Jazz News

Mark A. Walker Releases "Forever Yours"

Source: All About Jazz
October 8, 2003

Mark A. Walker, whose artistry on bass has been heard on the Grammy, Stellar, and Dove award winning recordings of master pianist/composer Richard Smallwood, Shirley Caesar, Vickie Winans, and Yolanda Adams, stepped out of the background with the release of his debut CD “Forever Yours". At Washington, DCs trendy Zanzibar On the Waterfront, patrons had the pleasure of celebrating with Mark at a pre-release concert on July 28. Co-produced by Los Angeles based keyboardist/writer Tim Carmon (who includes Eric Clapton ...

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Aardvark Jazz Orchestra Celebrates America's Jazz Cities

Source: All About Jazz
October 8, 2003

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The 20th Cape May Jazz Festival November 7-9, 2003

Source: All About Jazz
October 8, 2003

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Blue Note Records To Issue Never-Before Released Andrew Hill Session

Source: All About Jazz
October 8, 2003

Blue Note Records To Issue Never-Before Released 1969 Nonet Session From Composer-Pianist Andrew Hill As Part Of Their Ongoing Connoisseur Series

Other titles to be released on October 7th include lesser-known gems from Lee Morgan, Hank Mobley, Sam Rivers, Charlie Rouse and Larry Young

As evidence that great music doesn't get stale but instead improves with age, the Blue Note Connoisseur Series releases Passing Ships, a never-before issued little-big band album by composer-pianist Andrew Hill, along with five restorations of ...

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Shawn Lane: rock and world-fusion guitarist

Source: All About Jazz
October 8, 2003

Shawn Lane Guitarist and keyboardist 3/21/63 - 9/26/03

Guitarist Shawn Lane, who progressed from a teenaged hard-rock star to a master of world fusion music, has died after a drastic battle with lung disease. He was forty years old.

Lane began his musical interests very young, studying piano and cello from the age of four. He took up the guitar at eight, and it remained his principal instrument from then on. He quickly became a legend ...

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Frank Lowe: powerful, undersung free jazz tenor saxophonist

Source: All About Jazz
October 8, 2003

Memphis, TN, June 24 1943 - New York, NY, Sept. 19 2003

Woefully undersung until recently, Frank Lowe was a ferociously energetic tenor saxophonist who drew inspiration from the first and second waves of free jazz in the 1960s. Principally remembered for his work with drummer Rashied Ali and a couple of the dozen-plus albums issued under his name, Lowe had subsisted in the shadows of John Coltrane and Albert Ayler for much of his career. In the past few ...

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Tony Malaby's 'Apparitions' on Songlines Set for October 14th Release

Source: All About Jazz
October 8, 2003

Tony Malaby, tenor & soprano saxophone Tom Rainey, drums Michael Sarin, drums & percussion Drew Gress, acoustic bass

New York saxophonist Tony Malaby's Mexican-American background and experience playing both inside and outside bring a subtly different flavor to his second record as leader. Apparitions is even more open and exploratory than his debut, Sabino (which made the NY Times' and Philadelphia City Paper's top ten jazz lists for 2000). The process began a couple ...

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BET Jazz: The 24-Hour Jazz Channel - Fall 2003 Programming Schedule

Source: All About Jazz
October 8, 2003

BET Jazz: The 24-Hour Jazz Channel Presents New Fall 2003 Programming Schedule

Premiering New Episodes of Journey With Jazz At Lincoln Center, Issues And Answers, Grammy Goes To Schools, Classic Concerts, Blues Biographies/Chicago Blues and Not Just Jazz

BET Jazz: The 24-Hour Jazz Channel recently announced a new fall season of original programming that kicked off on September 25 with the debut of season two of Journey With Jazz At Lincoln Center. Beginning in October, the exciting programming continues with ...

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