Jazz News

Drummer Warren Benbow in London for Jimi Hendrix tribute.

Source: All About Jazz
July 5, 2005

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Bass great Pierre Michelot dead at 77

Source: All About Jazz
July 5, 2005

PARIS (AP) - Jazz bassist Pierre Michelot, who recorded with Miles Davis and arranged music for Chet Baker, has died, a fellow musician said Monday. He was 77.

The bass player, who suffered from Alzheimer's disease, died in Paris on Sunday, said pianist Rene Urtreger, a member of Michelot's longtime jazz trio, HUM.

Michelot played with Davis on one of the great soundtracks of the 1950s, for Louis Malle's classic thriller Ascenseur pour L'Echafaud (Elevator to the Gallows). He recorded ...

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Clare Teal wins British Jazz Award for "Best Vocalist 2005"

Source: All About Jazz
July 5, 2005

Clare Teal wins “Jazz Oscar" Jazz Star Clare Teal attended the re-launch of The British Jazz Awards in Birmingham last night. After an absence of 9 years, the British Jazz Awards returned to Birmingham last night. The city hosted the event from its inception in 1987 until 1995 when the then sponsors moved the event, known as “The Jazz Oscars”, to London. The event enjoyed a high profile, finding a home of The BAFTA Building in the Strand but, the ...

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John Stubblefield Feb. 4, 1945-July 4, 2005

Source: All About Jazz
July 5, 2005

5 July 2005

At five minutes before seven on the evening of the forth July 2005, after enduring great suffering with remarkable strength and courage, our beloved John Stubblefield left us on a soft note held gently at the end of a bitter sweet ballad.

Surrounded with love by wife Katherine Gogel, sister Joyce Pattillo, cousins Harry Stubblefield and Stephanie Barber, and by friends Rolando Briceño and Yvonne, John quietly passed away into paradise, where he will compose brilliant works ...

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Montreal Musician and Musical Instrument Show (MMMIS) - Two extra activities on the program!

Source: All About Jazz
July 5, 2005

Montreal, Monday, July 4, 2005 – The first Montreal Musician and Musical Instrument Show (MMMIS) will be presented in collaboration with General Motors of Canada, Thursday, July 7 and will run through July 10. This event has already generated so much interest that we’ve added two new free activities to the previously announced program: an up close and personal Rencontre with record-jacket designer Gary Burden and a Workshop with drummer Keith Harris of the Black Eyed Peas!

Meet Gary Burden ...

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Waking Vision, Criminal Justice and The Bob Reynolds Group at The Slipper Room NYC

Source: All About Jazz
July 5, 2005

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Kermit Ruffins at World Cafe Live in Philadelphia

Source: All About Jazz
July 5, 2005

No young artist has managed to update the sounds of traditional New Orleans jazz more convincingly than Kermit Ruffins. Emerging out of the fiery brass band tradition, where he helped spark a revival during the 1980s, Kermit released his first of seven solo albums in 1992.

His music embraces the timbres and the bittersweet romance of Louis Armstrong while retaining the bouncing, parade-inspired beats of the brass bands. Kermit is a regular fixture on the streets of New Orleans, where ...

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Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey to Open Dates for Les Claypool

Source: All About Jazz
July 5, 2005

Tulsa / Cincinnati-based Trio At Work On New Album With Veteran Producer Joel Dorn New York, NY -- The Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey has been moving at a dizzying pace since the release of their critically-acclaimed recording, Walking With Giants, on HYENA Records in August 2004. Tour dates have led them from California to New York and back again multiple times over, while individually, pianist Brian Haas has just released his first ever solo album, The Truth About Hollywood, bassist ...

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