Jazz News

Yellow Dog Jazz Report Will Re-Launch as JazzWeek

Source: All About Jazz

Jazz Industry Publication Expands Scope

ROCHESTER, N.Y.- Yellow Dog Communications, Inc. has announced that the Yellow Dog Jazz Report will re-launch Monday, Aug. 5, 2002 as JazzWeek.

The Yellow Dog Jazz Report web site (www.yellowdogjazz.com) has become an invaluable source of information for jazz radio and the jazz music industry. JazzWeek will continue to publish weekly national jazz and smooth jazz charts tabulated from airplay reports submitted by radio stations and satellite broadcasters in the United States and Canada. The ...

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Sunnyside Releases Kenny Barron's "Live At Bradley's" With Ray Drummond and Ben Riley

Source: All About Jazz

For more than twenty-five years Bradley's, located in the heart of Greenwich Village, was the home and headquarters of New York City's Jazz community, the place where musicians regularly congregated after their gigs or on their nights off, to have a drink, listen to their peers and hear the latest news of jazz from around the world. Ostensibly, just another of the great city's many piano bars, the proliferation of great players, particularly piano players, in the club, created a ...

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Berklee Rainbow All-Stars Directed By Phil Wilson To Present "Jazz Vocal Night" On Tuesday, July 30th, At The Berklee Performance Center

Source: All About Jazz

Program Featuring Wilson, Vocalist Alisa Miles, and Vocalist/Trumpeter Christine Fawson to Prepare Band for Second Annual “Vineyard Vibes" Concert on Thursday, August 1

BOSTON, July 19, 2002 - Internationally-acclaimed jazz trombonist and Berklee College of Music Brass Professor Phil Wilson will play with the Berklee Rainbow All-Stars in a concert of jazz and standard tunes, featuring vocalist Alisa Miles, as well as vocalist/trumpeter Christine Fawson.

The July 30th concert will showcase many of the college's top students, as the band ...

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The Chris Bergson Organ Trio- every Thursday at SMOKE JAZZ CLUB, NYC

Source: All About Jazz

New weekly jazz gig in New York City

Announcing the CHRIS BERGSON ORGAN TRIO at SMOKE JAZZ CLUB every THURSDAY for “Happy Hammond Hour", 6 pm until 8:30 pm -every THURSDAY; NO COVER, Cheap Drinks Chris Bergson- Guitar, Vocals Brian Charette- Hammond B-3 Organ Sunny Jain- Drums

SMOKE is located at 2751 Broadway at West 106th in New York City Phone number is (212) 864-6662 Nearest Subway: take the 1 train to 103rd Street. For more details please visit www.smokejazz.com ...

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Latest Issue of AAJ: Philadelphia Now Available for Download

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Debut CD from Sunny Jain Collective

Source: All About Jazz

For a drummer as accomplished and inquisitive as Sunny Jain, music is something more than the sum of its parts, and his group's music extends far beyond the restrictive borders of labeled genres. AS IS, the debut album by the Sunny Jain Collective for NCM East Records, is a joyous celebration and synthesis of the musical cultures from the East and West.

On AS IS, Jain weaves the multi-cultural threads of Indian and American cultures into a colorful musical tapestry, ...

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Marian McPartland To Release "Live at Shanghai Jazz"

Source: All About Jazz

Marian McPartland, the legendary jazz master, is equally acclaimed for her remarkable piano playing, as well as for her far-reaching influence on the history of jazz. In 1938, McPartland eschewed a career as a concert pianist to tour with a vaudeville company and entertain troops during WWII. Today, nearly 65 years later, she is one of our most accomplished and revered jazz musicians. Skimming even just the high points of her life is like reading a musical compendium. McPartland has ...

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Mosaic Records Presents: The Complete Roulette Sarah Vaughan Studio Sessions

Source: All About Jazz

Mosaic Records is proud to announce the release of The Complete Roulette Sarah Vaughan Studio Sessions

Steeped in controversy of the tired old "What is jazz?" stripe, this 8-CD set showcases the incomparable "Sassy" in a wide range of environments encompassing duos, small groups, big bands, strings and full-blown orchestras.  The 184 tracks cover 13 albums, seven singles sessions and include four tracks issued for the very first time.  The enormous scope of material includes music by Ellington, Monk, the ...

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