Jazz News

Sting, Brian Wilson Rock at Carnegie Hall

Source: All About Jazz
May 14, 2008

Sting, Brian Wilson Rock a Family Affair at Carnegie Hall for Rainforest Benefit

To open the annual Rainforest Foundation Fund benefit concert at Carnegie Hall, co-founder Sting, James Taylor and Billy Joel traded harmonies like old buddies for a jubilant version of “Turn! Turn! Turn!" By song's end, they took that whole “to every season" thing to heart and invited their singing kids along to finish it up. Over the last 15 years, Sting and his wife Trudie Styler have ...

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Cleveland Jazz Orchestra to Pay Tribute to the Kings of Swing

Source: All About Jazz
May 14, 2008

The Cleveland Jazz Orchestra will perform a tribute concert to the Kings of Swing featuring Cleveland Pops Music Director Carl Topilow. Topilow will perform Artie Shaw's Clarinet Concerto as part of the evening's festivities.

The concert will be held of Saturday, May 24, 2008 at 8pm at the Fairmount Temple Auditorium in Beachwood, Ohio. The Cleveland Music School Settlement Jazz Orchestra will open the show at 7:30pm.

Tickets are $25 at the door, $20 in advance and $15 for seniors ...

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Herbie Hancock's "Headhunters" Among Cultural Treasures

Source: All About Jazz
May 14, 2008

Library of Congress Cultural Treasures

The best-selling pop album on planet Earth and a disc sent hurtling into deep space are among recordings the Library of Congress will preserve for their cultural significance. Twenty-five selections were added to the National Recording Registry on Wednesday, part of the library's attempt to save America's aural history by archiving recordings deemed “culturally, historically or aesthetically significant." The inductees range from Michael Jackson's 1982 all-time-bestseller “Thriller" and jazz artist Herbie Hancock's 1973 fusion smash ...

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Playboy's Free Community Concerts Continue

Source: All About Jazz
May 14, 2008

Playboy's Celebrating it's 30th Jazz at The Bowl

Let the celebration begin! Leading up to the big birthday weekend at the Hollywood Bowl three smaller community concerts, all free and open to the public.

June 1st/ Warner Center

Michael Lington, Ernie Andrews, B-Side Players, Raya Yarbrough, and the Chatsworth High School Band under the direction of Larry Williams will take the stage 1:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday, June 1 at Warner Center Park in Woodland Hills. Lavay Smith and ...

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Legendary Pianist Ahmad Jamal Profiled at AAJ

Source: All About Jazz
May 14, 2008

When asked what he's thinking about when he's at the piano, NEA Jazz Master and Kennedy Center Jazz Legend Ahmad Jamal replies, “Those songs that come up on my recordings or my concerts, sometimes I pull some things that are very distant and written years before I was here, things written by Mozart. That's the wonderful thing about music, the ability to interpret the good things beyond the wildest dreams of the composer. I'm doing what I do based on ...

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Art Pepper: Unreleased Art Volume III, Croydon

Source: Michael Ricci
May 14, 2008

Laurie Pepper's Widow's Taste label has just released Volume III in the series of Art Pepper performances. VOLUME III is a TWO DISC SET, a (nearly) complete concert performed in Croydon, England at the acoustically admirable Fairfield Hall. Art was, at this time, almost continually touring with the first of his comeback bands, and this band was TIGHT. They knew and understood the tunes and communicated as only true jazz people can in performance, like a team of rhythmic, lyric, ...

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Chris Crocco Fluid Trio at Smalls May 21st

Source: All About Jazz
May 14, 2008

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Jane Scheckter Tribute to Lena Horne

Source: Michael Ricci
May 14, 2008

Letting Loose, Lena Horne Style

Jane Scheckter will perform “From This Moment On" at 7 p.m., Tuesday through Thursday, at Broadway Baby, 318 West 53rd Street, Clinton; (212) 757-5808, broadwaybabybistro.com.

Ferocious. That is the word the pop-jazz singer Jane Scheckter applies to Lena Horne in “From This Moment On," her tribute to Ms. Horne, who is now 90. Ms. Scheckter recalled at Broadway Baby bistro on Wednesday evening that Ms. Horne, along with Bobby Short and Tony Perkins, was one ...

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