Jazz News

Mason Gross School of the Arts presents "Storm and Stress"

Source: All About Jazz
April 2, 2005

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ – The Department of Music at the Mason Gross School of the Arts will present “Storm and Stress: Dramatic Instrumental Music by Haydn and his Contemporaries" at Nicholas Music Center on Saturday, April 16 at 8pm. Music from “Storm and Stress" will also be featured in a free concert held on Friday, April 15 at noon in Kirkpatrick Chapel.

The pair of concerts marks the season finale for an exciting new initiative at the Mason Gross School ...

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Improvisational violin virtuoso master John Ellington Blair performs free concert in Harlem

Source: All About Jazz
April 1, 2005

Contact: Michael Mazur Mazur Public Relations, Inc. [email protected] Tel: (609) 890-4550 Cel: (609) 462-9905 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 1, 2005 IMPROVISATIONAL VIOLIN MASTER JOHN ELLINGTON BLAIR PERFORMS FREE CONCERT IN HARLEM NEW YORK – Improvisational violin virtuoso and Vietnam veteran John Ellington Blair is giving back to the hospital that once helped him by playing a free concert this Saturday, April 2 at the C.S. 154 Auditorium in Harlem. Blair, who was wounded in Vietnam, had hip replacement surgery last ...

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"Song's Nothing Conservatory About It" Series Presents Great American Songbook: The Music of Cole Porter

Source: All About Jazz
April 1, 2005

Great American Songbook: The Music of Cole Porter Sunday, April 10, 2005 Proceeds to Benefit Mercy Corps Tsunami Relief Efforts BOSTON, MA — Song, Delta Air Lines' low-fare subsidiary, and Berklee College of Music are pleased to present “Song's Nothing Conservatory About It," an exciting, eight-concert series, featuring a wide variety of music styles. The next concert of the series is the Great American Songbook: The Music of Cole Porter, Sunday, April 10. The concert begins at 8:15 pm at ...

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Cher to Sing with the Matt Wilson Quartet in Woonsocket

Source: All About Jazz
April 1, 2005

Cher is slated to perform with the Matt Wilson Quartet at the 40th Annual Woonsocket, Rhode Island Chamber of Commerce Pancake and Sausage dinner Saturday April 9th. “We are thrilled to have brought together two of our city's favorite performers. The chemistry will be electric I know, especially on “Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves" and “Do You Believe In Life After Love." It will be the best PANCAKE AND SAUSAGE DINNER ENTERTAINMENT EVER! We have heard that Palmetto records will recording ...

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Madonna Launches Bid for Blue Note

Source: All About Jazz
April 1, 2005

Kabbalah devotee and freelance media whore Madonna has announced her intention to purchase Blue Note Records, a Capitol subsidiary and one of the most storied labels in jazz history. The pop megalith and failed actress today announced her proposed €2.1 billion ($18.74) buyout attempt at a press conference in London with her pet husband, Guy Ritchie, under her arm in a specially designed Prada carrier.

“It is my intention to purchase Blue Note Records and guide the label aided by ...

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Jazzscientia at AAJ: Where Jazz and Science Meet

Source: All About Jazz
April 1, 2005

All About Jazz is introducing Jazzscientia --a pioneering series of scientific analyses of jazz-- under the direction of geneticist Nils Jacobson and chemist Michael Holman. As its Managing Editor, AAJ readers already know Jacobson. Holman, on the other hand, is a more recent contributor. Both, however, have established scientific credentials, with their corresponding postgraduate degrees and research experience in their respective fields, as well as a passion for jazz.

Jazzscientia will endeavor to apply insights from various scientific disciplines to ...

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British Government to give $75,000,000 a Year to Jazz

Source: All About Jazz
April 1, 2005

In what has been hailed as a revolutionary development in arts funding, Prime Minister Tony Blair's government has announced that it is to give $75,000,000 to British jazz musicians during 2005/06.

Announcing the grant, Tessa Jowell, Secretary of State for Arts & Culture, also pledged that the grant would rise to $100,000,000 a year “within the next three years."

“This is a genuinely open-door program," continued Ms Jowell. “Musicians can apply for up $60,000 without needing to complete any sort ...

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Michael Brandeburg's new Smooth Jazz CD "Midnight"

Source: All About Jazz
March 31, 2005

Michael Brandeburg's new Smooth Jazz CD release Midnight on MJBrandy Records features guest performances by Windham Hill recording star Ray Obiedo on electric guitar, Columbia Records and Mercury Records virtuoso Jackie King on classical guitar, and the great studio artist Norbert Stachel on Sax. The CD showcases seven of Michael's original tunes, plus interpretations of Henry Mancini's Two For The Road and Burt Bacharach's The Look of Love. Featuring sexy Latin styles and romantic Smooth Jazz grooves, Midnight sets the ...

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