Jazz News

Richie Hart Trio Music@The Library Sunday, November 13, at 2:00 pm (Free)

Source: All About Jazz
November 3, 2005

November 3, 2005 To: Listings/Critics/Features From: JAZZ PROMO SERVICES Press Contact: JIM EIGO, [email protected] Music@the Library Sun., Nov. 13 at 2:00 pm ENJOY AN AFTERNOON OF JAZZ AT THE LIBRARY Come ready to relax and enjoy an afternoon of jazz from The Richie Hart Trio on Sunday, November 13, at 2:00 pm in the Westport Library 's McManus Room. Presented as part of the Friends of the Westport Library 's MUSIC@THE LIBRARY series, The Richie Hart Trio features Richie Hart ...

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Gene Ess "Sandbox & Sanctum" Quartet @ Freddy's Backroom, Nov 4, 2005 10:00PM

Source: All About Jazz
November 3, 2005

Guitarist, Gene Ess, draws the traits that identify his style with firm brush strokes. On the one hand, we have his jazz streak, and on the other hand, his exquisite sensitivity with the guitar, and as a final complement, his taste for sophisticated rhythms. The music from Gene's latest album “Sandbox and Sanctum - Song Cycle for Quartet" will be featured.

Here are some of what the press is saying about Gene Ess:

H. Allen Williams, Jazzreview Throughout ...

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45 B-Side completed now on to "78"!?

Source: All About Jazz
November 3, 2005

The worlds longest improvisational jam session of 45 plus hours was just completed, October 9, 10, 11, at the Fctory04 in Padua, Italy. This years second such event titled “45 B-Side" or 45 Lato B in Italian drew large crowds to the small venue in the little city of Padua to witness non-stop improvisation by rotating musicians from around the world including King Crimson drummer Pat Mastelotto, guitarist Willie Oteri, looper / producer Ronan Chris Murphy, German drummer extraordinaire Schroeder, ...

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His Royal Hipness Lord Buckley in The Zam Zam Room

Source: All About Jazz
November 3, 2005

59E59 Theaters transforms Theater C into the Zam Zam Room, hosting His Royal Hipness Lord Buckley for the Holidays Jake Broder (Broadway's Amadeus, When Harry Met Sally in the West End) reignites the amazing routines of cult comic and faux aristocrat Lord Buckley. His Royal Hipness Lord Buckley in The Zam Zam Room is a fizzy cocktail of style and substance, featuring “the hippest stories in storydom" backed by a live jazz band. The tale of Scrooge becomes a breezy ...

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Ellis Marsalis Brings the Sounds of the Big Easy to the Kimmel Center

Source: All About Jazz
November 3, 2005

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Richard Underhill 'Moment in Time' CD Launch Party - Nov 15th - Montreal Bistro

Source: All About Jazz
November 3, 2005

RICHARD UNDERHILL Moment in Time CD Launch Party Tuesday, November 15th - Montreal Bistro - 8pm 65 Sherbourne Street Reservations Recommended (dinner) - call 416.363.0179 $10 at the doors - $20 with a CD Toronto ON - Juno award winner, Richard Underhill is set to release 'Moment in Time,' a much anticipated new album showcasing 10 adventurous original compositions brought to life by an extraordinary band of Canadian ...

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TONIC Vintage Vocals Releases Christmas CD "It Ain't Over 'Til the Fat Man Swings"

Source: All About Jazz
November 3, 2005

PREMIERE VOCAL JAZZ QUARTET RELEASES CHRISTMAS CD November 3, 2005 (Chicago, IL) -- TONIC Vintage Vocals, Chicago's premiere vintage vocal jazz quartet, have released their second CD “It Ain't Over 'Til the Fat Man Swings". The highly anticipated new album is a Christmas swingfest dedicated to the Jolly Old Elf himself. “It Ain't Over 'Til the Fat Man Swings" is 12 swank cuts of hip holiday fun. Solid 4-part jazz vocals blend a new brand of yuletide cheer on snazzy ...

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Pink Martini at UCLA Live, June 22-23

Source: All About Jazz
November 3, 2005

"If life is a cabaret, Pink Martini is the band in the existential orchestra pit." - CMJ New Music Monthly Somewhere between a 1930s Cuban dance orchestra, a classical chamber music ensemble, a Brazilian marching street band and Japanese film noir is the 12-piece Pink Martini. Part language lesson, part Hollywood musical, the Portland, Oregon-based “little orchestra" was created in 1994 by Harvard graduate and classically trained pianist Thomas M. Lauderdale to play at political fundraisers for progressive causes such ...

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