Jazz News

Turtle Island blurs lines between classical and jazz

Source: All About Jazz
November 11, 2005

What is a string quartet? What is a jazz band? If you take even a moment before answering, then Mark Summer would like to play you some music. As cellist for the Turtle Island String Quartet, he has made a career of offering an alternative to the norm. We get to play off of people's expectations," Summer said of the group, which performs with pianist Kenny Barron tomorrow in The Kentucky Center's Bomhard Theater as part of the Lonesome Pine ...

Continue Reading

Cincinnati Jazz sessions in limelight

Source: All About Jazz
November 11, 2005

Plenty of jazz news this week from a smokin' living room concert CD to the “lost" Jimmy McGary tape and a new jazz “club." Jazz benefactor David Hall has given us another in the tremendous series of his “living room concerts" with the release of “Trio Con Brio" featuring piano man Phil DeGreg along with guitarist Dan Faehnle and bassist Paul Keller. The three don't just play with “brio" but are downright smokin' on this session, which DeGreg describes as ...

Continue Reading

Challenging jazz music tempts Jane Monheit

Source: All About Jazz
November 11, 2005

Some day, someone might write the perfect jazz-bluegrass Christmas song. Then Jane Monheit's favorites will merge. Until then, she can mainly stick to the jazz classics. She seems to do them splendidly. At 20, she was runner-up in the Thelonius Monk Institute vocal competition. Two years later, MacKenzie Wilson wrote in allmusic.com, “Monheit had joined Diana Krall as one of the highest touted female talents in jazz." Monheit turns 28 today and reaches the Wharton Center on Friday, for her ...

Continue Reading

Ladysmith Black Mambazo performing with Sarah McLachlan, Melissa Etheridge, Emmylou Harris

Source: All About Jazz
November 11, 2005

Legendary Grammy award-winning South African vocal collective Ladysmith Black Mambazo is coming to a venue near you!

Mambazo will be performing in support of their star-studded Heads Up International release, Long Walk To Freedom (due at retail January 24). The album is a collection of twelve new recordings of classic Mambazo songs and features vocal performances by such pop icons as Sarah McLachlan, Melissa Etheridge, Natalie Merchant, Emmylou Harris, Taj Mahal, Zap Mama, and others. At once their most ambitious ...

Continue Reading

Jazzmobile 2005-2006 School Schedule

Source: All About Jazz
November 11, 2005

Saturday Jazz Workshops - PS 197 2230 Fifth Avenue at West 135th Street Dr. Billy Taylor, Artistic Director Dr. Donald Byrd, Jazz Master Linda Hudson, Director of Administration Lee O. “Mickey" Bass, Curriculum Director Classes: Gateway (beginners), vocal, piano, drums, Afro/Latin percussion, guitar, trumpet, saxophone, bass, clarinet, flute, trombone, violin, vibraphone, harmony and theory, reading proficiency, composition, ensemble and improvisation. JAZZMOBILE WORKSHOP 2005/2006 Johnnie Garry, Production Director Brenda ...

Continue Reading

Santana - XM & Jazz at Lincoln Center

Source: All About Jazz
November 10, 2005

...so there I was... backstage chatting with Carlos Santana. The music icon made an appearance and 'live' broadcast from Jazz at Lincoln Center's rehearsal hall for an XM Satellite Radio broadcast. Jazz at Lincoln Center has partnered with XM for ongoing broadcasts from their new facilities/studios in Frederick P. Rose Hall. It was the kickoff concert for their XM Artist Confidential series. And what a way to start! Carlos Santana and his 10-piece band rockin' in an intimate rehearsal hall! ...

Continue Reading

The New Cookers Play Jazz at BAMcafe Live

Source: All About Jazz
November 10, 2005

Continue Reading

The Music Of Herbie Mann Celebrated at the Cape May Jazz Festival Nov 11-13

Source: All About Jazz
November 10, 2005

November 10, 2005 To: Listings/Critics/Features From: JAZZ PROMO SERVICES THE MUSIC OF HERBIE MANN NOV 11-13 The 24th Cape May Jazz Festival presented by Bank of America kicks off Friday November 11 honoring the late premier jazz flutist, Herbie Mann....voted Number One jazz flutist for 13 years by Downbeat Magazine. Long before “world music" was coined, Herbie was exploring the rhythms of Africa, India, Cuba, Jamaica and especially Brazil. Mann performed to a sell out crowd at the Cape May ...

Continue Reading