Jazz News

Benefit Concert for Hurricane Relief St. Marks Church on-the-Bowery Sunday November 6th 2:00 pm

Source: All About Jazz
October 26, 2005

October 26, 2005 To: Listings/Critics/Features From: JAZZ PROMO SERVICES Press Contact: JIM EIGO, [email protected] For Immediate Release Benefit Concert for Hurricane Relief Music and spoken word to uplift the spirit abd bring our community together in support of our brothers and sistersin the south affected by the recent storms. Sunday November 6th 2:00 pm St. Marks Church on-the-Bowery 131 East Tenth st. (corner of second avenue.) Call 212-6746377 for more information. Fr. Julio Torres Priest-in-Charge , Georgina Ellis/ Jeannine Otis, ...

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Marcus Strickland at the Jazz Gallery Sat., Nov. 19th 9PM & 10PM

Source: All About Jazz
October 26, 2005

October 26, 2005 To: Listings/Critics/Features From: JAZZ PROMO SERVICES Press Contact: JIM EIGO, [email protected] “Marcus Strickland has started to turn heads in the most thriving but most competitive jazz scene on the planet." –Thomas Conrad MARCUS STRICKLAND @ JAZZ GALLERY 290 Hudson St. Tel: 212 242 1063 em: [email protected] SAT., NOV. 19th Sets are 9:00 & 10:30pm $15 Cover Personnel: Marcus Strickland – ten. & sop. saxes Lage Lund - guitar Brad Jones – Electric Bass E.J. Strickland – drums ...

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Hank Jones and Barry Harris Saturday, October 29th at 7:30 and 9:30 PM Allen Room in Frederick P. Rose Hall

Source: All About Jazz
October 26, 2005

October 26, 2005 To: Listings/Critics/Features From: JAZZ PROMO SERVICES Jazz Forum Arts' New Concert Series at Jazz at Lincoln Center still has great seats left! There are still great seats left for Jazz Forum Arts' new series of concerts at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City! The second concert in this series will take place on Saturday, October 29th at 7:30 and 9:30 PM in the impressive Allen Room in Frederick P. Rose Hall, Home of Jazz at ...

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Jazz stars set to swing in for Edinburgh Mardi Gras

Source: All About Jazz
October 26, 2005

by Katie Emslie

Jazz stars Fats Domino and Harry Connick Jnr are being lined up to take part in a New Orleans-style Mardi Gras in Edinburgh, Scotland to raise funds for the victims of Hurricane Katrina.

Organisers are planning a weekend-long jazz and blues extravaganza in the new year and talks are under way to bring the world famous New Orleans musicians to the event, along with the mayor of the stricken Louisiana city, Ray Nagin.

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Gerry Mulligan: The Complete Verve Gerry Mulligan Concert Band

Source: All About Jazz
October 26, 2005

Gerry Mulligan searched a dozen years to find this sound, and finally achieved it: The Verve Concert Jazz Band Sessions.

In many ways, Mulligan’s “Concert Jazz Band” recordings from 1960 to 1962 were the culmination of ideas that began forming in the late 1940s when he was writing for big bands, and for the Birth of the Cool sessions led by Miles Davis. He loved the richness of big band instrumentation. But not the heaviness. He liked the fleeter feel ...

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Francina Connors at Penang tonight

Source: All About Jazz
October 26, 2005

We’re making way for the holiday party season trading Wednesdays for individual dates at Penang. A special “Thanks” to the Penang staff and everyone who’s come down and supported our Wednesday night “scene.”

Tonight, Uptown Jazz will be joined by Count Basie Band alum, Dave Jackson (B) for a mix of Jazz, R&B/Blues, American Songbook and more. DON’T MISS IT!

Uptown Jazz +1 Francina Connors (Voc.), Michael Howell(G) and Dave Jackson (B) Tonight, Wed., ...

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Spider Saloff Sings Gershwin

Source: All About Jazz
October 26, 2005

Contact: Sven Thirion, Chairman TPAC 708.444.5ART [email protected] [email protected]

NEWLY FORMED TINLEY PARK ARTS COUNCIL TAKES RESERVATIONS FOR ITS FIRST JAZZ EVENT

(Tinley Park, IL--) The Tinley Park Arts Council (TPAC) announces its first professional performance event for the area featuring the renowned jazz vocalist, Spider Saloff.

Spider is heard worldwide as the co-star and co-creator of the internationally syndicated weekly Public Radio series Word and Music on NPR. She has received critical ...

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Sofia Laiti performing in the Katrina Benefit Concert Series at C-Note tonight

Source: All About Jazz
October 26, 2005

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