Jazz News

"Wigged Out!" New Acker Bros Release on Modern Artists Label

Source: All About Jazz
July 13, 2008

They're at it again!...I will resist the urge to sputter about not having been asked to write a commentary on the last Acker Bros. record If That, Then This...water over the bridge, guys. This latest offering by the brothers, who have been unfairly characterized as second-string ditty-smiths, is a foray into musical territory yet unknown (perhaps unknowable!) to their dry, high-brow, poll-reading critics. This music grooves, bops...as incandescent as a neon sign! And there could be no more fitting a ...

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Winona MN Dixieland Jazz Fest

Source: All About Jazz
July 13, 2008

The 21st annual Dixieland Jazz Festival brought standard jazz songs to the Winona area Saturday at Goodview Pavilion.

Eric Meyer, 17, plays during the Dixieland Jazz Festival at the Goodview Pavilion Saturday. Meyer has participated in the jazz clinic, put on by the Winona State University music department, for the past four years. For the fourth year, high school students got the chance to play the festival through a Dixieland workshop hosted by Winona State University's music department. The two-day ...

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Miami's Jazz Scene

Source: All About Jazz
July 13, 2008

These cats have a plan for Miami's jazz scene!

I feel the pieces are in place right now in South Florida. -Larry Rosen, Jazz Roots

With a jazz series to debut in the fall and plans to open a jazz club on site this year, the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts is embarking on the cultural equivalent of a jazz solo: exploring new rhythmic and melodic paths, not knowing where they will lead but confident that ...

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Temecula Jazz Fest

Source: All About Jazz
July 13, 2008

TEMECULA: Jazz lovers turn out for festival Annual event ends Sunday

Music fans turned out for shopping, a parade and, of course, live music at this weekend's annual Temecula Valley International Jazz Festival. The festival ends Sunday with several events, including Ruby and the Red Hots, a youth jazz festival, and a “wrap party jam session." Now in its fifth year, the festival started Thursday with a series of free and paid concerts throughout Old Town by musicians ...

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Chicago Glen Ellyn Jazz Fest a Draw Despite Weather Threat

Source: All About Jazz
July 13, 2008

Chicago Jazz Scene The forecast in downtown Glen Ellyn Saturday wasn't hazy at all, despite the darkening skies and light, rainy mist that threatened an otherwise pleasant midafternoon.

By 2 p.m., a few hundred people had gathered on Main Street south of the train tracks, clearly expecting an afternoon and evening filled with cool, smooth, traditional and big-band style jazz, courtesy of the second annual Jazz Fest Glen Ellyn. “I myself like Henry Johnson," said fest-goer Terry Smith, ...

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Detroit Library of Spoken Words and Jazz

Source: All About Jazz
July 13, 2008

Detroit has got to be one of the jazziest cities in the nation, where you can stop by the public library after work for a great evening of jazz and spoken words.

Now in its eighth season, Comerica Java and Jazz provides a monthly after-work concert that showcases local talent at the Detroit Main Library. The entertainment is free and open to all. Concerts start at 6 p.m. on the third Tuesday of each month. This Tuesday, poet Ber-Henda Williams, ...

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"Johnny Cash Remixed" Set for October 14 Release

Source: All About Jazz
July 13, 2008

Compadre Records/Music World Music has announced the release of Johnny Cash Remixed, featuring bold new interpretations of Johnny Cash classics from top music remixers and producers who were recruited to take the original master recordings and infuse them with the sounds and technology of modern music styles such as hip hop and dance music. The album, which includes a performance from Snoop Dogg, will be available in stores and online on October 14. A vinyl deluxe-edition will be available on ...

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Swing out Sister: The Stunning New Album - "Beautiful Mess"

Source: All About Jazz
July 13, 2008

Swing Out Sister release their ninth studio album in the UK on Monday 8th September. The new album is entitled Beautiful Mess and features the single Something Every Day, to be released as a digital download single on September 1st. The band's ninth studio album, evokes a more intimate, jazzy sound. Corinne Drewery's voice has a more mature timbre, supported by Andy Connell's unusually restrained, rhythm-heavy backdrop, yet still interwoven with their signature string and vocal arrangements featuring Gina Foster. ...

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