Jazz News

The BandA ecLectics Live at the Drom in NYC

Source: All About Jazz
July 16, 2008

SUNDAY JULY 20, 8:00PM The BandA ecLectics is an 11-piece ensemble consisting of musicians with jazz, world and classical music tendencies and affiliations. These professional musicians will be performing two sets of original compositions with a fresh and unique sound, created by Petros Sakelliou. The musical material involves finely composed orchestrations as well as improvisations, arranged organically into a whole that vibrates originality. The instrumentation is very unique as well, as it employs timbers with a variety of references, summing ...

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Photonality Jazz Series Publishes New Book "Traned' with Sonny Fortune

Source: All About Jazz
July 16, 2008

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A Couple of Deep Blues Festival Bands

Source: All About Jazz
July 16, 2008

A COUPLE OF DEEP BLUES FESTIVAL BANDS

I feel real bad about this. All three of these bands have been in the disc changer for two weeks. I've been intending to write about them but time just slipped by. Here we are now, on the eve of me leaving and I still haven't written a single word...So let it be known, all three of these bands deserve far more attention than they are about to get.

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Lyle Lovett Sells Millions, Earns Nothing

Source: All About Jazz
July 16, 2008

Eclectic country singer says he makes money from touring, not albums

Lyle Lovett says he has “never made a dime" from album sales during his two-decade career, and hopes to rectify that situation when his contract expires. The eclectic country singer has two more albums on his deal with Curb/Universal, his home since 1985, and figures the horizons are wide open. Records are very powerful promotional tools to go out and be able to play on the road, but you ...

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A Different Kind of "Knight" Music

Source: All About Jazz
July 16, 2008

Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard bring a new approach to “The Dark Knight" score. Sequel twists concept of conventional score

GAMBIT is simple yet extraordinary: a superhero without a theme song. Say Batman, Superman, Indiana Jones -- the list goes on -- and a theme clicks in. Hear a theme, and the mind plays the visual. Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard have tossed that tradition out the window for The Dark Knight: Batman gets two notes. The Joker, ...

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Broadway Says Hello to Dolly Parton

Source: All About Jazz
July 16, 2008

NEW YORK -- “It's the most fun I've ever had as a songwriter," Dolly Parton twanged Tuesday as she announced that the stage version of 9 to 5: The Musical would open on Broadway next spring.

“I feel like Minnie Pearl! I'm just so glaaaad to be here," cooed Parton, a petite vision in tight white pedal pushers and the highest of white high heels. The country superstar stood in a Times Square studio with the cast and creative team ...

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Judge Gives a Go-Ahead to James Brown Auction

Source: All About Jazz
July 16, 2008

The personal possessions of the soul singer James Brown, the self-proclaimed “Godfather of Soul," will be auctioned

On Thursday as scheduled after an appeals court judge declined on Monday to block the sale. Christie's, the New York auction house, will offer nearly 350 items, including hair curlers, several performance outfits and a green vinyl sofa, in a sale expected to fetch up to $2 million.

Judge Jasper M. Cureton of South Carolina appeals court said, however, that the South Carolina ...

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Laurie Krauz Daryl Kojak Quintent Tapestry Rewoven

Source: All About Jazz
July 16, 2008

One Night, One Set, One Giant “Tapestry Rewoven" Sneak Preview! Laurie Krauz & The Daryl Kojak Quintet will be appearing at the Metropolitan Room in New York City for one night with a sneak preview and “barn raiser" of their work-in-progress, “Tapestry Rewoven," a jazz re-imagining of the Carole King classic “Tapestry." They promise to blow the roof off the joint!!! Featuring Laurie Krauz, vocals; Daryl Kojak, piano; Sean Conly, bass; Gene Lewin, drums; “Sweet" Sue Terry, sax; Jamie Fox ...

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