Jazz News

The Sex & Violence Cartoon Festival: A Special Program Highlighting Jazz in Hollywood Cartoons

Source: All About Jazz
June 21, 2004

7pm Saturday, July 3, 10, At The Cineforum, 463 Bathurst. 416-603-6643.

While much has been written about the visual aspect of the golden age of Hollywood cartoons little has been written about the use of music in thse films.

The main reason for this lack of information is that many of best films made either do not feature star characters (in the case of the great films using classical music) or else are too much for television as is the ...

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Introducing Jazz Moods: Sony Legacy's New Lifestyle Music Line

Source: All About Jazz
June 21, 2004

Jazz is hot. Jazz is cool. And jazz perfectly captures the mood at midnight.

Now, Legacy Recordings has captured all three dominant feelings of jazz in a new series, Jazz Moods, in stores June 15th, featuring 12 of the most important improvising artists of the past half century.

Under the banner of Cool there are the great trumpeter-innovator Miles Davis, the time-juggling pianist-composer Dave Brubeck, the superb multi-saxophonist Grover Washington, Jr. and the tenor saxophone giant Stan Getz.

Representing jazz's ...

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Seven Steps: The Complete Columbia Recordins Of Miles Davis 1963-1964

Source: All About Jazz
June 21, 2004

Miles Davis And The Coming Of The Second Great Quintet

Seven Steps: The Complete Columbia Recordings Of Miles Davis 1963-1964 Traces Creation Of His '60s Group With Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, And Tony Williams

7-CD Box Set Includes Entire Seven Steps To Heaven Sessions And Unedited Miles Davis In Europe Antibes Fest Date

Plus: NY Philharmonic Hall Concert Restored To Original Sequence; Full Miles In Tokyo And Miles In Berlin Dates, Never Available In U.S. Catalog Until Now ...

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NEA Jazz Masters & students to perform at White House

Source: All About Jazz
June 21, 2004

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IAJE and JAI Join Forces To Enhance Jazz Advocacy

Source: All About Jazz
June 21, 2004

The International Association for Jazz Education (IAJE) -- the leading nonprofit jazz organization which hosts the largest annual international jazz gathering, and the Jazz Alliance International (JAI), the first industry advocacy group to unite the jazz community -- have joined forces. This newly created, mutually beneficial arrangement calls for the JAI to become a wholly owned subsidiary of IAJE. JAI is dedicated to significantly expanding the global jazz audience through education, leadership and advocacy. The newly created industry advocacy arm ...

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Composer Aaron Zigman Adds Another Credit to his "Notebook"

Source: All About Jazz
June 19, 2004

(Hollywood, CA) Film music composer / producer / arranger Aaron Zigman scores New Line Cinema's romantic drama The Notebook [film release date June 25th, 2004. Soundtrack available on New Line Records]. The film is Zigman's second project with the director Nick Cassavettes. He previously worked with the director on the critically acclaimed drama John Q, starring Denzel Washington. Aaron Zigman is rapidly establishing a glowing reputation for his exquisite, lyrical and highly evocative scores.

Zigman's score contain the classical elements ...

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Jackie Paris: Singer with Mingus, Bird, Hampton

Source: All About Jazz
June 19, 2004

Born: September 20, 1924 in Nutley, NJ Died: June 17, 2004 in Manhattan, NY by Todd S. Jenkins Jazz singer Jackie Paris died of bone cancer on Thursday, June 17, 2004 in Manhattan. He was 79 years old. Criminally under-recorded, Paris was one of the most impressive vocalists of the bebop era and the first to sing Bernie Hanighen's lyrics to Monk's “Round Midnight". Born Carlo Jackie Paris in Nutley, New Jersey, on September 20, 1924, the singer ...

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Nationally Renowned Jazz Artists To Appear At South Bay Entertainment Group

Source: All About Jazz
June 18, 2004

LOS ANGELES, CA - The South Bay Entertainment Group, in conjunction with the City of Inglewood Department of Parks, Recreation and Community Services will host the second annual Jazz In The Park festival during labor day weekend on September 4 and 5 at the amphitheater in Edward Vincent Jr. Park in Inglewood. The event will feature an all star line-up of popular jazz musicians such as Freddie Ravel, Phil Perry, Jeanette Harris, Eloise Laws, Bobby Lyles, Marion Meadows, Joyce Cooling, ...

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