Jazz News

Country Artists Join Jazz Musician Charlie Haden

Source: All About Jazz
July 12, 2008

Charlie Haden's Ocean of Diamonds Release Sept 23rd

Rosanne Cash, Vince Gill and Ricky Skaggs are among the guests artists featured on an upcoming album by jazz bassist, Charlie Haden. Ocean of Diamonds will be released on Sept. 23 on Decca.

Additional guests include Russ Barenberg, Sam Bush, Elvis Costello, Jerry Douglas, Stuart Duncan, Bela Fleck, Buddy Green, Bruce Hornsby, John Leventhal, Bryan Sutton and Dan Tyminski, as well as jazz guitarist Pat Metheny and actor Jack Black (who is ...

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Norma Winstone Britain's Poetic Jazz Singer

Source: All About Jazz
July 12, 2008

Veteran jazz vocalist Norma Winstone's new CD, Distances, features lyrics of her own, plus those by Peter Gabriel, Cole Porter and Pier Paolo Pasolini.

IN A CAREER SPANNING FIVE DECADES, British jazz vocalist Norma Winstone has pioneered, experimented and collaborated to push her music to the cutting edge. She's developed “wordless" vocals, written her own lyrics and covered the classics, always ending up with something new. The dark atmosphere in Winstone's cover of Cole Porter's “Every Time We Say Goodbye" ...

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Denver's Five Points Community Hosts 7-Day Jazz & Blues Festival

Source: All About Jazz
July 12, 2008

Denver's historic Five Points will be the home of the After Five Jazz & Blues Festival 2008, a music extravaganza Aug. 23-29 during the Democratic National Convention. “The DNC will give Denver an opportunity to shine and we want to celebrate Denver's diverse communities, specifically the African-American culture in Five Points given its deep history in jazz and blues, “ says Tamara Banks, spokesperson for After Five, LLC, the group producing the event. From the 1920s to 1950s, Five Points ...

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FCC: Comcast Violated Net Neutrality Rules

Source: All About Jazz
July 12, 2008

Battle of Network Neutrality FCC chief says Comcast violated Internet rules Company violated agency principles that guarantee open access to web

This is going to be a bellwether.

The head of the Federal Communications Commission said Thursday he will recommend that the nation's largest cable company be punished for violating agency principles that guarantee customers open access to the Internet. The potentially precedent-setting move stems from a complaint against Comcast Corp. that the company had blocked Internet traffic among users ...

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Jazz Legend Avoids Home Foreclosure, for Now

Source: All About Jazz
July 12, 2008

Quincy Jones among those who helped raise $43,000 for Seattle singer SEATTLE - Jazz vocalist Ernestine Anderson's home has been saved from foreclosure -- for now. Thanks, in part, to music legend Quincy Jones and contemporary jazz artist Diane Schuur. More than $43,000 poured in -- including donations from Jones and Schuur -- after recent news stories about the Seattle jazz legend's financial woes, said Carmen Gayton, a friend of Anderson's family. The money to stop the foreclosure was delivered ...

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Chicago's Aging Blues Scene Growing Tired

Source: All About Jazz
July 12, 2008

Wailing guitars, moaning harmonicas falling silent as Chicago's clubs continue to close>

The decline is partly because national interest in the music waned -- and that's reflected in the city's club scene.

Blues guitar virtuosos and honey-voiced singers filled the Chicago streets with music during the 1950s. Muddy Waters' guitar seeped from corner juke joints. Willie Dixon strummed bass guitar beats, echoing the city's blues sound. Now more than a half century later, a music that was born in the ...

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Sean Smith Trio @ 55 Bar on July 22

Source: All About Jazz
July 12, 2008

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Sean O'Bryan Smith "Tapestry" Added to Radio Playlists

Source: All About Jazz
July 12, 2008

Sean O'Bryan Smith and Tapestry continue to weave their way into the Jazz World Since Sean O'Bryan Smith's April release of his first solo CD Tapestry, reviews and radio come in praising the freshman effort on a daily basis. A recent review from Jazz.com's Walter Kolosky reads “Smith is a top-notch composer and an even better bassist. Tapestry, both title tune and album, contains strong melodies and is expertly performed." Robert Silverstein of 20th Century Guitar Magazine also commented “Upbeat ...

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