Jazz News

"No Charts!" Ensemble for Middle and High School Students in Columbus

Source: All About Jazz
April 25, 2008

Leave your reading glasses at home! The “No Charts" Ensemble is all about using your ears! This course is designed to introduce students to playing their instruments by ear, an experience that will open new avenues of creativity for every participant. Every day we will memorize a simple tune or two and improvise without reading notes or worrying about jazz theory. The band is open to students entering middle through high school who play “Big Band" instruments: alto, tenor and ...

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Teaching Music Through Performance in Jazz

Source: All About Jazz
April 25, 2008

Teaching Music through Performance in Jazz is a significant new resource containing valuable information for the most experienced to novice music educator. Utilizing this text as a basis for coursework, participants will engage discussions of music/jazz theory and history as well as analyze and rehearse jazz band arrangements (please bring your instrument). Through discussion, lecture and involvement, participants will discover learning and teaching opportunities that exist when creating lesson plans for individual jazz band programs.

Guest speakers will include Vaughn ...

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Ohio Piano Teacher Training in Columbus Throughout June

Source: All About Jazz
April 25, 2008

Focus On Jazz - Teacher Training Workshop This three-session workshop is designed specifically for traditional studio piano teachers who have some or no experience with jazz or blues but would like to integrate these styles into their teaching and playing. Through lecture, demonstration, written example, and hands-on experience, participants will learn how to integrate a teaching approach that involves personal expression, improvisation and the applied knowledge of music theory. Sponsor: Jazz Arts Group Time/Dates: Fridays, June 6, 13 & 20, ...

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James Carter Debuts on Emarcy Records May 20 with "Present Tense"

Source: Terri Hinte Publicity
April 25, 2008

Ever since he arrived in New York City from his native Detroit at age 21, James Carter's awesome virtuosity on a number of instruments and his postmodernist embrace of the past, present, and future of jazz have been causing listeners' jaws to drop. A consistent winner and/or runner-up in Down Beat polls, the now-39-year-old musician most recently placed at number one on baritone saxophone and at nine on tenor saxophone in the magazine's Readers Poll, and at number two on ...

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Bar-One Production & Publishing CD Release Party at the Priory in Newark, NJ

Source: DP Public Relations
April 25, 2008

PLACE: THE PRIORY 233 W. MARKET ST. NEWARK, NJ (973-639-7812) DATE: APRIL 25TH, (That's a Friday night!) TIME: 7:00PM UNTIL 11:00 NO COVER FOOD AND DRINKS 1 DRINK MINIMUM Robert Barone - Basses Vida Key - Vocals Reese Key - Vocals Asa Vaughn - Vocals Kalvin Krisiti - Vocals Danny LaPorte - Keyboards Gordon Lane - Drums

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New Red Toucan Releases: "Iro Iro" and "Nad / Reed"

Source: All About Jazz
April 25, 2008

Two brand new releases from Red Toucan Records, a lost gem and a large ensemble to be discovered. Iro Iro Steve Cohn: piano, shakuhachi, perc. Masahiko Kono: Trombone Tomas Ulrich: Cello Kevin Norton: Drums, vibes & perc. “The Iro Iro band was formed during a period when I wished to bring some new ensembles together and used the Knitting Factory in New York to do it. I was currently still working with my chamber ...

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Tim Warfield with Joel Holmes Quintet at An die Musik Live

Source: All About Jazz
April 25, 2008

Saxophonist Tim Warfield will help Joel Holmes celebrate the release of Holmes' new CD “African Skies" with a CD Release Concert at An die Musik Live on Friday, April 25, at 8 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.

In 1990 Tim Warfield, Jr. was chosen to be a member of trumpeter and CBS/Sony recording artist Marlon Jordan's Quintet. In 1991 he was selected to record Tough Young Tenors on the Island/Antilles label, listed as one of the top ten recordings of the ...

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Martial Solal to Release "Longitude" on CAM Jazz

Source: Calabro Music
April 25, 2008

"On this wonderful record, Martial Solal navigates the longitude and latitudes of music with supreme command and assurance." --Dan Morgenstern

The dictionary defines longitude as “the angular distance east and west of the prime meridian that stretches from the North to the South Pole and passes through Greenwich, England, and is measured in degrees, minutes and seconds." Longitude is also the title of Martial Solal's new Cam Jazz trio CD (with twins, bassist Francois and drummer Louis Moutin) ...

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