Jazz News

The Gabe Dixon Band's New Self-Titled Album out August 26

Source: All About Jazz
July 23, 2008

Who turns down a personal offer to play keyboard on Paul McCartney's world tour? Gabe Dixon did, and it was probably the best decision of his life. Dixon respectfully turned McCartney down to focus his energies on his band's then-yet-to-be-released album. The first incarnation of The Gabe Dixon Band was born nine years ago as a jam band with heavy jazz influences, but after a bout of cutbacks and regime changes at their original label, the ...

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BBC Jazz Awards 2008: A Winning Shindig

Source: All About Jazz
July 23, 2008

The stars came out for this year's event - and put on a show that proved to be a celebration of the artform, rather than a backslapping showcase As this blog has recorded a few times before, awards ceremonies get a mixed reception from jazzers. At its best, jazz is frequently informal, unpremeditated and uncompetitive - something that seems to run against the spirit of handing out prizes for Best In Show. This year's BBC Jazz Awards shindig, held at ...

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Ghostlight Dominates Nielsen/Soundscan Broadway Chart

Source: Seth Cohen PR
July 23, 2008

The Numbers Speak for Themselves: Ghostlight is #4, #5, #6, #18 and #22 of Top 25 on Nielsen/SoundScan Broadway Chart

Legally Blonde Single Debuts in Top 100 on iTunes

Ghostlight Records is proud to announce that it has secured five of the Top 25 slots on this week's Nielsen/SoundScan Broadway Chart: #4 for Passing Strange, #5 for Legally Blonde, #6 for In The Heights, #18 for [title of show] and #22 for Drowsy Chaperone.

In addition, Ghostlight's single release of ...

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Brubeck Brothers Quartet to Perform in Cooperstown, NY

Source: All About Jazz
July 23, 2008

The Brubeck Brothers Quartet will perform Tuesday, August 19 at 7:30 pm at the Otesaga Resort Hotel, 60 Lake Street, Cooperstown, NY as part of the Cooperstown Chamber Music Festival. The Brubeck Brothers have performed at jazz festivals all over the country including Monterey, Detroit, Sedona, Ravinia and Las Vegas and the Jazz Times Jazz Cruise; with college big bands and conducted workshops and clinics at universities across the country. The BBQ has its own arrangements for not only big ...

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Jazzism (a Katzpheno Mix) is All About Love!

Source: All About Jazz
July 23, 2008

This weeks podcast of Jazzism (a katzpheno mix) Friday 7/25 takes on the question, “What Is This Thing Called Love?" Host and Producer Brian Phoenix invites all young jazz lovers to set of romantic music and romantic notions from our listeners as we delve deep into the subject our world needs more of...love. Jazzism is the one place on the webspace where you get nothing but the best that the world has to offer in Jazz music! A new show ...

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Updates on the Clayton Brothers "Brother to Brother" Project

Source: All About Jazz
July 23, 2008

ArtistShare is very pleased to announce that Executive Producer participant offer is sold out! But there are other participant offers you can enjoy. The detail information on Brother to Brother project is written below. “Brother to Brother is actually a brilliant brainstorm of Jeff, my brother. Believe me, it's really hard to admit that your brother can come up with an idea you like. His idea was to find songs composed by and/or performed by some of the many brother ...

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Holly Golightly & the Brokeoffs' First U.S. Album and 50-City U.S. Tour Coming This Fall

Source: conqueroo
July 23, 2008

Legendary U.K. lo-fi indie rocker had American albums on Sympathy for the Record Industry . . . First U.S. release with the Brokeoffs celebrated with fall tour dates

Holly Golightly & the Brokeoffs, heralded by NME as “a glorious example of what rock 'n' roll should be," have signed with Transdreamer Records (distributed by MRI Distribution/RED) and are preparing their first American release as a band. Titled Dirt Don't Hurt, the CD is slated for a street date of October ...

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Biting, Edgy and Irreverent - Prolific Americana Songwriter Grant Peeples Releases New CD

Source: All About Jazz
July 23, 2008

In 1995 Grant Peeples hit the pause button on his music career, divested himself of what he owned in America and moved to a remote Caribbean island off the coast of Nicaragua. After ten years of official ex-patriot status there, he sold the small hotel he had built and returned to his native North Florida. Ever since he's been writing about what he found and faced upon his return. “It was like I left the house for a while," explains ...

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