Jazz News

Retirement Celebration for Legendary Music Teacher Robert Knatt on June 7

Source: All About Jazz
May 13, 2008

An event celebrating the musical legacy of Robert Knatt will be held Saturday, June 7 at Seattle's Town Hall, 1119 8th Ave. The formal program begins at 7 p.m.; doors open at 5 p.m. Knatt is retiring from teaching this year. He has been the jazz band and concert band teacher at Seattle's Washington Middle School since 1991. His bands have been perennial winners at major festivals in the Northwest and throughout the country; his students have provided the core ...

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Steve Weingart Touring with Simon Phillips Band

Source: All About Jazz
May 13, 2008

Jazz/Funk keyboard virtuoso Steve Weingart (Steve Lukather Band, El Grupo, Dave Weckl) will be touring with Simon Phillips (drums - Toto, Jeff Beck, Joe Satriani), Andy Timmons (guitar - Olivia Newton John, Danger Danger), Everette Harp (Sax) and Del Atkins (Bass). 21 May 2008 Wednesday Nagoya tba Japan 22 May 2008 Thursday Nagoya Hoshino 100th Anniversary show Japan 23 May 2008 Friday Nagoya Hoshino 100th Anniversary show Japan 24 May 2008 Saturday Sendai ENN ...

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Boney James & American Idol Top 3 Finalist Syesha Mercado Release Exclusive Digital Single

Source: On Target Media Group
May 13, 2008

Boney James & American Idol's Syesha Mercado Release Exclusive Internet Only Single Gonna Get It. Urban Jazz Icon and American Idol's Last Woman Standing Release iTunes Exclusive on May 12, 2008 Los Angeles, CA- On May 12th two-time Grammy Award nominee Boney James and current American Idol Top 3 finalist Syesha Mercado join forces to release the soulful uptempo groover “Gonna Get It" exclusively on iTunes. Written by James and critically acclaimed R&B singer-songwriter Rahsaan Patterson, Gonna Get ...

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Free MP3 Download: Peter Paulsen's "Tight Lipped" from Change of Scenery

Source: All About Jazz
May 12, 2008

Download “Tight Lipped," a free MP3 from Peter Paulsen's latest release Change of Scenery.

Download: Tight Lipped Peter Paulsen 7:37 From: Change of Scenery

About Peter Paulsen Peter Paulsen was a student of Dr. Irving Cohen at West Chester University as a recipient of the Rob Simon Memorial Award. He went on to study with Homer Mensch of the Julliard School and graduate studies at Temple University with Michael Shahan of the ...

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Jazz Aspen Snowmass June Festival Announced

Source: All About Jazz
May 12, 2008

JAZZ ASPEN SNOWMASS JUNE FESTIVAL

FREE SUNDAY GOSPEL Featuring Davell Crawford & The Davell Crawford Singers - noon

Music is an incredible feast of possibilities, and Jazz Aspen Snowmass (JAS) has arranged a menu for the summer of 2008 that will touch every taste, salute every genre, and please the most jaded palate. JAS presented by Calamos Investments will kick off its mid-June festival (Thursday, June 19 to Sunday, June 22) in Rio Grande Park, Aspen, on the ...

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Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band at the Jazz Bakery

Source: All About Jazz
May 12, 2008

Big Phat Band at The Jazz Bakery May 27th

Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band, an 18-piece jazz ensemble, celebrates and personifies the best of the big band tradition with a very contemporary and original sound. Through the writing genius of Gordon Goodwin, SRO audiences have enjoyed one of the most craftsman-like hard swinging large jazz ensembles comprised of L.A.'s finest musicians. Gordon's witty and insightful arrangements propel the listener on a journey through a myriad of styles: latin, blues, swing, ...

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A Street Musician's Symphonic Movement

Source: All About Jazz
May 12, 2008

Down and out at Disney Hall and coming soon to a theater near you

THE SOLOIST: A LOST DREAM, AN UNLIKELY FRIENDSHIP, AND THE REDEMPTIVE POWER OF MUSIC

Back in September 1964, Jascha Heifetz, the formidable fiddler, was attempting an ill-advised comeback recital at Carnegie Hall. The crowd out front was enormous, and it naturally included many people with long faces hoping for a turned-back ticket to this sold-out event. I was covering it as a music critic for the ...

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Birdland - The Jazz Corner of the World

Source: All About Jazz
May 12, 2008

The jazz corner of the world

Recently, I overheard the sounds of the singing quartet, Manhattan Transfer, coming from the stereo in my son's room. The group had added lyrics to Joe Zawinul's extraordinary instrumental “Birdland," conjuring some warm memories of the jazz club that had once been called “The Jazz Corner of the World." Broadway and 52nd Street in the 1950s and Early Sixties was a jazz oasis. On Saturday evenings crowds could steal glances through open doors at ...

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