Jazz News

All About Jazz Partners with EvieSays.com to Increase Calendar Content

Source: All About Jazz
July 1, 2008

All About Jazz has partnered with EvieSays.com, a leading event and entertainment listing company, to vastly increase the number of events actively listed at All About Jazz. “More event listings means a more comprehensive calendar," says Michael Ricci, founder and publisher of All About Jazz. “Our goal is to promote live jazz events and distribute that information to our readers at the local level. The EvieSays partnership gives our calendar a real shot in the arm... the more comprehensive our ...

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Four Free MP3 Downloads from Resonance Records: Gene Harris, Andreas Oberg, John Beasley, and Mike Garson

Source: All About Jazz
July 1, 2008

Four free MP3s from the first set of Resonance Records album releases. Includes tracks from Gene Harris' Live in London, Andreas Oberg's My Favorite Guitars, John Beasley's Letter to Herbie, and Mike Garson's Conversations with My Family.

Blue Monk Gene Harris From Live in London 11:19 4AM John Beasley From Letter to Herbie 5:52 The Trick Bag Andreas Oberg From My Favorite Guitars

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Cellist Joan Jeanrenaud Unveils Her New CD, Strange Toys

Source: Michael Bloom Media Relations
July 1, 2008

Joan Jeanrenaud Unveils Strange Toys, Her First Album Of Original Compositions World-renowned cellist and Kronos Quartet pioneer extends contemporary classical sounds with unusual instruments, loops, electronic beats, and special guests Talking House Records announces the release of Joan Jeanrenaud's Strange Toys. Lauded throughout the experimental and avant-garde world for her “incredible cello technique" (Annie Gosfield) and as “the queen of all us cellists" (Wendy Sutter), for her previous solo album Metamorphosis, and for her 20-year body of work with Kronos ...

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Third Series of Jazz Icons Debuts September 30!

Source: Michael Bloom Media Relations
July 1, 2008

New series of Jazz Icons DVD's features vintage unseen concerts featuring Sonny Rollins, Oscar Peterson, Lionel Hampton, Nina Simone, Bill Evans, Cannonball Adderley, Rahsaan Roland Kirk.

“Jazz Icons is doing for jazz what the Criterion Collection has done for classic and important films." - Jazz Times

“The sound quality is first rate, and the performances are extraordinary." - Newsweek

“I can't say enough about the presentation of these DVDs. Not only have the producers gotten the best possible picture and ...

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Stevie Holland Releases "Before Love Has Gone" on June 24, 2008

Source: DL Media
July 1, 2008

"Virtually every important jazz singer to emerge in the past two decades has had to find a way to expand the familiar repertoire of golden-age standards. Stevie covers the waterfront...Effortless swing and a radiant wit...a self-possessed tour de force.“ - Gary Giddins

Stevie Holland's new CD Before Love Has Gone is a collection of rarely recorded classics and standards as well as original songs penned by Holland and her collaborator, award winning composer Gary William Friedman, who also did the ...

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Live Nation Dishes Ticketmaster

Source: All About Jazz
July 1, 2008

Live Nation moved a step closer to becoming its own ticketing entity when their contract ends with Ticketmaster

Live Nation at year's end by hiring a chief executive to oversee the ticketing unit. Nathan Hubbard was hired as CEO of the new division after serving in the same position at Musictoday, another ticketing company Live Nation purchased in 2006. Hubbard is expected to build a platform that will enable Live Nation to handle the expected 20 million tickets it intends ...

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Singer Jessica Lombard Transcends Teens

Source: All About Jazz
July 1, 2008

Teen Tunes Up Singer Jessica Lombard of Torrance has a maturity that transcends her 13 years

Jessica Lombard of Torrance has put out her first CD as a singer/songwriter and has retained a New York manager. At gigs in Los Angeles, her parents come, too -- after all, the singer is only 13. Torrance resident Jessica Lombard regularly gigs in Los Angeles, singing her own compositions while playing keyboard. She has a big-time New York manager, who also ...

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McCartney Headlines Quebec Anniversary Bash

Source: All About Jazz
July 1, 2008

Paul McCartney to Headline Quebec City's 400th Birthday Party

Paul McCartney will help Quebec City celebrate its 400th anniversary by performing in the French-Canadian province on July 20th. The show is expected to be Macca's only North American concert this year, and his first performance in Canada since 2005. “Music is a good way to celebrate an anniversary like this. It's a universal language which unites everyone," McCartney said in a video message. “Our two countries have historic links which ...

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