Jazz News

The Treehouse Project Releases Ambitious 3-CD Set: The Picture Show

Source: All About Jazz
April 15, 2002

The Treehouse Project combines some of Chicago's finest indie and jazz musicians into a thoroughly unique blend of jazz ideologies, indie rock attitude and roots music flavors. Their self-titled debut was widely praised by jazz writers.

The Picture Show is an ambitiously conceived and elaborately packaged 3cd set that first sets musical themes and improvisation to and from home photographs, and then pays homage to singer-songwriters, covering artists as diverse as The Handsome Family, Ron Sexsmith and Ray Charles. A ...

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East Meets West: Berklee & Los Angeles Music Network Join Forces

Source: All About Jazz
April 12, 2002

(April 12, 2002 - Beverly Hills) -- The Los Angeles Music Network (LAMN) one of the leading professional education organizations devoted to the music industry, has reached an agreement with the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts that will promote career advancement and continuing education for the college's students and alumni.

The agreement will allow Berklee's undergraduates and alumni access to LAMN's career development opportunities, including its popular industry job listings and networking events.

“I am delighted to ...

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The Complete Retrospective of Terry Cryer

Source: All About Jazz
April 11, 2002

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Living Legend, Rodney Richardson-Bassist, To Re-Unite With Basie Orchestra

Source: All About Jazz
April 11, 2002

Monday, June 17, 2002, at the Modesto Junior College Auditorium, 435 College Avenue, Modesto, CA, 95350.

RODNEY RICHARDSON-Bassist Former member of the Count Basie Orchestra, 84-year-old Living Legend Rodney Richardson spent several years with the Count. Basie and Biggun successfully recruited him as a uniform wearing member .. lured away from Art Tatum .. out-bid “Pops" for the privilege of employment ..

Rodney is one of the last of the great craftsmen/artisans/originators of this art form known as ...

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Jazz-Klezmer Weekend at Bard College on April 13 and 14

Source: All About Jazz
April 9, 2002

ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y.?The Jazz at Bard series presents a jazz and klezmer weekend featuring concerts by Naftule's Dream, a jazz-klezmer band, and the band's traditional klezmer incarnation, Shirim, on Saturday, April 13, and Sunday, April 14, at Bard College. Admission to each concert is $15, or $10 for Bard faculty and staff, as well as non-Bard students and senior citizens. Bard students will be admitted free. The weekend also offers a free screening of the documentary The New Klezmorim: Voices Inside ...

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A440 Music Group To Release Jazz Bassist Brian Bromberg's Newest Cd "Wood"

Source: All About Jazz
April 9, 2002

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Remembering Slugs' "in the far east"

Source: All About Jazz
April 9, 2002

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Jazz Out of Bounds: Performing Across Borders

Source: All About Jazz
April 9, 2002

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