Jazz News

Quartet Has Ambitious Plans for Blue Wisp in Cincinnati

Source: All About Jazz
November 16, 2007

It would seem the future of jazz in Cincinnati, as embodied by the legendary Blue Wisp Jazz Club, is in good hands now that a dedicated group of jazz lovers - who happen to be successful businessmen - has purchased the club. The four partners took over operations two weeks ago after submitting the top bid in a blind auction. The club had to be sold to cover the medical debts of the estate of Marjean Wisby, the longtime Blue ...

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Maria Schneider Reimagines the Big Band

Source: All About Jazz
November 16, 2007

From simple start, a sophisticated style A small-town childhood in southwest Minnesota, complete with figure-skating lessons and swoops across the vast emptiness of the plains in a six-seater aircraft piloted by a dad who works in the crop business, isn't exactly a classic antecedent of a career in jazz. more stories like this But there's nothing conventional about the career of composer Maria Schneider, whose one-of-a-kind reimagining of a big band, the Maria Schneider Orchestra, has blazed daring new trails ...

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Blazing Hot Jazzfever Jam @ The Sugar Bar Every Tues Night 9PM-1am

Source: All About Jazz
November 16, 2007

Ashford & Simpson & The Sugar Bar present Award-winning Jazz Singer Songwriter LaRe Hosting one of New York's only dynamic Jazz Jams every Tuesday night! The Sugar Bar 72nd st btw Brdwy/Wea New York, NY - 123C trains

Every Tuesday 9pm-1am JazzFever Jam 10-1am $10

Bring your instrument/voice

This Tuesday Nov 20th featuring an incredible Jazz Singer from Denmark Mette Juul! 930pm ...

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All About Jazz News Center Upgrade

Source: All About Jazz
November 15, 2007

All About Jazz has made the following improvements to our free news service: Enter a musician's name on our revised news announcement submission form and if that musician is in our database, we will automatically insert the musician's bio photo, their calendar, and their website URL into your published announcement.

In addition to freely syndicating news through our own datafeeds (AAJ Live Content), RSS, and Google, AAJ now makes news available to mobile phones via the WidSet platform—we also allow ...

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A New Jazz Twist to the Holiday Classics: The John Brown Quintet Releases "Merry Christmas, Baby"

Source: Mantra Public Relations
November 15, 2007

New York, NY -- Christmas classics are reimagined in the capable hands of straight-ahead jazz masters on Merry Christmas, Baby, the latest CD from the Durham-based John Brown Quintet. The upbeat rhythms and winding improv solos glide in and around trumpeter Ray Codrington's smooth vocals on a CD that would enliven any tree-trimming party. “Frosty, the Snowman," “Let It Snow, “I'll Be Home for Christmas" and nine other tunes evoke the traditional Christmas season and spirit. “I Saw Mommy Kissing ...

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The John Brown Quintet Shakes up Hard Bop for a New Generation with "Terms of Art: A Tribute to Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers"

Source: Mantra Public Relations
November 15, 2007

New York, NY -- True to the groove rhythms of hard bop made famous by drummer and bandleader Art Blakey, the John Brown Quintet is releasing its debut CD, Terms of Art: A Tribute to Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, on November 6, 2007. The disc promises to delight jazz fans and to spur a renewed appreciation for the legend it honors. “Art Blakey's music is home," Brown says from his office at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, ...

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Boston Modern Orchestra Project Launches Record Label BMOP Sound

Source: AMT Public Relations
November 15, 2007

"BMOP is emerging as the national leader among orchestras of its ilk." --Boston Globe Roslindale, MA--The Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP), the nation's leading orchestra dedicated exclusively to performing, commissioning, and recording new music, announces the prospective launch of its own CD label, BMOP Sound. With its debut scheduled for January 2008, BMOP Sound will become the nation's foremost label devoted exclusively to new music recordings, many of which have been commissioned by BMOP. Additional BMOP Sound recordings will be ...

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Steve Wilson's "Tortola" is Chosen as HLSCC President's Official Song

Source: Seth Cohen PR
November 15, 2007

"Consistent, Incisive Rhythmic Dexterity..." Dr. Michael E. O'Neal, President of H. Lavity Stoutt Community College in Tortola, British Virgin Islands, has honored Steve Wilson by choosing the saxophonist's song “Tortola" as the “official song of his Presidency." “Tortola", from Wilson's Soulful Song CD (MaxJazz,) was written after his second trip to the island in 2002. Dr. Michael O'Neal, who was then Vice-President of H. Lavity Stoutt Community College, chose this tune as the “Song of his Presidency" when he was ...

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