Jazz News

Opera, Tango, Chamber Music, Jazz: It's All at New York Fest

Source: All About Jazz
June 9, 2008

El Paso Times columnist Ruth Taber, a native New Yorker, was invited by Paul Rosenblum, the managing director of the Caramoor International Music Festival, to write an article for this year's festival program. In the following column, she shares with El Pasoans what the festival has to offer. Ninety acres of gardens, a Venetian theater and a Spanish courtyard in the center of the late Lucie and Walter Rosen's Mediterranean villa will again serve as the setting for the annual ...

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New Jazz Showcase Set to Open in Chicago

Source: All About Jazz
June 9, 2008

Cans of paint and crumpled dropcloths are scattered everywhere. Bare windows and half-empty walls stare at a couple of dusty cabaret tables and a few wooden chairs. But come Thursday, if all goes according to plan, this space-in-progress will emerge as ground zero for jazz in Chicago. Or perhaps we should say “re-emerge," for Jazz Showcase founder Joe Segal has been presenting music in this city for 61 years. He has done it in nondescript halls at Roosevelt University, starting ...

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How to Find a Groove at the Rochester International Jazz Festival

Source: All About Jazz
June 9, 2008

In four days -- at 4:30 p.m. Friday -- the School of the Arts High School Jazz Band is scheduled to open the seventh Rochester International Jazz Festival on a closed-down Gibbs Street. Nine days later, the last you'll probably hear of the event is the sound of trucks hauling away the empty plastic beer cups after the Kentucky Headhunters and Medeski Martin & Wood have played their final notes on closed-down East Avenue. And in between? A bewildering Cuisinart ...

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Puertorican Musicians Win Scholarships

Source: All About Jazz
June 9, 2008

Young Puertorican Musicians, Vocalist Garner Scholarships to study in the prestigious University of Berklee College of Music in Boston.

Singer Melanie L. Lozano Negron, received the scholarship in the music workshops that the prestigious university offers in Puerto Rico this past Sunday June 1, 2008. The talent of Melanie, was appreciated in the closing of the Heineken Jazz Fest 2008 in the amphitheater Tito Puente in San Juan, Puerto Rico, where she received the applause and the affection of everyone ...

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New Online Lesson Available at scooby-sax.com

Source: Jeff Rzepiela Public Relations
June 9, 2008

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Monday Night Jazz in Bushnell Park, Hartford, CT - New Directions!

Source: All About Jazz
June 8, 2008

Prudential Financial Presents The Hartford Jazz Society's Monday Night Jazz. A series of FREE concerts in Bushnell Park, Hartford

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July 7th - 6 pm Roy Campbell's TAZZ Roy Campbell - trumpet, flugelhorn Andrew Bemkey - piano Michael T.A. Thompson - drums Chris Sullivan - bass

8 pm Matthew Shipp Trio Matthew Shipp - piano Whit Dickey - drums Joe ...

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"Homeland & Hiphop " with Rick Iannacone / New Book Published in the Photonality Jazz Series

Source: All About Jazz
June 8, 2008

Homeland & HipHop is a visual music composition from the performance of legendary Philadelphia guitarist Rick Iannacone at Tritone on South Street in Philly. Rick's sound is like standing in the eye of a hurricane where everything is still and the movement of sound is whirling around you. One can hear homeland jazz, funk, hip hop, rock and a number of other music genres all fused into a distinct Iannacone Philly sound.This composition uses the medium of Photonality, which basically ...

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Experience the TD Canada Trust Toronto Jazz Festival on Any Budget.

Source: All About Jazz
June 8, 2008

On Friday, June 20th the city will reverberate with the sounds of jazz as more than 50 venues play host to the TD Canada Trust Toronto Jazz Festival, June 20 - June 29. From downtown to uptown, the east side to the west side, over 350 concerts will take place offering something for every budget. Get the most out of this year's Festival and enjoy a little bit of jazz or a whole lot of jazz.

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