Jazz News

Harlem Jazz's Best Kept Secret: the River Room

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
January 3, 2007

Harlem Jazz's best kept secret...

It's official! The River Room of Harlem located at The Riverbank State Park/145th and Riverside Drive has been discovered by The New York Times who describe the River Room as “pure magic."

The view is magnificent, the food excellent and we present the very best Jazz every Friday and Saturday from 9pm through to 11.30pm. The music charge is a very reasonable $5 per head.

For more information on the River Room please go to ...

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Shakers n' Bakers CD release event at the BAM Cafe on Friday Jan 5th: Free

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
January 3, 2007

Little (i) Music announces a CD release event at the BAM Cafe on Friday Jan 5 featuring a performance by the Shakers n' Bakers, an ensemble which performs the music of the utopian religious community known as the Shakers. Their repetoire is primarily made up of “Vision" songs, received in trance during the years 1837-50 by young women and reinterpreted through the lens of Albert Ayler and John Lennon. The group is made up of Mary LaRose and Miles Griffith ...

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MB3 CD Release Party Mel Bay Records Jazz Hits Vol. 1 Wed. Jan. 3 at The Iridium Jazz Club

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
January 3, 2007

Iridium Jazz Club 1650 BROADWAY (Corner of 51st) NEW YORK, NY 10023 RESERVATIONS: 212-582-2121 http://www.iridiumjazzclub.com/ Sets At 8:30 & 10:30PM

January 3, 2007 MB3 CD Release Party

Vic Juris Guitar Corey Christiansen Guitar Mordy Ferber Guitar Jay Anderson Bass Tim Horner Drums

Corey Christiansen, Jimmy Bruno and Vic Juris released the first solo CDs on Mel Bay Records. ...

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Joseph Perez's Technical Blak ensemble Live in NYC January 4

Source: All About Jazz
January 2, 2007

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Jack Kleinsinger Presents Highlights In Jazz 'A Salute To Lou Donaldson' Thursday, January 4th, 2007 @ 8pm

Source: All About Jazz
January 2, 2007

Jack Kleinsinger's New York's Longest Running Jazz Concert Series

Thursday, January 4th, 2007 @ 8pm Salute To Lou Donaldson featuring Cyrus Chestnut Trio Eric Alexander, Peter Bernstein, Mike LeDonne, Joe Farnsworth and Grant Stewart Guest of Honor Lou Donaldson Quartet

Upcoming Shows:

Thursday, February 8th, 2007 @ 8pm Highlights In Jazz 34th Anniversary Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks, Trio Da Paz, Sol Yaged, and ...

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Red Cat Publicity Celebrates Its Second Year!

Source: Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity
January 2, 2007

RED CAT PUBLICITY JASoN PAuL HARMaN BYRnE 55 92nd Street, #5C, Brooklyn, New York, 11209, Tel 347 578 7601, Email [email protected]

Red Cat Publicity Celebrates Its Second Year!

2007 To Feature New Releases from Miles Okazaki, John Fedchock, The Neil Cowley Trio, Avishai Cohen, Roni Ben-Hur, and many others!

This January, fifteen-year music industry veteran Jason Byrne celebrates the two-year anniversary of Red Cat Publicity, a one man show offering creative and energetic publicity services to ...

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Remembering James Brown

Source: All About Jazz
January 2, 2007

By Bill King James Brown can take his rightful place alongside Coltrane, Miles, Ellington, the Beatles, Marvin Gaye, Ray Charles, Otis and the giants. The guy had a remarkable music and business mind--a one of a kind way of hearing. I first caught Brown live back in 1964 with cape--three drummers and two bass players. I was playing a prom at the coliseum in Louisville, Kentucky in a side room while Brown inhabited center stage in the sports arena. What ...

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Introducing Mike Dillon's Go-Go Jungle / Debut Album on HYENA in 2007

Source: All About Jazz
January 2, 2007

MIKE DILLON'S GO-GO JUNGLE To Release Debut Album, BATTERY MILK,On HYENA Records In 2007

Midwest and West Coast Tour Dates Announced For January & February

Brooklyn, NY - When jazz legends Lionel Hampton and Milt Jackson first introduced the vibes to the jazz idiom circa 1930, they could have never in their wildest dreams foreseen where Mike Dillon would take the concept 75 years later. Likewise, Dillon's heroes Black Sabbath, The Minutemen and Bad Brains would've been hard-pressed to envision ...

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