Jazz News

Hyde Park/Kenwood JAAZ Festival: October 15, 2000

Source: All About Jazz

The Sutherland Community Arts Initiative (SCAI) announces it's 8th annual Hyde Park/Kenwood JAAZ Festival

SCAI in its ongoing efforts to bring high quality jazz to Chicago's South Side is presenting it's 8th annual Hyde Park/Kenwood JAAZ Festival Sunday, October 15, 2000, at the University of Chicago's Mandel Hall. Mandel Hall is located at 57th and University. Doors open at 6:30 PM. Tickets are $15/$10 for students. Advance tickets are $10 and available at the Jazz Record Mart, 444 N. Wabash, ...

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Left Coast Clave Records Press Release

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Here's what people are saying about Mark Levine & The Latin Tinge's CD “Hey, It's Me"

“...a great example of small group Afro-Cuban jazz." “The interplay between Mark, percussionist Mike Spiro, bassist Peter Barshay, and Paul Van Wageningen on drums is what great jazz is all about." - Bobby Sanabria

“...absolutely incredible and inspired. HEY IT'S ME is the best record I've heard in a long time." - Donald Brown

“Mark's new CD is a CLASSIC. Super playing, super choice ...

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Third Ear Music Guide Series Breaks into Bebop

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Etta Jones/Houston Person at Columbia University's Miller Theatre - Saturday 10/7/00 at 8:00 p.m.

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Branford Marsalis, Jane Monheit guest on Jazz After Hours (PRI)

Source: All About Jazz

Branford Marsalis is currently on tour with his quartet - Joey Calderazzo, Eric Revis and Jeff “Tain" Watts. The quartet is in Seattle at Jazz Alley through Saturday night and he came by our studio for a visit on Thursday. He was very expansive, talking about the quartet and his development as an improvising musician. He's quite direct in his comments about the music business and has some good comments about how one learns to play this music. He's quite ...

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Stanley Turrentine: Tenor Titan With His Own Big Sound

Source: All About Jazz

by Kenny Mathieson

Stanley Turrentine had already established his credentials as a lyrical and inventive bop and soul jazz saxophonist by the time his music found a much wider audience in the wake of his crossover hit with his own composition “Sugar” in 1970. Turrentine went on to enjoy several more such hits in a pop-jazz vein in the ensuing years, but returned to a straightahead jazz idiom in the late-80s. Whatever style he performed in, Turrentine was readily identifiable ...

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Michael Weiss Wins BMI/Monk Insitute's Composition Competition

Source: All About Jazz

Pianist Michael Weiss has been selected as the grand prize winner of the 8th annual Thelonious Monk International Composers Competition, sponsored by BMI. At the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., Weiss performed his winning composition, El Camino during the Hand Drum Competition finals on September 10. Weiss was presented the $10,000 grand prize award by BMI vice president Robbin Ahrold and Wayne Shorter.

Michael Weiss has established a formidable reputation, working with such top names as Johnny Griffin, Art Farmer, ...

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Philadelphia Concerts - High Zero Prep Festival, Jim Black, Vandermark 5, Fonda/Stevens, Khan Jamal/Matthew Shipp/Odean Pope - from Sweetnighter Productions

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Sweetnighter Productions - Upcoming Concerts Sweetnighter Productions dedicated to bringing cutting edge jazz to Philadelphia High Zero Preparation Festival featuring two unique quartets with some of the country's most exciting improvisers Wednesday, September 20th, 2000 - 9:30 pm - $12 Carol Genetti (vocals/Chicago) Eric Leonardson (tuned percussion/Chicago) Toshi Makihara (percussion/Philadelphia)

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