Jazz News

Beck Returns to Echo

Source: Michael Ricci
June 12, 2008

Beck Back at the Echo Again...Is There and Echo in Here?

No, this post is not redundant -- for the second time in three days, Beck trotted his new band onstage at the Echo on Wednesday night for a surprise show. With three new band members joining him and keyboardist Brian Lebarton, Beck obviously wants to work some things out before the release of his new album, the Danger Mouse-produced Modern Guilt, and the summer tour supporting it. Wednesday's ...

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Hot Jazz/Cool Garden at the Louis Armstrong House Museum

Source: All About Jazz
June 12, 2008

Summer Jazz Series at the Louis Armstrong House Museum Free outdoor concert series highlights rising musical stars; Three Sundays: June 22, July 20, August 24

FLUSHING, NY, June 2, 2008 -- Outstanding young bands will play old-time standards in Hot Jazz/Cool Garden, a free concert series launched this summer by the Louis Armstrong House Museum. Made for the shade, the programs will take place in the museum's Japanese garden on Sunday, June 22, July 20 and August 24, from 1 ...

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Dirk Quinn's Quinntet Release "Sunset"

Source: All About Jazz
June 12, 2008

Sunset is set to release Dirk Quinn's QuinnTet, a daring fresh CD from Philadelphia's finest jazz funk ensemble and the debut CD on Sunset Jazz Recordings, the newly created jazz label. Since starting his music career, guitarist Dirk Quinn has gained a name as one of the most intense jazz, soul -funk artists in the music scene, a work horse on the road playing live in places everywhere from small coffee houses to music festivals throughout the entire summer. When ...

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Jack Bruce 6-CD Full Career, Retrospective Anthology

Source: All About Jazz
June 12, 2008

Jack Bruce celebrated his 65th Birthday in May, and to celebrate this milestone, Esoteric Recordings is releasing a lavish six-CD boxed set anthology entitled, “Can You Follow, “ on June 23, 2008. With one of the most powerful voices in modern music and a composer of some of the most original and influential music of the past forty years, Jack Bruce is perhaps one of the greatest popular musicians Britain has ever produced. A supremely talented instrumentalist and vocalist, as ...

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You're Invited to the Concord Music Group's Collector's Corner!

Source: All About Jazz
June 12, 2008

With labels such as Fantasy, Specialty, Prestige and Stax, the scope of the Concord Music Group catalog is as deep and eclectic as your beloved public radio station left of the dial and as vast as the greatest neighborhood indie store. The quandary now is where to go to find a collection of Jerry Garcia's oeuvre with Merl Saunders or to find Soultrane on vinyl without having to take out a second mortgage or trolling online until your fingers turn ...

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Kenny Barron/Mulgrew Miller in Detroit

Source: All About Jazz
June 12, 2008

From the department of when it rains it pours comes the news that two of the leading pianists in contemporary jazz are performing in separate corners of metro Detroit this weekend.

Kenny Barron and Mulgrew Miller were born a dozen years apart but in many ways they could be twins. It's not that they necessarily sound alike, though their styles -- swinging, harmonically sophisticated, melodically imaginative and braised by the blues -- do bear a resemblance to each other. The ...

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Creative Jazz Blooms in the Desert with James Barela's BLu7

Source: All About Jazz
June 12, 2008

BLu7 is a Las Vegas based jazz quintet performing some very exciting and creative music. Formed in 2007 by trumpeter/composer James Barela, BLu's music combines modern jazz with elements of world music, avant-garde, and contemporary beats. Their newly released CD, “Cultural Instigator" is already gaining much attention in the southwest United States as well as in Europe. Independently released in May of 2008, “Cultural Instigator" fuses such styles as flamenco, hip hop, modal jazz, Indian, middle eastern, brazilian, techno/industrial, and ...

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JVC Jazz Festival in New York

Source: All About Jazz
June 12, 2008

During the JVC Jazz Festival in New York, June 15th through 28th, you can have access to a limited time 20% DISCOUNT on tickets to performances for all JVC shows at THE CONCERT HALL at the New York for Ethical Culture and for shows between June 18th through June 21st and June 23rd through June 27th at LE POISSON ROUGE. Buy tickets on-line using the links below, and enter promotion code “BRG" when you check out. SHOWS @ THE CONCERT ...

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