Jazz News

Blues Festival Extends Ticket Sales, Releases Revised Plan and Map

Source: All About Jazz
July 2, 2008

The Mississippi Valley Blues Society today announced it is extending advance ticket sales through tomorrow, in hopes of selling more $40 three-day passes to help offset the nonprofit organization's costs of moving the festival from LeClaire Park to the streets of downtown Davenport, due to the Flood of 2008.

“The IH Mississippi Valley Blues Festival provides an excellent staycation for local residents and an affordable weekend getaway for our fellow Midwesterners recovering from the Flood of 2008," says Joe Taylor, ...

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Groove Collective at Sullivan Hall July 17

Source: All About Jazz
July 2, 2008

"Impressive" does not adequately describe Groove Collective's accolades. They have toured Japan with BB King, Europe with Fred Wesley, Canada with the Dave Matthews Band, and recorded with Grammy winning Cuban pianist Chucho Valdez. The have backed the likes of Tupac Shakur (voted #2 all time live Hip Hop performance on MTV), Morcheeba, Don Cherry, Pharcyde and Natalie Merchant, and shared stages with some of the biggest names in music, including James Brown, Maceo Parker, Erykah Badu, Tito Puente, Issac ...

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Jazz up Summertime with Turner Classic's Big-Band Movie Marathon

Source: All About Jazz
July 2, 2008

When it rose in popularity between the Jazz Age and the advent of rock 'n' roll, big band music was aided by dovetailing nicely with the movies being made at the time. Turner Classic Movies takes advantage of this for a monthlong, 42-film Wednesday night festival of “Big Bands in the Movies." It begins with the 1937 Busby Berkeley-directed “Hollywood Hotel" (8 p.m.) featuring the work of a young Benny Goodman. It's followed by the 1941 “Las Vegas Nights" (10 ...

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Stanley Jordan to Appear in the Music Center at Strathmore

Source: All About Jazz
July 2, 2008

Strathmore presents groundbreaking guitarist Stanley Jordan on Friday, July 25, 2008 at 8 p.m. in the Music Center at Strathmore in North Bethesda, Maryland. From the moment he made his debut in 1985 with the gold-selling Grammy-nominated album Magic Touch, guitar virtuoso Stanley Jordan has proven himself as a forward thinking innovator. With his nimbly executed “touch" or “tap" technique, he ushered a spellbinding new sound into the world of progressive instrumental music. Over the course of five major recordings ...

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Eric Reed to Perform at First Annual "Jazz to Support Life" Event

Source: All About Jazz
July 2, 2008

Get a Life Childcare Foundation, the only non-profit foundation in the nation dedicated to caring for children whose parents or siblings are living with chronic or terminal illness, will be holding their first annual “Jazz to Support Life" event benefiting the foundation's second child care facility in West Los Angeles. The evening will feature Wynton Marsalis' Jazz Piano prodigy, Eric Reed and a silent auction. The event is to be held from 5:30 p.m. - 11 p.m. on Saturday, July ...

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Jamie Cullum Record with Telefunken

Source: All About Jazz
July 2, 2008

The new album by British artist Jamie Cullum, produced by Greg Wells, utilizes a pair of Telefunken | USA Ela M 250E mics, faithful reproductions of the classic microphone originally marketed in 1959. “This new microphone has all the warmth, the body, and the depth of the original, “ remarks Greg Wells. “But the detail and the resolution of the high end has some extra quality that is especially appealing. They figured out a way to have it all, but ...

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Urban and Latin Jazz from Dave Victorino and His Little Big Band

Source: All About Jazz
July 2, 2008

Dave Victorino on Tenor Sax and his Little Big Band will be performing at the Laguna Sawdust Festival in Laguna Beach, California, July 14 and August 18, 2008, as well as summer performances at Spazios and various city parks and music festivals in the Los Angeles area. Their calendar and booking information can be viewed at musicbyvictorino.com. Dave's most recent album, Alleys Less Traveled, 2008, can be heard at CDBaby.com. Dave has been a fixture on the Latin music scene ...

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New Jerry Tachoir Group CD

Source: All About Jazz
July 2, 2008

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