Jazz News

Swedish Jazz Star Esbjorn Svensson Dies in Diving Accident

Source: All About Jazz
June 16, 2008

STOCKHOLM (AFP) -- Swedish jazz star Esbjorn Svensson was killed at the weekend in a scuba diving accident off Stockholm, his manager said Monday. He was 44. According to Swedish media reports, Svensson had been diving with a group and an instructor in the Stockholm archipelago when he suddenly disappeared. The married father of two had been found badly injured on the sea bed and had been transported by helicopter to a Stockholm hospital, where he died shortly before midnight ...

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Jazz Pianist Esbjorn Svensson Killed in Scuba Accident

Source: All About Jazz
June 16, 2008

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Birdland Announces July 2008 Schedule

Source: O&M Co.
June 16, 2008

Birdland (315 West 44th Street - between 8th & 9th Aves.) is pleased to announce an exciting line-up of extraordinary entertainment for the month of July. A detailed schedule follows:

Lew Tabackin Quartet - featuring Toshiko Akiyoshi

Lew Tabackin is one of the few jazz musicians who maintains a dual musical personality. As a tenor saxophonist, he is a hard-driving, tough-toned player reminiscent of Sonny Rollins or Don Byas. But as a flutist, he can also sound like a highly ...

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Stan Winston Visual Effects Artist Dies

Source: All About Jazz
June 16, 2008

Stan Winston Oscar-winning visual effects artist of creatures from Aliens, Terminator 2, to the T Rex of Jurassic Park.

Winston died at home Sunday evening after a seven-year struggle with multiple myeloma, according to a rep from Stan Winston Studio. “Stan died peacefully at home surrounded by family," a spokeswoman said. He was 62. Winston won four visual effects Oscars and earned multiple nominations. His first Oscar was for James Cameron's Aliens (1986). Winston later won two Oscars for Terminator ...

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A Celebration of Life for Ronnie Mathews

Source: All About Jazz
June 16, 2008

A Celebration of Life for Ronnie Mathews

Monday, June 23 - beginning at 7pm Sweet Rhythm 88 7th Ave S New York, NY 10014 212-255-3626 On Monday, June 23 there will be a “A Celebration of Life for Ronnie Mathews" for the great jazz pianist Ronnie Mathews at Sweet Rhythm Jazz Club in NYC at 88 7th Avenue South. Doors open at 7:00 P.M. and jazz music will be played throughout the ...

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5th Annual Negro Spirituals Heritage Day

Source: All About Jazz
June 16, 2008

Friends of Negro Spirituals and the Greater Bay Area Celebrate

Negro Spirituals Heritage Day on Sunday, June 22, 2008, 3:30 PM -5:30 PM, at the West Oakland Senior Center, 1724 Adeline Street, Oakland, CA. Doors will open at 3:00 PM. Although unofficial, Negro Spirituals Day is the only known annual day of special recognition of the 350-years-old, irreplaceable Negro Spiritual folk songs, birthed by enslaved Black Americans. The celebration, featuring an African Drum Tribute to the Ancestors performed by Ghanaian ...

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Inside the Mind of a Tony Voter

Source: All About Jazz
June 16, 2008

The dirty little secret is that voting for the Tonys is a dangerously haphazard affair

Each year the Tony awards, in an effort to reverse a seemingly inexorable ratings decline, drop a few more of the actual awards from the live telecast. The goal, of course, is to make room for the program's real raison d'etre: excerpts from the Broadway shows it is busily trying to sell to tourists planning summer trips to New York. But there are 26 little ...

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Tony Award's the List

Source: All About Jazz
June 16, 2008

The complete list of Tony Award winners

In the tossup of this year's Tony Awards Sunday night, a Latino story trumped an unusual African American coming-of-age tale Sunday as Tony voters gave their best new musical prize and three others to “In the Heights," about Caribbean immigrant families struggling to reach for the American dream in New York's Washington Heights barrio.

THE LIST

Musical In the Heights

Play August: Osage County

Revival of a musical

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