Grammy award winning trumpeter Nicholas Payton. The concert will begin at 7 p.m. Jazzway is located at 6004 Hollins Ave, Baltimore, Maryland 21210. Included in this performance is a special holiday menu, ...

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Sonny Rollins Kicks Off TD Canada Trust Toronto Jazz Festival

Source: All About Jazz
December 15, 2008

When Sonny Rollins picks up the tenor saxophone, the world listens. On Friday, June 26, 2009, hear one of jazzs most iconic figures at the prestigious Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts as the TD Canada Trust Toronto Jazz Festival kicks off its 23rd anniversary with saxophone giant Sonny Rollins.

The TD Canada Trust Toronto Jazz Festival, on its opening night, welcomes Rollins, the most formidable of all jazz improvisers who has carved an impressive career for over half ...

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Rick Stone Trio at the Bar Next Door

Source: All About Jazz
December 15, 2008

Rick Stone Trio presents an evening of originals and standards at the Bar Next Door at La Lanterna, Thursday, January 15, 2009, 8:00-11:30pm. Featuring Rick Stone (guitar), Sean Smith (bass) and Tom Pollard (drums). The Bar Next Door is located at 129 MacDougal Street, New York, NY (between West 3rd and West 4th Streets). For reservations call: (212) 529-5945 About Rick Stone From fresh interpretations of jazz standards, to lyrically evocative originals, New York City based guitarist Rick Stone is ...

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Singer Al Jarreau Interviewed at AAJ

Source: All About Jazz
December 15, 2008

For someone for whom singing has been a part of their life since childhood and who comes from a church-going family, it's a natural thing each year to periodically croon the popular and traditional melodies of the Christmas holiday season. If that person is a professional--perhaps, one who's been singing for decades and has seven Grammys to his credit--it may seem a bit unnatural that he hasn't yet covered the holiday classics on an album.

That's precisely been the case ...

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The Jazz Video Guy Live at the Village Vanguard

Source: All About Jazz
December 15, 2008

"I finally got a chance to shoot at the Vanguard!" the Jazz Video Guy happily exclaimed. As part of his ongoing mission to keep Jazz from becoming invisible, Bret Primack has posted the latest installment of his Jazz Video Guy Blog, “Joe Lovano: In The Music," which features the saxman's new group, Us Five, live at the Village Vanguard last month. In town last month to document the group's subsequent recording session, which will be released next year on Blue ...

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Programmers Act on Arbitron's Portable People Meter Results

Source: Michael Ricci
December 15, 2008

Fresh data changes radio's numbers game Programmers act on Arbitron's Portable People Meter results.

There was punk aplenty at Saturday's opening show of KROQ-FMs two-night Almost Acoustic Christmas bill at Gibson Amphitheatre. The lineup was dominated by the 200 mph music, from headliner the Offspring down through Chicago's Rise Against and Southern California's own AFI and Slightly Stoopid. Even Stone Temple Pilots, with singer Scott Weiland back in the fold after his vitriolic breakup earlier this year with Velvet Revolver, ...

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