Jazz News

SONG X 20th Anniversary Edition Revised Remixed Remastered

Source: All About Jazz
August 9, 2005

The first of the Nonesuch/Metheny Rereleases

TRACKS Police People (new track) All of Us (new track) The Good Life (new track) Word from Bird (new track) Compute (new track) The Veil (new track) Song X Mob Job Endangered Species Video Games Kathelin Gray Trigonometry Song X Duo Long Time No See

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Diet Coke Women In Jazz Festival - Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola

Source: All About Jazz
August 9, 2005

DIET COKE HITS THE RIGHT NOTES WITH THE INAUGURAL WOMEN IN JAZZ FESTIVAL AT JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER’S DIZZY’S CLUB COCA-COLA NEW YORK, June 21, 2005 – Calling all jazz lovers! Diet Coke, the world's leading diet soft drink, and Jazz at Lincoln Center, the not-for-profit arts organization dedicated to enriching the artistic substance and perpetuating the democratic spirit of America’s music, today announced the first-ever Diet Coke Women in Jazz Festival at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, a celebration of the ...

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Interview with Andy Davies

Source: All About Jazz
August 9, 2005

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Dianne Reeves Stars in New Movie By George Clooney, Good Night, And Good Luck

Source: All About Jazz
August 9, 2005

DIANNE REEVES STARS AND PERFORMS IN “GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK” - DIRECTED BY GEORGE CLOONEY MOVIE SOUNDTRACK, FEATURING THE THREE-TIME GRAMMY®-WINNING JAZZ VOCALIST, IN STORES SEPTEMBER 27 Good Night, And Good Luck. follows the legendary Edward R. Murrow (David Straithairn) during the broadcaster’s on-air confrontations with Senator Joseph McCarthy. Murrow, the then host of the CBS series, See It Now, exposed the infamous politician’s deceit, bullying, and manipulation in one of history’s most courageous moments of journalism, ...

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World Premier of Lost Monk-Coltrane Concert on SIRIUS

Source: All About Jazz
August 9, 2005

SIRIUS SATELLITE RADIO TO BROADCAST WORLD PREMIERE OF NEWLY-FOUND THELONIOUS MONK-JOHN COLTRANE CONCERT Historic 1957 concert at Carnegie Hall will be heard exclusively on SIRIUS beginning on September 9 NEW YORK - August 9, 2005 - A newly-discovered recording of an historic concert featuring jazz giants Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane will be broadcast for the first time on Friday, September 9 exclusively on SIRIUS Satellite Radio. The concert at New York's Carnegie Hall on November 29, 1957 featured the ...

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Jammates to Promote GA Jazz Artists with Online Jazz Jukebox

Source: All About Jazz
August 9, 2005

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Atlanta / LaGrange Georgia 8-9-2005… Jammates LLC today announces complimentary promotional help to Georgia jazz artists wanting to extend their music and brand to an expanded audience. On August 31st the Company will rollout its online jazz jukebox and artist profile for Georgia musicians, just in time for the Montreux-Atlanta Jazz festival. “We're just stepping up and doing our part to spread the word about the fine talent located ...

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Boston Symphony Orchestra Presents 2005 Tanglewood Jazz Festival, September 2-4 In Lenox, Mass.

Source: All About Jazz
August 9, 2005

The Boston Symphony Orchestra will present its annual Labor Day Weekend Tanglewood Jazz Festival to be held September 2-4 at the orchestra’s summer home in the Berkshire Mountains in Lenox, Mass. Jazz greats highlighting this year’s festival include Tony Bennett with the Count Basie Orchestra, Sonny Rollins, Madeleine Peyroux, Toots Thielemans, Kenny Werner, Oscar Castro-Neves, Airto, Marian McPartland, Chris Botti, the Yellowjackets, Skitch Henderson, Bucky Pizzarelli, Jay Leonhart, and Diane Schuur and the Caribbean Jazz Project.

A new addition to ...

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Buena Vista singer Ibrahim Ferrer dead at 78

Source: All About Jazz
August 8, 2005

HAVANA - Ibrahim Ferrer, the mild-mannered singer of the Buena Vista Social Club group that took him from shining shoes to world fame late in life, died on Saturday in Havana, his manager said. He was 78.

The Grammy winner known for his trademark cap and gray mustache died of multiple organ failure after returning ill on Wednesday from a European tour, manager Daniel Florestan said.

“He was taken to hospital when he got back and his condition worsened. He ...

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