Jazz News

SF Jazz Announces First Concert DVD Release: SF Jazz Collective: Live at Jazz a Vienne

Source: Marshall Lamm Promotions & Public Relations
January 11, 2008

(SAN FRANCISCO, CA)--SFJAZZ, the leading non-profit jazz institution on the West Coast and the presenter of the San Francisco Jazz Festival, has announced its first concert DVD release: SFJAZZ Collective: Live at Jazz a Vienne. Originally filmed for broadcast on French Public television, the DVD captures the all-star octet live in concert in Vienne, France on July 10, 2007. This nine-song set features a mix of original compositions and Thelonious Monk songs including “Epistrophy," “San Francisco Holiday," and much more. ...

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The Wiki Side of All About Jazz: How You Can Help

Source: All About Jazz
January 10, 2008

An ongoing effort... All About Jazz offers wiki-like functionality at our Musician Center and in our Business Listings directory. This means the jazz enthusiasts around the globe can collaborate on and help create and maintain musician profiles and add/update venues, festivals, radio stations, record labels and more. No specialized qualifications are necessary to become an editor—just a love for jazz and eye for detail. Want to maintain Pat Metheny, Wynton Marsalis or Keith Jarrett's pages? MY AAJ members can claim ...

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IAJE 35th Annual Conference Schedule: Thursday, January 10, 2008

Source: All About Jazz
January 10, 2008

Today's Schedule: 8:00 AM Conference Registration, Metro Toronto Convention Centre. (until 8:00 PM) Meeting: IAJE Canada Board. Location: Simcoe-Intercontinental Toronto Centre Hotel. 9:00 AM Clinic: Bringing it Home: Why Jazz Education Matters in School. In the face of a narrowing curriculum, new strategies are needed to keep and bring jazz education into schools. Experienced music advocates will offer evidence of jazz's impact on student growth and achievement and help you to build your case. Come be ...

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Jazz Score Announced at New York's Museum of Modern Art, April 15-September 15, 2008

Source: All About Jazz
January 10, 2008

This film retrospective, live concert series, and gallery exhibition will celebrate the best original jazz scores for film from the 1950s to the present, and the rich and largely unexplored history of collaboration among postwar filmmakers and jazz composers, arrangers, and musicians.

The Academy-Award-nominated film score by Alex North for Elia Kazan's A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) is credited with opening up jazz scoring to a new generation of composers, including Elmer Bernstein, Duke Ellington, Jerry Goldsmith, Bernard Herrmann, Quincy ...

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The Charles David Stuart Quartet

Source: JazzStage Productions
January 10, 2008

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Robin Eubanks Joins SF Jazz Collective; International Tour Kicks Off February 15

Source: Marshall Lamm Promotions & Public Relations
January 10, 2008

SFJAZZ ANNOUNCES NEW 'COLLECTIVE' LINE-UP FOR SPRING 2008: TROMBONIST ROBIN EUBANKS JOINS ALL-STAR OCTET IN SEASON DEVOTED TO REPERTOIRE OF WAYNE SHORTER, NEW COMPOSITIONS BY COLLECTIVE MEMBERS

SAN FRANCISCO, CA - SFJAZZ, the leading non-profit jazz institution on the West Coast and the presenter of the San Francisco Jazz Festival, has announced the Spring 2008 touring line-up of its all-star octet, the SFJAZZ Collective. Named “Rising Star Jazz Band of the Year" in Down Beat's 2006 International Critics Poll, the ...

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Let All About Jazz Read Your RSS Feed

Source: All About Jazz
January 9, 2008

Philadelphia, PA -- All About Jazz is now accepting RSS feed submissions for inclusion in our News Center. If you have an existing RSS feed and are looking for additional exposure through AAJ's free syndication services, you can submit your link to us for consideration. AAJ also provides a link back to the feed source in every news item we post. (example) Submitting a feed link is easy... Go to our Guides section, and either request update access to your ...

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IAJE 35th Annual Conference Schedule: Wednesday, January 9, 2008

Source: All About Jazz
January 9, 2008

Today's Schedule: 10:00 AM Conference Registration, Metro Toronto Convention Centre. (until 10:00 PM) 12:30 PM Special Focus Session: New Visions for New Times will share, through the eyes of current IAJE leaders in their field, how the future of JAZZ may affect all of us. Our dynamic speakers will give their vision of the future of the music and challenge you to get the most out of the conference. You will have a chance to participate ...

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