Jazz News

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

Source: All About Jazz
August 21, 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) 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, I spent 4 months at Berklee ...

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Lafayette Gilchrist Heads 'Towards the Shining Path' on HYENA Records

Source: All About Jazz
August 21, 2005

"Imagine pianist Billy Preston in the FBI witness protection program; he hides out in the Washington, D.C. go-go scene and then the jazz underground; he invents an unlikely pseudonym to go with his new style: a sort of twisted, funky, neo-juke-joint avant-gut-bucket." - W. Kim Heron, Detroit Metro Times

“This Baltimore jazz pianist is young enough to root his improvisations in funk rhythms rather than swing, but he's smart enough to give those muscular grooves real melodies and ...

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John Wallowitch and Annie Ross

Source: All About Jazz
August 21, 2005

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Blossom Dearie's Winchester In Apple Blossom Time is now available for pre-order

Source: All About Jazz
August 21, 2005

"Winchester In Apple Blossom Time" the sought after 1977 recording from Blossom Dearie's label Daffodil Records will be available in two weeks. www.DaffodilRecords.comnow has the album available for pre-ordering. Special sale prices on all CDs are in effect(including this one) Through the first week of September! Songs include: winchester in apple blossom time spring can really hang you up the most a wonderful guy touch the hand of love a jazz musician surrey with the fringe on top love is ...

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New compositions from Marco Esu...

Source: All About Jazz
August 21, 2005

New compositions from Marco Esu... In this 2005 Marco Esu (www.marcoesu.com) presenter his new compositions, the style is different in every composition and you can listen classic music as jazz or others styles like Flamenco and rock. The site that publish the mp3s are www.vitaminic.it (www.vitaminic.com etc... etc...) and any person can have a different link or page for his nation, exsample: http://stage.vitaminic.co.uk/marco_esu http://stage.vitaminic.it/marco_esu/ http://stage.vitaminic.de/marco_esu http://stage.vitaminic.nl/marco_esu http://stage.vitaminic.dk/marco_esu http://stage.vitaminic.com/marco_esu http://stage.vitaminic.ie/marco_esu/ If you will make a download or listen the songs, it ...

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Free Music Ensemble (FME) to Tour North America in September

Source: All About Jazz
August 21, 2005

Ken Vandermark's Free Music Ensemble (FME) is preparing for their second North American tour next month, sporting a new release entitled “Cuts", available on Okkadisk. With Nate McBride on bass and Paal Nilssen-Love on drums, this trio is likely the most adventurous of all of Vandermark's offerings. Working in somewhat of a modular system of composition, each element can be utilized by any member of the group. The sets are constructed by ...

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Adventure Music Signs Renowned Pianist Jovino Santos Neto

Source: All About Jazz
August 20, 2005

Adventure Music has announced that the acclaimed Brazilian pianist Jovino Santos Neto has been formally signed to the label, and has just completed recording an as-yet untitled CD for release in early 2006. The new CD is Santos Neto’s first recording as a leader since 2003’s Canto de Rio, which was a Latin Grammyã nominee.

The upcoming release captures Santos Neto in a trio setting, where he is joined by Roger Botter-Maio, who also contributed to Weber Iago’s recent Adventure ...

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Labor Day Jazz with Spyro Gyra at The Ritz-Carlton, Half Moon Bay

Source: All About Jazz
August 19, 2005

THE STARS ALIGN FOR KKSF 103.7 CONCERT ON THE COAST AT THE RITZ-CARLTON, HALF MOON BAY Outdoor Concert Features Spyro Gyra and Groovin' for Grover on Labor Day

HALF MOON BAY, Calif. - August 19, 2005 - Contemporary jazz legend Spyro Gyra joins three of the world's most renowned smooth jazz artists, Kirk Whalum, Gerald Albright and Jeff Lorber, touring as Groovin' For Grover, on Monday, Sept. 5, at The Ritz-Carlton, Half Moon Bay. The concert concludes the ...

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