Jazz News

Trombonist Ralph Hutchinson Passes at 83

Source: All About Jazz
July 15, 2008

Ralph Hutchinson was one of 'Best Trombone Players Milwaukee Ever Had'. Hutchinson crossed an ocean to find the music he loved, coming to America to be a jazz musician.

Home was in northern England, in a coal-mining town called Newcastle-on-Tyne. He heard the music as a youngster, listening to a battery-powered radio. Later, the trombone became his instrument as he played with bands in Great Britain. In 1948, he took a ship to New York City and first ...

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Hoagy Carmichael is Muralized in Richmond In

Source: All About Jazz
July 15, 2008

Mural of Hoagy Carmichael unveiled in Richmond. A large mural of jazz legend Hoagy Carmichael has been dedicated in Richmond, where the “Stardust" composer first recorded.

About 50 onlookers, including Carmichael's 67-year-old son Randy Carmichael, watched Saturday as the mural on the side of the Readmore building was unveiled in the eastern Indiana city. Carmichael, who died in 1981, first recorded at Gennett Records in Richmond in 1925. Pamela Bliss and her daughter Carly Mattingly Bailey, who painted the mural, ...

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Jass Bassist James Last Honorary Senator of Hochschule Germany

Source: All About Jazz
July 15, 2008

James Last Honored with Degree of Senator

The former bass player and world-renowned pop big band leader James (originally Hans) Last will become honorary senator of the Hochschule fr Knste (University of the Arts) in his hometown of Bremen, Germany, next year as a tribute honoring his 80th birthday. In the 1950s Last had been an important jazz bassist who was regularly nominated Germany's number one bass player in jazz polls and recorded with the German All Stars. In the ...

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Birdland Jazz Club Announces August 2008 Schedule

Source: O&M Co.
July 15, 2008

Birdland (315 West 44th Street - between 8th & 9th Aves.) is pleased to announce an exciting line-up of extraordinary entertainment for the month of August. A detailed schedule follows: Sam Harris Actor, singer, songwriter, soon-to-be talk show host and brand new father, Sam Harris, brings a new show to Birdland, featuring songs from his new cd entitled “Free," to be released on July 22. Harris has written most of the acoustic driven pop/rock cd, including “War On ...

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Wynton Marsalis Explores Fort Worth Bass Hall

Source: All About Jazz
July 15, 2008

Wynton Marsalis goes exploring with Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra at Bass Hall

FORT WORTH - What a difference eight years make. When Wynton Marsalis played Bass Performance Hall in 2000 with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, he treated jazz as a museum object - something to be revered but not touched. But a far more daring Mr. Marsalis played Bass Hall on Monday night. Three songs into his show with the JLCO and he was diving into the ...

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Warner Home Video Releases Four Jazz-Oriented Films

Source: All About Jazz
July 15, 2008

Around Midnight Sees Light of Day Warner's DVD Release

Warner Home Video releases four jazz-oriented films this week. Bird (1988) tells the story of jazz pioneer Charlie “Bird" Parker and helped establish future Oscar-winners Clint Eastwood as a director and Forest Whitaker as an actor. Pete Kelly's Blues (1953) stars Jack Webb (Dragnet) as a Kansas City cornet player who fights the mob. Blues in the Night (1941) features a Harold Arlen/Johnny Mercer score and more drama about musicians and ...

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Marlborough Jazz Festival UK is OK

Source: All About Jazz
July 15, 2008

Marlborough Jazz Festival: Paw Pawson's Artesian hall stompers. Anyone can appreciate smooth, mellow jazz.

A WARM Saturday afternoon - by 2008 standards anyway - and supping a pint while listening to a mellow jazz band that just about sums up the best thing about the Marlborough Jazz festival. Founder Dan Dawson has passed away but his old band kept his spirit alive on Saturday enthralling an audience that packed into every odd corner of one of Marlborough's oldest coaching inns, ...

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Harare Jazz Fest on the Ivory Coast Zimbabwe

Source: All About Jazz
July 15, 2008

Jazz Festival Comes to Harare

HARARE,The popular annual Winter Jazz Festival will start in the capital on Wednesday, Radio VOP can reveal. The annual bash had been postponed due to the presidential run-off between President Robert Mugabe and MDC leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, which was finally held last month on June 27. The Winter Jazz Festival will begin in Harare on Wednesday and end on Saturday at various venues in the capital city. It will be officially opened on Friday at ...

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