Jazz News

Jazz Vocalist Robin Aleman To Release Debut CD August 8th

Source: All About Jazz
August 1, 2005

August 1, 2005 To: Listings/Critics/Features From: JAZZ PROMO SERVICES Press Contact: JIM EIGO, [email protected] JAZZ VOCALIST ROBIN ALEMAN TO RELEASE DEBUT CD AUGUST 8TH NYC based vocal jazz artist Robin Aleman will release her debut CD on Monday, August 8th, 2005. The CD, entitled Tonight, features some of the best young talent in the scene today: David Epstein on piano, Bob Sabin on bass and Peter Retzlaff on drums. Also playing is guitarist Pete Smith, featured on 2 of the ...

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Les Paul Tonight-Mingus Big Band Tue.-Ed Palermo Plays Zappa Wed.-Aug. 4-7 Archie Shepp/Roswell Rudd at The Iridium Jazz Club

Source: All About Jazz
August 1, 2005

August 1, 2005 To: Listings/Critics/Features From: JAZZ PROMO SERVICES Press Contact: JIM EIGO, [email protected] IRIDIUM JAZZ CLUB 1650 BROADWAY (Corner of 51st) NEW YORK, NY 10023 RESERVATIONS: 212-582-2121, www.iridiumjazzclub.com Sets at 8 & 10PM EVERY MONDAY LES PAUL AND HIS QUARTET EVERY TUESDAY THE MINGUS BIG BAND EVERY WEDNESDAY ED PALERMO BIG BAND PLAYS THE MUSIC OF FRANK ZAPPA Every Sunday Starting at 11:00AM Gospel Jazz Brunch in NYC featuring BISHOP NATHANIEL TOWNSLEY, JR. AND THE GOSPEL JUBILEE This Week ...

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"Village The Unfretted" : Fretless Guitar Double Disc On-Sale NOW

Source: All About Jazz
August 1, 2005

Unfretted Records presents the definitive Fretless Guitar Double CD Compilation entitled “Village Of The Unfretted" from The World’s Fretless Guitarists, on sale Summer 2005 at www.unfretted.com & www.cdbaby.com . “Village of the Unfretted” firmly puts the Fretless Guitar on the map and the following artists, from 16 countries, have contributed; Tim Donahue, Dave FUZE Fiuczynski, Yan Vagh, Ned Evett, Bumblefoot (Ron Thal), Elliot Sharp, Franck Vigroux, Andrzej Izdebski, Tom Baker, Yannick Robert, Ratko Zjaca, Michael ATONAL Vick, Sándor Szabó, Erik ...

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Tanglewood Jazz Festival, Labor Day Weekend In Massachusetts

Source: All About Jazz
August 1, 2005

The Boston Symphony Orchestra has announced the lineup for its annual Labor Day Weekend Tanglewood Jazz Festival, to be held September 2-4 at the orchestra’s summer home in the Berkshire hills of Lenox, Massachusetts. Jazz greats highlighting this year’s festival include Tony Bennett in a rare performance with the Count Basie Orchestra, saxophone legend Sonny Rollins, Madeleine Peyroux, Toots Thielemans, Kenny Werner, Oscar Castro-Neves, Airto, Marian McPartland, Chris Botti, the Yellowjackets, Skitch Henderson, Bucky Pizzarelli, Jay Leonhart, Diane Schuur, and ...

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Linn Records Announce New Claire Martin and Richard Rodney Bennett Album

Source: All About Jazz
August 1, 2005

Linn Records are delighted to announce the release of CLAIRE MARTIN and RICHARD RODNEY BENNETT When Lights Are Low Linn AKD 260: Hybrid Super Audio multichannel CD Produced by Richard Cottle Release date, Monday September 5th, 2005

Tracklisting: • My One And Only • I Was a Little Too Lonely • My Mood Is You • World Weary • When Lights Are Low • Fools Fall In Love ...

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Sydney Jazz Bands - Viva the band - popular in China

Source: All About Jazz
July 31, 2005

A huge market for Australian bands is emerging in China with their voracious appetite for all things cultural, in particular, music and dance. A popular Sydney jazz band called Viva the band has performed in music festivals in Taiwan for two consecutive years at the Tainan International Chihsi Arts festival and the Kenting international folk song festival, where they were showcased in street parades, a welcome by the mayor of Tainan plus a series of concerts and television performances throughout ...

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The Bird You Never Heard

Source: All About Jazz
July 31, 2005

July 31, 2005 To: Listings/Critics/Features From: JAZZ PROMO SERVICES Press Contact: JIM EIGO, [email protected] Uptown Jazz Records is pleased to announce….New! Rare!...Never-Before-Heard-Rare Recording… Dizzy Gillespie - Charlie Parker Town Hall, New York City, June 22, 1945 (UPCD 27.51) http://uptownjazz.net/ This previously unknown concert recording from 1945 of one of the greatest groups in jazz history, the Dizzy Gillespie Quintet with Charlie Parker, exceeds the listener's lofty expectations. First, the quality of the music is at the highest level of inspiration, ...

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2nd Annual "Jazz in the 'Wood!"

Source: All About Jazz
July 31, 2005

JAZZ in the 'WOOD Collingswood, NJ Jazz Festival

Fri. August 19: TYRONE BROWN Sextet LARRY McKENNA Quartet and many others

Sat. August 20: Miss Justine & Tom Lawton MINAS BOOTSIE BARNES & PHILLY GUMBO w/ John Swana DENIS DiBLASIO w/ CLAIRE DALY INGRID JENSEN and more

1-866-BE IN COLLS for more info see complete schedule at ...

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