Jazz News

The Town Hall Presents the World Premiere of "Miles from India: Celebrating the Works of Miles Davis" Fri May 9th @ 8PM at NYC's Town Hall (123 W. 43rd Street)

Source: All About Jazz
March 21, 2008

THE TOWN HALL PRESENTS THE WORLD PREMIERE OF “MILES FROM INDIA: CELEBRATING THE WORKS OF MILES DAVIS" EAST-MEETS-WEST IN AN ALL-NEW GROUNDBREAKING CONCERT EVENT FEATURING MILES DAVIS ALUMNI & RENOWNED INDIAN MUSICIANS FRIDAY, MAY 9 AT 8PM Show Celebrates The Music of The Jazz Master & All New CD Release “Miles from India" The Town Hall, Times Square's landmark concert venue, continues its 2008 season with the World Premiere of Miles From India: Celebrating the Works of Miles Davis on ...

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Marian McPartland at 90

Source: All About Jazz
March 21, 2008

By Dan Morgenstern There comes a time when it IS nice to mention a lady's age. Marian McPartland took the plunge in 1998, when she marked her 80th birthday with a concert at New York's Town Hall, a high point of which was the reunion with bassist Bill Crow and drummer Joe Morello, her trio partners at the Hickory House during most of the 1950s. That's just one of the long runs in this extraordinary pianist, composer, teacher, writer and ...

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Archive and Digitize Your Vinyl and Cassettes with Grace Digital

Source: All About Jazz
March 21, 2008

San Diego, CA, March 21, 2008 -- Grace Digital Inc., a leading manufacturer of audio and telephony consumer electronics, announces the expansion of their line of recordable Grace Digital and Victoria entertainment centers. Grace Digital has introduced two nostalgic entertainment centers under their Victoria brand for the music lover who desires to play and preserve their favorite LP's. The Victoria Tunewriter (ITC-TWCDR) with its built in speakers is wrapped in a beautiful paprika colored 1800's styled wood cabinet. The cabinet ...

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AUM Fidelity Partners with Improvised Communications to Promote Its Forthcoming 2008 Releases

Source: Improvised Communications
March 21, 2008

BROOKLYN, NY -- AUM Fidelity is pleased to announce it has secured the services of Improvised Communications to promote its 2008 releases to press and radio. In addition to three new recordings (from Roy Campbell, Bill Dixon and William Parker, respectively) being released in partnership with Arts for Arts, Inc., this collaboration will also include the promotion of forthcoming CDs by the William Parker Quartet, the new David S. Ware group and Eri Yamamoto.

For more than a decade, AUM ...

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Dave Allen Quartet - At 55 Bar March 23rd

Source: All About Jazz
March 20, 2008

Dave Allen Quartet will be appearing at the 55 Bar Sunday, March 23rd at 930pm Dave Allen - Guitar Tony Malaby - Sax Chris Lightcap - bass Mark Ferber - drums Music from the new release Real and Imagined “Allen has found a true voice, his effortless technique downplays the apparent complexity, paradoxically creating a cool surface sheen that has a white heat glowing beneath it...music that seduces both the body and ...

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Jazz Pros Share Talents and Techniques with Young Musicians at Annual Greater Newburyport Student Festival

Source: All About Jazz
March 20, 2008

For Newburyport High School Band Director Joe Nuccio, it was jazz recording artists Stan Kenton and Buddy Rich who made the biggest impression. For drummer and Newburyport High grad Les Harris Jr., it was his father and namesake, a noted jazz drummer himself, who was his foremost inspiration. Most every musician say they had someone growing up whose talents they admired and aspired to duplicate. “We always learn from the people who have gone before us," Nuccio said. “Although you ...

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Mary Stallings Felt "Predestined" to Sing Jazz

Source: All About Jazz
March 20, 2008

The sound started even before Ma Rainey and Ethel Waters and Bessie Smith came along. It grew and set new artistic standards in the work of Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan and Dinah Washington. And it's still going strong. The sound of women's voices has always been close to the heart of jazz. So it's fitting that the American Jazz Museum celebrates women in jazz by inviting two first-class singers, Mary Stallings and Karrin Allyson, to perform Saturday at the Gem ...

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Levin / Frenette / Galipault Trio - Monday March 24 @ The Music Workshop

Source: All About Jazz
March 20, 2008

The Music Workshop - Fraternal Order of Eagles Lodge Hyde Park, MA 8 PM Levin / Frenette / Galipault Trio Daniel Levin (Cello) Kevin Frenette (Guitar) Croix Galipault (Drums) *Levin has a sound that ranges from subtle and understated to aggressive; with admirable technique as a performer and a compositional concept that blends structure with freewheeling exploration, he deserves to have his name added to the short list of cellists who are ...

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