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News: Video / DVD

Warner Home Video Releases Four Jazz-Oriented Films

July 15, 2008

Around Midnight Sees Light of Day Warner's DVD Release Warner Home Video releases four jazz-oriented films this week. Bird (1988) tells the story of jazz pioneer Charlie “Bird" Parker and helped establish future Oscar-winners Clint Eastwood as a director and Forest Whitaker as an actor. Pete Kelly's Blues (1953) stars Jack Webb (Dragnet) as a Kansas ...

News: Festival

Marlborough Jazz Festival UK is OK

July 15, 2008

Marlborough Jazz Festival: Paw Pawson's Artesian hall stompers. Anyone can appreciate smooth, mellow jazz. A WARM Saturday afternoon - by 2008 standards anyway - and supping a pint while listening to a mellow jazz band that just about sums up the best thing about the Marlborough Jazz festival. Founder Dan Dawson has passed away but his ...

News: Festival

Harare Jazz Fest on the Ivory Coast Zimbabwe

July 15, 2008

Jazz Festival Comes to Harare HARARE,The popular annual Winter Jazz Festival will start in the capital on Wednesday, Radio VOP can reveal. The annual bash had been postponed due to the presidential run-off between President Robert Mugabe and MDC leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, which was finally held last month on June 27. The Winter Jazz Festival will ...

News: Performance / Tour

Plant and Krauss Fall Dates

July 15, 2008

Robert Plant and Alison Krauss Announce Fall Tour Dates Plant & Krauss Robert Plant and Alison Krauss have just announced additional fall dates for their wildly successful 'Raising Sand' tour. With an all-star band led by producer T Bone Burnett, the Grammy winning duo has crisscrossed North America and Europe performing songs from their platinum selling ...

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News: Recording

Mike Clark's Prescription Renewal Featuring Paul Jackson & Jeff Babko

July 15, 2008

MIKE CLARK gained worldwide recognition as one of America's foremost jazz and funk drummers while playing with Herbie Hancock's group in the early 1970's. Clark became known as a major innovator through his incisive playing on Hancock's Thrust album, which garnered him an international cult following. He is currently busy touring with his own Prescription Organ ...

News: Radio

JazzWeek Radio Chart: July 7, 2008

July 15, 2008

TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 2 2 Steve Turre Rainbow People (HighNote) 251 249 +2 0 67 1 7 2 1 1 Cassandra Wilson Loverly (Blue Note) 248 299 -51 2 65 1 4 3 5 5 Ahmad Jamal It’s Magic (Dreyfus) 233 183 +50 1 59 2 5 4 ...

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News: Interview

Saxophonist JD Allen Interviewed at AAJ

July 15, 2008

Volant solos, melodic tapestries, mournful cadences, orphic rhythms. JD Allen's extraordinary I AM-I AM (Sunnyside, 2008) sculpts an aural monument to transformation, a musical testament to the power of the mind to overcome itself through introspective endeavor. Each of its ten compositions roils with the intensity and exposition of a soul wrestling with its two halves, ...

News: Video / DVD

Warner Home Video Releases Jazz Films

July 14, 2008

21 “Inspired by a true story," director Robert Luketic's movie is about a math professor at M.I.T. (Kevin Spacey) who recruits a group of brilliant students (including Jim Sturgess and Kate Bosworth) to master blackjack and win a bundle in Las Vegas casinos. Both single- and two-disc editions include a commentary by Luketic and producers Dana ...

News: Festival

World Music Festival Highlights Art, Music

July 14, 2008

ON A RECENT hot July afternoon, artist Joseph Tiberino sat with friends at a table in the courtyard adjoining the several homes that make up the West Philly museum named for his late wife, Ellen Powell Tiberino. The old friends drank Argentinian cabernet out of water glasses, chatted about everything from recent art acquisitions to the ...

News: Festival

Good Beer... and All That Jazz

July 14, 2008

Some of you might be in a sentimental mood this week, as popular jazz tunes will be reunited with some of the best real ales for the 21st annual Reading Real Ale and Jazz Festival. But unlike the song, it won't be Stella by Starlight as all the jars are real ale from small breweries. A ...