Jazz News

Jazzmobile Kicks Off Its 45th Summer Festival

Source: Cheryl Duncan & Company
June 23, 2008

Jazzmobile unveilled its 45th Summer Festival schedule--a free summer mobile jazz concert series of nearly 60 performances across the five boroughs, Mount Vernon and Newark, New Jersey--with a concert Saturday at the Make Music New York Festival. The kick off, which included swing music by the Harlem Renaissance Orchestra with special guests Lou Donaldson, Ghanniyyah Green and Houston Person and introduced the winner of the Fifth Annual Jazzmobile Vocal Competition, took place on the plaza of the Adam Clayton Powell, ...

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Tim Warfield CD Release Party This Weekend at the Bohemian Caverns, Washington D.C.

Source: All About Jazz
June 23, 2008

Saxophonist Tim Warfield will be leading a super charged group this weekend to celebrate his “New" release on the Criss Cross label entitled One For Shirley. The CD is a tribute to the late Shirley Scott, the legendary jazz organist of whom was Warfield's friend and mentor. Performances will be held this Friday, June 27, and Saturday, June 28th, at the Bohemian Caverns located at 2001 Eleventh St., N.W. Washington D.C. 20001. The group will feature young trumpet sensation Brandon ...

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JazzWeek Summit 2008: Awards Presented in 14 Categories

Source: All About Jazz
June 23, 2008

ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- Awards were presented in 14 categories at the fifth JazzWeek Awards, held June 21 at the JazzWeek Summit at the Clarion Riverside Hotel in Rochester, N.Y. The JazzWeek Summit is a gathering of radio programmers, record labels and promoters, musicians, and others interested in jazz radio promotion and programming. Radio stations and radio programmers were recognized in three market-size categories. Radio station of the year in markets 1-25 was WBGO, Newark, N.J. In markets 26-79, radio station ...

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Latin Fusion Wednesdays Summer Concert Series

Source: All About Jazz
June 23, 2008

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Herzog at the End of the Earth

Source: Michael Ricci
June 23, 2008

EXTREME MEASURES: Werner Herzog Explores the Antarctic The filmmaker travels to the South Pole to make what he says might be the deepest film of his career, 'Encounters at the End of the World.' His film crew consisting only of him and a cameraman.

“The only thing that becomes quite obvious in Antarctica," he said, “is that our presence on this planet, the human presence on the planet, is not really sustainable."

WERNER HERZOG says he should have ...

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Prescott Jazz Summit is Annual Festival in Northern Arizona

Source: All About Jazz
June 23, 2008

By Patricia Myers

The annual Prescott Jazz Summit, August 22-24, has the theme “A Jazz Party of the First Order" and will be staged in northern Arizona's cool, pine-studded mountain region. Events will be indoors and on historic Courthouse Square, site of the original state capital, a two-hour drive from the Phoenix airport.

“The festival will feature a mix of California and Arizona jazz musicians, including former Stan Kenton Orchestra members," said coordinator Mike Vax, a trumpeter and Kenton band ...

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Town in India Rocks (No Use to Wonder Why, Babe)

Source: Michael Ricci
June 23, 2008

Worshipers sway to gospel music.Phu Baba, an Indian musician with a liking for Pink Floyd, rocks at the Roots Festival in Shillong.The rocker Lou Majaw salutes Bob Dylan's birthday.

SHILLONG, India -- Lou Majaw wore his signature skin-tight, cutoff short-shorts. His long gray hair hung like dirty threads around his face. Eyes closed in prayer, a guitar cupped in arms, he strummed the chords to “Blowin' in the Wind." Fans danced in Shillong, a town in northeast India known for ...

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ESP-Disk Returns to the Forefront of Modern Music

Source: All About Jazz
June 23, 2008

ESP-DISK, the premiere American avant garde record label of the sixties--one of the most turbulently creative periods in music history-has returned to reclaim its rich legacy with a series of releases that include reissues of groundbreaking out of print albums from its extensive catalogue, exciting previously unreleased live sessions from its vaults and new recordings that follow in its great tradition of presenting cutting edge modern musicians under the banner of “The artists alone decide..." The latest collection of compact ...

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