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Young Jazz Stars Get a Chance to Shine

June 14, 2008

Live from Salt Lake City, it's Friday Night! Saturday Night Live musical director Lenny Pickett will join American Fork's Crescent Super Band tonight for a benefit concert that will help fund the 2008-09 SLC Jazz concert season. The Crescent Super Band, a jazz ensemble of 21 high-school students, isn't your average high-school band. The band based ...

American Idol Sued over Musicians' Royalties

June 14, 2008

Even in the off-season, American Idol Manages to Stir Up Controversy Musicians' Union Files a Lawsuit against the show, claiming the musicians in the American Idol band were underpaid. The American Federation of Musicians says the hit Fox show violated a collective bargaining agreement by failing to pay musicians royalties for rebroadcasts of episodes. In 2007, ...

Bill Cosby to Get in Some Licks on Drums at Jazz Festival

June 14, 2008

Bill Cosby had to opt for comedy over being jazz drummer, but loves role at Playboy jazz fest (NEW YORK) Bill Cosby quips that he gave up his dreams of becoming a professional jazz drummer and turned to comedy after seeing how easily the pioneer bebop drummer Max Roach handled rhythmically complex tunes that he struggled ...

Art Tatum Re-Performance at the Apollo Theater

June 14, 2008

Zenph Studios, a software company specializing in the re-creation of musical recordings using a proprietary blend of computerized and human analysis, announces a revolutionary new show featuring the artistry of legendary jazz pianist Art Tatum. Through Zenph's unique process, one of the jazz legend's most famous albums will be re-performed live onstage using high-resolution “SE" reproducing ...

Bob Weinberg Joins Hot House Florida

June 14, 2008

Bob Weinberg is a veteran jazz and blues writer living in South Florida. For more than a dozen years, he was employed by the alternative weekly City Link, where he penned a jazz and blues column and other features. In addition to writing the Traditions column for Jazziz magazine and freelance arts pieces for the Sun-Sentinel, ...

Danny Davis Founder of the Nashville Brass Dies

June 14, 2008

Founder of the Nashville Brass Danny Davis, 83, a bandleader and record producer who founded the Nashville Brass, died Thursday at a Nashville hospital after suffering a heart attack. A resident of Nashville, Davis began his music career as a trumpeter, playing in the brass sections of bands led by Les Brown, Gene Krupa ...

Cape Verde's Tcheka to Play UC Davis Quad

June 14, 2008

The exotic musical legacy of Cape Verde will come to the UC Davis Quad in a free concert featuring Tcheka, the 23-year-old singer and guitarist who is bringing the batuque rhythm of his island home to the world by blending it with jazz, folk, funk, and more. The concert will be the first event of SummerMusic ...

Ornette Coleman Plays Burlington

June 14, 2008

By: Josh Potter Ornette Coleman :: 06.07.08 :: Flynn Theater :: Burlington, VT Ornette Coleman In most cases, the debate over a given artist's “genius" is generally moot - relative, as it were, to the way a listener fits the art in their own schema of history, interest ...

Aretha Headlines Newport Jazz

June 14, 2008

ARETHA FRANKLIN TO HEADLINE SATURDAY AT 2008 JVC JAZZ FESTIVAL NEWPORT NEW VERVE ARTIST MELODY GARDOT ALSO ADDED TO LINEUP Aretha Franklin “The Queen of Soul," Aretha Franklin will headline this year's JVC Jazz Festival Newport on Saturday, August 9 at Fort Adams State Park in Newport, ...

Kate Schutt New Canadian Gig Dates!

June 14, 2008