Jazz News

Mississippi Jazz & Heritage Festival

Source: All About Jazz
September 22, 2008

13th Annual Mississippi Jazz & Heritage Festival Continues in Summit Mississippi Jazz & Heritage Festival Honors Late Jazz Saxophonist John Gilmore Happy Birthday John Gilmore & London Branch (Summit, MS) The 13th Annual Mississippi Jazz & Heritage Festival (MJHF), celebrating Mississippi's great jazz legacy, will take place in Summit, Mississippi on Sunday, September, 28, 2008, from 6:00pm - 8:00pm. The late legendary jazz saxophonist and Summit, Mississippi native John Gilmore will be honored on what would have been ...

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Sydney Band Viva - Concert at Unveiling Ceremony for Sydney's Welcome Wall

Source: All About Jazz
September 22, 2008

Twice a year an unveiling ceremony to celebrate new arrivals to Australia and to register new names on a Welcome Wall. The wall is 100 metres long and is next to the Australian National Maritime Museum at Darling Harbour, Sydney. The wall was initially created to honor more than six million people that have crossed the world to settle in Australia.

The last unveiling was on the 18th May 2008, guest speakers included: the Hon Tanya Plibersek MP, Mary-Louise Williams ...

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Sonny Rollins Live: New CD & DVD Due from Doxy/Emarcy in October

Source: Terri Hinte Publicity
September 22, 2008

Expectations run very high at Sonny Rollins concerts, for both audiences and the saxophonist himself. Considered jazz's greatest living improviser, Rollins seizes the opportunity offered by each live performance to search for his lost chord; his audiences await nothing short of transcendence. An extraordinary double dose of Rollins in concert is due on October 28, when the tenor saxophonists Doxy Records label (distributed by Emarcy/Universal) will release a new live CD compilation entitled Road Shows, Vol. 1 as well as ...

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Monterey Jazz Festival: Happy Overload of Good Music

Source: All About Jazz
September 21, 2008

If you're reading this while drinking your Saturday morning coffee, then all the events here recorded happened only a few hours ago.

This is a quick dispatch from the Monterey Jazz Festival, where, at ten minutes past midnight, saxophonist Joshua Redman, drummer Brian Blade and bassist Matt Penman were playing a tune called “Identity Thief," sounding like scientists in a laboratory, working with rare mixtures of melody, color and time.

It was quiet music, a little bit strange and extremely ...

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Back Stage Pass with Sinatra

Source: All About Jazz
September 21, 2008

In May 1998, one of the greatest singers of the Twentieth Century, Frank Sinatra, passed away. In tribute to Frank Sinatra, we thought it would be fitting to offer up remembrances of the singer, by some of the people who knew and worked with him.

Murray Garrett is one such person. A professional photographer, Mr Garrett first met Frank Sinatra in the mid 1940's in New York City. He photographed Sinatra at charity events, recording sessions, radio and ...

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In Downtown L.A., a Fresh Mix of New Music Sounds, Via San Diego

Source: Michael Ricci
September 21, 2008

The Carlsbad Music Festival previewed five new events at Zipper Hall, and at REDCAT, CalArts began its Creative Music Festival featuring UC San Diego's Anthony Davis and his group Episteme.

That downtown Los Angeles has become new music central is one thing, but that downtown's new music scene could be so taken over by San Diego-area beach towns, as happened Friday night, really is something that would have been unimaginable a few years ago.

In the Colburn School's Zipper Hall, ...

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Danny Goldberg It's Only Rock'n' Roll

Source: Michael Ricci
September 21, 2008

The title of Danny Goldberg’s memoir, Bumping Into Geniuses, comes from an aphorism of Ahmet Ertegun, co-founder of Atlantic Records. Ertegun’s formula for success in the music business was “walking around until you bumped into a gen ius.”

A method that works well enough if, like Ertegun, you manage to bump into Ray Charles and Aretha Franklin. Goldberg — an industry lifer who did time as a rock critic, P.R. flack and personal manager before his stints as president of ...

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Charlie Haden Was Country Before He Was Cool

Source: Michael Ricci
September 21, 2008

In essence he was filling the role that has publicly defined him throughout his adult life: eminent jazz bassist.

DURING the first of his two headlining gigs in New York this summer Charlie Haden played bebop and ballads. He was leading Quartet West, a working band of more than 20 years, and playing a room where he had once appeared with Ornette Coleman.

At Mr. Hadens second recent engagement here, an outdoor show featuring his triplet daughters, his son and ...

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