Jazz News

Mark Soskin at Sweet Rhythm May 2-3

Source: All About Jazz
April 29, 2008

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Grammy Winning Blue Shoe Project Hosts Free Blues Fest Featuring Grammy Winners

Source: Just Roots PR
April 29, 2008

Grammy Winning Blue Shoe Project Hosts Free Blues Fest Featuring Grammy Winners Bring the kids, Blue Shoe also hosting education event at festival

Colleyville, Texas - On Saturday, May 10, 2008 from 2 PM to 9 PM, Grammy-winning non- profit organization The Blue Shoe Project will host Colleyville's first-ever blues festival in The Village at Colleyville development, 62 Main Street, Colleyville, Texas (at the intersection of Highway 26 and Main Street in Colleyville). Headlining the event will be national recording ...

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A Living History Event with Dr. Billy Taylor (Summer 2008) at Teachers College Columbia University

Source: All About Jazz
April 29, 2008

Dr. Bert Konowitz and Jazz Giant, educator, composer, writer and TV personality, Dr. Billy Taylor in a conversation and performance focusing on the process, styles, repertoire and personalities that comprise the legend of Billy Taylor. Dr. Taylor will perform and discuss musical examples from his vast music collection and memorabilia housed in the Library of Congress Jazz Division, Washington, D.C. Dr. Taylor, the Kennedy Center's Artistic Director of Jazz and a recipient of the National Arts Medal of Honor, will ...

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NEA Jazz Master Chico Hamilton Releases Double EP 4/29

Source: AMT Public Relations
April 29, 2008

Jazz Legend Chico Hamilton Continues Blazing a Trail with the Release of Two New EPs New York City - NEA Jazz Master Foreststorn “Chico" Hamilton explores colorful facets of contemporary sound while maintaining his signature drumming style in two new varying EPs- It's About Time! and The Alternate Dimensions of El Chico. Slated to be released April 29th on the JoyousShout! label, both recordings feature original, remixed, and rediscovered works while providing different and singular perspectives of Chico's 86-year old ...

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Ullman/Swell 4 Tet with Barry Altschul in Ann Arbor, 5-2; Live from Blue Lake, 5-4 @ 8PM

Source: All About Jazz
April 29, 2008

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Vocalist Sathima Bea Benjamin Interviewed at AAJ

Source: All About Jazz
April 29, 2008

Sathima Bea Benjamin's amazing life reads like the plot to movie. She took time out of her busy schedule to recollect her life's journey from her childhood in pre-apartheid South Africa singing during movie house intermissions to self-imposed exile in Europe where she and pianist composer husband Dollar Brand (Abdullah Ibrahim) were discovered by Duke Ellington. Despite witnessing and being part of not just her country's history, but her chosen art's as well, this singer remains, to the casual listener ...

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Max Roach Park CD Nominated for Best Jazz CD of the Year at the South African Music Awards

Source: All About Jazz
April 29, 2008

Musketeer Records is best known for working with rock bands like Seether and Fevertree but The Dan Wilson Mark Huggett Project sent the label a CD that was too good to ignore. Max Roach Park is a fascinating World Music/Jazz album that has seen the record label dive into unfamiliar territory and surface smiling. The Dan Wilson Mark Huggett Project has a very unique and refreshing style. The SAMA judges clearly agree that this album is too good to ignore. ...

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Bassdrumbone at Firehouse 12 This Friday May 2nd

Source: Improvised Communications
April 29, 2008

On Friday, May 2nd, New Haven's Firehouse 12 will welcome the all-star trio BassDrumBone to town for a two-set performance as part of the venue's ongoing 2008 Spring Jazz Series. This improvised music supergroup, which celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2007, brings together the distinctive talents and well-established rapport of bassist and Yale alumnus Mark Helias, drummer and Hartford native Gerry Hemingway and trombonist Ray Anderson. Their latest release is The Line Up (Clean Feed, 2006).

“Like a well-oiled machine, ...

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