Jazz News

Bassist Joe Martin Signs to Great Moon Records

Source: All About Jazz
July 2, 2007

Great Moon Records Proudly announces the signing of Basist Joe Martin. Inspired since the days of Motown, 53 year old Joe Martin's track record dates back to the early 70's. A native of Wareham, Massachussetts. Martin started out performing with Saxophonist Eric Walker in New York City and since then he's plucked his fender Bass accross the country. With his first solo debut currently in its creative process, Joe Martin has been working in the studio with saxophonist Victor Valente, ...

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Nancy Wilson Sounds Forever Young at JVC Jazz Festival Salute to Her 70th Birthday

Source: All About Jazz
July 2, 2007

NEW YORK: Nancy Wilson is hardly the retiring type, even though she is trying to spend more time with her grandchildren these days. Last year, the singer retired from touring, but she continues to record -- her last album “Turned to Blue" won the Grammy for Best Jazz Vocal Album earlier this year -- and perform selected concert dates. On Friday night, she found herself sharing the Carnegie Hall stage with many old friends -- including three of the top ...

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Trumpet Star Enrico Rava Sees Italian Jazz Blossom

Source: All About Jazz
July 2, 2007

July 2 -- Enrico Rava is the most internationally acclaimed Italian jazz musician, and you can spot how he is a combination of cultures by the way he disses his homeland with the soulful passion of a born improviser. Genoa, where the trumpet player presently lives--he calls himself a “professional mover"--is “filthy and boring." Romano Prodi's coalition leftist Italian government is “even worse than Berlusconi's." You can also spot it in his hopeless-hipster shrug: “Everything is in extremes here, the ...

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Ornette Coleman Wins Four Jazz Awards

Source: All About Jazz
July 2, 2007

NEW YORK - Ornette Coleman, who earlier this year became only the second jazz musician to win the Pulitzer Prize for music, swept the top honors at the Jazz Awards 2007 last week, winning in four categories, including musician of the year. Coleman's Sound Grammar, the first purely improvised live recording to win the Pulitzer, was chosen album of the year in balloting among more than 400 members of the Jazz Journalists Association. The 77-year-old Coleman's unorthodox “Sound Grammar" quartet ...

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Bill Barber, 87; Jazz Tuba Player

Source: All About Jazz
July 2, 2007

Bill Barber, a musician who helped refashion the jazz tuba from its predictable oompah passages to suit the complex melodies and rhythms of Miles Davis and other postwar jazz modernists, died of congestive heart failure June 18 at his home in Bronxville, N.Y. He was 87. A fixture of many early jazz bands, the tuba was largely reduced to a jazz relic by the early 1930s as sound technology improved. The upright bass took the place of the booming brass ...

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26th Annual MT. Hood Jazz Festival - August 3rd & 4th

Source: Colehour+Cohen
July 2, 2007

Revered Festival Music to the Ears of NW Jazz Lovers 26th Annual Mt. Hood Jazz Festival - August 3rd & 4th High Powered Jazz Fest offers Fun for the Whole Family Calling all jazz lovers! Mark your calendars. The 26th Annual Mt. Hood Jazz Festival presented by Persimmon Development Group happens August 3rd and 4th. The Festival is one of the most revered summer jazz fests in the Northwest and is sure to captivate all ages. With a ...

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This Week at Cachaca New York City's Newest Jazz Hang July Schedule

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
July 2, 2007

Cachaca 35 West 8th St (bet. 5th & 6th Aves.) NYC * tel 212-388-9099 sets at 9,11 & 1am * $10 cover, $15 min. Menus from selected restaurants available New York City's Newest Jazz Hang In The Heart of Greenwich Village This Week At Cachaa Mon 2nd - BILL O'CONNELL-p w/ David Finck-bs, Steve Berrios-ds Tues 3rd - RAY VEGA-tp w/ Enrique Haneine-p Ariel DeLaPortilla-bs, Richie ...

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AllAboutJazz-New York July 2007 Issue Now Available

Source: All About Jazz
July 2, 2007

It's hot. You're tired. Vision and JVC wore you out last month. The air conditioning seems particularly nice right now. And what's that you say? There's nothing going on in July, that's why the kids are in camp and everyone else is in the Hamptons. Please.

The only difference that comes with the seasons in New York is that for a few months a year, people only wear a little black (absorption versus reflection, you know). Besides that, musicians keep ...

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