Jazz News

Borah Bergman & Giorgio Dini New CD: "One More Time"

Source: All About Jazz
May 15, 2008

Seven extemporaneous improvisations, played in an afternoon in July 2007, - an outstanding performance of the historical New Yorker pianist Borah Bergman in duo with bassist Giorgio Dini: after the released CDs with Thomas Chapin, Anthony Braxton, Evan Parker, William Parker, Hamid Drake and many other known names of the 'New Stream' of world Jazz, the very first Borah's recording in duo with double bass. You can't miss it. The near-80 year old Brooklyn-born Borah Bergman is one of the ...

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Gary Burton Quartet Revisited Europe

Source: All About Jazz
May 15, 2008

Gary Burton European Project With Pat Metheny Announced

Vibist Gary Burton following a month of touring with Chick Corea, is preparing a tour with Pat Metheny, Steve Swallow and Antonio Sanchez presenting “Gary Burton Quartet Revisited" project. This group also recorded live during 2006 tour and a CD will be forthcoming in 2008. Burtons collaboration these days has been with French accordionist Richard Galliano. Sharing a deep interest in the music of Astor Piazzolla their concert repertoire is about equally ...

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Herbie Hancock Tours North America With "River"

Source: All About Jazz
May 15, 2008

Jazz visionary Herbie Hancock will launch an international tour next month to support his latest Grammy-winning album, River: The Joni Letters.

[National Recording Registry on Wednesday, part of the Library of Congress will preserve for “culturally, historically or aesthetically significants," inducted jazz artist Herbie Hancock's 1973 fusion smash Headhunters.] The keyboardist/composer will kick things off May 23 at the Sonoma, CA, International Jazz Festival and play gigs across the US and into Canada through mid-August. Stops include the Playboy Jazz ...

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The BandA ecLectics in New York City

Source: All About Jazz
May 15, 2008

Blaggards Pub 8 W 38th St New York, NY 212-382-2611 Saturday, May 17th. 9-10pm The BandA ecLectics is an 11-piece ensemble consisting of musicians with jazz, world and classical music tendencies and affiliations. These professional musicians will be performing a set of original compositions with a fresh and unique sound, created by Petros Sakelliou. The musical material involves finely composed orchestrations as well as improvisations, arranged organically into a whole that vibrates originality. The ...

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Linda Kosut, Award-Winning San Francisco Vocalist with Quartet at Jazz at Pearl's, June 22

Source: Jizel Music
May 15, 2008

MULTI-AWARD WINNING SAN FRANCISCO VOCALIST LINDA KOSUT with QUARTET at JAZZ AT PEARL'S, JUNE 22, 2008 San Francisco vocalist LINDA KOSUT will be performing songs from her highly acclaimed CD and tribute show to jazz legend Oscar Brown Jr. on Sunday, June 22, 2008 at the world renowned Jazz at Pearl's in San Francisco. Linda will be backed by a stellar JAZZ QUARTET headed by bandleader Max Perkoff on piano & trombone, Daniel Fabricant on bass, John Mader ...

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All About Jazz, Chase Utley and the USA Today

Source: All About Jazz
May 14, 2008

This article appeared as part of the cover story in the May 14-20, 2008 issue of USA Today's Sports Weekly.

Chasin' the Hits: AllAboutJazz.com reviewed phoney CD by Chase Utley

JAZZ CD HOAX ILLUSTRATES DIFFERENT SIDE OF CHASE

He hits home runs and makes All-Star teams, drives in runs and wins Silver Slugger awards, speaks out on global warming and rescues mistreated animals. Is there anything Chase Utley can't do?

Even his closest friends were taken aback last month when ...

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Jazz at Minton's Playhouse in Harlem Prepares to Break Boundaries and World Records

Source: All About Jazz
May 14, 2008

NEW YORK, NY -- Minton's Playhouse announced a massive expansion in its jazz programming and community outreach through the formation of the non-profit foundation Minton's Mentors as well as through an international partnership with South Africa's Fort Hare University and the director of its burgeoning Jazz Studies Department, Hotep Idris Galeta. New developments to Minton's include two year-long Artist in Residence positions, held by Onaje Allan Gumbs and Buster Williams; family-oriented concerts with established jazz legends; jazz internships and jazz ...

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Rob Mullins 17th CD Hits Amazon Store Today

Source: All About Jazz
May 14, 2008

17th Rob Mullins CD Debuts at Amazon today Rob Mullins Entertainment online at Planetmullins.com LOS ANGELES, Calif. (May 14, 2008) -- Rob Mullins' 17th CD as a recording artist hits the Amazon MP3 store today marking the first original music CD by Rob in nine years. Titled “Storyteller", the new CD features ten original compositions and one reworking of a standard. “People have been asking me for years, why haven't you made another CD of original ...

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