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News: Music Industry

Afro Latin Jazz Alliance Appoints Eric Oberstein as Executive Director

August 8, 2010

NEW YORK—Arturo O'Farrill, Director of the GRAMMY Award-winning Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra (ALJO), announced today the appointment of Eric Oberstein, a distinguished arts administrator, producer, and educator, as Executive Director of the Afro Latin Jazz Alliance (ALJA), the non-profit O'Farrill created in 2007 to provide institutional support for the ALJO. Oberstein will commence his post as ...

News: Recording

Spotlight: No Limits, Pedro Bermudez

August 8, 2010

No Limits Pedro Bermudez Luizama Music Recording an albums allows a band leader to include a wide array of musicians and pursue several different musical directions. Most band leaders spend their daily life working with a number of different musicians, and the recording serves as a document of these various relationships. They may also ...

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News: Radio

The Jazz Session #188: Pharez Whitted

August 8, 2010

It's been 14 years since trumpeter Pharez Whitted last released an album, a drought he's now ended with Transient Journey (Owl Studios, 2010). In this interview, Whitted talks about the changes in his life that led to the new recording; what it meant to grow up in a family where everyone played an instrument or sang; ...

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News: Festival

Party to the End of the World - Manchester Jazz Festival Day Six

August 8, 2010

Phil Bancroft's “Home, Small as the World," RNCM. mjf introduces: Andrew Woodhead Quartet, Pavilion. Edward Barnwell Trio, Bridgewater Hall Foyer. Jim Faulker Group, St Anns Square. Wednesday, 28th July 2010.There's nothing like a bit of hard edged avant jazz to get your lunchtime appetite going, and the Jim Faulkner Group were happy to oblige ...

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News: Music Industry

Mitch Miller: Jazz Friend or Foe?

August 8, 2010

Few figures in jazz history were more enigmatic than Mitch Miller. While news of his passing on July 31 in New York at age 99 marked the end of an era, the coverage served as a reminder of just how baffling many of his decisions were in the 1950s and how jazz fared in their wake. ...

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News: Festival

Life is Good Festival Ben Harper, Dr. Dog, Ziggy Marley

August 7, 2010

DO IT FOR THE KIDS!!! The 2010 Life is good Festival at Blue Hills is set to take place September 11-12 at Prowse Farm in Canton, MA, a suburb of Boston. The multi-faceted event combines world-class headliners, popular developing bands and the top children's artists working today. With a wide range of entertainment options including games, ...

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News: Recording

Jefferson Airplane: Four Live Albums out 10/26

August 7, 2010

JEFFERSON AIRPLANE TAKES OFF Jefferson Airplane The argument rages on, but for many music fans in the '60s, the best live band from the Bay Area was Jefferson Airplane. The Airplane featured three master instrumentalists (Jorma Kaukonen, Jack Casady and Spencer Dryden) and three vocalists: Grace Slick (replacing original singer Signe Anderson in 1966), Marty Balin ...

News: Performance / Tour

Budos Band: Album and Tour

August 7, 2010

THE BUDOS BAND III OUT AUGUST 10; FREE MP3 AVAILABLE; TOUR DATES ANNOUNCED The Budos Band On August 10, 2010, Daptone Records will release The Budos Band III, unleashing The Budos Band's brazen sound and inspiring fervor among music lovers throughout the world. Produced by Bosco Mann and TNT at Daptone Records' “House of Soul Studios" ...

News: Performance / Tour

Za Lon's Jazz Noir in the Galerie Lounge TD

August 8, 2010

The Festival International de Jazz de Montréal and the Galerie Lounge TD in the Maison du Festival Rio Tinto Alcan are proud to present works on canvas and paper by painter and urban artist Zïlon, created especially to launch the autumn season in the Galerie. From August 5 to September 26, 2010, we invite one and ...

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News: Interview

Herbie Hancock: "I Don't Feel That I'm Missing Miles Because I Don't Feel He's Gone."

August 8, 2010

Here's a quick look at an interview Herbie Hancock recently had with The Telegraph. Q Do you think that jazz has outlived itself? A I'm seeing a lot of new, young jazz players emerging from high schools, way more than I expected. They're talented, they're good and they want to play the music. To me ...