Jazz News

Blue Toucan Music Launches New American/Brazilian Jazz Label

Source: All About Jazz
April 15, 2004

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Oliver Lake Steel Quartet Revisits Funky Island Groove with May 4th Release of "Dat Love"

Source: All About Jazz
April 15, 2004

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Isley Meets Bacharach on PBS 'Soundstage'

Source: All About Jazz
April 14, 2004

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Johnny Frigo and Oscar Brown, Jr. Days in Chicago

Source: All About Jazz
April 14, 2004

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All About Jazz Festivals Entertain Jazz Travelers To Savings

Source: All About Jazz
April 14, 2004

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DJ Spooky 'Celestial Mechanix: The Blue Series MasterMix' June 22, 2004

Source: All About Jazz
April 14, 2004

To commemorate the thirtieth entry into the Blue Series catalogue, DJ Spooky has cooked up a very special new album. With the entire Blue Series spread out before him, Spooky has expertly sorted, sifted, chopped and recombined this vast amount of music into a shining new work that teases out the lines between jazz and hip-hop, and then obliterates those lines.

The result is “Celestial Mechanix: The Blue Series MasterMix," a no-holds-barred re-envisioning of some of the most visionary jazz ...

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John Hicks/Elise Wood Sextet with Special Guest Nicholas Payton

Source: All About Jazz
April 14, 2004

Wednesday-Saturday, April 21-24

John Hicks & Elise Wood Sextet With Special Guests Nicholas Payton & Gary Bartz

John Hicks (Piano) Elise Wood (C Flute And Alto Flute) Gary Bartz (Alto Sax) Nicholas Payton (Trumpet) Curtis Lundy (Bass) Cecil Brooks Iii (Drums)

Pianist John Hicks, among the most in-demand jazz pianists on the New York scene, and flutist Elise Wood have a musical and personal partnership spanning more than ...

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CANDIDO & GRACIELA - INOLVIDABLE with special guests at Blue Note Monday, April 26

Source: All About Jazz
April 13, 2004

Chesky Record Release Party Latin music legends Candido Camero and Graciela are two of the last survivors of the Cubop movement of the late '40's, which fused Cuban rhythms with big band Jazz. Together these masters of the art bring a unique style and easy camaraderie to this new recording, highlighted by Graciela's call-and-response interplay with the band and Candido's subtle wizardry on the conga drums. What you have is inolvidable, unforgettable. Catch them live in a very rare appearance ...

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