Jazz News

Louise Rogers and Rick Strong: Voice and Bass Kavehaz Mon. Aug. 8-7PM & Wed. Aug 10th Great Lawn At Eastchester Town Hall

Source: All About Jazz
August 5, 2005

August 5, 2005 To: Listings/Critics/Features From: JAZZ PROMO SERVICES Press Contact: JIM EIGO, [email protected] Louise Rogers and Rick Strong: Voice and Bass “ ... their individual strengths combine to create a unique chemistry." Ed Friedland - Bass Player Magazine, Aug. 2005 (to read the entire review, go to www.louiserogers.org) If you're stuck in the city like us, we hope you can come. Cold drinks AND air conditioning - Come on down! KAVEHAZ, MONDAY AUG 8TH_ 37 WEST 26TH STREET ONE ...

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JJA Panels at Major U.S. Jazz Festivals

Source: All About Jazz
August 5, 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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Reunion Of "Sugar Hill Quartet" At Creole N'awlins Restaurant

Source: All About Jazz
August 5, 2005

CONTACT: Dan Kassell 212-779-INFO [email protected]

Creole Restaurant & Jazz Supper Club N'Awlins & Creole Cuisine 2167 Third at 118th Street, East Harlem, NYC www.creolenyc.com (212) 876-8838 Creole opened its doors one year ago, the creation of three friends, with the intention of giving artists a place to perform and express themselves. More importantly to cultivate the powers of good cooking and good music and to bring a diversity of people ...

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Pat Metheny adds saxophonist David Sánchez to his 2005 Trio Tour with Christian McBride and Antonio Sanchez

Source: All About Jazz
August 5, 2005

Boston, MA -- After playing a searing set with saxophonist David Sánchez at Montreal's International Jazz Festival a few weeks ago, Pat really wanted to continue the musical dialogue. “It was a fantastic set," Metheny says; “We were all having so much fun playing off each other. I knew that my next tour in the fall had to have as many dates with David as possible." After rejigging schedules, what was to be a Pat Metheny Trio Tour with Christian ...

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Marcus Strickland Quartet @ Jazz Gallery Fri., Aug.5th 9 &10:30 p.m.

Source: All About Jazz
August 5, 2005

August 5, 2005 To: Listings/Critics/Features From: JAZZ PROMO SERVICES Press Contact: JIM EIGO, [email protected] “[Brotherhood is] great work that you know comes from the heart. Strickland and people like him are the new young lions of jazz and it's great to know the torch has been taken up by such fine artists." -Tim Withee (Auburn, WA United States) 5 stars The Marcus Strickland Quartet @ Jazz Gallery 290 Hudson Street (b/w Spring and Dominick St.), NYC Closest trains: C/E to ...

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Sarah Lynch and Rick Germanson at Kavehaz on Monday

Source: All About Jazz
August 5, 2005

New York City-based vocalist Sarah Lynch will perform with Rick Germanson on piano, this Monday, August 8th, at the 9pm set at Kavehaz Jazz Café (37 West 26th Street between Broadway and Sixth Avenue).

Rick Germanson has been highly in demand as a pianist on the New York City jazz scene for several years now. Rick left his native Milwaukee, Wisconsin on the heels of winning the Grand Prize at The American Pianists’ Association Jazz Piano Competition in 1996. His ...

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Jim Saltzman Group at Greenwich Village Bistro - Friday August 5, 2005

Source: All About Jazz
August 5, 2005

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Jazz Songwriter wins Lennon Songwriting Contest for First Time

Source: All About Jazz
August 5, 2005

New York, July 21, 2005 -- Brian Rothschild, Executive Director of the John Lennon Songwriting Contest, Sony recording artists and stars of their own BET unscripted drama series, Fatty Koo, and Cheryl Severini from JLSC founding sponsor Maxell Corporation, presented the $20,000 check for the 2004 Maxell Song of the Year to Scott Routenberg of Miami, Florida. His song, “Bandwidth,” is the first composition in the Jazz category of the Contest to be honored as the Maxell Song of the ...

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