Jazz News

John Hart Trio at The 55 Bar Tuesday March 1 7:00 - 9:00

Source: All About Jazz
February 21, 2005

February 21, 2005 To: Listings/Critics/Features From: JAZZ PROMO SERVICES Press Contact: JIM EIGO, [email protected] John Hart Trio featuring John Hart - guitar Bill Moring - bass Tim Horner - drums appearing Tuesday March 1 7:00 - 9:00 at The 55 Bar 55 Christopher Street New York, NY 212 - 929 - 9883 www.55bar.com new CD Indivisible available on Hep records “Indivisible is full of constant surprises....This is an intriguing set of explorative music, one of John Hart's best to date." ...

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Soundbrush Records Presents The Tango Group In Concert Wed. March 16th, 8pm At Cami Hall

Source: All About Jazz
February 21, 2005

February 21, 2005

To: Listings/Critics/Features From: JAZZ PROMO SERVICES Press Contact: JIM EIGO, [email protected]

SOUNDBRUSH RECORDS presents THE TANGO GROUP in concert WED. March 16th, 8pm with Special Guest: Raul Jaurena, bandoneon

Pablo Aslan, bass Roger Davidson, piano Francisco Navarro, guitar Leonardo Suarez-Paz, violin CAMI HALL 165 West 57th Street Followed by reception $20/$10 students, seniors www.smarttix.com 212-868-4444 The Tango ...

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Vision Club Upcoming Shows Feb. 26 - May 7

Source: All About Jazz
February 21, 2005

Come and hear music that is filled with hope and creativity and filled with resistance to everything BUSH VISION CLUB – 2005 Clemente Soto Velez LES Gallery 107 Suffolk St. at Rivington inquiries, 212 696 6681 or send e-mail to [email protected] February 26 at Clemente Soto Velez 7:30pm Perry Robinson's P.J.s! w/ Jay Rozen & Jay Rosen. 9pm Jason Kao Hwang Quartet with Taylor Ho Bynum – cornet, Andrew Drury – drums, Ken Filiano - string bass, Jason Kao Hwang ...

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This Week at Iridium The Kenny Garrett Band Feb. 23-27

Source: All About Jazz
February 21, 2005

IRIDIUM JAZZ CLUB 1650 BROADWAY (Corner of 51st) NEW YORK, NY 10023 RESERVATIONS: 212-582-2121, www.iridiumjazzclub.com Sets at 8 & 10PM Every Sunday Starting at 11:00AM the Best Jazz Brunch in NYC featuring DIXIELAND JAZZ WITH The Smith Street Society Jazz Band BUFFET BRUNCH: $21.95 p.p. Music Complimentary! This Week at Iridium... Feb. 23-27 KENNY GARRETT QUARTET RONALD BRUNNER, VICENTE ARCHER, VERNELL BROWN Next Week March 2-6 RAVI COLTRANE QUARTET LUIS PERDOMO, E.J. STRICKLAND, DREW GRESS Upcoming Shows March 9-13 MONTY ...

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Meet Drummer/Composer John Hollenbeck on the AAJ Bulletin Board

Source: All About Jazz
February 21, 2005

Click here to “catch up" with John Hollenbeck.

John Hollenbeck’s versatility as a percussionist and composer is revealed in a body of work that challenges countless boundaries. Performances with Fred Hersh, Achim Kaufmann and Bob Brookmeyer have showcased Hollenbeck's melodic and sensitive small-group jazz drumming. His unique approach to big band work is evident as a member of Bob Brookmeyer's New Art Orchestra, the BMI Orchestra, Jim McNeely’s Tentet and as a frequent guest with the Village Vanguard ...

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Stacey Kent in Worcester, Mass.

Source: All About Jazz
February 21, 2005

Celebrated jazz vocalist Stacey Kent will perform a concert on April 29, 2005 at 8 p.m. at Tuckerman Hall in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. Proceeds from the concert will benefit The Bridge of Central Massachusetts, a human services agency headquartered in Worcester.

This will be Ms. Kent’s first appearance ever in central Massachusetts. Her most recent album, The Boy Next Door, was launched in style with a year-long concert tour of 250 appearances, including a show at New York's ...

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Joey DeFrancesco and Jimmy Smith Collaborate on 'Legacy', A Grooving Hammond B-3 Summit Recording on Concord Jazz

Source: All About Jazz
February 21, 2005

When the two undisputed masters of the Hammond B-3 organ settled into Tempest Recording in Tempe, Arizona, for three days in August 2004, history was made. In their first studio collaboration, Joey DeFrancesco, the 34-year-old B-3 phenom who almost single-handedly jumpstarted the revival of jazz organ in the 1990s, linked up with the late great Jimmy Smith, the 79-year-old B-3 innovator whom the music world sadly lost on February 8, 2005. The result is the Concord Jazz February 15 release, ...

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Tony Adamo Records with Funk Legends

Source: All About Jazz
February 20, 2005

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tony Adamo Records with Funk Legends By Urbanzone Productions Tony Adamo, soul-jazz singer/songwriter will be in San Francisco’s Different Fur Recording Studio in late February with funk legends, Paul Jackson on bass and Mike Clark on drums. They will be recording an original song by Adamo/Stucker produced by Jerry Stucker. Paul Jackson is one of the baddest funk bass players of all time. Paul has long been associated with Herbie Hancock’s super jazz funk band, Herbie Hancock ...

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