Jazz News

Musicians for Harmony Sets 9/11/08 'Concert for Peace'

Source: Seth Cohen PR
July 15, 2008

Musicians For Harmony Brings Cellist from Baghdad for U.S. Premiere of Iraqi “Requiem," as Part of Seventh Annual September 11th 'Concert for Peace'

Brahms Viola Quintet, “Sounds of Syria" and World Premiere of Unique Walt Whitman Performance Piece Also Planned for Benefit Event at NYC's Merkin Hall

Musicians For Harmony's Seventh Annual 'Concert For Peace' promises to be their most eclectic and engaging to date. The highlight of the September 11th event will be the U.S. Premiere of the Iraqi ...

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Street Energy in a Festive Ruckus of African Grooves and Western Pop

Source: Michael Ricci
July 15, 2008

Damon Albarn & the Honest Jon's Revue featured, from left, Lobi Traor (with hat), Adama Sissoko, Victoria Williams (in white), Kokanko Sata and Mr. Albarn.

The Honest Jon's Revue started with more than two dozen musicians walking on stage. This made a good minute of theater: there were musicians from Mali, sitting down to ancient and modern instruments, from a one-stringed fiddle to an electric guitar. There were Americans too: among them a brass band, a folk singer and a ...

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Mike Clark's Prescription Renewal Featuring Paul Jackson & Jeff Babko

Source: All About Jazz
July 15, 2008

MIKE CLARK gained worldwide recognition as one of America's foremost jazz and funk drummers while playing with Herbie Hancock's group in the early 1970's. Clark became known as a major innovator through his incisive playing on Hancock's Thrust album, which garnered him an international cult following. He is currently busy touring with his own Prescription Organ Trio / Duo, featuring Jerry Z, doing clinics and performing at clubs and concerts nationwide.

Clark's work continues to influence successive generations of drummers ...

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Saxophonist JD Allen Interviewed at AAJ

Source: All About Jazz
July 15, 2008

Volant solos, melodic tapestries, mournful cadences, orphic rhythms. JD Allen's extraordinary I AM-I AM (Sunnyside, 2008) sculpts an aural monument to transformation, a musical testament to the power of the mind to overcome itself through introspective endeavor. Each of its ten compositions roils with the intensity and exposition of a soul wrestling with its two halves, seeking resolution and enveloping the listener in an experience composed equally of musical mastery, intellect, and spiritual renewal.

More than a culmination of studies, ...

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Warner Home Video Releases Jazz Films

Source: All About Jazz
July 14, 2008

21 “Inspired by a true story," director Robert Luketic's movie is about a math professor at M.I.T. (Kevin Spacey) who recruits a group of brilliant students (including Jim Sturgess and Kate Bosworth) to master blackjack and win a bundle in Las Vegas casinos. Both single- and two-disc editions include a commentary by Luketic and producers Dana Brunetti and Michael De Luca and three documentaries (21 - The Advantage Player, Basic Strategy: A Complete Film Journal and Money Plays: A Tour ...

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World Music Festival Highlights Art, Music

Source: All About Jazz
July 14, 2008

ON A RECENT hot July afternoon, artist Joseph Tiberino sat with friends at a table in the courtyard adjoining the several homes that make up the West Philly museum named for his late wife, Ellen Powell Tiberino. The old friends drank Argentinian cabernet out of water glasses, chatted about everything from recent art acquisitions to the first rock 'n' roll record, and casually planned a film shoot for later that evening. That blend of communal spirit and artistic endeavor is ...

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Good Beer... and All That Jazz

Source: All About Jazz
July 14, 2008

Some of you might be in a sentimental mood this week, as popular jazz tunes will be reunited with some of the best real ales for the 21st annual Reading Real Ale and Jazz Festival. But unlike the song, it won't be Stella by Starlight as all the jars are real ale from small breweries. A huge marquee will be erected in Christchurch Meadow - just a few minutes walk from Reading's train station - to accommodate the live music ...

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Carnegie Hall Announces 'Just Jazz' Concert Series

Source: All About Jazz
July 14, 2008

Carnegie Hall has announced a new three-concert jazz series in Zankel Hall for its 2008-2009 season. Entitled Just Jazz: The Joyce Wein Series.

The Just Jazz series features performances by artists like Michel Camilo Trio and Andr Previn Jazz Trio, along with a special concert by George Wein and an all-star ensemble of friends in a program dedicated to Wein's late wife, Joyce, called To Joyce with Love.

“The Jazz of Ellington, Basie, Lunceford, Goodman, Holiday, and so many others ...

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