Jazz News

Tatsu Aoki's Miyumi Project: East Meets the Rest, Friday 9 May

Source: All About Jazz
April 21, 2008

Steppenwolf Theatre Company 2008 Traffic Series Tatsu Aoki's Miyumi Project: East Meets the Rest Friday, May 9, 2008 7:30 p.m., $40 Steppenwolf Downstairs Theatre 1650 N. Halsted St., Chicago, IL 60614 312-335-1650 steppenwolf.org

In conjunction with the May 9th Steppenwolf performance, Southport Records will celebrate the release of the fourth CD from The Miyumi Project, The Miyumi Project Live In Poland.

A champagne reception will follow the event! ...

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Bill Cole Non-Western Wind Instruments Workshop, April 25, 2008

Source: All About Jazz
April 21, 2008

Bill Cole will lead this workshop featuring his specialty: non-western wind instruments. He'll cover the Ghanaian atenteben, Chinese sona, Korean hojok and piri, South Indian nagaswaram, North Indian shenai, Tibetan trumpet and Australian didjeridu. Bill Cole is a musician, composer, educator and writer. Since its inception, Dr. Cole has led The Untempered Ensemble. He has performed and recorded Ornette Coleman, Jayne Cortez, Julius Hemphill, Sam Rivers, James Blood Ulmer, Fred Ho and many others. He has written acclaimed compositions for ...

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Saxophonist Jaleel Shaw Interviewed at AAJ

Source: All About Jazz
April 21, 2008

Barely thirty, alto saxophonist Jaleel Shaw has was won two ASCAP Young Jazz Composer awards, received the Billboard Endowed Scholarship for Outstanding Academic and Musical Achievement (1998), the Outstanding Student Teacher Award, The Boston Jazz Society Award (1999) and he was also a finalist in the Thelonious Monk International Saxophone Competition (2002).

Currently Jaleel holds a regular seat with the Roy Haynes Quartet and the Mingus Big Band. He's also released Optimism (2008), the follow-up to his 2005 Fresh Sound ...

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Clear Channel Digs Tony Adamo

Source: All About Jazz
April 20, 2008

Singer/songwriter, Tony Adamo's song, “No Strings" from his STRAIGHT UP DEAL release on UrbanZone Records has recently been added to newclearchannel's music site. Clear Channel Communications is the largest owner of full power AM/FM radio stations in the United States. Clear Channel has made “No Strings," (produced by Jerry Stucker) available to its radio programmers across the U.S. Adamo's funky groove music is getting outstanding radio airplay and reviews from all over the world.

Stuart Hamilton of Amazon UK wrote, ...

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Going Against the Beat, Jazz Gets a Boost

Source: All About Jazz
April 20, 2008

The audience is declining, funding is a struggle, and the station's own staffers are at odds over whether to play more music or focus on news and public affairs. So when Bobby Hill set out to create a new schedule for WPFW (89.3 FM), he knew his every move would be scrutinized. But Hill has managed to do the impossible, adding seven programs and 15 new hosts while eliminating only two shows from the listener-supported station's schedule, which premieres this ...

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George Butler, Executive at Prominent Jazz Labels, is Dead at 76

Source: Michael Ricci
April 20, 2008

George Butler, a prominent jazz record executive for the Columbia, Blue Note and United Artists labels from the late 1960s to the late 1990s, died on April 9 in Castro Valley, Calif. He was 76. His death was confirmed by his sister, Jacqueline Butler Hairston. Mr. Butler was best known for working to make jazz recordings dovetail with trends in popular music in the 1970s and 1980s, and for helping to encourage the Young Lions movement that began in the ...

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New York Jazz Drummer Aaron Staebell's Canadian Performance Debut

Source: Andrew McIntosh
April 20, 2008

For 2 nights - Wed & Thurs, Apr 23 & 24 - highly acclaimed 23 year old NY jazz drummer Aaron Staebell comes to Toronto's Trane Studio in his debut Canadian performance, backed by an award-winning all-star cast of Canadian jazz heavies.

TRANE STUDIO TraneStudio.com Weds Apr 23, 2008 | 9:30pm Thur Apr 24, 2008 | 9:30pm 964 Bathurst St., Toronto, Canada 416.913.8197 $15 at door ...

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Letter from IAJE Board President Chuck Owen

Source: All About Jazz
April 19, 2008

Dear IAJE Family, It is with a great sense of loss that I inform you that despite drastic efforts to cut expenses and raise emergency funds, the IAJE Board has voted to file for bankruptcy under Chapter 7 of the Federal Bankruptcy Law. I want to thank profusely those who responded with their generous donations and offers of assistance following my last communication. While over 250 individuals contributed just over $12,000, this, along with the many other efforts and contributions ...

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