Jazz News

Seedling Records Releases Gilbert Castellanos' debut CD "Underground"

Source: All About Jazz
August 17, 2006

"UNDERGROUND" THE NEW CD FROM TRUMPETER GILBERT CASTELLANOS TO BE RELEASED ON SEEDLING RECORDS ON JUNE 27, 2006

Tour dates set for June, July and August

Los Angeles, CA: Seedling Records today announced the release of Underground, the new CD from trumpeter Gilbert Castellanos. As a bandleader and as a member of three top jazz ensembles (The Diana Krall Big Band, The Los Angeles based Anthony Wilson None and Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra,) Castellanos has become a major force on the ...

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Tonight: Dekel Bor-Boris Kozlov-Jochen Ruckert at Charly O's

Source: All About Jazz
August 16, 2006

Dekel Bor - Guitars

Boris Kozlov - Bass

Jochen Ruckert - Drums

will be playing original music tonight Aug. 16th at Charly O's 8th Ave. corner of 45th 8:30 pm-12 No Cover!

“Dekel Bor's evocative live guitar playing ... a fresh taste in music"--John Rockwell, New York Times

“Dekel Bor and his band are the future of jazz"--Joseph Harsonsky, Maariv

“Dekel Bor and his trio make some of the finest jazz that I have ...

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Ron Kaplan Explores Martiniville With "Lounging Around" CD

Source: Brody PR
August 16, 2006

One of today's finest singers of jazz standards, Ron Kaplan has carved out an exemplary career over the course of five albums by following in the footsteps left by legends such as Frank Sinatra, Mel Torme, Nat King Cole and Tony Bennett. One of Kaplan's best albums, Lounging Around, captures the mood and ambience of a small, hot jazz combo as if they were mesmerizing a martini-sipping crowd at an intimate lounge in any city, U.S.A.

Although recorded before his ...

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SWOJO w/special guest Jill Townsend Sept. 20

Source: All About Jazz
August 16, 2006

SEATTLE WOMEN'S JAZZ ORCHESTRA (SWOJO) with special guest Jill Townsend

Wednesday, September 20 at 7:30pm

The Seattle Women's Jazz Orchestra (SWOJO) will perform an all-ages concert at the Triple Door Mainstage in Seattle on Wednesday, September 20, featuring music composed, arranged and conducted by Jill Townsend.

Vancouver0based arranger/composer Jill Townsend is the principal composer and conductor for the Jill Townsend Big Band, a seventeen piece jazz ensemble. As a trombonist, Jill has performed with many notable artists including Kenny Wheeler, ...

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Les Paul Media Alert: Alice Cooper's interview with Les Paul is airing on Wednesday, August 16

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
August 16, 2006

Les Paul Media Alert:

Alice Cooper's interview with Les Paul is airing on Wednesday, August 16.

There is a list of affiliates at the link below, and some stations also stream the show.

(FYI, it airs 7 p.m. to Midnight in most markets, and the interview is in hour 4 of the show, which would be 10 p.m. but check specific stations for time.) Catch the 91 year old pioneering Guitar Legend every Monday at The Iridium Jazz Club in ...

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Matthew Shipp Opens Firehouse 12's Fall 2006 Season on September 22nd

Source: Improvised Communications
August 16, 2006

Friday, September 22nd at 8:30 and 10 p.m. Matthew Shipp Firehouse 12 45 Crown Street in New Haven, CT Tickets are $15 (opening set) and $10 (second set) Tickets are available online or by phone at (203) 785-0468

New Haven's Firehouse 12 will launch its 12-event Fall 2006 concert season on Friday, September 22nd with a two-set solo performance by pianist Matthew Shipp. Known as “one of the ...

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Mike Manson's New CD Just Feelin' It

Source: Cheryl Hughey Promotions
August 16, 2006

Michael Manson - Just Feelin' It

Chicago Bass Player Releases 2nd CD September 12, 2006

With the release of his previous CD, The Bottom Line, Michael Manson joined the ranks of today's premiere jazz artists as he moved from sideman to center stage.

His first single “Outer Drive" reached the top 10 on the R&R Smooth Jazz.

His passion and precision are displayed with both unrelenting power and laid-back grace on the album that, he says, “reflects the deepest expression ...

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Drummer Charli Persip Live at Harlem Speaks Thursday, August 24th 6:30pm-8:00pm (free to the public)

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
August 16, 2006

The Jazz Museum in Harlem 104 East 126th Street New York, NY 10035 212 348-8300 http://www.jazzmuseuminharlem.org/

Drummer Charli Persip Live at Harlem Speaks

Charli Persip, bandleader/drummer August 24, 2006 6:30pm-8:00pm

Charli Persip's fifty-plus year mission includes distinguished residencies with the big bands of Dizzy Gillespie and Billy Eckstine, as well as gigs and recordings with Tadd Dameron, Frank Foster, Eric Dolphy, Roland Kirk, John Coltrane, among many others, including Dinah Washington, Harry Edison, Harry James, Zoot Sims, Gil ...

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