Jazz News

Enter the "Night Bird Song: The Thomas Chapin Story" Giveaway at All About Jazz!

Source: All About Jazz
March 4, 2013

All About Jazz members are invited to enter the Olena Media Night Bird Song: The Thomas Chapin Story giveaway contest starting today. We'll select 3 winners to receive Thomas Chapin's 3-CD set, Never Let Me Go, at the conclusion of the contest on April 2nd. Click here to enter the contest

(Becoming a fan of Thomas Chapin at AAJ automatically enters you in the contest.)

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Getting To Know Peggy Duquesnel

Source: Great Scott P.R.oductions
March 4, 2013

“Seems Like I Know You” EP due April 16th, first single features Lorber, Haslip and Braun Long Beach, CA (4 March 2013): Transitioning from straight-ahead jazz and inspirational music to showcase her skillset as a contemporary singer-songwriter, classically trained pianist Peggy Duquesnel got to know jazz fusion keyboard pioneer Jeff Lorber and bassist Jimmy Haslip (Yellowjackets) in order to co-produce “Seems Like I Know You,” a five-song EP that will be released April 16th by Joyspring Music. Duquesnel wrote or ...

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New England Conservatory Launches Jazz Lab: One-week Jazz Program For Students Ages 14-18, From June 23-28

Source: Braithwaite & Katz Communications
March 4, 2013

Work With NEC’s Premier Jazz Faculty including Ken Schaphorst, Dominique Eade, Joe Morris and Rakalam Bob Moses Any plans for summer vacation? Come explore jazz at New England Conservatory during Jazz Lab, a program for students ages 14 – 18 of all proficiency levels, from all over the country and abroad. Jazz Lab promises musical and personal growth in a week-long immersion in ensemble performance, improvisation, small group training, jam sessions, entrepreneurial workshops, and college audition prep. Instrumentalists and vocalists ...

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Nouveau Stride (Lorraine Feather & Stephanie Trick) On The East Coast, March 27, 28

Source: Michael Bloom Media Relations
March 4, 2013

Lyricist/vocalist (and two-time Grammy nominee) Lorraine Feather and piano phenom Stephanie Trick make up the duo Nouveau Stride. They will perform their newly-lyricized versions of hard-driving 20s/30s stride piano classics on March 27th at the Dana Library at Rutgers University (Newark, NJ) at 3pm; on March 28th, the two women will do their show at New York’s Metropolitans Room at 9pm. The multi-media show includes projected lyrics, a “piano-cam,” a Fats Waller soundie, and Lorraine’s award winning cartoon You’re Outa ...

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Aleph Trio Ep Release Available at BandCamp

Source: Ben McDonnell
March 3, 2013

Ben Mcdonnell's 'Aleph Trio' release their first CD in April. Composer Ben Mcdonnell formed the Aleph Trio to not only serve as a platform for his own compositions but also to allow for the exploration of a wide range of music that shapes their own individual musical identities. Ben’s own compositions encompass his experiences and reactions to people, places and situations, both near and far. Whether writing about the burning funeral pyres in Nepal (Track 5, The Ghats) or a ...

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Sophisticated Ladies And Red Hot Mommas This Week On Riverwalk Jazz

Source: Don Mopsick
March 1, 2013

This week on Riverwalk Jazz, New Orleans’ Topsy Chapman joins The Jim Cullum Jazz Band to separate “sophisticated ladies" from “red-hot mommas." Heart-breakers, man-takers, vamps, tramps and the girl next door—through the decades they’ve all shown up in song. Songwriters are forever trying to decipher the feminine mystique, and singers never tire of crooning about the many aspects of the female spirit. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM satellite radio and can be ...

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Singer Phil Perry Says Yes With New Album On March 12 Via Shanachie Entertainment

Source: 1888 Media
March 1, 2013

Soulful Mix of Originals And Inspired Reinterpretations Of Classic Songs By Paul McCartney, Paul Simon, Michael McDonald & Carly Simon And Sam Cooke Featuring Special Guests Chanté Moore And Najee New York, NY: A great vocalist has a way of inhabiting a song, living it and making it their own. It takes especially great powers of interpretation for a singer to take a song definitively recorded by a legendary artist and give it new life with a fresh interpretation. Phil ...

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Dave Posmontier In Media, PA On Wednesday, March 20!

Source: Jim Miller
March 1, 2013

Jazz Bridge in Media! presents pianist Dave Postmontier at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Delaware County — 145 West Rose Tree Road in Media - on Wednesday, March 20th. Tickets are $10, $5 for students, and are available only at the door. Show time is 7:30. Information: 215-517-8337. It’s hard to remember a time when pianist, arranger, composer and educator Dave Posmontier wasn’t a vital part of the Philadelphia jazz landscape. He’s been at it for almost 40 years, first ...

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