Jazz News

July 20 Buddy Guy Tribute Concert in Chicago's Millennium Park

Source: All About Jazz
April 28, 2008

Blues guitarist Jimmie Vaughan will headline a special tribute concert on July 20 honoring Chicago blues legend Buddy Guy during the Great Performers of Illinois festival in Millennium Park. Guy, an internationally acclaimed blues guitarist and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, will receive the first Great Performer of Illinois award for his outstanding contributions to popular music and American culture.

The free concert, which will begin at 8 p.m. at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Chicago's Millennium Park, ...

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Six Degrees Announces New Niyaz Album

Source: All About Jazz
April 28, 2008

Six Degrees Records is proud to announce the new album from Niyaz, entitled Nine Heavens. Nine Heavens will be released as a double CD (featuring one disc of electronic and one disc of acoustic versions of the tracks) on June 24, 2008. Niyaz consists of three prominent artists, Azam Ali, best known as the vocalist of the successful world music group Vas, Loga Ramin Torkian, the multi-instrumentalist and composer for the critically acclaimed group Axiom of Choice, and Carmen Rizzo, ...

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Westchester Jazz Orchestra to Perform Works of Antonio Carlos Jobim on June 7th in Chappaqua

Source: All About Jazz
April 28, 2008

Westchester, NY -- The Westchester Jazz Orchestra has been called a “local" orchestra “in about the same way as, say, the New York or Berlin Philharmonic Orchestras are local." On June 7, this world-class big band will welcome summer with the works of Antonio Carlos Jobim, who first captivated Americans with his early-1960s mega-hits The Girl from Ipanema and Desafinado. The concert will be held at 8 PM at the Seven Bridges School, 222 Seven Bridges Road, Chappaqua, NY. WBGO's ...

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Creative Nation Music Celebrates Its Latest Releases During Boston's JazzWeek

Source: Improvised Communications
April 28, 2008

Creative Nation Music's three-night concert series at The Lily Pad begins this Wednesday. Each night will feature a local group with a new or forthcoming CD on the label. These concerts are part of JazzWeek, Boston's annual area-wide celebration of jazz and improvised music.

Wednesday, April 30th at 7:30 p.m. Eric Hofbauer & The Infrared Band Previewing music from its forthcoming CD, Myth Understanding Eric Hofbauer, guitar; Kelly Roberge, tenor sax; Michael Montgomery, bass; ...

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New on JazzPianoOnline.com

Source: All About Jazz
April 28, 2008

Four Walking Basslines Continue your study of walking basslines by taking a gestalt approach with this lesson. Watch, listen and read along with transcriptions of four walking basslines played over the chord changes to There is No Greater Love, Mr. PC, Cherokee and There Will Never Be Another You. When you have absorbed the “feel" of the lines take a turn at improvising your own with the help of the included Practice Sessions and Play-alongs. Bonus: the right-hand ...

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Arkansas Blues and Heritage Festival Announces Arsen Shomakhov Emerging Artist Winner

Source: Just Roots PR
April 28, 2008

The Arkansas Blues & Heritage Festival (formerly KBBF), recognized as one of the largest free blues festivals in North America announces the 2007 Emerging Artist Contest Winner. This past year over 150 bands and performers applied to participate in the contest. A local favorite of Moscow, Arsen Shomakhov, was selected by the Festival to take the stage and show the fans their version of blues. Mr. Shomakhov so wowed the audience and our judges with his version of the Delta ...

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Born with the Blues, Chasing a Dream: Pedro Rodriguez, Chilean Jazz Guitarist to Give Concert on May 2, 2008

Source: All About Jazz
April 28, 2008

Pedro Rodriguez brings his unique brand of Latin Jazz and The Blues to a New York audience on Friday, May 2, culminating a journey of many years and many miles from his hometown of Santiago, Chile.

The son of a medical doctor who played the trumpet, Rodriguez grew up in Santiago, listening to Jazz, Tango and Beatles records. As a teenager, he found a guitar stashed in a closet and started to play. “I decided I wanted to be a ...

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The New School Standards Ensemble, Directed by Reggie Workman, Wed, April 30, 9PM, Free.

Source: The Cinarae Group
April 28, 2008

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