Jazz News

Firehouse 12 and Improvised Communications Announce Fall 2006 Collaboration

Source: All About Jazz
July 13, 2006

NEW HAVEN, CT -- Firehouse 12 is pleased to announce the Boston-based communication and promotion organization Improvised Communications will promote its forthcoming Fall 2006 concert season. The venue's fourth season of performances, which will include weekly Friday night performances beginning September 22nd, will be announced on August 1st.

An award-winning full-service bar, state-of-the-art recording studio and unusually intimate performance space, Firehouse 12 is located in New Haven's historic Ninth Square District. Painstakingly renovated over the course of four years by ...

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Start Christmas In July With Juan Oskar

Source: All About Jazz
July 13, 2006

Phoenix, Arizona--Trumpeter, pianist, vocalist, and writer Juan Oskar released Christmas Is For Grownups Too around Thanksgiving in 2005. The weather was a bit different than it is right now but you can actually celebrate Christmas in July if you listen to the eclectic recording by Oskar. People say it every year around the holidays, why can't we live in peace and joy just like Christmas time all year round? With the music of Juan Oskar it is not hard to ...

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CJeff Releases New Indie Album "Positive"

Source: All About Jazz
July 13, 2006

New York, New York--Christopher Leighton, known as the performing artist Cjeff, hails from the Bronx, New York. He has been performing and recording for three decades, taking the influences of such artists as Mark Knopfler, Pat Metheny, Weather Report, George Gershwin, Keith Emerson, Thelonius Monk, Alan Holdsworth, Van Halen, and Lee Rittenour to formulate his own distinctive sound. An accomplished guitarist, Christopher also plays bass and keyboards, combining these with synthesizer and percussion tracks on his new release Positive. With ...

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Skip Martin of Kool & the Gang and the Dazz Band releases smooth jazz album 'Miles High'

Source: All About Jazz
July 13, 2006

The idea of Skip Martin's first solo jazz project was pure and simple: “it was just time".

With 26 album releases as lead vocalist with Dazz Band, Kool & the Gang and his own solo projects, Grammy winner Skip Martin wanted to record a project where he did his “singing" through his trumpet. “I've recorded with both groups in the horn section but never as a solo instrument," stated Skip.

The result is Miles High, filled with hip, cool, funky, ...

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Wayne Hancock Embraces The Sounds & Spirits of Bob Willis with Latest Bloodshot Release, 'Tulsa' in Stores October 10

Source: All About Jazz
July 13, 2006

Extensive U.S. tour dates announced

“Wayne Hancock has more Hank Sr. in him than either I or Hank Williams Jr. He is the real deal"--Hank III

CHICAGO, Ill. -- Wayne “The Train" Hancock, the artist who Hank Williams III claims sounds more like his grandfather than he himself does, actually finds a more applicable comparison to the legendary Texan and big-band leader Bob Wills. Hancock's latest release on Bloodshot Records, Tulsa, is a tip of the ten-gallon hat to Wills, ...

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12-hour Free Jazz Radio Show, July 15: Taran's Free Jazz Hour

Source: All About Jazz
July 13, 2006

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Sfraga & CSQ's bassdrums'n'voicethang, Thu., July 13th, 7pm & 8pm sets @ The 55 Bar

Source: All About Jazz
July 13, 2006

Thursday, July 13th 7:00 PM & 8:00 PM sets Barbara Sfraga & Center Search Quest's Bass Artisan Christopher Dean Sullivan & Soundrhythium Michael T.A. Thompson b a s s d r u m s ' n ' v o i c e t h a n g

@ The 55 Bar 55 Christopher Street No Cover, 1 Drink Minimum

“There's brazenness to Sfraga that's ...

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Pink Floyd Founder Syd Barrett dies at 60

Source: All About Jazz
July 13, 2006

LONDON - Syd Barrett, the troubled Pink Floyd co-founder who spent his last years in reclusive anonymity, has died, the band said Tuesday. He was 60.

A spokeswoman for the band said Barrett died several days ago, but she did not disclose the cause of death. Barrett had suffered from diabetes for years.

The surviving members of Pink Floyd -- David Gilmour, Nick Mason, Roger Waters and Richard Wright -- said they were “very upset and sad to learn of ...

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