Jazz News

Ed Maly Releases Sixth Blues Rock Album Best Kept Secrets on Hot Texas Tunes

Source: All About Jazz
February 23, 2008

Sugarland, Texas-February 18, 2008-Ed Maly picks up where he left off with Walking Shoes Blues (2006) by releasing another one of his down-home barnstorming blues-rock albums on his own indie label Hot Texas Tunes titled Best Kept Secrets.

Maly kicks up some dust with a steadfast band and treats his fan base with favorite live tracks “C.C. Rider", “Matilda", and “Barefootin.' To keep things light he gets your feet stomping and encourages some genuine belly laugh ...

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New York's Reverend Zen Goes Global Winning Song of the Year at Spain's Effigy Awards

Source: Just Roots PR
February 23, 2008

Reverend Zen wins Song of the Year from Meer Music's Effigy Awards in Spain.

Katonah, NY -- The New York group Reverend Zen continues to receive accolades as “The Boston Shakedown" was named Blues/Rock Song of the Year at the Effigy Awards ceremony held January 25 in Spain. In addition to their Song of the Year honors, Reverend Zen was one of the top five nominees in the Effigy Awards Best Artist in Style - Rock/Blues and was named a ...

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Teo Macero, 82, Record Producer, Dies

Source: Michael Ricci
February 22, 2008

Teo Macero, a record producer, composer and saxophonist most famous for his role in producing a series of albums by Miles Davis in the late 1960s and early 1970s, including editing that almost amounted to creating compositions after the recordings, died on Tuesday in Riverhead, N.Y. He was 82 and lived in Quogue, N.Y. His death followed a long illness, his stepdaughter, Suzie Lightbourn, said. Helping to build Miles Davis albums like Bitches Brew, In a Silent Way and Get ...

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Sten Hostfalt / Matt Renzi / Marko Djordjevic Bowery Poetry Club, Feb 25

Source: All About Jazz
February 22, 2008

LIVE at THE BOWERY POETRY CLUB, NYC Monday, FEBRUARY 25 2008 at 9 pm $8 cover Sten Hostfalt - Guitar, Compositions Matt Renzi - Tenor Saxophone, Clarinet Marko Djordjevic - Drums “Renzi is Ready for Prime Time" - JAZZIZ Magazine “Djordjevic is a Drumming Star" - MODERN DRUMMER “Hostfalt May be Considered Groundbreaking"- JAZZ REVIEW

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The Laser's Edge Releases Kingfisher Sky

Source: Lori Hehr Public Relations
February 22, 2008

Ken Golden, Director of Operations for The Laser's Edge, announces the addition of Dutch Progressive Rock band Kingfisher Sky to the label. Laser's Edge Records will release the band's debut Hallway of Dreams throughout North America on March 25, 2008. “As a fan of Within Temptation, I've been following the activities of former members," says Golden. “When I discovered Ivar DeGraaf had created a new project I was anxious to hear it. When I heard Kingfisher Sky's unique and innovative ...

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Gateshead International Jazz Festival March 2008

Source: All About Jazz
February 22, 2008

Gateshead International Jazz Festival, March 28 - 30, 2008 The fourth Gateshead International Jazz Festival celebrates the past, present and future of jazz, with a fresh look at tradition celebrating the creativity of world class artists such as the charismatic Cleo Laine and John Dankworth, a rare appearance from the great Gilberto Gil and quintessential jazz guitarist John Scofield. Plus, a late night set in collaboration with the legendary label Blue Note will feature the label's hottest new signing Robert ...

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The Grande Mothers to Tour Great Britain

Source: Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
February 22, 2008

Former Frank Zappa and The Mothers Members Prepare to Play The UK Los Angeles, CA - Seminal music group, The Grande Mothers, featuring former members of Frank Zappa's Mothers Of Invention, are alive and well and playing a series of selected concerts in Great Britain in March 2007. In recent years the Grande Mothers have performed to wildly enthusiastic audiences in the US and Canada and plan to bring their special blend of musical mayhem to the British shores. The ...

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Sean Smith Quartet @ 55 Bar on Tuesday, March 4, 7-9PM

Source: All About Jazz
February 22, 2008

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