Jazz News

Brisbane Festival 2008 in Association with Jazz Queensland Present

Source: All About Jazz
July 10, 2008

Brisbane Jazz lovers are in for a real treat as Brisbane Festival joins forces with Jazz Queensland to present an exciting series of Jazz concerts in the beautiful and historic Courier-Mail Spiegeltent every Sunday afternoon during the Brisbane Festival 2008 Season 20 July - 3rd August from 2pm-5pm. The Jazz On Sunday program will showcase 55 of Brisbane's best jazz improvisers and performers, including some nationally and internationally renowned artists, who will all be performing across an highly entertaining array ...

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Beyond Persia Brings Mohsen Namjoo to US

Source: All About Jazz
July 10, 2008

Mohsen Namjoo, Iran's best known, and most controversial contemporary musician, is scheduled to perform his first six US concerts, starting September, 2008.

Namjoo has signed an exclusive agent agreement with Beyond Persia, a San Francisco based, non-profit cultural organization, dedicated to fostering cross-cultural appreciation via the arts. Beyond Persia will be representing Mohsen Namjoo as his sole US agent through 2009, and has sponsored the visa application he needs to perform legally in the United States. “We consider it an ...

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Tanzanian Musician Ras Nas AKA Nasibu at Mantra in Oslo

Source: All About Jazz
July 10, 2008

Tanzanian musician Ras Nas aka Nasibu is ready to make this year's summer in Oslo one of the hottest.

Ras Nas with band plays at MS Innvik 18th July 2008. This will be a night of live roots reggae, African music and poetry. In short a night to remember. Put a cross on this date in your calendar and do not miss the show! Also appearing at this summer event dubbed “MANTRA" by the organizers, are Papa Lion aka Mankind ...

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Bruce Conner San Francisco Artist with 1950s Beat Roots Dies

Source: Michael Ricci
July 10, 2008

Bruce Conner, an artist internationally admired for his haunting, surrealistic sculptures and groundbreaking avant-garde films, died on Monday at his home in San Francisco. He was 74.

A key figure in the San Francisco Beat scene in the late 1950s, Mr. Conner first became known for his assemblages made from women's nylon stockings, parts of furniture, broken dolls, fur, costume jewelry, paint, photographs and candles. These works, created between 1957 and 1964, had the aggressive appearance of avant-garde sculpture but ...

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3rd Annual Lincoln Park Music Festival, Two-Day Jazz Series

Source: All About Jazz
July 9, 2008

Thursday, July 24, 5:30 p.m. and Friday, July 25 noon-5 p.m., FREE 3rd Annual Lincoln Park Music Festival, Two-Day Jazz Series: Thursday, July 24, 5:30 p.m., Opening Photography Exhibition and Reception titled “Music Speaks", an annual exhibit showcasing music through an unorthodox medium. The exhibition is curated by Tony Graves featuring photography of contemporary, classic and fusion Jazz Greats Nnenna Freelon, Santana, Jimmy Heath and others by various photographers, the exhibition will run until September 1st. The Opening Reception will ...

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Grandvista Makes Grand Entrance to American Standards

Source: MusicDish Network
July 9, 2008

GrandVista Music, Nashville, Tennessee is pleased to introduce SWINGIN' ON THE MOON from Perry Danos. Perry Danos, who hails from Chicago, where an array of sounds echo through the streets of the City (from Rock, Blues, Jazz, Country and the Symphony), is an accomplished, versatile, live performer who is set to make his national debut with SWINGIN' ON THE MOON not based on corporate directive, but out of sheer personal, artistic preference. Having become a “voice in demand," Danos has ...

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Is Apple Ready to Bust a Blu-Ray Move?

Source: All About Jazz
July 9, 2008

Will Apple Deliver new Mac Pro's with Blu-ray Drives Soon?

Apple has never been big on alliances, coalitions or other formal industry-wide groupings. Case in point: The company joined the Blu-ray Disc Association in 2005 promising to help promote the high-definition format and then did pretty much nothing (at least in a commercial sense) for close to three years. This despite Jobs acknowledging that “consumers are...anxiously awaiting a way to burn their own high-def DVDs." Apparently, they weren't anxious enough ...

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Erie Art Museum Blues & Jazz Festival Reveals Line-Up

Source: All About Jazz
July 9, 2008

Erie Art Museum Blues and Jazz Festival August 2 & 3, 2008 Frontier Park, Erie, PA Free. Rain or Shine. The 16th annual Erie Art Museum Blues & Jazz Festival returns to Frontier Park on Saturday, Aug. 2 & Sunday, Aug. 3, 2008. For two days and two nights, Frontier Park comes alive with what has proven itself to be the region's most dynamic musical events; this free community event is held ...

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