Jazz News

Steely Dan Play Between a Hard Rock & Red Rocks

Source: All About Jazz
May 4, 2008

Steely Dan 'Think Fast" Tour 2008

Steely Dan, headed by Donald Fagen and Walter Becker will begin it's 2008 tour season playing the Hard Rock Live in Hollywood Florida beginning June 8th. The tour ends in California August 9th and most interesting Steely Dan plays the Continential Divide, high in the Rocky Mountains at Red Rocks Amphitheatre July 17th. Nestled in the Rocky Mountain Foothills fifteen miles west of Denver, Red Rocks is a geologically formed, open-air Amphitheatre that is ...

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Hee Haw Jim Hager, Half of Hager Twins

Source: All About Jazz
May 3, 2008

Jim Hager, one of the Hager Twins who satirized country life with cornball one-liners on TV's “Hee Haw," died in Nashville, the show's producer said Friday. He was 66. Hager was at a coffee shop when he collapsed Thursday, Sam Lovullo said. He said he had been told that by Jon Hager, the surviving twin. Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where he had been taken, gave no details on the cause of death. The twins, who were also guitarists and drummers, ...

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Reality Getting the Net in Neutrality

Source: All About Jazz
May 3, 2008

"How do you think they're going to get customers? Through a broadband pipe. Cable companies have them. We have them. Now what they would like to do is use my pipes for free, but I ain't going to let them do that because we have spent this capital and we have to have a return on it. So there's going to have to be some mechanism for these people who use these pipes to pay for the portion they're using. ...

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Tim Siciliano, Dominic Duval and Brian Willson at 55 Bar on May 5th

Source: All About Jazz
May 3, 2008

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Pianist Edward Simon's Bolero Project with ArtistShare

Source: All About Jazz
May 2, 2008

Edward Simon has announced the launch of his latest fan-funded ArtistShare endeavor, The Bolero Project with the amazing singer/percussionist Leonardo Granados. Fans will be able to participate in the creation of a beautiful new recording of Boleros. Click here to listen to a live demo of whats to come. The Bolero Project will also feature other great artists such as Scott Colley, Adam Cruz, Paquito D'Rivera, Marco Granados, Mark Turner, Pernell Satrnino, and Diego Urcola. The project will be launching ...

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A Jazz Odyssey

Source: All About Jazz
May 2, 2008

Jazz Odyssey (no puppet show) Each generation gotta have its own jazz. And not repackaged/reworked olde jazz to make a kid feel all historically k'nektid -- thanks for the underwear, too, Mama -- but new jazz, the way Diz, Miles and Trane were once new. The way Bird took off on Gershwin in the '40s. That's what Tulsa's Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey are about: improvising on the music they grew up with, like Bjrk, the Flaming Lips and Jimi Hendrix. ...

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30th Anniversary Playboy Jazz Festival 2008

Source: All About Jazz
May 2, 2008

Playboy Jazz Festival at the Hollywood Bowl Saturday & Sunday, June 14 & 15, 2008

Save the date for Playboy's annual celebration of jazz and blues with a spectacular array of musical talents. This year marks the 30th Anniversary of the event that continues to bring the biggest names in jazz to the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. Since 1959 and his first Playboy Jazz Festival in Chicago, Playboy magazine Editor-in-Chief Hugh M. Hefner has brought outstanding performers such as ...

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The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival May 1st Through May 4th 2008

Source: All About Jazz
May 2, 2008

Mahalia Jackson, often called the greatest gospel singer, returned to her hometown to appear at the first New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival in April of 1970. While attending the Louisiana Heritage Fair in Congo Square (then known as Beauregard Square), she and Duke Ellington, who also appeared at the event, came upon the Eureka Brass Band leading a crowd of second-line revelers through the Festival grounds. George Wein, producer of the Festival, handed Ms. Jackson a microphone, she sang ...

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