Jazz News

AAJ Seminar for Musicians at Chris' Jazz Cafe, February 26, 2007

Source: All About Jazz
February 2, 2007

Tonight's seminar has been canceled due to unforeseen circumstances. Details concerning the new date will be posted shortly.

Musicians are invited to attend the free All About Jazz Seminar at Chris' Jazz Cafe from 7pm to 9pm on Monday, February 26th. Michael Ricci, All About Jazz's Founder and Publisher, will discuss the various musician services AAJ has to offer and demonstrate how musicians can use AAJ to sell their music, promote their live events, and drive traffic to their website. ...

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Jazzed Media Produces Bud Shank Documentary "Against the Tide"

Source: All About Jazz
February 2, 2007

Jazzed Media, a jazz record label and film production company, has started production of a documentary on jazz alto saxophone legend Bud Shank entitled Against the Tide. Bud Shank has been at the forefront of the jazz world since the 1950's, having started his career in the bands of Charlie Barnet and Stan Kenton. Bud joined the Howard Rumsey Lighthouse All Stars in the 1950's and quickly became an integral member of the “West Coast" jazz scene. Bud composed and ...

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Electric Heart: Don Ellis Documentary Film (Coming in Early 2007)

Source: CSP-Media
February 2, 2007

Donald Johnson Ellis 1934-1978, the Man... his Times and most importantly his Music is explored in the Feature Length Documentary Film, ELECTRIC HEART -don ellis. The Story of the one of the most innovative Composer, Arranger, Writer and Musicians' of all time, Ellis was the first to create a fusion between Jazz-Rock & Classical music. Pulitzer winning Composer Gunther Schuller appears explaining Ellis as the advent of his own coined phrase “The Third Stream". Debuting his Orchestra in 1966 at ...

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Michael White Quintet Selected as a Finalist in the 2006 ISC

Source: All About Jazz
February 2, 2007

The 2006 International Songwriting Competition has informed that the song “Mechanical Man" from the CD Voices has been selected as a finalist in the Jazz Category. And quotes “Being selected an ISC finalist is an accomplishment that acknowledges true songwriting talent. The ISC finalists were chosen out of almost 15,000 entrants from 88 countries, making this an extraordinary achievement on your part, and we are very pleased to congratulate you." The all winners will be announced after being judged by ...

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"Life": Weingart/Brechtlein/Scheff/Babko/Klimas

Source: All About Jazz
February 2, 2007

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Whitney Balliett; Jazz Reporter Known for Poetic Prose

Source: All About Jazz
February 2, 2007

Whitney Balliett, 80, a jazz reporter who spent more than four decades writing thousands of graceful and definitive stories for the New Yorker magazine and helped create one of the finest jazz programs on television, died Feb. 1 at his home in Manhattan, N.Y. He had liver cancer. Jazz critic and poet Philip Larkin described Mr. Balliett as “a writer who brings jazz journalism to the verge of poetry." Dan Morgenstern, director of the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers ...

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Whitney Balliett, 80, Dean of Jazz Writers

Source: All About Jazz
February 2, 2007

Whitney Balliett, who died yesterday at 80, was the longtime jazz reviewer for the New Yorker. A reporter, historian, and expert interviewer, Balliett's greatest gift was as an astute listener with the rare ability to capture the sound of the music in words. He wrote with a cadence and rhythm that mirrored the music itself, and was as witty and fun to read as he was serious and scholarly. He wrote that Blossom Dearie had a voice so small that ...

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The University of the Arts in Philadelphia 18th Annual Jazz Festival

Source: All About Jazz
February 2, 2007

UArts is proud to announce the 18th Annual University of the Arts Jazz Festival, which will run for three days on its campus in downtown Philadelphia on the Avenue of the Arts. The schedule is as follows:

Vocal Jazz Ensembles: Thursday, April 26 High School Jazz Bands and celebrity concert: Friday, April 27 (12 noon to 8:00pm) College Jazz Bands: Saturday, April 28 For more information contact Matt ...

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