Jazz News

The Hot Club of Detroit CD Night Town

Source: All About Jazz
July 10, 2008

The Hot Club of Detroit has always walked a delicate tightrope, honoring its commitment to the nostalgia of Django Reinhardt-inspired gypsy jazz with the recognition that jazz and American culture didn't stop evolving in 1944.

If the band looks too far into the past, it becomes simply an exercise in musical dress-up. If it looks too far into the future, the music turns into awkward pastiche. On Night Town, the Detroit quintet's sophomore album for Mack Avenue Records, the band ...

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Old 97's Murry Hammond's First Solo Album Due August 18

Source: conqueroo
July 10, 2008

On August 18, 2008, Old 97's bass player and co-frontman Murry Hammond will celebrate the national release of his first full-length album outside of the Old 97's.

For two months prior to this street date, the album - I Don't Know Where I'm Going But I'm On My Way - was made available exclusively at Old 97's shows and through special mail- order. Hammond wished to capitalize on fan anticipation of the album's release in order to raise funds for ...

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Argentina's Orquesta Tipica Imperial Will Open TD Canada Trust Atlantic Jazz Festival

Source: All About Jazz
July 10, 2008

A blast of jazz Today, more than a century later, the bandoneon reigns as the main voice in the tango, South America's soul music.

22nd Atlantic Jazz Festival opens with Argentina's Orquesta Tipica Imperial will open the TD Canada Trust Atlantic Jazz Festival on Friday night in the Mainstage Tent on Spring Garden Road.

FAMED ARGENTINIAN tango composer Astor Piazzolla called it a diabolical instrument. But it started its life in Buenos Aires as a portable organ imported ...

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Wall-E Buzz Best Picture of the Year

Source: All About Jazz
July 10, 2008

WALL-E, Pixar's lonely little post-apocalyptic robot, is quickly collecting a lot of friends. Critics have applauded the animated film all the way to a 97% Fresh rating on the movie-review website Rotten Tomatoes -- the year's best so far.

Audiences have spent $128 million at the box office in WALL-E's first 10 days of release, placing the film seventh so far in 2008, and it is likely to climb closer to the heroes of May -- Indiana Jones and Iron ...

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Apple's New Online App Store

Source: Michael Ricci
July 10, 2008

Apple will open App Store, the online retailer's debut coincides with the launch of the newest version of the device. The company will offer such programs as language translators and tip calculators.

One program allows you to create music on the iPhone. Press G when you park your car, it gives you map to return to it.

When the new iPhone goes on sale Friday, Apple Inc. will also launch an online software store peddling a potpourri of programs such ...

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New Jazz Photo Exhibit Uses Jazz Friendship of Eliison, Murray and Bearden as Inspiration

Source: All About Jazz
July 10, 2008

The Museum of Contemporary African Disaporan Arts (MoCADA) welcomes Kindred Cool: Portraits inspired by the jazz friendship of Romare Bearden, Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray. Produced by Brooklyn-based photographer Laylah Amatullah Barrayn in conjunction with Up South, Inc., Kindred Cool documents the New York metro jazz community through friendships where jazz is a substantial link.

Through photographic portraits, the images of Kindred Cool recreates the friendship of Romare Bearden, Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray by composing trios of individuals who ...

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Jazz Em Agosto 2008

Source: All About Jazz
July 10, 2008

Extensions is the defining concept for Jazz em Agosto 2008. This is the 25th Jazz em Agosto, since the event was launched in 1984, and over the course of two and a half decades it has documented contemporary jazz as it happened and introduced its prime movers. Jazz first came into being with the start of the twentieth century, and now, in the early twenty first, jazz is more than ever questioning its identity, the reality of its enduring validity ...

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Marco Benevento Trio + Blast Off!!! at Galapagos

Source: All About Jazz
July 10, 2008

The 4th and installment of the “Real. Live. Music." series at Galapagos Art Space in Williamsburg will be taking place on Wed, 7/16 with:

MARCO BENEVENTO TRIO Marco Benevento - keys (Benevento/Russo Duo) Marc Friedman - bass (The Slip) Adam Deitch - drums (Lettuce, Wyclef Jean, Talib Kweli)

BLAST OFF!!! feat. MIKE GAMBLE Adam Schatz - sax Sam Levin - drums Mike Gamble - guitar

Wednesday, July 16th ...

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