Jazz News

NPR Music Teams with WBGO & WFUV for Live Webcasts & Podcasts

Source: All About Jazz
August 1, 2008

For the first time, NPR Music, together with NPR Member stations WBGO/Jazz88.3FM in Newark, NJ, and WFUV 90.7FM New York, will live webcast and broadcast four days of performances from Festival Network's Newport Folk Festival and JVC Jazz Festival Newport next month, offering music by esteemed folk, rock, country, jazz, reggae and blues artists. All of the concerts will be streamed live and free, and archived for on-demand listening at NPR Music: www.NPR.org/music. Select concerts will also be podcast.

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Leni Stern's Africa Praised in JAZZIZ Profile

Source: All About Jazz
August 1, 2008

Leni Stern Featured in Annual Women's Issue of JAZZIZ “Especially as a woman, when I came to Africa, I could see they were just thinking, 'What the hell?' But then you play what you know is their favorite blues lick, and then there's, 'Oh, yes, that we know'" JAZZIZ MAGAZINE Leni Stern Q&A feature, July/August 2008 By Melissa Blazek Though not an African native, the blonde, German-born, Berklee-trained jazz guitarist Leni Stern has become a windswept ...

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Weasel Walter East Coast Tour

Source: All About Jazz
August 1, 2008

Notorious free music drummer Weasel Walter mounts another full-scale assault on the East Coast during September 2008 featuring help from area luminaries such as trumpeter Peter Evans, guitarist Mary Halvorson, reedman Paul Flaherty and drummer Marc Edwards. Of particular note will be three performances by the Walter/Halvorson/Evans trio, promising virtuoso interplay with a touch of bloodyminded humor. Walter and Halvorson first teamed up last year for the recording of the “Opulence" CD release (2008, ugEXPLODE Records) while Evans and Walter ...

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The Boildermaker Jazz Band Free Concert at Waterside Plaza

Source: All About Jazz
August 1, 2008

On Wednesday August 6, The Boilermaker Jazz Band performs a free outdoor concert from 7-9PM at Waterside Plaza. Enjoy spectacular waterfront views and plenty of seating. Reasonably-priced onsite parking and dining also available. PHONE: 212-340-4227 The Boilermaker Jazz Band is an ecstatically fun band performing authentic hot jazz and swing. Led by Paul Cosentino on an antique Albert system clarinet, this acclaimed group serves up swinging renditions of jazz classics and rarities through superb instrumentals and heartfelt vocals. The group ...

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"Thousand Miles" by Julio Awad with Peter Erskine, Paul Wertico and Mark Egan

Source: All About Jazz
August 1, 2008

Thousand Thousands is the new CD alone of the pianist and composer Julio Awad, where it assembles a stellar group of musicians to present/display his compositions of Jazz/World Fusion. The acoustic piano sparks in the overture “Returned Tango", an improvisation accompanied by two legendary musicians like the bass player Mark Egan and the drummer Paul Wertico. In other compositions like “We Arrived" it is possible to be appreciated different styles and their fort work like arranger, that an endless ones ...

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Keyboardist Nick Manson Releases "Mercator" with John Patitucci, Ian Froman & Andy Suzuki

Source: All About Jazz
July 31, 2008

Mercator Nick Manson, John Patitucci, Ian Froman, Andy Suzuki Manasus Music 2008

Recorded in NYC on St. Patrick's Day, 2008, the improvisational music included within Mercator has little to do with luck, and everything to do with musicality, patience and soulful virtuosity.

Mercator is the result of four journeyman jazz musicians' willingness to allow seven newly penned compositions; never before performed or rehearsed, take them across a broad, emotional, sonic spectrum, without any imposed ...

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Ella Fitzgerald Special Tonight KCET

Source: All About Jazz
July 31, 2008

Jazz Icons: Ella Fitzgerald Live in '57 and '63

Two classic Ella Fitzgerald performances. The first, in Belgium (1957), features “Lullaby of Birdland" and “It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)"; the second set, in Sweden (1963), includes “Mack the Knife" and “Just One of those Things."

TONIGHT'S one hour Ella Fitzgerald Special at 9pm on KCET tonight. It's called Jazz Icons: Ella Fitzgerald Live in '57 and '63. Don't fail to tune in (Los Angeles). ...

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Newly Discovered Beatles Tape for Sale

Source: All About Jazz
July 31, 2008

Can Buy Me Laughs!

(LONDON) -- A tape recording of The Beatles chatting and breaking into giggles during an early recording session is to be sold next week in England. Cameo Auctioneers said Thursday that the reel-to-reel tape was recorded in 1964 and was recently found by a man in northern England while he was clearing out his father's attic. On one part of the half-hour tape, John Lennon and Paul McCartney repeatedly collapse in laughter as they try to ...

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