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Nation's Top High School Jazz Bands Selected for Swing Central at 2010 Savannah Music Festival
Savannah Music Festival (SMF) has selected twelve outstanding high school jazz bands from more than 50 applications to participate in the fifth annual SWING CENTRAL High School Jazz Band Competition & Workshop. Under the leadership of pianist/educator/composer Marcus Roberts, the esteemed clinicians of SWING CENTRAL include Jeff Clayton, Wycliffe Gordon, Jim Ketch, Marcus Printup, John Clayton, ...
Stop Fiddling with Your Instrument and Learn to Read Music
There's an old musician's joke that goes something like this: Want to know the best way to make a guitarist to turn down their volume? Put sheet music in front of them. All jokes aside, it's possible to perform music without any knowledge of music theory just as it's possible to memorize a speech without knowing ...
Innovative British Group Portico Quartet Interviewed at AAJ
The history of Portico Quartet is brief, but it's also eventful. Since forming in 2005, this young British band have seen their first album, Knee Deep In The North Sea (Babel, 2007), become a Mercury Music Award Album of the Year, they've gathered rave reviews for their second album, Isla (Real World, 2009), and they've introduced ...
Israeli Jazz Festival 2009 at Chris' Jazz Cafe
Jazz, born out of the diversity and rhythm of American life, is jumping to the beat of Israels mix of cool Mediterranean nights, the hustle and bustle of busy Tel Aviv cafes, and the multi cultural rhythms of a nation where west and east meet. Jazz has been embraced by a new generation of young Israeli ...
Trojan Legacy
Trojan Marching Band director Arthur C. Bartner is in his 40th year at the helm of the renowned band, and a special two-disk CD album -- containing 40 hit songs and entitled Trojan Legacy -- is being released this week at the bookstore and on Saturday at kiosks around campus. Experience four decades of Trojan Marching ...
Leslie Mendelson - The Joel Dorn Sessions
Ryko will release The Joel Dorn Sessions, six songs culled from an early studio session with Leslie Mendelson and Grammy Award winning producer Joel Dorn. Comprised of everlasting covers and original songwriting, this six-song EP harkens back to a classic era which Joel Dorn helped define and which Leslie Mendelson masters so effortlessly. The legendary jazz ...
Who Will Be Crowned 'King of the Blues'?
Who knows what kind of deal with the devil the top five contestants in the Guitar Center-sponsored “King of the Blues" contest have rigged up, but who wouldn't sell their soul for a title like that? Not to mention the $25,000 in cash, a reissue of a vintage '59 Les Paul guitar, a distribution deal through ...
Denise Donatelli and Otmaro Ruiz Trio This Thursday
Hope you'll join us .... Charlie O's Jazz Club 13725 Victory Blvd. Valley Glen (corner of woodman & victory) 818-994-3058 www.charlieos.com Thursday, November 12th 8pm - midnight Denise Donatelli vocals, with Otmaro Ruiz, piano Hamilton Price, bass Aaron ...
Guitarist Charlie Hunter Interviewed at AAJ
Jazz guitarist Charlie Hunter is not a musician who's comfortable resting on his laurels. With nearly twenty albums under his belt and no sign of stopping in sight, Hunter continues to wow audiences with the wizardry of his seven-string guitar technique, by which he lays down bass grooves and simultaneously wings guitar solos along the frets ...
Enter the ObliqSound "Gretchen Parlato - In a Dream" CD Giveaway Contest
All About Jazz members are invited to enter the ObliqSound “Gretchen Parlato - In a Dream“ giveaway contest starting today. We'll select FIVE winners at the conclusion of the contest on December 9th. Click here to enter the contest (Following Gretchen Parlato at AAJ automatically enters you in the contest.) Good luck! Your Friends ...
