Jazz News

Jazz Guitar Great Larry Coryell to Play Club Passim In Boston on June 2

Source: All About Jazz
May 31, 2006

Legendary Jazz guitarist Larry Coryell will play Club Passin on June 2, 2006 at 8:00 p.m. One of the world's acknowledged guitar masters, Larry Coryell first played Club Passim in the 1960s, Dubbed “the Godfather of Fusion" by Dan Ouellette of Down Beat Magazine, Larry has recorded more than 70 albums over the past 35 years as a bandleader, soloist and 'featured accompanist'. Tickets to the event are $30 / $28 for members and are on-sale now. Tickets can be ...

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Breakbeat Jazz Single Released Through Creative Commons

Source: All About Jazz
May 31, 2006

File under: Electronic Breakbeat Jazz The latest single from Revolution Void, Effects of Elevation, has been released under a Creative Commons license granting free online distribution. The 3-song single features an original track by Revolution Void along with remixes by Citizen Prime and Sevenless. Citizen Prime's remix combines a house groove with piano and bass solos on top. The airtight 4-to-the-floor rhythm propels the song as it progresses through solos, breakdowns and builds. The Sevenless remix incorporates IDM, glitch and ...

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New Album from Quantic to be released July 25 on Ubiquity

Source: All About Jazz
May 31, 2006

UBIQUITY RECORDS TO RELEASE QUANTIC'S 4TH SOLO ALBUM, AN ANNOUNCEMENT TO ANSWER, ON JULY 25 IN NORTH AMERICA

Quantic's fourth solo album chronicles the ever-widening musical world of the Brighton-based producer, record collector, musician and DJ, broadening his musical palette of hip hop, jazz, funk and soul while still delivering the trademark funky grooves. Quantic is joined on the new album (his first since 2004's Mishaps Happening) by Portland-based MC Ohmega Watts, Noelle Scaggs (The Rebirth), & Tempo (Candela All ...

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Bakithi Kumalo to Release His Debut CD "Transmigration" July 11

Source: All About Jazz
May 31, 2006

South African Bassist Bakithi Kumalo To Release His Debut CD, Transmigration, for Guru Project on July 11

Catch Bakithi on the Surprise Tour this Summer with Paul Simon

A native of Soweto Township outside Johannesburg, South Africa, Bakithi Kumalo's musical career has been characterized by a series of serendipitous events, ranging from his debut gig as a precocious 7- year-old filling in for the bassist in his uncle's band to his enlistment into Paul Simon's group during the recording sessions ...

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Award-Winning Artist Charly "Carlos" Palmer's Work To Be Exhibited at the African American Heritage Museum of Southern New Jersey

Source: All About Jazz
May 31, 2006

NEWTONVILLE, NJ - The African American Heritage Museum of Southern NJ (AAHMSNJ) is proud to announce a limited-time exhibition featuring the unique works of Charly “Carlos" Palmer from June 1 to August 30, 2006. The exhibit, entitle “MAMA MADE A WAY" will be on display at the museum's Newtonville, NJ facility in the Dr. Martin Luther King Center at 661 Jackson Road Tuesdays through Saturdays from 10 am to 4 pm.

Charly Palmer won the Miller Brewing Company's “Gallery of ...

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Piano Girl Now Available In Paperback

Source: All About Jazz
May 31, 2006

San Francisco, CA -- When it was released in hardcover in 2005, Publishers Weekly gave it a starred review, describing it as “a bighearted, funny, truly eye-opening memoir." The legendary pianist and host of NPR's Marian McPartland's “Piano Jazz" said, “Piano Girl is certainly one of the funniest books I've ever read."

Sometimes poignant and often hilarious, Piano Girl reveals the comedies, tragedies, and mundane miracles witnessed by a keenly observant and very witty storyteller from the business side of ...

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Let It Ride, Debut CD from Jazz Saxophonist Rob White, In Stores May 30th

Source: All About Jazz
May 30, 2006

Rob White's Local Buzz Continues with Featured Performances at Madam Walker Theater Center, The New Conrad Indianapolis, and Rick's Cafe Boat Yard

Nestle Coffee-mate “Flavor the Day" Appreciation Breakfast Tour Rounds Out Summer Album Launch Schedule

Let It Ride, the OrpheusMusic/E2 Entertainment/Hush debut album from saxophonist Rob White, advanced by the first single “Fin De Semana"--which is in its sixth week of chart climbing and national spins, just jumped eleven spots on the Smoothjazz.com Top 50 to come in at ...

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Gershwin to Gillespie: Portraits in American Music, National Heritage Museum

Source: All About Jazz
May 30, 2006

Photographs of performers, composers, and other movers in American music are on exhibit April 15 to September 17, 2006, at the National Heritage Museum, Lexington, MA.

Organized by the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, the exhibit includes photos of jazz and blues musicians such as Thelonious Monk, B.B. King, and Sonny Stitt, as well as musicians Bob Dylan and Aretha Franklin, and composers Leonard Bernstein and Lukas Foss. Photographers represented include Edward Steichen, Art Kane ("A ...

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