Jazz News

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

Source: Just Roots PR
April 28, 2008

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 artist Elvis T. Busboy and The Blues Butchers, featuring five-time Grammy Award ...

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Bebe Barron, Scored the Science Fiction Film "Forbidden Planet"

Source: All About Jazz
April 28, 2008

Bebe Barron, a pioneering composer who started manipulating sounds after receiving a tape recorder as a wedding present and later scored the 1956 science-fiction film “Forbidden Planet," the first full-length feature to use only electronic music, has died. She was 82. Barron died April 20 of complications related to old age at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, said her son, Adam Barron. With her engineer husband, Louis Barron, she created “a soundscape for 'Forbidden Planet' that no one could ...

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51st Annual Monterey Jazz Festival

Source: All About Jazz
April 28, 2008

The Monterey Jazz Festival is the longest running jazz festival in the world. It is held annually on the 20-acre, oak-studded Monterey Fairgrounds, located at 2000 Fairground Road in Monterey, California. This has been the site of the Festival since its inception in 1958. More than 500 top jazz artists perform throughout the weekend on 9 stages spread throughout the grounds. Outdoor areas include the Arena/Jimmy Lyons Stage, the Garden Stage, the Courtyard Stage, and the West Lawn Stage. Indoor ...

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Leslie Byers at Chris' Jazz Cafe on April 28, 2008

Source: All About Jazz
April 28, 2008

On Monday, April 28, Chicago-based jazz vocalist, Lesley Byers will be swingin' hard at Chris's Jazz Cafe, 1421 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA from 8:00 PM - Midnight.

Byers and her trio will be touring the East coast performing their interpretations of wonderful standards from the Great American Songbook as well as some lesser known jazz gems. Byers has toured the States extensively over the past 10 years and spent 3 weeks performing in Japan in January 2007. This will be ...

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LaRe Opens New Jazz Venue-This Thurs/Fri Damarino's in the Heart of the Theatre District!

Source: All About Jazz
April 28, 2008

Another new Jazz venue! 7x award-winning Jazz singer songwriter musician/composer LaRe will be opening this delightful 3 star Italian Restaurants new Jazz series-every Thursday & Friday! This past first week was splendid! Janice Friedman & Aaaon Graves accompanied LaRe and it was just two beautiful nights of Live jazz! what a way to get the spring started... Damarino's Restaurant 220 west 49th st btwn Brdwy/8th ave NYC 212-541-6601 LaRe's Jazz ...

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New Release! Thom Keith/Larry Gelberg - Discussions: Live at Lotus Moon

Source: Avant Coast
April 28, 2008

Larry Gelberg and Thom Keith met through the world-wide web. Initially, they were trying to form a saxophone quartet, but the collaboration was to happen in other settings later on. This marks the first time the two have appeared in public with a live band, after collaborating on numerous recordings over the past half decade. Digging a little deeper, it was Larry who informed Thom of the Craigslist ad that eventually led to the formation of Trio Encompas, and by ...

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Jazz Legend Humphrey Lyttelton Dies

Source: All About Jazz
April 28, 2008

Humphrey Lyttelton, jazz musician and presenter of Radio 4 comedy show “I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue", has died aged 86. Lyttelton, who had hosted the “self-styled antidote to panel games" since 1972, was admitted to hospital earlier this week for surgery to repair an aortic aneurysm. Best known as a musician, Lyttelton began playing the trumpet in 1936 and still toured with his band up until recently. In 1956, Lyttelton's Bad Penny Blues was the first British jazz record ...

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Ron Kaplan/Kapland Records & American Songbook Preservation Society: Singing the Great American Songbook

Source: All About Jazz
April 28, 2008

MOTHER'S DAY~ MAY 11th, 2008 SPECIAL CONCERT! 3pm-6pm Bring your mom! The American Songbook Preservation Society...singing the great American Songbook is coming to Los Angeles! greatamericansongbook.org Join 17 great Singers as they perform songs from one of the most prolific groups of composers that ever lived! Special Guest performers for the afternoon: Cathy Segal-Garcia, Ron Kaplan, Dini Clarke, Denise Donatelli, Dewey Erney,Cheryl Barnes, Jimmer Bolden, Ann Mack,Cat Conner, Bili Redd, Calabria Foti,Mark Winkler, Gina Eckstein, Kevyn Lettau, Jack ...

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