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New Orleans' Basin Street Signs Jeremy Davenport
Basin Street Records President Mark Samuels has announced that the recording label signed an exclusive recording agreement with trumpeter/vocalist/composer Jeremy Davenport. The first recording of this two-record deal is scheduled to begin next month with a proposed spring 2009 release date. Davenport's discography includes the eponymous Jeremy DavenportMaybe In A Dream (Telarc) in 1998. He was ...
Avishai Cohen Joins Blue Note
Blue Note has announced that it has signed a worldwide deal with bassist/composer/singer and bandleader Avishai Cohen. Cohen's debut release for Blue Note--his 11th album as an ensemble leader--will be recorded in December in Paris with the release scheduled for spring '09. Born April 20, 1970, in Israel, the eclectic artist is considered to be one ...
Copyleft The Great Giveaway
Copyleft is a general method for making a program or other work free, and requiring all modified and extended versions of the program to be free as well. The simplest way to make a program free software is to put it in the public domain, uncopyrighted. This allows people to share the program and their improvements, ...
L.A. Jazz Collective Fall Festival Saxophone Summit 2008
The biggest jazz event of the week has to be the L.A. Jazz Collectives Fall Festival, a three-night, four-venue bash that begins Friday at the Pasadena Jazz Institute. Headlines with the Josh Aguilar Group, Damon Zick and Friends, the Joe Bagg Quintet (with trumpeter Ron Stout) and the Steve Cotter Group; then Saturday at PJI again ...
Wu Fei new Release "Yuan" out November 25th
Wu Fei has composed music for solo instruments, string quartets, choirs, orchestras, modern and traditional dance, film and chamber ensembles. Performing on guzheng since the age of six, she studied composition at the China Conservatory and with Fred Frith at Mills College. She has since collaborated with Alvin Curran, Fred Frith, Carla Kihlstedt, Joelle Leandre, Meredith ...
AccuRadio.com Announces New Christmas Jazz Channels
Leading webcaster AccuRadio.com announces two new Christmas Jazz internet radio channels, “Swingin' Christmas" and “Smooth Christmas." The Chicago-based company has long been a leader among internet radio Holiday music providers, and is proud to add the new channels to its lineup. “Swingin' Christmas" primarily features Christmas music by Straight-Ahead jazz artists, from Vince Guaraldi and Dave ...
New Linn Records Jazz Artists for 2009
2009 is set to start with a bang as Linn Records announces the signing of two world class jazz artists, Gareth Williams Power Trio and Gill Manly. Gareth Williams Power Trio will release their debut album “Shock!" on Linn Records in February 2009. It showcases Williams' skills as an outstanding composer, pianist and improviser. The trio ...
Ras Moshe Continues Free Jazz from the Sanctuary
Saxophonist Ras Moshe is on the forefront of musicians keeping avant garde jazz urgent and vital. Moshe comes blessed with a jazz pedigree: his grandfather played with Lucky Millinder, Earl Bostic, Ella Fitzgerald, and many others, and his father worked with Carlos Garnett, Stanley Cowell, and other musicians in the new music scene in Brooklyn. As ...
Japan's Jazz Coffeeshops
Michael Molasky, jazz pianist and history professor at the University of Minnesota, spent a year traveling up and down the islands of Japan seeking out the proprietors of jazz coffeeshops. He recounted his discoveries to a UCLA audience at a colloquium sponsored by the Paul I. and Hisako Terasaki Center on October 27 2008. Japan's first ...
Performance: George Carroll's Big Band at Sarasota's Bacalao Sports Bar and Grill on Sunday Nights
George Carroll's left hand says it all, moving in an 'S' motion up and down in front of his chest. The white-haired, bespectacled leader of the George W. Carroll Big Band stands between his 17-piece group and the crowd packed into Sarasota's Bacalao Sports Bar and Grill on a recent Sunday night. The sound of saxophones, ...
