Jazz News

Dan Pugach Quartet Live at the Berklee Performance Center

Source: All About Jazz
June 19, 2008

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All About Jazz Tops 20,000 Alexa.com Ranking

Source: All About Jazz
June 18, 2008

All About Jazz eclipsed the 20,000 Alexa.com ranking mark making it one of the highest ranked websites in the world. With a current rank of 19,566, AAJ has joined an elite group of music websites like PopMatters.com and JamBase.com. “It's doubtful we'll ever challenge the likes of RollingStone.com (2,194) or Billboard.com (1,639), but our current rank is phenomenal for a niche music website... and we don't have the support of a national print brand," stated Michael Ricci, founder and publisher ...

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The Jazz Journalists Association Announces 2008 Jazz Award Winners

Source: DL Media
June 18, 2008

The Jazz Journalists Association announces winners of the 2008 Jazz Awards, the non-profit professional organization's 12th annual celebration of excellence in jazz and jazz journalism, and induction of an “A Team" of activists, advocates, altruists, aiders and abettors of jazz, The Jazz Awards are engraved statuettes, handed to attending recipients by jazz journalists and their supporters at a barbeque and beer lunch at the Jazz Standard, Wednesday June 18. For further information about the Jazz Awards and Jazz Journalists Association, ...

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Trombonist Marc Smason's Performance Dates

Source: All About Jazz
June 18, 2008

Alfonse Somebody & the Jr. Detectives (aka Marc Smason)

Mondays 9-11 pm with Greg Glassman - guitar Diane Peterson - reeds Michael Barnett - bass

Ugly Mug (Great coffee & food!) 11425 Rainier S. Renton 206 772-3751

Wednesday June 18 4-6 pm Michael Barnett - bass Diane Peterson - reeds

Columbia City Farmer's Market Columbia Plaza ...

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Tom Waits Tour Anything but Old Hat

Source: Michael Ricci
June 18, 2008

On a Glitter and Doom stop in Phoenix, he finds ways to freshen his considerable songbook. The sprawling, brawling concert Tom Waits gave here Tuesday, opening his Glitter and Doom tour with two nights at the city's grand old Orpheum, found its central image, unsurprisingly, in a hat. This wasn't just any of the countless porkpies and fedoras that have sat upon the head of rock's great junkman chorister. It was a mirrored bowler that Waits donned while performing the ...

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Marco Benevento in Los Angeles at the Coronet Theater

Source: Calabro Music
June 18, 2008

WHO: MARCO BENEVENTO (with Reed Mathis on bass and Matt Chamberlain on drums)

WHEN: WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25 Show at: 8:30 PM

WHERE: LARGO (AT THE CORONET THEATER) 366 N. La Cienega Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90048 (310) 855-0350

PRICE: $30

WHAT: In Support Of Debut Solo Album, INVISIBLE BABY, Marco Benevento performs with his trio, featuring Reed Mathis (Jacob Fred ...

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America Once Had Talent

Source: All About Jazz
June 18, 2008

American Film Insitute Top Ten List

The first summer it was on the air, NBC's America's Got Talent was an amusing diversion. The next, it was a forgettable holdover. Now, it just seems like a cruel, sarcastically named taunt. OK, NBC, we get it--we get it! America does not in fact have talent! Do you need to keep rubbing our noses in it summer after summer? For those who wish to reminisce about the days when America, I'm told, did ...

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Live from Blue Lake: Phil Ogilvie's Rhythm Kings

Source: All About Jazz
June 18, 2008

The finale of this season's “Live From Blue Lake" radio concert series is June 19th at 10 p.m. with Phil Ogilvie's Rhythm Kings playing the arrangements and transcriptions by pianist James DaPogny of music from the 1930's when jazz pioneers Jelly Roll Morton and King Oliver as well as a young Duke Ellington began to explore sections of instruments, enlarging the instrumentation of the classic jazz ensemble. At 10 pieces Phil Ogilvie's Rhythm Kings is the largest jazz ensemble “Live ...

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