Jazz News

34th Annual IAJE Conference in New York City - January 10-13, 2007

Source: All About Jazz
October 27, 2006

New York City to Host World's Largest Jazz Gathering IAJE Annual Conference Returns January 10-13, 2007 The International Association for Jazz Education (IAJE) returns to New York City for its 34th Annual Conference from January 10-13, 2007. The Hilton New York and Sheraton New York hotels will serve as the headquarters for the largest annual gathering of the global jazz community. Upwards of 8,000 educators, musicians, industry executives, media and students from 45 countries are slated to attend. ...

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Bill Kirchen's 'Hammer of the Honky Tonk Gods' Finds the Dieselbilly King and Telecaster Titan Focused on Songwriting

Source: conqueroo
October 27, 2006

Nick Lowe, Geraint Watkins, Robert Trehern and Austin DeLone flesh out band on Proper American Recordings label debut by the man who gave us “Hot Rod Lincoln"

PENSACOLA, Fla. -- From his twanging tribute to the Fender Telecaster guitar that he plays (and which he notes “was born at the junction of form and function") to the soulful closing of Arthur Alexander's “If It's Really Got To Be This Way," Bill Kirchen covers a wide swatch of musical terrain on ...

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Christian Weber : 3 Suits & A Violin on hatOLOGY 634

Source: All About Jazz
October 27, 2006

Christian Weber's electro-acoustic improvisation ensembles with Hans Koch, Michael Moser, Martin Siewert & Christian Wolfarth. (Michael Moser and Martin Siewert are members of Polwechsel.)

What Christian Weber and Co. have achieved on 3 Suits & A Violin is a music that eschews formulaic approaches and instead tempers their group sound in dense laminations of texture and sonic residue.

The result is an arresting music which combines elements of group-improvised minimalism, electro-acoustic improvisation and avant-garde chamber music into a texturally rich ...

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Peter Van Huffel Quintet at the 55 Bar, Sunday, October 29th!

Source: All About Jazz
October 27, 2006

Canadian saxophonist Peter Van Huffel has been a New York resident since 2002, and has quickly established a reputation as one of the most exciting, unique, new voices on the New York improvised music scene. After two years of regular performances in NY and abroad, Peter's Quintet has developed a truly unique sound that is constantly exciting and unpredictable. Peter's group features some of New York's most brilliant emerging musicians who are truly masters at improvisational music. They mix interactive ...

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An Online Interview with Didier Verna

Source: All About Jazz
October 27, 2006

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Freedom Jazz Dance Goes Space Age

Source: All About Jazz
October 27, 2006

Greetings, Jazz Fans throughout the universe.

Now you can listen to Freedom Jazz Dance any time, any planet. Recent shows are now in convenient ready-to-play format at www.freedomjazzdance.net

Hey, man, it's the 21st century. Why be constrained by the time- space continuum? As Sun Ra said, “Space is the place."

Now you can hear the most recent Freedom Jazz Dance show with my space age Radio Blog program. Like, it's far out. If you miss the show on Sundays, you ...

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Kim Nalley's live Nina Simone tribute CD short-listed for Grammy Award

Source: Rocket Words
October 27, 2006

She Put A Spell On Me: Kim Nalley Sings Nina Simone up for Best Jazz Vocal Album

Kim Nalley amd CE Jazz & Blues are thrilled to announce that their 2006 CD, She Put A Spell On Me: Kim Nalley Sings Nina Simone, has been shortlisted for Grammy Award consideration in the Best Jazz Vocal category. Active members of the Recording Academy vote from among the CDs on this list to select the five nominees in each category that will ...

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Tenor Saxophonist Frank Vicari Dies

Source: All About Jazz
October 27, 2006

Frank Vicari died in NYC, on Friday October 20 at 3:47 eastern time.

Although only known through specialized circles of jazz aficionados, saxophone legend Frank Vicari has truly earned the title of master. Starting on clarinet, Frank's dad influenced him to practice hard every day. When he was fourteen Frank added tenor sax to his repertoire and started hanging out in the Newark Jazz clubs with cats three times his age who gladly accepted the talented teenager into their group ...

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