Jazz News

Jazz Pianist George Kahn Held Holiday Benefit for PATH Ventures, Raising Money & Awareness

Source: Imaginary Friends
December 28, 2006

JAZZ PIANIST GEORGE KAHN, HOLDS HOLIDAY BENEFIT FOR PATH VENTURES

EVENT RAISES FUNDS AND AWARENESS

Los Angeles. Jazz Pianist George Kahn held a benefit at the Catalina Bar and Grill on Tuesday PM, December 19th, benefiting PATH Ventures. PATH Ventures is an organization dedicated to developing permanent affordable housing for homeless individuals and creating opportunities for economic, civic, and personal empowerment for the homeless of Los Angeles.

The event was enthusiastically attended with cash donations reaching $1,500, along with gifts, ...

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TRIO 3 (Reggie Workman, Andrew Cyrille & Oliver Lake) Live at Reggie Workman's Sculptured Sounds "Preview" Concert on BBC's "Jazz on 3" Dec.24-Jan.1

Source: All About Jazz
December 28, 2006

If you didn't catch TRIO 3 (Reggie Workman, Andrew Cyrille, & Oliver Lake) last week at the Sculptured Sounds “Preview Concert" at Saint Peter's Church, you've got another chance!

Hear an excerpt from their performance at anytime through December 29 by clicking on the BBC link listed below. From the program's producer, Joby Waldman:

Hi, I've just finished condensing a weeklong NYC trip into a 90-minute radio show. It goes out tonight ...

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New Anthony Braxton Box Set Documents March 2006 Iridium Concerts

Source: Improvised Communications
December 28, 2006

On April 3rd, New Haven's Firehouse 12 Records will release the Anthony Braxton 12+1tet's 9 Compositions (Iridium) 2006 (FH12-04-01-002), a nine-CD (plus one-DVD) box set documenting what Time Out New York called “last Spring's epochal run" at New York's Iridium Jazz Club in March 2006. Described by Braxton as “THE point of definition in my work thus far," these concerts featured the world premieres of Compositions 350 through 358, the final works in his Ghost Trance Music series, recorded over ...

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Yvonne Curry, Dance/Tap & Friends - Jan 5 in NYC--Free!

Source: All About Jazz
December 28, 2006

THIRD STREET MUSIC SCHOOL SETTLEMENT PRESENTS

YVONNE CURRY dance/tap & FRIENDS

“The Best of Ten Years at Third Street Music School Settlement" A memoir in words, dance, jazz, swing and R&B conceived, choreographed and directed by Yvonne Curry

Friday, January 5, 2007 at 7:30 pm

-- FREE ADMISSION --

The dynamic tap dancer/choreographer Yvonne Curry rings in the New Year with “The Best of Ten Years at Third Street Music School Settlement," a joyous ...

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Sheet Music and Extended Sale from Jazz Singer/Pianist Blossom Dearie

Source: All About Jazz
December 28, 2006

Now available at www.DaffodilRecords.com:

The First Blossom Dearie Songbook. An attractive folio containing 13 of Blossom's most popular songs. This is not a simple book of leadsheets, it contains Blossom's own arrangements, some she still uses to this day. Mike Renzi helped to create this with Blossom and we are proud to have it back in print for you. On sale for $19.95, through January 31st!

Also...our SALE prices will stay in effect through the end of January...CDs as low ...

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A Night of Jazz with Joe Berkovitz, David Mann, and Scott Samenfeld Jan. 6 in Cambridge, Mass.

Source: All About Jazz
December 28, 2006

A Night of Jazz with Joe Berkovitz, David Mann, and Scott Samenfeld at the Friends Meeting House in Cambridge, MA. The concert will be held on Saturday, January 6, 2007 at 7:30PM. The trio will feature original compositions from Joe Berkovitz and Scott Samenfeld along with a few choice jazz standards.

Joe Berkovitz is a Boston-based pianist and composer with a style spanning many genres, from jazz to medieval music to funk. He attended New England Conservatory, where he studied ...

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New Haven's Firehouse 12 to Launch New Label in 2007

Source: Improvised Communications
December 27, 2006

Beginning this April, New Haven's Firehouse 12 will begin issuing a mix of physical and digital-only recordings under the banner of its new label, Firehouse 12 Records. Co-founded by Firehouse 12's owner/resident recording engineer Nick Lloyd and acclaimed cornetist/composer Taylor Ho Bynum, the label was created to “capture creative music in its native environment." Its first two physical releases, scheduled for April 3rd, will be a nine-CD-plus-one-DVD box set documenting the Anthony Braxton 12+1tet's four-night stand at New York's Iridium ...

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Italian Jazz Critics Poll Results

Source: All About Jazz
December 27, 2006

Dear friends, we are pleased to give you the results of “Top Jazz 2006", the 24th poll yearly held since 1982 by our magazine “Musica Jazz" with a very qualified jury of over sixty Italian critics. We hope it may be of good interest for you and for your readers, particularly in the part concerning Italian jazz. Here Stefano Bollani scored a double victory, exactly like Ornette Coleman in the International field. Here are the first three places in each ...

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