Jazz News

Guitarist Allan Holdsworth DVD with Alan Pasqua

Source: All About Jazz
March 15, 2007

Brand New DVD from Guitar Legend Allan Holdsworth. With an approximate run time of 90 minutes, every song from this incredible tour is featured. Touring worldwide in 2007, this ensemble is a must see. Captured live in HD at Yoshi's, this incredible DVD features four of the world's most proficient jazz musicians today. Allan Holdsworth, Alan Pasqua, Chad Wackerman and Jimmy Haslip deliver one of the most awe inspiring performances ever seen. This DVD will surely top the stack of ...

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Quebec Jazz Comes to Jazz at Lincoln Center

Source: Impress Media - Jennifer Niederhoffer
March 15, 2007

Artists from Montreal's Effendi Records to collaborate with US-based musicians at Dizzy's Club Coca Cola every Monday night in May 2007

As part of its Qubec Jazz series, Montreal's Effendi Records label will present some of its acclaimed artists and their best musical creations each Monday night this May at Jazz at Lincoln Center. Some of the participating artists will include the octet Jazzlab, as well as composer/pianist Yves Leveille, composer/saxophonist Christine Jensen, double bassist Michel Donato, and composer/pianist Franois ...

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Joe Vella Interviewed About Traneumentary Podcast Series at AAJ

Source: All About Jazz
March 15, 2007

Joe Vella has been merging jazz and technology for decades, starting with early Internet bulletin boards, founding JazzOnline.com, and then moving into the world of podcasting. As a podcaster, he's produced series on everyone from The Beach Boys, for the fortieth anniversary of Pet Sounds (Capitol, 1966) to Pat Metheny. Now he's turned his attention to one of the towering musical figures of all time--saxophonist John Coltrane. Vella's Traneumentary is a multi-episode exploration of Coltrane's music and influence. It features ...

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Janice Friedman to Celebrate Release of "Swingin' for the Ride" with March 28 Performance at Sweet Rhythm in NYC

Source: GoMedia PR
March 15, 2007

Pianist, songwriter and arranger Janice Friedman will be celebrating the release of her new CD, Swingin' for the Ride, with a performance at New York's Sweet Rhythm, the Greenwich Village jazz club at 88 Seventh Avenue South (at Bleecker Street) on March 28.

Swingin' for the Ride is Janice's third release as a leader, but this time the in-demand sidewoman has also decided to “come out of the closet" as a vocalist and exhibit her talents as a singer. Mixing ...

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Tenor Sax Dynamo Eric Alexander Plays Jazz at Pearl's in San Francisco, March 16-18

Source: Rocket Words
March 15, 2007

"Dead Center. What a marvelous title. If young tenor star Eric Alexander isn't “dead center" on his latest album for HighNote Records, it would take an especially sharp-eyed cat with a microscope to notice. Fact is, Alexander has been nailing the target with unerring accuracy for a number of years now, and people are starting to take heed. . . . Alexander not only has a large, clean and likable sound, reminiscent of Dexter Gordon or George Coleman, his technique ...

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Clint Eastwood and Other Illustrious Artists Honor Jazz Legend Dave Brubeck

Source: All About Jazz
March 15, 2007

Stockton, CA - Clint Eastwood has announced that he will executive produce a Bruce Ricker documentary about jazz legend Dave Brubeck. Eastwood also said that he will chair the new honorary board formed to preserve and continue the legacy of Brubeck through the work of the Brubeck Institute at University of the Pacific in Stockton, Calif.

“Dave Brubeck is an American legend," Eastwood said. “He is an American original who continues to make significant contributions to music, introduced a whole ...

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New CD From Guitarist Jeff Golub

Source: Great Scott P.R.oductions
March 15, 2007

Celebrating the diversity and bustling energy of the city he's called home for more than twenty years, guitarist Jeff Golub's Grand Central album was released in record stores Tuesday, March 6th, by Narada Jazz/Blue Note Label Group. The vibe he captured is “live," as if he grabbed his guitar, headed down to a dimly lit, gritty blues or jazz club in New York City, plugged in and started jamming with a talented group of friends. That's pretty much how the ...

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First Live Release from Estia Cantina Jazz Series on Popfree Records

Source: All About Jazz
March 14, 2007

The live jazz series from Estia Cantina, a hot new jazz club on Main Street in Amagansett, NY, is in full swing, with live broadcasts of Saturday night shows airing on WLIU, the PBS radio station at Long Island University.

The first artist in this year's lineup at Estia Cantina was the jazz pianist Bob Green, who performed his classic Dixieland and big band repertoire with his able side men, The New Orleans Society Orchestra, in front of a packed ...

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