Jazz News

Arts for Art, Inc. Gala Fundraiser at Angel Orensanz Foundation on December 15

Source: All About Jazz
December 1, 2008

Arts For Art, Inc., the renowned New York City-based arts organization responsible for putting on the Vision Festival annually and numerous events, programs and collaborations throughout the year, will be holding a Gala Fundraiser to create the “Innovative Arts Center -- A Place for Innovation in Music, Arts and Thinking." This Gala will be on Monday, December 15, 2008 at the Angel Orensanz Foundation, 172 Norfolk Street in New York City. Two levels of donation are being suggested for the ...

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Chamber Music America Presents a Free Workshop with Jim Eigo on December 2

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
December 1, 2008

PRESENTS FIRST TUESDAYS Using New Technology A FREE WORKSHOP WITH JIM EIGO President/Jazz Promo Services December 2, 2008, 3:00-5:00 P.M. Saint Peter’s Church 619 Lexington Avenue at 54th Street New York, NY Back by popular demand, Jim Eigo broadens his PR workshop to speak about the ins and outs of the music business, with an emphasis on artists who self-produce. He will discuss promotion, marketing, using the Internet, and making ...

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Guitarist Mark Whitfield Interviewed at AAJ

Source: All About Jazz
December 1, 2008

Guitarist Mark Whitfield speaks about “After the Mix," from his album Mark Whitfield featuring Panther (Dirty Soap, 2005), intoning that “although the album seems like a diverse collection of musical styles, it is really just my collective vision of the things that I appreciate about music. It's about the group ... It's about the experience of being independent."

Whitfield gives credit to his brother and sister for first introducing him to the guitar and to his parents for fostering a ...

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Works for Clarinet/Sax, Woodwind Chamber Music by Lajos Dudas

Source: All About Jazz
December 1, 2008

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The Sound of Change: Can Music Save Cuba?

Source: All About Jazz
November 30, 2008

CUBA. Vintage taxi's pick up passengers at the Hotel Nacional. The capital citys glut of old American Bel Airs, Corsairs and Corvairs has less to do with nostalgia than with the crippling economics of the U.S.M

If this were a music video, it would start in this living room in Havana, with a tight shot of the skinny kid in the white tank top at the keyboard. He counts it off from four, and with a sort of animal ease, ...

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South Florida Tropical Bohemia in the Makings

Source: Michael Ricci
November 30, 2008

Miamis reputation as a dead zone for live local music is changing, and record labels are starting to pay attention.

ON a balmy November night here, Rachel Goodrich was playing to a rapt moonlit crowd in a courtyard of Churchills Pub. She had her red cowboy hat, her percussionist with a mix of blocks, bells and toys, her band of skilled players who are so tight theyre loose, and her kazoo. The ramshackle space in the Little Haiti neighborhood was ...

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Dave Brubeck Announces 88th Birthday Plans

Source: All About Jazz
November 30, 2008

Dave Brubeck will celebrate his 88th birthday with a live concert at Showcase Live in Foxborough, Mass. on Dec. 6.

Brubeck will also be among 12 others to be inducted into The California Museums California Hall of Fame, including Jane Fonda, Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss), Robert Graham, Quincy Jones, Jack LaLanne, Dorthea Lange, Julia Morgan, Jack Nicholson, Linus Pauling, Leland Stanford and Alice Waters.

I grew up on a California cattle ranch and my dream as a youth was to ...

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Stars Sing Holiday Classics

Source: All About Jazz
November 30, 2008

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