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Event

Pianist Jose Negroni & Guitarist Aquiles Baez Debut Music from New CDs During "A Taste of Cacao" March 6 & 7 at the Jazz Gallery

Source: MFA - Mitchell Feldman Associates
February 12, 2008

WHO: Cacao Musica Recording Artists Jose Negroni (piano) & Aquiles Baez (guitar) WHAT: A TASTE OF CACAO - Showcases of Their New CDs (out March 4th) on Venezuelan Jazz / World Music Label Cacao Musica NEGRONI'S TRIO - “Father & Son" - CME 010 / AQUILES BAEZ - “La Patilla ("The Watermelon") - CME 009 WHEN: Thursday March 6 - NEGRONI's TRIO Friday, March 7, 2008 - AQUILES BAEZ QUINTET with special guest Venezuelan vibraphone virtuoso & Cacao Musica recording ...

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Event

Ryles Jazz Club Valentine's Day Performance in Cambridge, MA

Source: Patricia Adams Ensembles
February 12, 2008

Ryles Jazz Club proudly presents a special Valentine's Day evening performance, blending a nostalgic reminder of the romantic with the sweat and hot performance of jazz and blues standards. The Patricia Adams Quartet, featuring Ray Santisi [piano], with Marshall Wood [bass] and Yoron Israel [drums]who round out the ensemble. Bring your special someone to this concert setting performance with musicians who also play there first Sundays for brunch and usually pack the house. Come hear why! Ryles Jazz Club is ...

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Award / Grant

Jazz Grammy Winners 2008

Source: All About Jazz
February 12, 2008

Category 45

Best Contemporary Jazz Album (For albums containing 51% or more playing time of INSTRUMENTAL tracks.)

Party Hats Will Bernard [Palmetto Records] Downright Upright Brian Bromberg [Artistry Music] Re-imagination Eldar [Masterworks Jazz] River: The Joni Letters Herbie Hancock [Verve] He Had A Hat ...

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Award / Grant

A Victory for Jazz, or Just Grammy Being Grammy?

Source: Michael Ricci
February 12, 2008

When something newsworthy or popular or positive happens to a jazz musician -- a big award, say -- many in the jazz world feel astonished for about four seconds, then quickly act very smug. You know: We've been sitting here patiently, full of our aesthetic virtue, so used to being ignored, and the world has finally come around to our point of view. Are we happy about it? More to the point, what took you so long? Are we entitled ...

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Festival

13th Annual Vision Festival to be Held June 10th-15th at Clemente Solo Velez Cultural Center

Source: Improvised Communications
February 12, 2008

NEW YORK, NY -- Arts for Art, Inc. is proud to announce the 13th annual Vision Festival, New York's premier multidisciplinary celebration of avantjazz music, poetry, dance and art, will be held Tuesday, June 10th through Sunday, June 15th at Manhattan's Clemente Solo Velez Cultural Center.

Vision Festival XIII will present more than 25 groups, featuring many of improvised music's most respected performers, including an entire night of music dedicated to this year's special honoree, veteran New Orleans-based saxophonist Edward ...

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Music Industry

Publisher Launches Roots Music Press Release Distribution Site

Source: Just Roots PR
February 12, 2008

Roots music performers have gone largely ignored by the media for too long. Now music magazine publisher Dave King launches a press release distribution site exclusively for blues/jazz/folk and roots musicians.

Email: [email protected] Url: justrootspr.com

The activities of roots musicians have gone largely ignored by the major media for too long. Now the publishers of online music publication Cross Harp Chronicles would like to change that. They have launched a press release distribution site/publicity firm exclusively for root ...

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Grammy 2008 Big Winners: Winehouse, Kanye West and Herbie Hancock

Source: All About Jazz
February 11, 2008

HOLLYWOOD, CA (Hollywood Today) - The 50 year-old Grammy Awards showed their age by giving jazz artist Herbie Hancock the Album of the Year awards. And they showed their spunk with naming troubled singer Amy Winehouse the biggest overall winner of the night with five Grammys including Record and Song of the Year and Best New Artist. The biggest surprise of the night? Herbie Hancock taking home the Album of the Year Award for “River: The Joni Letters." The Grammy ...

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Recording

Yazbek Hailed: "Sulfurous and Often Despairing" "Edgy and Inventive" "Unusually Good"

Source: Seth Cohen PR
February 11, 2008

Journalists have spent time with David Yazbek's complex pop-rock CD 'Evil Monkey Man,' and have come to appreciate the darkness beneath the album's deceptively catchy melodies. The New York Times, in an interview preview, described the music as “Sulfurous and often despairing...," adding: “What's no shock is that emotion doesn't capsize his craft. The words may be about the inevitability of decay, but the grooves include mellow bossa novas and uptempo blues. And he still has the wit to rhyme ...

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