Jazz News

Arturo Sandoval at the Suncadia Jazz Festival

Source: All About Jazz
June 18, 2008

Saturday, August 2nd, 2008 Suncadia Jazz Festival Featuring Arturo Sandoval with special guests Cambalache, Darren Motamedy and Michael Powers $20 ADV / $25 DOS Doors @ 2pm | Music begins @ 2:30pm Suncadia Resort Cle Elum, WA suncadiaresort.com Concert Location: Coal Mine Way Park within Suncadia The Suncadia Arts Council is proud to present the first annual Suncadia Jazz Festival featuring jazz trumpet player ...

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Jazz Festival Has Helped Rejuvenate West Oak Lane

Source: All About Jazz
June 18, 2008

THE TWO PHOTOGRAPHS in Jack Kitchen's office tell the tale: One is a black-and-white aerial shot of the Ogontz Plaza shopping center circa 1983, dilapidated, almost entirely deserted and covered in graffiti. The second is a full-color shot of the same block from the main stage of the 2006 West Oak Lane Jazz and Arts Festival, the clean, thriving storefronts serving as a backdrop for a crowd of more than 100,000 people - despite a weekend-long downpour. “You never want ...

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Esbjorn Svensson's Death is a Devastating Blow for Jazz

Source: All About Jazz
June 18, 2008

In this self-aware, soulful music I found everything I was looking for - and it frequently moved me to tears If you're the DJ on a jazz radio programme, as I am, you face the task of dealing with the death of a significant musician at some point or other. Live on air, it's no easy task: how do you actually say that a person has died? How do you maintain formality but also point to the dignified joy of ...

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Blues, Bop, Brazilian, Afrobeat and All That Jazz

Source: All About Jazz
June 18, 2008

This is the 10th year in a row the Vancouver Courier has offered its best bets for the TD Canada Trust Vancouver International Jazz Festival. Despite being at it for a decade, we've never explained how the recommendations are arrived at, so here goes. They're based on the following equation: listening to the musicians' tunes on CD, their MySpace site or other websites + past experience of hearing them live + reading their bios in the festival program guide + ...

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Esbjorn Svensson Leader of the Jazz Group E.S.T.

Source: Michael Ricci
June 18, 2008

A composer of genre-bending music that drew widely on influences outside of jazz

Esbjorn Svensson, a Swedish pianist and leader of the jazz trio E.S.T., one of Europe's most popular ensembles, which was to appear in New York this Saturday as part of the J.V.C. Festival, died on June 14 in Stockholm. He was 44. Mr. Svensson was killed in a scuba diving accident in the Stockholm archipelago, said the manager of the trio, Burkhard Hopper. A composer of genre-bending ...

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The Redefinition of Freddie Hubbard

Source: Downbeat
June 18, 2008

Hubbard is a changed man, as he faces a challenge as old as jazz.

On the second of four nights at Freddie Hubbard's record date with the New Jazz Composers Octet last December, the star trumpeter didn't lay down a note. He improvised poses, faces and witticisms, but no lines on his horn. He didn't enter the isolation booth prepared for him. Still, some of Hubbard's best music in a decade was being realized at Bennett Studios in Englewood, N.J., ...

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Beck, Black Crowes Headline San Diego's Street Scene

Source: All About Jazz
June 18, 2008

Beck and the Black Crowes will headline the twenty-fourth annual San Diego Street Scene, to be held on September 19-20.

Also among the thirty bands that will rock four stages throughout San Diego's East Village neighborhood are TV On the Radio, Tegan and Sara, Justice, Spoon and Cat Power. Tickets for the festival are on sale now. Check after the jump for the complete Street Scene lineup.

The 2008 San Diego Street Scene Beck The Black ...

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Stan Winston Special-Effects Guru Won 4 Academy Awards

Source: Michael Ricci
June 18, 2008

Steven Spielberg, in a statement: “I rode his cutting edge from teddy bears to aliens to dinosaurs. My world would not have been the same without Stan."

Stan Winston, the renowned makeup, creature- and visual-effects wizard whose memorable work on “Aliens," “Terminator 2: Judgment Day" and “Jurassic Park" earned him four Academy Awards, has died. He was 62. Winston died of complications from multiple myeloma Sunday at his home in Malibu, said his son, actor Matt Winston. “The entertainment industry ...

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