Jazz News

The Ed Cherry Organ Project @ "Dizzy's Club Coca Cola"

Source: All About Jazz
August 23, 2005

The guitar of ed cherry will be performing w/jay collins-sax/flute,brian charette-organ,diego voglino-drums. august 23 thru the 27 11pm one set/12:45am fri.-sat.(w/todd coolman -bass,woody shaw III-drums,jay collins-sax/flute-sat.only) Dizzy's Club Coca Cola Broadway at 60th Street,5th Floor NYC Call: 212.258.9595 Music Charge $10 Ed Cherry Instrument | Guitar Biography I've been playing the guitar since the age of 12. Rock and soul music at first (Jimi Hendrix, James Brown, Kool and the Gang, Jeff Beck, Wilson Pickett). After high school, in 1972, ...

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Synthesizer innovator Robert Moog dies at 71

Source: All About Jazz
August 22, 2005

RALEIGH, N.C. - Robert A. Moog, whose self-named synthesizers turned electric currents into sound, revolutionizing music in the 1960s and opening the wave that became electronica, has died. He was 71.

Moog died Sunday at his home in Asheville, N.C., according to his company's website. An inoperable brain tumour had been detected in April.

A childhood interest in the theremin, one of the first electronic musical instruments, would led Moog to create a business that tied the name Moog as ...

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Signal to Noise #39: coming attractions!

Source: All About Jazz
August 22, 2005

SIGNAL to NOISE #39 is slated to hit the mail during the first week in September. We invite you to enjoy a sneak preview of our fall content, including Ed Hazell's in-depth cover story on multi-instrumentalist Joe McPhee, at our website, www.signaltonoisemagazine.org. SIGNAL to NOISE is the quarterly journal of improvised and experimental music, documenting the confluence of creative jazz, electro-acoustics and experimental, modern rock. Each perfect-bound issue features over 100 pages of detailed feature articles by the field's best ...

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String And Bow Festival: Kali Z./Hilliard Greene Duo Tue Aug 23 7:00PM at Cornelia Street Cafe

Source: All About Jazz
August 22, 2005

August 22, 2005 To: Listings/Critics/Features From: JAZZ PROMO SERVICES Press Contact: JIM EIGO, [email protected] Cornelia Street Cafe 29 Cornelia Street Greenwich Village, NY 10014 Tel: 212-989-9319 Fax: 212-243-4207 Web: corneliastreetcafe.com between West 4th and Bleecker Sts, Greenwich Village 1,9 Subway to Sheridan Square; A, C, E, B, D, F to West 4th St. “a culinary as well as a cultural landmark" Mayoral Proclamation, City of New York 1987 Tue Aug 23 STRING AND BOW FESTIVAL: KALI Z./HILLIARD GREENE DUO (Kali ...

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Barbara Morrison and the Bucrew for one performance only at El Camino College's Marsee Auditorium in Torrance, CA

Source: All About Jazz
August 22, 2005

The dazzling Barbara Morrison has been featured on more than 20 recordings. She has dazled fans of a wide array of genres from traditional jazz and blues to gospel and pop. Her melodic voice, with its two-and-a-half octave range, is known worldwide, as are her rich, unique, soulful and highly spirited interpretations of both familiar jazz and blues classics and original contemporary tunes. Equally as striking is Ms. Morrision's ability to belt out down-home, soul-stirring blues. A Concert not to ...

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Judy Niemack Band featuring Eddie Gomez at the Jazz Standard Monday, August 29th Sets at 7:30 and 9:30PM

Source: All About Jazz
August 22, 2005

August 22, 2005 To: Listings/Critics/Features From: JAZZ PROMO SERVICES Press Contact: JIM EIGO, [email protected] Monday, August 29th Judy Niemack Band featuring Eddie Gomez on bass Jeanfrançois Prins: Guitar Edson Cafe : percussion Jazz Standard 116 East 27th Street (btw. Park and Lex.) 212-576-2232 Shows at 7:30 and 9:30 $15.00 “If you want to know what real jazz singing can be (but rarely is), listen to Judy NIEMACK ... She is a musician in the truest sense, having mastered her instrument ...

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Ray Barretto at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola

Source: All About Jazz
August 22, 2005

Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola Performance Schedule for August 22-28 August 23-28 – Ray Barretto & New World Sextet AFTER HOURS WITH THE ED CHERRY QUARTET (New York, NY) August 22, 2005 - Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola -- located in The House of Swing, Jazz at Lincoln Center's Frederick P. Rose Hall – presents conguero, bandleader and GRAMMY Award-winner, Ray Barretto, one of the most influential musicians performing Latin-jazz. Barretto is a groundbreaker and was the first U.S.-born percussionist ...

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String and Bow Festival: Mark Helias & Ray Anderson, John Lindberg; Lindsey Horner & More This Weekend at the Cornelia Street Cafe

Source: All About Jazz
August 22, 2005

August 22, 2005 To: Listings/Critics/Features From: JAZZ PROMO SERVICES Press Contact: JIM EIGO, [email protected] Cornelia Street Cafe 29 Cornelia Street Greenwich Village, NY 10014 Tel: 212-989-9319 Fax: 212-243-4207 Web: corneliastreetcafe.com between West 4th and Bleecker Sts, Greenwich Village 1,9 Subway to Sheridan Square; A, C, E, B, D, F to West 4th St. “a culinary as well as a cultural landmark" Mayoral Proclamation, City of New York 1987 This Week at Cornelia Street Cafe August 22 thg 28 Mon aug ...

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