Jazz News

Central Brooklyn Jazz Consortium 5th Annual Jazz Festival

Source: All About Jazz
March 29, 2004

CBJC'S 5TH ANNUAL JAZZ FESTIVAL GREAT THINGS ARE HAPPENING IN BROOKLYN!

The Central Brooklyn Jazz Consortium (CBJC) will host its 5th fabulous year coordinating a Jazz Festival throughout the month of April at an assortment of Brooklyn venues. The April Jazz Festival kicks off this year with a Gala at the Sugarhill Supper Club, 615 DeKalb Avenue (corner of Nostrand Ave). This year's event features the great saxophonist Gary Bartz with his quartet as well as a sensational ...

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Bringing the Best of New Orleans Jazz to the River

Source: All About Jazz
March 29, 2004

New Orleans, LA - New Orleans Paddlewheels is excited to announce the addition of the New Orleans Spice(r)-Jazz Band to the nightly Dinner Jazz Cruise. One of New Orleans' finest, the New Orleans Spice performs traditional jazz, Dixieland, gospel, spirituals and Brass Band music. Tom Jacobsen of the Mississippi Rag writes that, “all of the participants are at the top of their games in this one." And, according to Geraldine Wyckoff of OffBeat Magazine, “The band takes off on classic ...

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Meet Trumpeter Jim Rotondi and Saxophonist Fred Hess on the AAJ Bulletin Board

Source: All About Jazz
March 29, 2004

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Chris Burnett Appointed as Jazz A&R for Digital Distribution Firm

Source: All About Jazz
March 29, 2004

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - Kansas City USA: Chris Burnett has been appointed the new Jazz A&R person for the successful Pennsylvania-based company, It's About Music. He is seeking to sign an exclusive group of quality Jazz Artists, to a non-exclusive digital distribution sales deal.

Some AAJ readers may also recall the name Chris Burnett, from his “Musings in Cb" column here at All About Jazz. However, Chris Burnett is primarily a saxophonist, composer, arranger, and IAJE artist/clinician. A Kansas City-area ...

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New Jazz Summit

Source: All About Jazz
March 28, 2004

On Sunday, April 18th, New York based quartet “Mostly Other People Do the Killing" will be performing alongside Boston's “Quartet of Happiness." Both ensembles will be performing original compostions that explore jazz, absurdism, theater, and the performers' complex relationship to the “jazz tradition." This performance promises to be exciting as it is the first meeting of these two like-minded ensembles. Mostly People Do the Killing is: Peter Evans - trumpet Jon Irabagon - sax Moppa Elliott - bass Kevin Shea ...

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Alaadeen performs at the Blue Room Series: 'Celebrating Bird!'

Source: All About Jazz
March 28, 2004

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -- Kansas City USA: Master jazz artist, composer, and IAJE clinician, Ahmad Alaadeen performed as a part of the American Jazz Museum's Blue Room Series: “Celebrating Bird!". Alaadeen is one of our most important musicians in jazz and one of the musicians today who is among the next generation after Charlie Parker. His performance during the final part of a 3-part series of concerts held within the historic 18th and Vine Jazz District of Kansas City featured ...

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Elevate Your Senses at Janus Jazz Aspen's June and Labor Day Festivals

Source: All About Jazz
March 27, 2004

JUNE 2004 LINE-UP CONFIRMED - WYNTON MARSALIS, NATALIE COLE, BUDDY GUY, MEDESKI MARTIN & WOOD, AL GREEN AND MANY MORE

SEPTEMBER FEST LINE-UP INCLUDES LYLE LOVETT, DAVID BYRNE AND MORE TO BE ANNOUNCED

“...one or two events emerge from the mass of stimulation and linger in the mind after the rest has become a blur...the Aspen festival is a force to be reckoned with." - Jazz Hot Magazine

New York, NY - Elevate your senses this summer in Aspen, Colorado ...

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Fifth Annual Edible-Book Tea Party on Saturday April 3

Source: All About Jazz
March 27, 2004

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