Results for "All About Jazz Publicity"

Dave Valentin; Jammin on the Hudson

August 16, 2008

For Our final Concert of this Season, We Present; one of the only remaining Latin Kings of Jazz on the scene today, who came up in that tradition with Tito Puente, and Mario Rivera & the Salsa Refugees. He has taken Latin Jazz to a new level, following in the paths of both Jazz and Latin ...

Hip-Hop and Jazz Sharing a Similar Destiny?

August 16, 2008

ATLANTA, Georgia -- It was the music of rebellion and youth. Artists traded witty improvisations onstage chronicling the pain and the promise of being black in America, inspiring inner-city and rural Southern audiences alike in nightclubs and on street corners. Today, Jaspects, an Atlanta-based group of young musicians who were born in the hip-hop era, fuse ...

Anita O'Day "Jazz on a Summer's Day"

August 16, 2008

Review: Jazz on a Summer's Day PLOT One of the pre-eminent women of jazz, captured through her music and her reflections on a turbulent, rigorously honest life. CAST Anita O'Day, Johnny Mandel, Annie Ross LENGTH 1:31 PLAYING AT Cinema Village, Manhattan BOTTOM LINE Swinging, satisfying portrait of a woman who was among ...

Australian Jazz Meets Indigenous Music for Unique Show

August 16, 2008

A MODERN abstract jazz band will combine with indigenous musicians - both traditional and contemporary - at a unique show in Darwin this weekend. The project is the result of a four-year collaboration between the Australian Art Orchestra, the Wagilak Gujarra/Nyilapidji musicians from Ngukurr and singer Ruby Hunter. In Darwin yesterday AAO artistic director Paul Grabowsky ...

Jack Sheldon in San Francisco Bay This Sunday

August 16, 2008

Hello Jack Sheldon Fans! This is a reminder that this Sunday, August 17, The Jack Sheldon California Cool Quartet(tm) will be performing forly one night only in the San Francisco Bay Area. This is an extremely rare, out-of-town, appearance by our hero Jack Sheldon....so you cannot miss it! it will be a blast! Here are the ...

Saxophonist Ray Blue Tribute to Johnny Griffin Tomorrow

August 16, 2008

Jerry Wexler: Pioneer of Postwar Pop

August 16, 2008

American record producer and music executive helped to start Atlantic records and coined term 'rhythm and blues' Few of the pioneers of the postwar pop music industry more effectively exploited the art of connoisseurship than Jerry Wexler, the American record producer and music industry executive, who has died of congestive heart failure aged 91. It was ...

Jerry Wexler, 91; Influential Producer Helped Shape R&b

August 16, 2008

Jerry Wexler, 91, the legendary producer and partner in Atlantic Records who coined the term “rhythm and blues," helped Aretha Franklin find her groove and freed Ray Charles from his early easy-listening style, died Aug. 15 at his home in Siesta Key, Fla. He had heart disease. Starting in the 1950s, Mr. Wexler introduced black and ...

Tipitina's Foundation Instrumental in Special Delivery to the Birthplace of Jazz

August 16, 2008

Early Wednesday morning, a truck laden with 3,300 pounds of music pulled up to a Mid-City storage facility. Four sweaty staffers from the Tipitina's Foundation, the nonprofit philanthropic arm of the famed music club, spent the day unpacking, sorting and labeling brass, woodwinds, drums and more. “There's a little bit of everything, “ said the foundation's ...

Spotlight 29 Casino Welcomes Etta James

August 16, 2008

Spotlight 29 Casino is proud to welcome multiple Grammy winner, Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame inductee and legendary blues artist Etta James and the Roots Band on September 27. Also appearing are special guests Tower of Power, the band critics call “the premiere bastion of true soul and funk in modern music, “ who are ...