Jazz News

The Sound of la Vida Dominicana

Source: Michael Ricci
July 18, 2008

The powerful, socially conscious songs of Juan Luis Guerra are largely incomprehensible to many New Yorkers, because they are in Spanish.

ON Friday evening the Dominican singer Juan Luis Guerra, the Latin Recording Academy's 2007 man of the year, will take the stage for a Madison Square Garden concert fronting his 16-piece band, 3 back-up singers and 4 dancers. If past New York shows are any indication, the crowd will be electrified by his anthemic merengues on the developing world's ...

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11 Must-Have iPhone Applications

Source: All About Jazz
July 18, 2008

Sorting the Jewels from the Junk in the iTunes Store The new apps are in the stores. Many are useless; others are buggy. Here are some that make the whole thing worthwhile

Remember when cell phones were just for making calls? The new iPhone 3G, which launched on July 11, dials phone numbers, but it also runs some 800 add-on applications -- developers are creating more daily -- that enable you to compare hotel room prices, read Shakespeare, ...

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Hayward 'Chuck' Carbo R&B Singer Dies

Source: Michael Ricci
July 18, 2008

Hayward “Chuck" Carbo Singer for Spiders R&B Quintet

Carbo was 82, a singer who fronted the 1950s quintet the Spiders, a group that made the world aware of New Orleans rhythm and blues, died July 11 in New Orleans after a long illness. (pictured with the Spiders far right)

Chuck Carbo and his brother Leonard “Chick" Carbo started singing in their father's New Orleans church choir. They sang with the gospel group the Zion City Harmonizers ...

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Vision Festival XIII Highlights on BBC 3's Jazz on 3 Tonight 7/18

Source: Improvised Communications
July 18, 2008

Host Jez Nelson and company will present live sets from the Matthew Shipp Trio and Edward “Kidd" Jordan from this year's Vision Festival at New York's Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center on tonight's episode of Jazz on 3.

The show will also feature a special interview with Jordan by Nate Chinen.

Jazz on 3 airs from 11:30 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. GMT in Britain, but can be accessed for a week after its original broadcast via streaming audio from the ...

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160 New Additions to AAJ Upcoming Jazz Release Center

Source: All About Jazz
July 18, 2008

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Art of Life Records Launches New MP3 Digital Download Store

Source: All About Jazz
July 18, 2008

Art of Life Records has just launched our new MP3 Digital Download Store. Featuring MP3 Digital Downloads by Gordon Beck, Lenny Breau, Ron Thomas, Ted Greene, Andrea Marcelli, Jimi Tunnell, Tubby Hayes, Eddie Gomez, Joe Diorio, Stephen D. Anderson, Bob Mintzer, Randy Runyon, Ryan Oliver, Tony Moreno, Carl Filipiak, Denis DiBlasio, Chris Vadala, Tsuyoshi Ichikawa, Ari Erev, Phil Markowitz, Nick Rixen, Scott Sherwood, Stan Smith and Steve Zerlin. Our new MP3 store features our catalog of CD releases (29 titles) ...

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The Chicago Jazz Ensemble and Artistic Director Jon Faddis Proudly Announce the 10th American Heritage Jazz Series

Source: Carolyn McClair Public Relations
July 18, 2008

THE CHICAGO JAZZ ENSEMBLE, WITH ARTISTIC DIRECTOR JON FADDIS, ANNOUNCES 10th AMERICAN HERITAGE JAZZ SERIES CHICAGO, IL - The Chicago Jazz Ensemble (CJE) and Artistic Director Jon Faddis proudly announce the 10th American Heritage Jazz Series, which features four concerts at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance and one concert at Symphony Center as part of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's Echoes of Nations: Dvok Festival. Pre-concert discussions with Faddis and guest artists will continue to be a part of ...

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Jo Stafford, 90; Pop Singer Won a Grammy for Comedy

Source: All About Jazz
July 18, 2008

Jo Stafford, 90, an exceptionally versatile singer who worked with Frank Sinatra, Tommy Dorsey and the Pied Pipers and shared a Grammy Award with her conductor-husband for their parody of a tone-deaf lounge act, died July 16 at her home in Century City, Calif. She had congestive heart failure. Singer Judy Collins once said Ms. Stafford's poignant interpretation of folk ballads was pivotal to her own career in folk music. Although she made several acclaimed folk recordings, Ms. Stafford was ...

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