Jazz News

Previously Unreleased Mingus Big Band Material Availble for the First Time on CD

Source: All About Jazz
August 15, 2006

Charles Mingus lives! Although the late composer and bassist passed in 1979, as we approach his 85th birthday year, the complex, passionate, and supremely personal compositional work lives on through the frequent performances and recordings of the bands his widow Sue Mingus has assembled - the Mingus Dynasty, the Mingus Big Band, the Mingus Orchestra, and the Epitaph Orchestra - and through upcoming releases of landmark Charles Mingus performances, available for the first time on CD.

Two live recordings, Music ...

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Groundbreaking Vocalist Cassandra Wilson Announces Fall Thunderbird Tour

Source: All About Jazz
August 15, 2006

EAST COAST SWING TO INCLUDE STOPS IN NEW YORK, PHILADELPHIA, BOSTON & DC

In April, Blue Note Records released thunderbird, the groundbreaking new CD from Grammy-winning vocalist Cassandra Wilson, which found Wilson collaborating with a new production team of T-Bone Burnett and Keefus Ciancia, and creating what The Los Angeles Times called “a whole new world of earthy, textured sound."

In a 4-star review, USA Today called Wilson's smoky voice “a treasure," and People magazine affirmed that thunderbird “finds a ...

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Boston's BeanTown Jazz Fest Lineup Set for Sept. 29 - Oct. 1

Source: All About Jazz
August 15, 2006

The lineup for the Boston BeanTown Jazz Festival, September 29-October 1, is complete and the 40,000 fans who graced the three city blocks in the South End for the free, outdoor portion of last year's festival may have less elbow room this year.

More than 15 national and local acts will play straight ahead, contemporary, and Afro-Cuban jazz--some incorporating hip-hop, blues, and gospel into their sound--over three days of music that will excite and inspire listeners of all ages. The ...

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Antoinette Montague CD Release Concerts

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
August 15, 2006

'Pretty Blues' CD Release Celebration! Two Hot Dates in August - and a Jazz Fashion Show in September

Antoinette Montague with the Bill Easley Quartet John DiMartino (piano) Paul West (bass)

Saturday, August 19, 2006 8:00 pm and 9:30 pm The Bacchus Room at Bona Fides Restaurant 60 2nd Avenue (between 3rd and 4th Streets) New York, NY two-drink minimum 212-777-2840

Antoinette Montague is ...

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Gary Lucas plays solo acoustic August 17 and 31 at the Living Room NYC

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
August 15, 2006

Just back from playing in Romania, Gary Lucas gives two rare solo acoustic performances at The Living Room in NYC on Thursday August 17th and Thursday August 31st at 11pm.

The Living Room is located at 154 Ludlow Street, corner of Rivington.

“Lucas is not afraid to take the guitar in both its acoustic and electric incarnations where no axman has gone before. His playing lends new meaning to the term tour de force ... brilliant fingerpicking skills"--the Japan Times ...

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Legendary Jazz Pianist Randy Weston Opens the 2006-07 Performing Arts Series Season at the University of Nevada, Reno

Source: All About Jazz
August 15, 2006

Legendary American jazz pianist, composer and NEA Jazz Master Randy Weston has spent much of his 80 years immersed in the sounds and cultures that have shaped the rich history of African American rhythms and melodies living at the very roots of jazz.

Opening the University of Nevada, Reno's 2006-07 Performing Arts Series, Thursday, Sept. 21, 2006, at 7:30 p.m. in Nightingale Concert Hall, Randy Weston's African Rhythms Quintet with the Master Gnawa Musicians of Morocco will perform work the ...

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Grimes Times!! Grimes Times!! September, 'O6

Source: All About Jazz
August 15, 2006

"I want to be free not only to improvise on the changes, but to be creative enough to improvise new forms ... But it's important to play with other musicians who can do that too"--Don Cherry

Don Cherry & Henry Grimes, 1966, photo by Francis Wolff for Blue Note Records

Grimes Times!! Grimes Times!! September, 'O6

Tuesday, Sept. 12th, 'O6, 7:3O p.m: Roy Campbell, Jr. w/ Sabir Mateen, Andrew Bemkey, Henry Grimes, & Roger Turner, Tonic, 1O7 Norfolk ...

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The Jason Crane Show features Hugh Masekela interview

Source: All About Jazz
August 14, 2006

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