Jazz News

Jazz Guitarist and Vocalist Monnette Sudler to Perform at the Museum of Arts and Sciences in Daytona Beach on Sunday, March 16

Source: Phred, Inc.
March 1, 2008

PALM COAST, FL (Mar. 1, 2008)--Internationally recognized jazz guitarist, composer, vocalist and poet Monnette Sudler will perform at the Museum of Arts and Sciences in Daytona Beach on Sunday, March 16 from 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. as part of the North East Florida Jazz Association's (NEFJA) 2008 concert series. The Philadelphia born artist has been described as a soulful and electrifying jazz guitarist and composer. Her unique, emotional, poetic and lyrical arrangements have delighted audiences throughout the world. In ...

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NJPAC Exclusive: Nnenna Freelon & Geri Allen

Source: All About Jazz
March 1, 2008

EXCLUSIVE METRO AREA DOUBLE-BILL! NJPAC'S ALTERNATE ROUTES SERIES PRESENTS NNENNA FREELON AND GERI ALLEN SATURDAY, MARCH 29 AT 7:30 PM NEWARK, NJ - In a Metro area exclusive, trend-setting contemporary jazz artists Nnenna Freelon and Geri Allen appear on a double-bill in NJPAC's Victoria Theater on Saturday, March 29 at 7:30pm, as a part of NJPAC's Alternate Routes series. Tickets are $39 and are available by telephone at 1-888-GO-NJPAC (1-888-466-5722), at the ...

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Reptet Announces Spring 2008 Tour

Source: The Frank Agency
March 1, 2008

REPTET EAST COAST TOUR - APRIL 2008 “This Seattle sextet does it all: it grooves, it rocks, it squawks - occasionally, it even talks. Mostly, it sounds like a New Orleans jazz band on crystal meth." - Alexander Gelfand / Jazziz Reptet achieves “a bittersweet and elegiac mood of orchestral grandeur." - Downbeat Magazine April 2 Chicago, IL The Velvet Lounge April 3 Grand Rapids, MI Mexicains Sans Frontieres April 4 Traverse City, MI Insideout Gallery ...

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Razdaz Recordz Will Release "Evolution" from Amos Hoffman on March 25

Source: GoMedia PR
February 29, 2008

New CD from Guitarist and Oudist Blends Jazz and Middle Eastern Influences Guitar and oud player Amos Hoffman, who has been performing and recording as a member of Avishai Cohen's band for more than two decades, will release Evolution, his debut CD on Cohen's Razdaz Recordz, on March 25. Since relocating to his native Israel in 1999 after years on the New York jazz scene, Hoffman has spent the time since the release of his last CD (2006's Na'ama, on ...

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Stanford Lively Arts Presents Pianist Uri Caine on Wednesday, March 19

Source: All About Jazz
February 29, 2008

Stanford, CA, February 29, 2008--Stanford Lively Arts presents jazz pianist/composer Uri Caine, one of the great musical innovators of our time, in a program of solo piano reinterpretations of Gustav Mahler's deeply emotional songs and monumental symphonic works in Dinkelspiel Auditorium on Wednesday, March 19 at 8:00 p.m. Playing repertoire based on his 1997 award-winning Mahler “remixed" recording “Urlicht/Primal Light," Caine recontextualizes musical genres and introduces improvisation where it is not ordinarily found.

Uri Caine has been called “ferociously versatile" ...

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Vocal Jazz Program Added to Usdan Center's 2008 Summer Season

Source: Reva Cooper
February 29, 2008

Usdan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts, now celebrating its 40th year as America's premier summer arts day camp, is adding several new programs for 2008: among them will be Vocal Jazz, an addition to Usdan's acclaimed instrumental Jazz Department. The Jazz Department was created and directed, beginning in 1986, by Dr. Billy Taylor, and jazz figures such as Jimmy Heath, Marian McPartland and Clark Terry have taught workshops. Among the alumni of Usdan Center is jazz star Jane ...

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"Luck's in My Corner: The Life and Music of Hot Lips Page" (Book) Available Today

Source: All About Jazz
February 29, 2008

Luck's In my Corner: The Life and Music of Hot Lips Page By Todd Bryant Weeks Routledge Press February 2008 ISBN: 0-415-96218-8 Includes dozens of unpublished photos, musical transcriptions and analysis, unpublished genealogical data, unpublished interviews, complete new discography Luck's In My Corner: The Life and Music of Hot Lips Page is a comprehensive biography of one of the most compelling jazz musicians of the Swing Era. Oran “Hot Lips" Page was ...

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Legendary Newsman Steve Dunleavy Gives New York Smooth Jazz a Voice in His Return to Broadcasting

Source: All About Jazz
February 29, 2008

Legendary journalist Steve Dunleavy, Editorial Columnist of the New York Post, and of Fox Tv's A Current Affair fame, hits the radio waves immediately in a series of spots for Catman Records Recording Artist, artist Mike Catalano's new Cd A Manhattan Affair to “help Mike keep New York Smooth Jazz on the map said Dunleavy referring also to the recent loss of the format on CD in New York. These spots are in conjunction with the Liner Notes, Dunleavy wrote ...

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