Jazz News

Seaside Florida Hosts Jazz Festival

Source: All About Jazz
March 6, 2008

The Merchants of Seaside will give jazz lovers a rare treat this spring, producing not one, but two weekends of top- notch music at the Seaside Jazz Festival: A Journey through Jazz. The festival headliner, The Neville Brothers, will perform May 26 at 6pm.

“We are all very excited, we know we've hit the right note when everyone benefits," said Kristin Kramin-Banker of the Merchants of Seaside. “Ever since the devastating hurricane season of 2005, the merchants here at Seaside ...

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Kenny Ball & His Jazzmen on DVD - Out Now!

Source: All About Jazz
March 6, 2008

A live performance displaying the musical integrity that produced fourteen top thirty records over the years! Description: This DVD features the legendary Kenny Ball & His Jazzmen in one incredible live performance. For more than forty years Kenny Ball has flown the flag for his particular brand of traditional jazz all over the world. It is a tribute to his stamina and musical integrity that Kenny Ball & His Jazzmen are as popular today as they were back in 1960 ...

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Jorge Reyes - De Todo Un Poco (a Little Bit of Everything) CD - Avalable 05/13/08

Source: All About Jazz
March 6, 2008

Cuban descarga and Latin Jazz containing “a little bit of everything." Jorge Reyes has been one of the great innovators responsible for the increasing freedom and creativity of the double-bass in Cuban music for many years. The present album is a great example of latin jazz and Cuban descarga. The spirit of the descargas is manifested in the imaginative interplay between all of the members of Reyes' quintet: Carlos Averhoff Jr., Emilio Morales, Giraldo Piloto, Adel Gonzlez and Evelyn Garca ...

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Barry Manilow Songs from the Seventies DVD in Stores Now

Source: Special Ops Media
March 6, 2008

Rhino Entertainment will release the Barry Manilow: Songs From The Seventies DVD on January 29, 2008. Performing live in his old Brooklyn stomping grounds, Barry Manilow's latest DVD is the best sort of homecoming. A wonderfully entertaining television special, Barry Manilow: Songs From The Seventies was filmed in September 2007 at the old Navy Yard in Brooklyn, “right down the block from where I grew up in Williamsburg," as Manilow explains onstage. The special premiered on PBS stations across the ...

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Honeydrippers Soundtrack in Stores Now

Source: Special Ops Media
March 6, 2008

Rhino Entertainment will release the Honeydripper soundtrack on February 5, 2008. Honeydripper, the acclaimed new film written, directed and edited by John Sayles, revisits the genesis of rock 'n' roll -- namely '50s rural blues from the Deep South. The story depicts a second chance for an aging bluesman, the kickoff to a young guitar turk's career and the rise of rock 'n' roll itself. The movie features an all-star cast including Danny Glover, Charles S. Dutton, Lisa Gay Hamilton, ...

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Jeffrey Hayden Shurdut at the Whitney Museum of Art, Biennial 2008

Source: All About Jazz
March 6, 2008

JEFFREY HAYDEN SHURDUT presents “Pianos are instruments not furniture"

Live public performance and interview on Neighborhood Public Radio as part of

The Whitney Museum of Art, NYC, Biennial 2008 March 8, 2008 3pm 88.9- 91.9 FM

Shurdut descends from his perch on East 74th Street in search of a local piano to pounce and claw in his vigorous pro-active public amble, “Pianos are instruments not furniture."

“HEY MADISON AVE., PIANOS ARE INSTRUMENTS- NOT FURNITURE." ...

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Trio 3 (Oliver Lake/Reggie Workman/Andrew Cyrille) Plus Special Guest, Pianist Geri Allen @ Jazz Standard, Mar. 6-9

Source: The Cinarae Group
March 6, 2008

Kicking off their twentieth-year anniversary, TRIO 3, the high octane collaboration of jazz masters Lake, Workman and Cyrille, features the stellar pianist and innovator, Geri Allen, for a four-day fete of improvisation at its best!

TRIO 3 Oliver Lake (Multi-Reeds), Reggie Workman (Bass) and Andrew Cyrille (Drums) Plus Special Guest, Pianist Geri Allen @ Jazz Standard Thursday - Sunday March 6-9 (sets nightly at 7:30 & ...

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This Day in Jazz History Launches at All About Jazz

Source: All About Jazz
March 5, 2008

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