Jazz News

John Stubblefield Viewing & Funeral Arrangements

Source: All About Jazz
July 8, 2005

Following is an announcement for John's funeral in Little Rock. An address where a card can be sent is at the end. I trust this radio community will send their condolences: John Stubblefield, of New York City, aged 60, went to share his God given musical talent with the heavenly father on July 4th 2005. He was born to the late Mable and Johnnie Stubblefield. He was preceded in death by a brother William L. Stubblefield. John Stubblefield’s career as ...

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Alaadeen Radio Interview Schedule

Source: All About Jazz
July 8, 2005

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Kansas City USA -- With the July 26, 2005 release date for his lastest international release on 'Asr Records, Alaadeen will be conducting the following Jazz Radio Interviews with regard to his “New Africa Suite" CD. Listeners outside of the Kansas City area may tune into broadcasts via station websites that provide online live listening and streaming technology. Any Jazz Radio Program is welcome to request an interview. Stations broadcasting outside of the ...

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Charlie Haden/Liberation Music Orchestra New Album Release

Source: All About Jazz
July 8, 2005

Not In Our Name, stands as a musical manifesto for the disaffection many people in America and all over the world feel about the manner in which the present administration is conducting its affairs both at home and in the global arena. The material on Not In Our Name comes strictly from American composers. As Haden explained, “There was a necessity that I felt to play music from American composers in protest to what’s going on, to make a statement ...

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

Source: All About Jazz
July 8, 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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JJ Sansaverino appearing at the swanky Taj in New York

Source: All About Jazz
July 8, 2005

Submitted by: Kari Gaffney, Publicist Kari-On Productions [email protected] 706.294.9996

THE JJ SANSAVERINO PROJECT Sunshine After Midnight

Location:Performing live @ Taj Date: Wednesday July 20, 2005 Address: 48 W. 21 Street between 5th & 6th Aves. New York, NY. 10010 Doors open @ 6:00 p.m. Showtime @ 9:00 p.m. Sharp!! NO COVER CHARGE!!! for R.S.V.P. and Dinner ...

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“All aboard the Durham Brass Festival express...”

Source: All About Jazz
July 8, 2005

Where is the strangest venue a performer has ever played a concert? Has there been a folk festival in an umbrella factory, a pop concert on a transatlantic aeroplane or a classical recital at a supermarket? How about a jazz show at a railway museum? On Monday 11 July curious music lovers will be able to find out as the sound of Gerry Richardson’s Big Idea will fill Locomotion: The National Railway Museum at Shildon – as part of Durham ...

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Blue Note to Release Newly-Discovered Monk & Coltrane Recording

Source: All About Jazz
July 7, 2005

On September 27th, Blue Note Records will release Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane: Live at Carnegie Hall, a never-before-heard jazz classic that documents one of the most historically important working bands in all of jazz history, a band that was both short-lived and, until now, thought to be frustratingly under-recorded. The concert, which took place at the famed New York hall on November 29, 1957, was preserved on newly-discovered tapes made by Voice of America for a later radio ...

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Funkadelic singer Ray Davis dead at 65

Source: All About Jazz
July 7, 2005

TRENTON, New Jersey (AP) - Ray Davis, a founding member of Parliament-Funkadelic, a flamboyant 1970s funk band whose music is considered a precursor to modern rap and hip hop, died Tuesday from respiratory complications at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, said his son, Derrick. He was 65.

Davis provided bass vocals on songs such as “Give Up The Funk (Tear the Roof Off the Sucka)," “One Nation Under A Groove" and “Flashlight." The latter two songs reached ...

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