Results for "All About Jazz Publicity"

Percussionist Randy Kaye Dies at 61

August 17, 2008

Clint Eastwood Make's His Day Keeping Jazz Alive!

August 17, 2008

Last week, I happened to view for the 20th time the film “Bird." In case you have yet to see this film, it is a brief biography about one of the most prolific jazz musicians in history, Charles “Yardbird" Parker, aka “Bird." Parker's life was one of ups and downs, so I imagine it was difficult ...

Once-Stricken Saxman: Music 'Gave Me My Life'

August 17, 2008

Ask saxophonist David Sanborn to reel off a list of career achievements, and you'd better get comfortable. It's a long list. Even he looks surprised when he reaches the end of it, and quips, “I split the atom and cured cancer." Sanborn's career spans jazz, rock, pop and R&B. He's played with Stevie Wonder, the Rolling ...

Jazzing up Mass: Jim Duff's CD Brings New Life to a Old Form

August 17, 2008

"Jazz Mass." To many of us, especially those raised in the Roman Catholic church, it sounds like an oxymoron. A contradiction in terms. But that's exactly what musician and composer Jim Duff has created and committed to CD. From a musical perspective, a mass consists of six sections. They are the Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Benedictus ...

Jazz Adds an Acute Angle to Washington Square

August 17, 2008

It's called a square, but it's not. For one thing, the commercial section around Beacon and Washington streets in Brookline isn't a square in the sense of a plaza or a four-sided piece of pavement. Second, Washington Square has become one of the best local settings for live jazz - and the musicians say the food ...

Bop Around the Bloc

August 17, 2008

From music museums to jazz clubs, Christina Pfeiffer explores Prague through its music. One of the few cities in Europe that escaped widespread damage during World War II, Prague has cobblestone streets that are some of the most picturesque on the continent, lined with baroque, gothic and renaissance architecture. But if you close your eyes and ...

Music Festival to Jazz up Hope

August 17, 2008

HOPE, Maine - Four men with ties to the community hope to bring back the jazz era, at least to the local arena. Andy Stewart, owner of Hope General Store, Chris Rogers, Andy Swift and Bill Jones are staging the second annual Hope Jazz Festival Saturday, Aug. 16, in True Park, behind the General Store. The ...

Woodstock Remembered

August 17, 2008

THIS WEEKEND MARKS 39TH ANNIVERSARY OF LANDMARK MUSIC FESTIVAL The Woodstock Musc & Art Fair took place August 15 to August 18, 1969. This weekend we remember the landmark event with a few takes on Joni Mitchell's song of celebration, written from the perspective most of us have on this festival, i.e. from footage ...

Divine Hand Ensemble Featuring Mano Divina, Concert Thereminist, Premiers in October at the Sellersville Theater

August 17, 2008

International premier of this unique musical performance Sellersville Theatre: 8:30pm Friday October 31, 2008 Tickets - $19.50; Theatre Members - $10.00 Online at ST94.com / by phone at 215.257.5808 At the box office: 24 W. Temple Avenue Sellersville, PA 18960 “Breathless entertainment that leaves you hanging on every note and ...

Australia's Giants of Jazz

August 16, 2008

Giants of Jazz QPAC is getting all jazzed up to host some of Australia's biggest names in jazz. For an entire weekend in August, jazz fans will be treated to two days of non-stop music by some of the country's finest performers and bands. Jazz music will weave its way through QPAC with known and local ...