Jazz News

The Toronto City Jazz Night is to Combine Business with Pleasure

Source: All About Jazz
September 22, 2008

Socialize with business people and enjoy live Jazz Music at the Historic Distillery District, Toronto TORONTO, Sept. 22- On September 26, 2008 the Canadian German Chamber of Industry and Commerce will hold its third annual City Jazz Night. The evening will give guests the opportunity to socialize in a warm and friendly atmosphere. From 6:30 - 11:00pm the legendary Fermenting Cellar at the Distillery District in Toronto will be the backdrop for the popular Jazz Band “The Dan Bodanis Band", ...

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Stanley Jordan Applies Music to Heal the Body and Mind

Source: All About Jazz
September 22, 2008

Jazzman Stanley Jordan's intuition that music could be a healing force traces back to his teen years. He says he was sick with the flu and spent an entire day surrounded by song — and recovered nearly instantly. Now, Jordan, 49, is taking his music talents beyond entertainment and into the realm of healing, inspiration and self-esteem. TREND: More hospitals offer alternative therapies MUSIC THERAPY: A healing grace note for patients BETTER LIFE: Rounding up alternative ...

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At the Monterey Jazz Festival, Music is Transcendent

Source: All About Jazz
September 22, 2008

51ST MONTEREY FESTIVAL SOOTHES SOUL OF LISTENER

So what is this love affair with the Monterey Jazz Festival all about? This weekend, about 40,000 bodies are expected to push through the turnstiles of the Monterey County Fairgrounds to hear massive amounts of music, yes, but also to get sunburned or rained on and to have their listening disrupted by low-flying jets from nearby Monterey Peninsula Airport. So what's it about, exactly? Hard to put my finger on it, sitting at ...

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Kneebody + the Suite Unraveling + Uri Gurvich 4tet at Public Assembly in October

Source: All About Jazz
September 22, 2008

HEPCAT Music presents the 7th installment of the “what is jazz" series Real. Live. Music. at Public Assembly (formerly Galapagos Art Space) in Williamsburg, Brooklyn on Wednesday, October 15th. The show will feature a triple bill with Kneebody, The Suite Unraveling, and the Uri Gurvich Quartet. INFO TICKETS hepcat presents Real. Live. Music. #7 three bands, one cover. KNEEBODY Shane Endsley - ...

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Bassist Todd Sickafoose Interviewed at AAJ

Source: All About Jazz
September 22, 2008

With the release of his unique, understated, and critically acclaimed Tiny Resistors (Cryptogramophone, 2008), bassist/composer Todd Sickafoose suddenly and unintentionally upped the ante for indie jazz. Surging ahead of such indie mainstays (and label mates) as Nels Cline, Steuart Liebig, and boss Jeff Gauthier, Sickafoose has garnered strong press from such diverse sources as Bass Player Magazine, PopMatters, Jazz Times, USA Today, and The New York Times. The daring, spacious compositions and performances on Tiny Resistors, Sickafoose's third CD collection, ...

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Jamie Cullum, Cassandra Wilson Highlight Monterey Jazz

Source: All About Jazz
September 22, 2008

Christian McBride had been waiting a long time for the moment to arrive. When it finally did, the bassist couldn't hold back his enthusiasm. “Monterey," he exclaimed. “Hot damn!" That pretty much summed up what everyone was feeling during the 51st annual Monterey Jazz Festival, which ran Friday through Sunday at the city's gorgeous oak-tree-dotted fairgrounds. Many of the 40,000 fans that turned out for the event had been looking ahead to the 2008 festival basically from the moment last ...

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Ahmad Jamal Strikes up the Orchestra

Source: All About Jazz
September 22, 2008

Can this really be the fifth season of Jazz at Lincoln Center at Rose Hall? Already there are young people filling seats at the Rose Theater who probably feel that JaLC has been around forever, and even take it for granted. They'd probably be amazed to hear that listeners in the 1940s thought it was a big deal whenever jazz made it to one of the major concert halls, like Carnegie or Town Hall, and probably couldn't imagine a world ...

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Charlie Haden: All That Political Jazz

Source: All About Jazz
September 22, 2008

Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra leans left, but carries a message of patriotism and hope. Despite its seemingly combative title, “Not in Our Name," by jazz bassist Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra, is a surprisingly gentle and hopeful musical document. There are occasional dissonant undercurrents and dense, sophisticated interplay among the 12 orchestra members. But the dominant attitude on this program of all-American music -- which ranges from a section of Dvorak's “New World Symphony" and a reggae treatment of ...

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