Jazz News

Blue-Eyed Soul-Songtress Bonnie Bramlett Hits The Road In Support Of Her New CD Roots, Blues, and Jazz

Source: All About Jazz
May 30, 2006

Bonnie Bramlett Tour Dates Featuring Her Band... Mr. Groove Tim Smith bass, Roddy Smith guitar, Steve Willets piano, Mark Stallings Hammond organ, Tim Gordon saxes and flute, Donnie Marshall drums and percussion

June 1 Visulite Theater, Charlotte, NC http://www.visulite.com

June 3 Lange Farm Tampa, FL The American Cancer Society's Third Annual Pasco County Cattle Barons' Ball http://www.thelangefarm.com

July 8 Watertown Jazz Festival Watertown, TN ...

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Wu Li at The Tea Lounge June 2

Source: All About Jazz
May 30, 2006

Come see Wu Li at our first venue. We'll be bringing our grooves, jams and free improvisations to Park Slope's premiere live music venue.

Wu Lu The Tea Lounge Union St. between 6th and 7th Ave. Friday June 2 at 9:00 PM Two sets - free

Mike Shobe - electric trumpet Adam Strum - guitar Max Gast - saxophone and EWI Bryan Ladd - bass

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Bloom In June: Soprano Saxophonist Jane Ira Bloom & Like Silver, Like Song at Sweet Rhythm & Tonic two Thursdays in June

Source: All About Jazz
May 30, 2006

Soprano Saxophonist Jane Ira Bloom & Like Silver, Like Song at Sweet Rhythm & Tonic two Thursdays in June

Jazz soprano saxophonist Jane Ira Bloom returns to Sweet Rhythm and Tonic with her elektro-acoustic quartet Like Silver, Like Song Thursday, June 1 & 8. Joining Jane will be creative drummer Matt Wilson, bassist Mark Helias, and newcomer Dawn Clement on piano & keyboards. The band brought the house down at the 2006 IAJE Festival and always fires up for gigs ...

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The Fluid Trio @ Small's Jazz Club NYC

Source: All About Jazz
May 30, 2006

Small's presents “The Fluid Trio". This bassless trio, led by Guitarist Christopher Crocco, has continued to push a “Truth" in improvisational music. Rounding out the ensemble is Tenor Saxophonist George Garzone and Drummer Francisco Mela. The music is filled with the colors of reality. All three musicians breath life into a complex trio that seems to grow with every performance. Unplug yourself and embrace the real! Wednesday June 7th, 2006, 10:00 p.m. Smalls is located at 183 West ...

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Premier of the Complete Visual Jazz Composition "Procession" with Shoko Nagai by T.E.Priemon

Source: All About Jazz
May 29, 2006

"Procession" explores the non standard use of the jazz composition. This work is composed much in the same way John Cage's 4'33" was performed, without playing a single note. Procession is composed using the medium of Photonality, which basically is a visual music composition. The camera acts as an additional instrument within the performance. Shoko Nagai's performance evoked the traditional Japanese music and also paid homage to the American composer John Cage. Procession was created within the Philadelphia performance of ...

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Laurent Medelgi Group at the Bacchus in NYC on June 2nd

Source: All About Jazz
May 29, 2006

Friday June 2nd, 8pm-12-00am, Bacchus Room at Bonafides Restaurant, 60 Second Avenue between 3rd and 4th street. BacchusRoom Free Admission. Zorojazz Entertainment is proud to present Laurent Medelgi Group String Jazz Recording Guitarist and 55 Bar regular, Laurent Medelgi leaves the Broadway pits of Hairspray and Jersey Boys to enchant us with his melodious Ballads flirting with Classical harmonies and his Jazz/Groove ...

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Donny McCaslin Interviewed at AAJ

Source: All About Jazz
May 29, 2006

Saxophonist Donny McCaslin's career has been on a gradual ascension for a few years now, with some well-deserved profile coming from a Grammy nomination for his solo on Maria Schneider's outstanding ArtistShare disc, Concert in the Garden. But 2006 may well be the year that he makes the leap into greater public acclaim, with two radically different albums under his own name, in addition to replacing Chris Potter in trumpeter Dave Douglas' Quintet.

Contributing Editor Paul Olson caught up with ...

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Lenore Raphael trio with guest pianist Kuni Mikami perform on two Steinway grands June 5th

Source: All About Jazz
May 29, 2006

At AC Pianocraft, Monday June 5th, 8PM, Lenore Raphael, called “simply one of the best pianists in jazz today" (writer John Gilbert), performs standards and originals dedicated to the musicians and victims of hurricane Katrina. Joining her trio (Hilliard Greene on bass and Rudy Lawless on drums)will be Kuni Mikami, himself a great, swinging player. The two will perform on two back-to-back 7 foot Steinway grands. This is the last concert of the series produced by Roberta on the Arts ...

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