Jazz News

Sophie Duner Quartet at Kavehaz Jazz Gallery

Source: All About Jazz
August 31, 2005

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New live project Al Di Meola-Andrea Parodi: Armentos

Source: All About Jazz
August 31, 2005

THE GREAT ELECTRIC JAZZ MEETS ANDREA PARODI’S VOICE AL DI MEOLA, one of the most virtuous jazz guitarists in the world – one of the main rock-jazz musicians of 70s and 80s, right-hand musician of Chick Corea in Return To Forever, became famous with the album “Friday Night in San Francisco" with Paco De Lucia and John Mc Laughlin- he continues on his recent way of “fusion" between jazz and etno-world music. After a few months from his last CD ...

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Vince Seneri Appearing At This Year's Lake George Jazz Festival Saturday 9/17/05 at 4:30 PM

Source: All About Jazz
August 31, 2005

August 31, 2005 To: Listings/Critics/Features From: JAZZ PROMO SERVICES Press Contact: JIM EIGO, [email protected] Appearing At This Year's Lake George Jazz Festival Saturday 9/17/05 at 4:30pm Featured Artist VINCE SENERI On The “NEW" Hammond B3 Organ Prince Of The Hammond B3 Organ With His Special Guest The Legendary Tenor Saxophonist HOUSTON PERSON AND JAZZ LATIN SENSATION! Plus Grammy Winner/Flautist DAVE VALENTIN Also Bob DeVos Guitar Master & Paul Wells on Drums THIS IS GOING TO BE AN AWESOME JAZZ FESTIVAL ...

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Ayana Lowe Saturday, September 3rd at 55 Bar 6:00 - 9:00 p.m.

Source: All About Jazz
August 31, 2005

August 31, 2005 To: Listings/Critics/Features From: JAZZ PROMO SERVICES Press Contact: JIM EIGO, [email protected] AYANA LOWE'S JAZZ COMBO Ayana -vocals Ed Mac Eachan – guitar, Bob Cunningham- bass, Michael Thompson - drums (Presents: MOSTLY RUTH BROWN – music inspired by the legendary R&B artist, “Miss Rhythm,” herself RUTH BROWN, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame-- inducted 1993) SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3 55 BAR - 55 Christopher St (btwn 6 & 7th ave- take 1/9 train to Christopher) 6:00 - 9:00 p.m. ...

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Bill Shoemaker's Point of Departure Launches September 1st

Source: All About Jazz
August 31, 2005

August 31, 2005 To: Listings/Critics/Features From: JAZZ PROMO SERVICES Bill Shoemaker's Point of Departure Launches September 1st www.pointofdeparture.org Bill Shoemaker has been a forceful advocate for jazz and other forms of uncompromising music for almost 30 years, contributing to most of the major jazz periodicals in North America and Europe, and writing liner notes for many important recordings. Shoemaker now goes solo with Point of Departure: an online music journal, which launches September 1st at: http//www.pointofdeparture.org Each issue of the ...

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New CD From James Jabbo Ware and The Me We & Them Orchestra

Source: All About Jazz
August 31, 2005

Media Contact: Scott Menhinick, Improvised Communications (617) 489-6561 [email protected]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: AUGUST 31, 2005

JAMES JABBO WARE AND THE ME WE & THEM ORCHESTRA TO RELEASE NEW CD NEW YORK -- Y'All of New York, Inc. is proud to announce the October 4th release of Vignettes in the Spirit of Ellington (Y'All 005), the latest release from James Jabbo Ware and The Me We & Them Orchestra. Recorded in July 2001, ...

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New Hendrik Meurkens Video @ AAJ

Source: All About Jazz
August 31, 2005

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New book just out on Chicago jazz avant-garde: The Velvet Lounge

Source: All About Jazz
August 30, 2005

Just out from Columbia University Press, The Velvet Lounge: On Late Chicago Jazz by Gerald Majer “Gerald Majer's propulsive, rhythmic essays celebrate the history and spirit of jazz. Like a seasoned improviser, he varies and syncopates his delivery, casting rim-shot fragments against long, slalomlike sentences—pushing, probing, and staying on the run through fast-track narrative and lyric measure. The prose fluidly shifts between earthy vernacular and reflective mood swing. And yet Majer's technical gifts as an essayist never betray or eclipse ...

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