Jazz News

Fuzz Band wins Capital Jazz Fest Challenge

Source: All About Jazz
June 7, 2004

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Jazz Musician Rob Levit to Release Two New CDs and Perform at Washington, DC

Source: All About Jazz
June 6, 2004

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Ron Jackson Trio To Play Sweet Rhythm NYC

Source: All About Jazz
June 6, 2004

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Label Search Added to Upcoming Releases Center

Source: All About Jazz
June 6, 2004

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Grand Bahama Island and All That Jazz

Source: All About Jazz
June 6, 2004

Grand Bahama Island, Bahamas, - At the 2004 First Annual Grand Bahama Island Jazz, Rhythm and Blues Festival, scheduled for September 23 through 26, seasoned listeners and light-hearted travelers can join in this celebration of island life, soaking up the soulful sounds of legendary jazz performers as they pay tribute to the traditions of jazz on Grand Bahama Island.

Produced by Bill Lockett's Festivals and Travel, Inc., this year's jazz festival will showcase award-winning musicians and recording artists such as ...

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New England Conservatory Mourns Death of Jazz Great Steve Lacy

Source: All About Jazz
June 5, 2004

Soprano Saxophone Master Succumbs to Cancer at Age 69 Steve Lacy, one of the greatest soprano saxophonists of all time and a New England Conservatory faculty member since fall 2002, died Friday at New England Baptist Hospital. The jazz master who once defined his profession as “combination orator, singer, dancer, diplomat, poet, dialectician, mathematician, athlete, entertainer, educator, student, comedian, artist, seducer and general all around good fellow" was 69. He leaves his wife and collaborator, the Swiss singer Irene Aebi. ...

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Steve Lacy, 69, Who Popularized the Soprano Saxophone, Dies

Source: All About Jazz
June 5, 2004

By BEN RATLIFF Copyright 2004 The New York Times Steve Lacy, an American soprano saxophonist who spent more than half of his 50-year career living in Europe and helped legitimize his instrument in postwar jazz, died yesterday in Boston. He was 69. The cause was cancer, according to an announcement from the New England Conservatory of Music, where Mr. Lacy had been teaching since 2002. After performing in New York, his hometown, Mr. Lacy moved to Italy and ...

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Ed Johnson Tours in Support of Forthcoming Release Movimento

Source: All About Jazz
June 4, 2004

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