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Blue Note Set To Release Cassandra Wilson's Stunning New CD "Thunderbird" On April 4th

February 1, 2006

Collaboration With Producer T Bone Burnett Delivers Post Modern Interpretation On Delta Roots Music Cassandra Wilson never fails to surprise and inspire. Sexy, honey-velvet vocals wrapped around her own jazzy blue compositions or inventive interpretations of others' material led TIME magazine to name her “America's Best Singer" in recent years. On her new CD ...

ASCAP Foundation Names Winners of Annual Young Jazz Composer Awards

February 1, 2006

New York, NY: ASCAP Foundation President Marilyn Bergman has announced the winners of the 2005/2006 ASCAP Foundation Young Jazz Composer Awards. This program, established in 2002, was created to encourage gifted jazz composers from throughout the United States. The winners, who range in age from 13 to 30, are selected through a juried national competition. They ...

Art Lillard Upcoming Appearances and New Summit CD: Reasons to be Thankful

February 1, 2006

February 1, 2006 To: Listings/Critics/Features From: JAZZ PROMO SERVICES Press Contact: JIM EIGO, [email protected] Art Lillard Upcoming Appearances and New Summit CD “Reasons to be Thankful" The new Heavenly Band recording, “Reasons to be Thankful," is being released on the Summit Record label on February 7, 2006. This CD features all original jazz compositions, both vocal ...

Red Cat Publicity Celebrates First Year

February 1, 2006

2006 To Feature New Releases from Chris Potter, Dave Douglas, Peter Eldridge, Avishai Cohen, Pete Malinverni and others This January, fourteen-year music-industry veteran Jason Byrne celebrated the one-year anniversary of the opening of a new public relations firm, Red Cat Publicity, a one man show set up to offer creative and energetic publicity services to artists ...

Andrew Barker Quartet Thursday, Feb. 2nd at TONIC

February 1, 2006

Ray Barretto Hospitalized

February 1, 2006

From Bangla-Beat to AfroBeat: March 13 Concert in London

February 1, 2006

Asia House showcases a funky fusion of traditional and contemporary Bangladeshi music at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London on Monday 13 March 2006. The concert explores the musical roots of Bangladesh from the sounds of the homelands through to contemporary world fusion. Rob Fakir and Shajahan Munshi play traditional Lalon and Baul music found in ...

Jazz Pianist George Kahn to Play 3 Gigs this February in Los Angeles

February 1, 2006

JAZZ PIANIST GEORGE KAHN KICKS OFF '06 WITH FEBRUARY SHOWS SILHOUETTE JAZZ CLUB FEB 2, THE TEMPLE BAR FEB 5 AND SPAZIO'S JAZZ SPOT FEBRUARY 22ND Los Angeles. Jazz Pianist George Kahn will warm up three February nights kicking off his '06 tour schedule. Thursday, February 2nd finds the George Kahn Quartet featuring saxophone legend Eric ...

Christine Rosholt Reveals Her Style and Pizzazz at Rossi's Blue Star in Minnesota

February 1, 2006

CD RELEASE PARTY AT ROSSI'S BLUE STAR Christine Rosholt Reveals Her Style and Pizzazz GOING FOR ARTIST PREVIEW/CD REVIEW DEBUT RELEASE: Detour Ahead Vocalist Christine Rosholt, will be releasing her long awaited debut CD Detour Ahead on Friday, February 3, 2006 at Rossi's Blue Star. It took a while for Christine Rosholt ...

Drummer Sherman Ferguson Dies at 61

January 31, 2006

Sherman Ferguson, a jazz drummer and a member of the faculty in the UCLA Jazz Studies Program, died from complications of diabetes on Jan. 22 at his home in La Crescenta, Calif. He was 61. Ferguson joined the UCLA faculty as a lecturer in January 2001 and taught a jazz ensemble class and private drum lessons. ...