Jazz News

European Jazz Prize for Tomasz Stańko

Source: All About Jazz

Polish jazz composer and trumpeter Tomasz Stańko was awarded a first European Prize, a newly founded prize for outstanding European jazz musicians. In the final round of voting among 21 jazz critics from 21 different European countries, Stańko won ten votes, against nine votes for Dutch piano player Misha Mengelberg.

Pawel Brodowski, Editor-in-Chief of the Polish jazz journal Jazz Forum, said that this award represents great success for both Stańko personally and for the Polish jazz community at large. Brodowski ...

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Rahsaan Roland Kirk & Cannonball Adderley Reissued on Joel Dorn's New Imprint HYENA

Source: All About Jazz

Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Cannonball Adderley, Les McCann and Eddie Harris are names synonymous with jazz for the people, having more in common with old school soul, juice-joints and feeling good then the academia, concert halls and political correctness that’s often associated with the state of traditional jazz in the present day. The four artists are icons of the music, able to match exquisite chops with the ability to entertain; relying as much on the visceral as the intellectual. On September ...

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Guelph Jazz Festival - September 4-8 2002

Source: All About Jazz

This year the Festival will feature a number of large-scale projects. New this year also is the first part of a two year thematic focus on cross-disciplinary collaborations (involving jazz and dance, jazz and poetry, jazz and film, jazz and storytelling). This will culminate in 2003 with a 10th year anniversary celebration, featuring a number of new projects, including a specially commissioned jazz opera.

The featured artist at this year's Guelph Jazz Festival is William Parker. In so many ways, ...

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James Newton Loses to Beastie Boys: Amicus Support Requested!

Source: All About Jazz

From James Newton (renowned jazz musician)

For the last two years I have been involved in a suit because the Beastie Boys sampled a part of my composition “Choir" and did not contact me for permission. They did not change in any way what they sampled from “Choir". It begins with the sampled six and a half seconds and loops in the song over forty times. “Pass the Mic'" has appeared in CD, MP3, LP, and DVD formats.

The law ...

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Zanzibar Blue Opens New Restaurant And Club In Wilmington, Delaware

Source: All About Jazz

PHILADELPHIA, PA 21.AUGUST.02-- ROBERT + BEN BYNUM, owners of ZANZIBAR BLUE in Philadelphia as well as WARMDADDY'S+BRAVE NEW WORLD announce the grand opening of ZANZIBAR BLUE/WILMINGTON on Tuesday, September 17th, unveiling the fruits of a deal signed back in May of this year. Expanding upon ZANZIBAR BLUE's 12-year legacy as Philadelphia's premier venue for international cuisine+jazz music, the companion restaurant will open in the ground floor of the prestigious BRANDYWINE BUILDING (1000 West Streey) in downtown Wilmington, Delaware.

Festivities begin ...

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Columbia/Legacy Set To Release The Monumental 20-CD Boxed Set The Complete Miles Davis At Montreux 1973-1991, A Documentation Of Every Live Performance Davis Made At The Montreux Jazz Festival

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McCoy Tyner Trio at the Iridium Jazz Club August 20-25

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Red Giant Records Releases Black Water by Saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa

Source: All About Jazz

“Described as “a talent to keep a steady eye on" by New Yorker magazine, alto saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa has been capturing" the attention of press and artists alike since his arrival in New York City five years ago. While steadily forging a path with his own groups, and landing auspicious sideman work with the likes of David Murray, Steve Coleman, Jack DeJohnette,and Greg Osby, Rudresh has been honing his composing skills and developing his own vocabulary through the fusing of ...

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