Jazz News

Blueswoman Debbie Davies Celebrates "All I Found" at Satalla

Source: All About Jazz
August 8, 2005

BLUESWOMAN DEBBIE DAVIES CELEBRATES ALL I FOUND AT SATALLA THURSDAY, AUGUST 25TH at 7:30 PM

Debbie Davies, America’s foremost female electric blues guitarist will celebrate her Telarc debut, All I Found, by performing live Thursday, August 25th at Satalla. Showtime is 7:30pm. Tickets are $10 in advance or $12 day of show. Satalla is located at 37 West 26th Street (between Broadway and Sixth Avenue) in New York City. For more information and ticket purchase, please call 212-576-1155 or visit ...

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Tinsley Ellis Celebrates Return to Alligator With New CD and Live Performance in Doylestown

Source: All About Jazz
August 8, 2005

ROCK / BLUES GUITARIST / VOCALIST TINLSEY ELLIS CELEBRATES RETURN TO ALLIGATOR WITH NEW CD AND LIVE PERFORMANCE IN DOYLESTOWN!

“Feral blues guitar...non-stop gigging has sharpened his six-string to a razor's edge...his eloquence dazzles... he achieves pyrotechnics that rival Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton." - Rolling Stone

Hard-rocking blues-soaked guitarist/vocalist/songwriter Tinsley Ellis will celebrate his return to Alligator Records with his first-ever live CD, Live-Highwayman, and a performance in Doylestown. The CD is an Ellis fan's dream-come-true, because ...

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Blind Arvella Gray's Only Album to Be Reissued on CD with Bonus Cuts to Inaugurate New Conjuroo Recordings Label

Source: All About Jazz
August 8, 2005

BLIND ARVELLA GRAY’S ONLY ALBUM TO BE REISSUED ON CD WITH BONUS TRACKS, UNSEEN PHOTOS AND DELUXE PACKAGING, WILL KICK OFF NEW CONJUROO RECORDINGS LABEL

National Steel Guitar-Playing Chicago Street Singer Was Urban Link to Field Hollers and Folk Blues

SHERMAN OAKS, CA — The only album by Blind Arvella Gray, a nearly forgotten street singer who spent the latter part of his life performing folk, blues and gospel music at Chicago’s Maxwell Street flea market and at rapid-transit depots, ...

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Umbrella Recordings Releases Carrie Shull/Tara Flandreau/Reuben Radding – "The Branch Will Not Break"

Source: All About Jazz
August 8, 2005

New York bassist Reuben Radding who made a critical splash in 2003 with the gorgeous and haunting Luminesence, on AUM Fidelity (a collection of duets with altoist Daniel Carter), is back with a new CD, The Branch Will Not Break (UMR030), with Carrie Shull on oboe and English horn, and violist Tara Flandreau, now available on Umbrella Recordings. This collection of eleven chamber improvisations is stunningly evocative, and inventive, inhabiting a unique space somewhere between contemporary classical music and free ...

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JJA Panels at Major U.S. Jazz Festivals

Source: All About Jazz
August 8, 2005

Jazz Journalists Stage Public Panels at Major U.S. Festivals After 9th Annual Jazz Awards, “Jazz Matters" in Newport, Tanglewood, Chicago New York -- The Jazz Journalists Association, the 450-plus member international not-for-profit promoting the documentation and dissemination of news on jazz, follows up its ninth annual Jazz Awards gala held in June with public panel discussions at the Newport, Tanglewood and Chicago Jazz festivals in August.

Eric Jackson, longtime host of “Eric in the Evening" on WGBH-FM (Boston), will moderate ...

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Vocal Jazz Group "Monday Off" at Birdland, August 15, 2005

Source: All About Jazz
August 8, 2005

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Monday Off, the jazz vocal quartet hailed by Skitch Henderson as having “exquisite taste, rich creativity, fresh ideas, spread over a palate of standard repertoire" is performing at the legendary jazz club, Birdland on August 15, 2005 at 7:00PM. Joining Monday Off (Amy Cervini, Hilary Gardner, Richard Roland and Raymond Sage) will be Randy Ingram on piano, Mark Lau on bass and Ernesto Cervini on drums. Also joining Monday Off will be special guest Anat Cohen on ...

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Bergonzi, Zenón and Marsalis new Interviews

Source: All About Jazz
August 8, 2005

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Jazz at Lincoln Center Celebrates Kansas City!

Source: All About Jazz
August 8, 2005

JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER LAUNCHES THE 2005-06 SEASON WITH: The KANSAS CITY FESTIVAL Celebrating the Jazz Tradition and Culture of “The Heart of America” September 22-25 · Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis · Bobby Watson’s Boogie-Woogie Jump Band · Charles McPherson at Jazz Standard · Basie, Blues & Beyond: Karrin Allyson, Nancy King & Friends · Jazz 101 Classes · FREE Jazz Battles · KC Food Tastings · Exclusive Book Signings · LIVE Radio Broadcast of Lincoln Center ...

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