Jazz News

Martin Taylor and Alison Burns Begin New Pass/Fitzgerald Project

Source: All About Jazz
March 19, 2008

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The Jazz Voyeur Festival in Mallorca

Source: All About Jazz
March 18, 2008

There's a festival fiesta frenzy taking place in Mallorca this year as the island gears up for a feast of cultural activities. A hip arts and music scene is fast emerging and luxury accommodation-specialists, Mallorca Farmhouses, are keen to show that there's more to Mallorca than just a relaxing beach holiday. Running from March until December, The Jazz Voyeur Festival offers a series of jazz concerts with performance in the Palma Auditorium and Bellver Castle from the likes of Kenny ...

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Irvin Mayfield to Help New Orleans Libraries

Source: All About Jazz
March 18, 2008

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Jazz trumpeter Irvin Mayfield has traveled the world playing for audiences in smoky bars and buttoned-up concert halls, and he knows the sounds, tastes and sights of this city are unlike those anywhere else. So, he says, the city's library system should be just as unique. Mayfield intends to unveil a plan Tuesday for a multimillion-dollar library system that reflects the city's identity. It would start with a jazz-themed branch housing early recordings and reviews. “We ...

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Youthful "The Knights" NYC Concert on 5/31

Source: Seth Cohen PR
March 18, 2008

With Youthful Energy and Talent Beyond Their Years, “The Knights" Bring Soulful Exhilaration to Classical Music May 31st NYC Concert -- Emblematic of Group's Diverse Appeal -- to Showcase Beethoven's Sixth Symphony as well as Indie Singer/Songwriter Compositions “An Ongoing Quest to Bring New Light to Old Works, and New Works to Light" On May 31st, the young members of The Knights will come together to perform Beethoven's Symphony No. 6 “Pastoral" as part of the annual Beethoven Festival in ...

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World-Renowned Musicians Join WBGO Music Director Gary Walker to Advise Westchester Jazz Orchestra

Source: All About Jazz
March 18, 2008

Westchester, NY -- World-renowned jazz saxophonist Joe Lovano and WBGO jazz radio host Gary Walker are joining forces with several other music luminaries to provide artistic direction and organizational growth support for the Westchester Jazz Orchestra, featuring 17 jazz professionals who reside or work in Westchester County. The Westchester Jazz Orchestra (WJO) has created an advisory board comprising Lovano, Walker, trumpeter Randy Brecker, pianist/composer Jim McNeely, bassist John Patitucci, saxophonist Houston Person and bassist Rufus Reid. They will offer input ...

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Ben Wolfe Quartet @ Smalls in NYC on 3/21-22/08

Source: Two for the Show Media
March 18, 2008

Ben Wolfe Quartet Friday, March 21 - Saturday, March 22 10:00 PM and 11:30 PM Ben Wolfe - bass Jimmy Greene - saxophone Luis Perdomo - piano Jerome Jennings - drums Smalls 183 West 10th St @ 7th avenue NYC 212-252-5091 smallsjazzclub.com $20 Ben Wolfe Biography: Bassist-composer-educator Ben Wolfe was born in Baltimore, Maryland, but grew up in Portland, Oregon. ...

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Bassoonist Paul Hanson Releases New Album Featuring Dennis Chambers

Source: All About Jazz
March 18, 2008

2008 Release from amazing bassoonist Paul Hanson. What the unbelievable Hanson does on bassoon -- an exceedingly difficult instrument to play and one almost exclusively associated with classical music -- is akin to what other innovators like guitarists Charlie Hunter and Stanley Jordan, banjoist Bela Fleck and bassist Jaco Pastorius have done with their respective instruments. Like those musical revolutionaries, Hanson has created a vibrant new, expansive vocabulary through a combination of virtuosity, vision and soul, as he demonstrates so ...

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Fewell/Hofbauer's "The Lady of Khartoum" Released Today on Creative Nation Music

Source: Improvised Communications
March 18, 2008

Creative Nation Music kicks off its 2008 release schedule on March 18th with The Lady of Khartoum (CNM 010), an eclectic series of duets by Boston-based guitarist/composers Garrison Fewell and Eric Hofbauer. Inspired by the deeper roots of jazz in the music of West Africa, Persia and the Arabic-Islamic world, this intergenerational duo's music juxtaposes ancient traditions with the language and techniques of contemporary improvisation.

Over the course of 15 tracks, Fewell and Hofbauer augment their guitars with preparations, unusual ...

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