Jazz News

CJE Sends Six Students to Louis Armstrong Summer Jazz Camp in New Orleans

Source: Carolyn McClair Public Relations
July 22, 2008

THE CHICAGO JAZZ ENSEMBLE AND LOUIS ARMSTRONG SUMMER JAZZ CAMP SEND STUDENTS TO NEW ORLEANS AS LOUIS ARMSTRONG LEGACY PROGRAM AND CELEBRATION PRIZE CJE Artistic Director Jon Faddis Selected Six Area Public School Students to Attend Jazz Camp July 14 - August 1 in New Orleans CHICAGO - Six students from Chicago Public Schools are enjoying the three-week Louis “Satchmo" Armstrong Summer Jazz Camp in New Orleans as the prize from the culminating event at the May 20 Louis Armstrong ...

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Newport Jazz Festival Founder George Wein Performs at Festival on August 10

Source: Carolyn McClair Public Relations
July 22, 2008

NEWPORT JAZZ FESTIVAL FOUNDER GEORGE WEIN PERFORMS AT 2008 JVC JAZZ FESTIVAL NEWPORT SUNDAY, AUGUST 10, FORT ADAMS STATE PARK NEW YORK - George Wein & the Newport All-stars are among the many great artists set to perform on the main stage at this year's JVC Jazz Festival Newport on Sunday, August 10. Featuring Wein on piano and vocals, the band includes Wein's long-time associate Howard Alden on guitar, drummer Jeff Ballard and two of today's most exceptional younger talents, ...

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Shisha Cafe Presents Jazz Junction

Source: All About Jazz
July 22, 2008

Shisha Cafe, ABC Farms, Koregaon Park presents JAZZ JUNCTION featuring Natasha D'Souza-vocals Natasha all of twenty two years, is one of India's most promising jazz talents. She has an impressive repertoire of jazz standards and has been performing on a resident contract with the Hilton hotel in Mumbai. Simon Hewitt-saxophone Simon is an Australian saxophonist in India to study the bansuri with Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia. He is also a singer/songwriter with four albums out ...

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Jazz Trumpeter Mark Rapp Plays the WC Handy Festival 2008

Source: All About Jazz
July 22, 2008

This weekend (July 25 & 26), trumpeter and composer Mark Rapp and his NY-based band will bring his original sounds of contemporary Jazz to Florence, Alabama at the 27th annual WC Handy Festival. Past festivals have had such greats as Dizzy Gillispie, Take6, Henry Butler, Ellis Marsalis and more and Rapp duly notes, “I'm very excited to be back south and honored to play such a highly regarded festival." One event Rapp is looking forward to is ...

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Bob Dylan's 1966 Tour in Photographs

Source: All About Jazz
July 22, 2008

Dylan's Real Moments A new book of photographs by his friend Barry Feinstein takes us behind the scenes during Dylan's first electric tour of Europe.

Scotland, 1966 In the book, photographer Weinstein writes of his relationship with Dylan: “Bob and I were friends long before we worked together. We hung out and understood each other. When there was something to say we would talk, when there wasn't we were silent. We were similar in that way, ...

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iPhone Rolling Shutterless Distortions Photo Art Emerges

Source: All About Jazz
July 22, 2008

New Art Form Emerges With iPhone 3G Photo Distortions

Apples iPhone 3G suffers from a hair like trigger while taking photographs. It oftens goes off with the slightest movement, and if the camera is not yet settled, this slight movement causes strange, interesting images. Now enthusiast are inspiring a new art form. Landscapes, architecture and portraits, all with graphically tweaked interesting images. In case anyone was wondering, it does appear that the iPhone suffers from the same flaws (or advantages ...

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McCartney Plays Free Show in Quebec

Source: All About Jazz
July 22, 2008

Paul McCartney churned out a Beatles-laden song list to a pumped-up crowd gathered Sunday for a FREE concert as part of Quebec City's 400th anniversary celebration.

McCartney opened the show with the Wings song Jet after which he greeted the crowd in French. The audience erupted and the band then started into the Beatles' 1965 classic Drive My Car. “C'est ma premiere visite a Quebec, and it's a great place," McCartney said, saying it was his first time there and ...

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Joseph E. Fields, Conductor, Composer and Pianist, is Dead at 53

Source: Michael Ricci
July 22, 2008

Joseph E. Fields, a pianist, conductor and composer who was a former music director and principal conductor of Dance Theater of Harlem.

Fields after a short illness died on July 4 in Scranton, Pa. He was 53 and had homes in Scranton and New York City. After working with Dance Theater of Harlem from 1998 to 2004, Mr. Fields became the orchestra director and administrator of the music school at Marywood University in Scranton in 2005. He was also an ...

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