Jazz News

Riverwalk Jazz Presents "Love, Hollywood Style: Romance & the Silver Screen"

Source: All About Jazz
February 10, 2005

Broadcast the week of 2/10/05 To stream this program right now, go to http://www.riverwalk.org This week, Riverwalk Jazz presents a Valentine's Day concert of classic love songs and love scenes from the movies. The great masters of American songwriting created some of their finest works for romantic movie musicals, many of them originally staged on Broadway. Jerome Kern, George and Ira Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Johnny Mercer, and the very prolific Harry Warren were all major contributors to Hollywood's ...

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"Jazz Notion & Spoken Word"

Source: All About Jazz
February 10, 2005

Level One Entertainment & Club Choices presents “Jazz Notion" & “Spoken Word" - Live Jazz Bands & Poets The city's best & up & coming Jazz Bands & Poets will jamming every Wednesday Night starting February 23rd from 9pm - 1am. at Club Choices, 381 Somerville Ave. Somerville MA Guest List Cover is $5 and $10 if your not on the list. So make sure you email your info to: [email protected] For more info call Aswad(Ozzie) at 617.594.6730 or email ...

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The Ed Cherry Group

Source: All About Jazz
February 10, 2005

Sistas' Place, 456 Nostrand Avenue at Jefferson Ave. (where Jazz: Music of the Spirit Lives and Culture is a Weapon), presents the Ed Cherry Group, Saturday, February 12, at 9 and 10:30 pm. Guitarist Ed Cherry brought in New Year's Eve at Sistas' Place with the Craig Harris/Sekou Sundiata project and was such a sensation, he was asked to come back with his own group. The quartet he'll have on Saturday, featuring Brian Carrott on vibes, Jerome Harris on bass ...

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Highlights in Jazz presents A Salute To Jimmy Cobb Thursday, March 10, 2005 8PM

Source: All About Jazz
February 9, 2005

To: Listings/Critics/Features From: JAZZ PROMO SERVICES Press Contact: JIM EIGO, [email protected] “HIGHLIGHTS IN JAZZ" PRESENTS A Salute To Jimmy Cobb Thursday, March 10, 2005 8PM February 9, 2005 Jack Kleinsinger's “Highlights in Jazz," New York's longest running jazz series is pleased to present their annual salute to a living jazz legend Jimmy Cobb Thursday, March 10, 2005 8PM. Featuring and All-Star line-up: Clark Terry, Bill Charlap, Lou Donaldson, Eric Alexander, Peter Bernstein, Mike LeDonne, Kenny Washington and a special performance ...

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The Stryker-Slagle Band Live CD Recording at The Jazz Standard Wed. + Thurs. March 2-3

Source: All About Jazz
February 9, 2005

February 9, 2005 To: Listings/Critics/Features From: JAZZ PROMO SERVICES Press Contact: JIM EIGO, [email protected] Wed. + Thurs. March 2-3 at the Jazz Standard 116 E. 27th Street (btw Park & Lex) Reservations: 212-576-2232 http://www.jazzstandard.com sets at 7:30 & 9:30 Live CD Recording! The Stryker-Slagle Band Featuring Dave Stryker-guitar Steve Slagle-alto and sop. saxophone Victor Lewis-drums Ed Howard-bass Voted a Rising Star Acoustic Jazz Group in the 2004 Downbeat Critics Poll Guitarist Dave Stryker and saxophonist Steve Slagle are a rarity ...

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Rising Polish Jazz Pianist/Composer Leszek Mozdzer at Merkin Hall

Source: All About Jazz
February 9, 2005

The Kaufman Center presents jazz pianist and composer Leszek Mozdzer on Thursday, March 17, at 8 PM, at Merkin Concert Hall. Presented in association with the Polish Cultural Institute, the evening of solo piano works will include Mozdzer’s own passionate jazz interpretations of four Chopin mazurkas, as well as a selection of his original compositions.

Introduced to American audiences last fall at a sold-out concert with pianist Adam Makowicz at Carnegie Hall, Mozdzer is widely considered to be the past ...

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Jimmy Smith: King of the Hammond B-3 Organ

Source: All About Jazz
February 9, 2005

Jimmy Smith Born: December 8, 1928 in Norristown, PA Died: February 8, 2005 in New York, NY

By Todd S. Jenkins

For all its versatility, the Hammond B-3 organ has had comparatively few champions in jazz, none greater than Jimmy Smith. The nearly unchallenged master of the jazz organ, humorous and soulful to the very end, died at his home in Scottsdale, Arizona, on February 8, 2005, exactly two months after his 76th birthday.

Ron Goldstein, ...

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Rob Scheps in Kansas City and Wichita This Weekend

Source: All About Jazz
February 9, 2005

Rob Scheps will be a featured soloist on tenor sax & flute this weekend in 2 Midwest cities. First he'll play with The Boulevard Big Band ( from KC,MO) at Friends University in Wichita, Kansas on Saturday night , February 12. 7:30 pm Concert Then, Scheps encores Sunday , Feb. 13 th with the Joe Cartwright Trio at The Oak Room, Fairmont Hotel in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. Shows are 7:30 - 10:30 pm . Scheps just recorded with bassist ...

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