Jazz News

Ovarian Cancer Research Fund Benefit Saturday July 28, 2001

Source: All About Jazz

Fourth Annual “Super Saturday" Star Studded Designer Sale and Family Event to Benefit The Ovarian Cancer Research Fund Performance by the Legendary Patti LaBelle

Who: Donna Karan, InStyle's Martha Nelson, “Sex and the City" cast members Kristin Davis and Kyle Maclachlan host Super Saturday 4. Benefit committee members and celebrities lending support include Drea de Mateo, Cynthia Nixon, Christy Brinkley, Molly Sims, Kelly Klein, Ed Burns, Christy Turlington, Eddie Cibrian, Shoshanna Lonstein, Peter Brant and Stephanie ...

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RCA VICTOR GROUP TO LAUNCH BLUEBIRD JAZZ AS COMPANY'S EXCLUSIVE JAZZ IMPRINT

Source: All About Jazz

Legendary Jazz Label to Release New CDs by Tom Harrell and Dave Douglas

Initial Fall Releases of Classic Reissues To Feature Artie Shaw, Glenn Miller, and Louis Armstrong Boxed Sets, And Recordings of Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney, Coleman Hawkins, Carmen McRae, Charles Mingus, and Gil Scott-Heron, with Six New Reissue Series Planned for 2001-2002

New York, NY -- RCA Victor Group will reactivate the Bluebird Jazz label as the company's home for jazz music, David Weyner, Executive Vice President, ...

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Brand New & Beautiful Studio Album from DAVID S. WARE QUARTET Corridors & Parallels to be released on SEPTEMBER 18, 2001

Source: All About Jazz

After a decade+ of top operation, and a dozen profound albums to prove it, we have here lucky album #13 from the David S. Ware Quartet. Following two very well-received and critically acclaimed albums for the Sony/Columbia Jazz label, ways were officially and mutually parted in January of this year. Wasting no time, AUM Fidelity brought Ware and his Quartet into the studio in February to make 'Corridors & Parallels'.

This album is a 'first' for Ware in a number ...

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MATTHIAS LUPRI QUINTET W/GEORGE GARZONE MA,CT,NYC MINI TOUR

Source: All About Jazz

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MIKE STERN'S UPCOMING CD, 'VOICES'

Source: All About Jazz

How does a guitar hero reinvent himself?

After nine albums of awe-inspiring chops, melodic and lyrical phrasing and sizzling six-string statements in all manner of contexts, what is there left to say? Mike Stern answered that question by digging deep and coming up with the album that has been inside of him for years.Voices, his tenth recording for Atlantic Jazz, is easily his most inspired outing to date. By organically melding his formidable guitar prowess into the fabric of engaging, ...

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Work With Composer John Eacott!!!!

Source: All About Jazz

This email is to announce an upcoming full scholarship residence program with composer/conductor John Eacott. John Eacott will be in residence at Atlantic Center for the Arts from October 21-November 10, 2001. People interested in joining Saul at the residency facility in Florida should submit work samples by August 1, 2001. Johnl will select up to ten people to join him. The ten selected associates will receive housing and meals during the residency. Please go to www.atlanticcenterforthearts.org under programming for ...

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Left Bank Jazz Society Opens New Web site

Source: All About Jazz

The Left Bank Jazz Society of Baltimore Md. is proud to announce its new website: www.leftbankjazz.org. The site will contain information on the upcoming Fall concert season, new CD releases and other information about the society. The Left Bank Jazz Society was established in 1964 to provide a venue for Jazz artists in the Baltimore Md. area. Many of the jazz greats have performed at the Left Bank Jazz Society. CDs of many of past performances by Freddie Hubbard, ...

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VIOLINIST JEAN-LUC PONTY SCHEDULED TO RELEASE LIFE ENIGMA ON AUGUST 21, 2001

Source: All About Jazz

HIS FIRST NEW SOLO STUDIO ALBUM IN SEVEN YEARS

Virtuoso violinist Jean-Luc Ponty is slated to release his first new solo studio album in seven years, Life Enigma, on August 21, 2001, in North America. The pioneering jazz and rock musician is issuing Life Enigma on his own label through his JLP Productions Inc. company. He composed, engineered and produced Life Enigma.

Ponty says Life Enigma is a return to the musical style he perfected during his decade-long stint with ...

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