Jazz News

Ticketmaster Suit to String out String Cheese Incident

Source: All About Jazz
June 20, 2008

Mike Luba Press Converence Explains Law Suit Over String Cheese Incident

SCI Ticketing, which was founded in 1998 as a partnership between The String Cheese Incident (SCI) and its managing company Madison House Inc, filed a lawsuit against Ticketmaster Corporation on Aug. 11, 2003, alleging that the company, through acquisition and abuse of long-term, exclusive agreements with venue owners, has attempted to foreclose SCI Ticketing from competing in the already scarce market. Until recently, SCI has been provided by venues ...

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Tuesdays on the Terrace: Jimmy Ellis

Source: All About Jazz
June 20, 2008

Tuesdays on the Terrace: Jimmy Ellis Tuesday, July 8 5:30 - 8 p.m. MCA Terrace and Sculpture Garden Free Tuesdays on the Terrace presents another inspiring season of free evening jazz concerts on the MCA's Terrace and Sculpture Garden. Hosted by local radio personalities, visitors are invited to enjoy cocktails, Puck's Express snacks, or a dinner buffet from Puck's Cafe while listening to Chicago's finest jazz musicians. Dinner reservations at Puck's are ...

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Litchfield Jazz Festival 2008 Line-Up

Source: All About Jazz
June 20, 2008

The 13th Annual Litchfield Jazz Festival is set and tickets are now on sale at litchfieldjazzfest.com. The event will be held on August 1, 2, 3, at the Goshen Fairgrounds in Northwest Connecticut. Diana Krall, who made her US festival debut on the first Litchfield Jazz Festival, recently called it “one of the best festivals." Litchfield has a reputation for introducing the next “big thing" while also presenting jazz giants. JazzTimes named it “among the best of the best," and ...

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Harry Skoler and Ed Saindon: Esteemed Jazz Musicians Release New Album

Source: Mixed Media Promotion
June 20, 2008

Jazz Clarinetist Harry Skoler and Vibist Ed Saindon team up for TWO ONES, a new recording to be released Fall of 2008 Two Ones will be jazz clarinetist Harry Skoler's fourth recording as a leader. He collaborates with vibist Ed Saindon to compose original jazz compositions featuring intimate musical portraits expressed in duo and quintet settings. The quintet's unique sound highlights the blend of clarinet, flute and vibes/piano. In addition to the quintet tracks, the recording showcases emotionally compelling clarinet ...

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Dan Pugach Quartet Live at the Berklee Performance Center

Source: All About Jazz
June 20, 2008

The Dan Pugach Quartet is composed of an international cast of top-level musicians from Berklee College of Music. This talented group of artists has worked together in various capacities for the past few years and is now focused on performing its original compositions as well as inventive arrangements of the standard jazz repertoire. The group is already playing in venues in Boston area and getting ready for a tour in Japan.

The Quartet: Jeremy Sinclair - Trumpet

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France Offers to Take Jazz

Source: All About Jazz
June 20, 2008

Festivals and Events in Rhone-Alpes

Every year the city of Lyon hosts several days of luminous festivities during its Fte des Lumires, culminating on December 8. On that day, tradition dictates that all residents of Lyon place candles outside their windows, resulting in a lovely glow throughout the city. The city itself also goes to great lengths to light up the night, putting on magnificent light shows and spectacles all over town. Many of Lyon's beautiful historic buildings are lit ...

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Theo Croker: A Global Jazz Sensation in the Making

Source: Mosnar Communications, Inc
June 20, 2008

Brenda Bradley of Exalt Entertainment Group interviews International up and coming favorite Theo Croker about his thoughts on the jazz industry and future plans. What do you believe is behind your growing international audience? Well, for one thing, winning the Presser Foundation Award and being able to use the funding for my first recording, The Fundamentals, gave me a lot of artistic freedom. I was also able to independently distribute to international radio for airplay. And the response was great. ...

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A Tribute to Alice Coltrane

Source: Michael Ricci
June 20, 2008

Hymns and Blues in the Name of Family Ravi Coltrane at the New York Society for Ethical Culture.

One of the revelations of “A Tribute to Alice Coltrane," the JVC Jazz Festival concert on Tuesday night at the New York Society for Ethical Culture, was a short film clip of Ms. Coltrane playing piano in Paris in 1959. She was smiling, running through fast bebop with the drummer Kenny Clarke and the saxophonist Lucky Thompson, and skating through ...

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