Jazz News

The Dirty Dozen Brass Band @ Fairfield Theatre Company

Source: All About Jazz
June 28, 2006

If there is a group that knows how to get a party started; it's the Dirty Dozen Brass Band. This New Orleans brass band rocks the house with its trademark style: kinetic hybrid of traditional brass band marches, funk, R&B, bop, gospel and rock. Formed in 1977, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band has set out to preserve two antiquated New Orleans' traditions, Social and Culture Clubs that afforded life insurance to black southerners and Brass bands that accompanied Jazz funerals. ...

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Matt Savage Trio: Young Jazz Phenom Sept. 30 in Rochester, New Hampshire Benefit Concert

Source: All About Jazz
June 28, 2006

The Monarch School of New England is proud to present The Matt Savage Trio in concert at the Rochester Opera House in Rochester NH on September 30 at 7:30. Tickets are $22 (seniors of 60 and children under 12 are $12). All proceeds support the Monarch School.

The Matt Savage Trio has a new release due on September 19. Quantum Leap is the Trio's first album through a world-wide distribution deal with Palmetto Records.

The Matt Savage Trio features Matt ...

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Toronto Jazz Festival Concert Rescheduled

Source: All About Jazz
June 28, 2006

The Thursday, June 29 appearance of The Original Superstars of Jazz Fusion concert with Roy Ayers, Lonnie Liston Smith, Jean Carne, Wayne Henderson, Bobbi Humphrey, Ronnie Laws & Jon Lucien at the Harbourfront Centre Concert Stage in Toronto has been postponed. The re-scheduled date for the show is Thursday November 16 at The Phoenix Concert Theatre. The doors open at 8 p.m. and the concert gets under way at 9 p.m. All tickets from this show will be honoured on ...

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Winard Harper Releases "Make It Happen" on Piadrum Records

Source: All About Jazz
June 28, 2006

Dynamo drummer and renown band leader Winard Harper addresses jazz's past, present and future on the Piadrum Records release, Make It Happen

Release Date: August 8, 2006

An outstanding drummer, bandleader, and percussionist, Winard Harper is known throughout the world for his resolute style, tremendous touch and deep knowledge of jazz history. Born to a musical family in Baltimore, Maryland, Winard grew up surrounded by not only jazz, but the popular music of the day. When in his latter teenage ...

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Kapustnik Records proudly releases Ljova Zhurbin's Vjola: World on Four Strings

Source: All About Jazz
June 28, 2006

KAPUSTNIK RECORDS PROUDLY RELEASES LJOVA ZHURBIN'S EAGERLY ANTICIPATED DEBUT RECORDING, VJOLA: THE WORLD ON FOUR STRINGS

LJOVA CAPTURES GLOBAL MUSICAL LANDSCAPE BY FEATURING ORIGINAL AND TRADITIONAL MUSIC, RECORDED PRIMARILY FOR MULTI-TRACK VIOLA

“[Ljova] is an extraordinarily talented and versatile musician, who has an incredible understanding of the intricacies of the imaginative mind"--Yo-Yo Ma

“I am simply in awe of Lev's talents. He is one of the outstanding exponents of a new generation of musicians that I consider, in a good ...

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Neal Haiduck plays June 30 in Montreal with bassist Alex Bellegarde

Source: All About Jazz
June 28, 2006

ALEX BELLEGARDE TRIO with GUEST NEAL HAIDUCK

Pierre Franois: piano Alex Bellegarde: double bass Isaiah Ceccarelli: drums Guest Neal Haiduck : clarinet

Les Nuits de Montreal Quartier - Festival International de Jazz de Montreal 2006 June 30th - 23h00 Nyks Club 1250, rue Bleury Montreal, QC Canada 541 866 1787

One of the few modern jazz clarinet players around, Neal Haiduck has ...

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Vampire Suit at Barbes June 30th

Source: All About Jazz
June 28, 2006

Vampire Suit will once again bring its signature chamber-world-improv sound to Barbes, 376 9th St., Brooklyn, on June 30th, 2006, at 8pm.

“The music has enduring beauty that touches on the heart of the Middle East's musical culture while exhibiting western flair. Open improvisations and the spirit of the belly dance coexist, encouraging the traditional undulated hip movements as a supplement to the solid instrumentation"--Frank Rubolino, Cadence Magazine

Vampire Suit draws on Jay Vilnai's unique musical heritage as a Russian-Romanian-Polish ...

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Jazz Vocalist Alma Micic June 30 at Night and Day

Source: All About Jazz
June 28, 2006

On Friday evening, June 30, extraordinary jazz vocalist Alma Micic will present a show at Night and Day jazz club.

All About Jazz writer Mike Brannon described Alma Micic's singing as “clear, confident, soulful, vulnerable, rhythmically savvy, with the most sensual vibrato you're likely to hear."

At sixteen, Alma Micic was already a lead vocalist with the Belgrade Radio Big Band, performing at jazz festivals in Europe. After graduating from the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston in 2000, ...

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