Jazz News

Billy Cobham Tours U.S. for First Time in Ten Years

Source: All About Jazz

Continue Reading

pianist /vocalist Tabitha Elkins appearing at Cleopatra's Needle Friday, April 20th

Source: All About Jazz

Continue Reading

White Foundation International Sax Competition launched with the Montreux Jazz Festival

Source: All About Jazz

The White Foundation International Sax Competition will be held for the first time at the Montreux Jazz Festival in July 5 to 20, 2002. And will take place in the magnificent Montreux Palace Hotel overlooking Lake Geneva and the Alps. The ten to fifteen finalists selected to attend the Competition will have a chance to enjoy the Montreux Jazz Festival and meet musicians from around the world. Application forms have been sent to music colleges and clubs in many countries ...

Continue Reading

GRAMMY-Nominated MAXJAZZ Vocalist Carla Cook To Appear at Blue Note in New York City on April 1st

Source: All About Jazz

“One of the Major Jazz Voices of the Millennium"

Carla Cook’s newest CD DEM BONES (2001) – follows her critically acclaimed and commercially successful MAXJAZZ debut, IT’S ALL ABOUT LOVE, which brought her not only a GRAMMY nomination but also an Indie Award for Best Jazz Vocalist. Carla will feature both albums in New York City at the Blue Note on April 1st. Her band will feature: Andy Milne, piano; Vashon Johnson, bass; and Montez Coleman, drums.

USA Today gave ...

Continue Reading

Jeff Shurdut's "American Dream" featuring Billy Bang of The Sun Ra Arkestra- LIVE in Greenwich Village, NYC.

Source: All About Jazz

JEFF SHURDUT PERFORMS HIS “AMERICAN DREAM” WITH WORLD’S GREATEST JAZZ VIOLINIST BILLY BANG OF THE SUN RA ARKESTRA.

Gallery 128 on Manhattans Lower East Side Presents Jeff Shurdut and Billy Bang in a painting performance on March 31, 2002 from 7-9pm. Address: 128 Rivington Street, NYC. For more information call: 212.396.3800.

Shurdut brings his paintings back to where it all began on Manhattan's Lower East Side. His Great Grandparents came to America from Eastern Europe and passed through Ellis Island ...

Continue Reading

Jon Regen Trio LIVE in South Orange, NJ 3/16/02

Source: All About Jazz

Jazz pianist/composer and singer JON REGEN, whose new CD 'Tel Aviv' is roaring-up the jazz radio charts, will appear with his trio at South Orange, New Jersey's BAIRD CENTER on Saturday March 16, 2002 at 8:00 PM.

Joining him will be bassist Kyle Eastwood and drummer Sunny Jain.

Regen, who has spent the last 3 years touring the world with both Kyle Eastwood, and his own trio, joined Jimmy Scott's group in August 2001, ...

Continue Reading

In Home Jazz Concerts comes to Ft. Greene, Brooklyn

Source: All About Jazz

Inspired by “Jazz Hostess of Harlem,” Marjorie Eliot who began her Parlor Entertainment Jazz Series in her home on Sundays in 1992, In The Moment Productions founders, Jim Morehand & Dave Polazzo have begun hosting semi-monthly jazz sessions in the intimate comfort of their 1860's row house in Brooklyn's historic Ft. Greene district on February 23, 2002.

We are offering our home as a venue for jazz musicians to play, sing, jam and swing, surrounded by the contemporary ...

Continue Reading

Cuban Jazz Pioneer Dead at 90

Source: All About Jazz

According to several official Cuban news organizations, Armando Romeu died on March 11, of a heart attack. He was 90 years old and one of the Jazz pioneers of the world.

This saxophonist, teacher, composer, arranger and band leader, born July 17, 1911, was involved with seminal groups until becoming Director of the Tropicana orchestra in 1942. As early as 1926, he was playing Jazz with North American groups in Cuba, eventually doing so with his own group throughout South ...

Continue Reading