Jazz News

85 New Additions to AAJ Upcoming Jazz CD/DVD Release Center

Source: All About Jazz
October 24, 2008

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Michele Rosewoman Performs Solo Piano Concert on November 1

Source: All About Jazz
October 24, 2008

As part of the Jazz@Union’s 2nd Annual “Women in Jazz”, the jazz pianist Michele Rosewoman performs a solo concert at the Union United Methodist Church on Saturday, November 1, 2008 at 7:00 p.m.

Praised by Downbeat as a “star of American music,” pianist, composer, and educator Michele Rosewoman has made her mark in the jazz world as a highly original artist by fusing Afro-Cuban styles with intelligent and modern post-bop. Throughout her career, Michele has also integrated Cuban religious music ...

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Ticketmaster Gets in the Artist Management Game

Source: Michael Ricci
October 23, 2008

The turf war between the world's top ticketing company and the world's top concert promoter just got bloodier.

Ticketmaster Inc. announced today that it had acquired a controlling stake in Front Line Management Group Inc., the artist management company that's home to legacy acts like the Eagles and Journey along with divas and divos like Christina Aguilera and Axl Rose's Guns N' Roses. The deal gives the much-maligned ticket giant a boost in a category in which it previously didn't ...

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Grupo Folklorico at Hostos Center on November 1

Source: Leah Grammatica Public Relations
October 23, 2008

HOSTOS CENTER FOR THE ARTS & CULTURE PRESENTS GRUPO FOLKLORICO y EXPERIMENTAL NUEVAYORQUINO Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture will present a special reunion concert by one of Latin music’s most important alliances, the groundbreaking GRUPO FOLKLORICO y EXPERIMENTAL NUEVAYORQUINO, on Saturday, November 1, 2008 at 7:30pm. With its two seminal recordings from the mid 1970s, Concepts in Unity and Lo Dice Todo (We Say It All), this legendary Bronx orchestra introduced the world to a new ...

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Westchester Jazz Jam at Jackson & Wheeler Restaurant in Pleasantville, NY

Source: All About Jazz
October 23, 2008

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Tommy James & the Shondells' "40 Years" 2-CD Set Presents Four Decades of Hits and Rarities

Source: conqueroo
October 23, 2008

From “Hanky Panky” and “I Think We’re Alone Now” to “Mirage” and “Mony Mony” to “Crimson and Clover” and “Draggin’ the Line”— all with original single mixes — the volume unfolds like a greatest hits of the ‘60s and ‘70s, and traces James’ later solo career. Includes extensive liner notes and photos.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. – If you were a rock ’n’ roll fan in the ‘60s and early ‘70s, you well remember Tommy James & the Shondells having hit ...

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ESP-Disk’ Announces Its November Releases of Cutting Edge Music

Source: All About Jazz
October 23, 2008

ESP-Disk’, the premier American avant-garde record label of the sixties, announces its November 2008 releases of modern music of the past, present and future with six titles, including three reissues of groundbreaking albums from its catalogue of uncompromising free jazz and new music of the sixties, two newly recorded dates evolving from that tradition, and an impressively packaged collector’s edition of rare early recordings by one of jazz’s first and most individualistic modernists, at the beginning of his career. The ...

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We Must First Know What Jazz is Before Marketing It

Source: All About Jazz
October 23, 2008

JAZZ is receiving a lot of time and space in both the print and electronic media in Uganda these days. This is a good thing only if the write ups are accurate. They are not; and contrary to the Entertainment Industry saying that all publicity is good publicity’’, I do not subscribe to that. Jazz has been marketed so badly in Uganda, so much so that it is being described as music for the expatriates, ‘wannabes’, show- offs and the ...

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