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New Buster Williams Live Album Available for Download

June 1, 2008

Joey Sommerville Steps up to the Majors

June 1, 2008

Atlanta, GA-Atlanta's brilliant trumpeter, Joey Sommerville has signed with Three Keys Music, headed by Marcus Johnson and distributed by Koch Distribution. Joey's latest album, “Like You Mean It" will be released worldwide on May 12th. The CD's title track is an infectious Latin flavored party jam that has rocketed up to become the second most-added song ...

Steve Weingart Touring with Steve Lukather

June 1, 2008

Having recently returned from international tours with Simon Phillips, Victor Wooten and Warren Hill, LA keyboard maestro Steve Weingart will be touring across Europe, Japan and USA with Toto guitarist Steve Lukather, alongside fellow LA band members Eric Valentine, Carlitos Del Puerto and Arkasnsas blues guitarist Tony Spinner, in support of Lukather's “Ever Changing Times" CD. ...

Playboy Jazz Festival Adds 2 Stars, Archival Photos

June 1, 2008

Two renowned musicians, trumpeter Terence Blanchard and bassist Marcus Miller, have been added to the star-studded lineup for the June 14-15 Playboy Jazz Festival in the Hollywood Bowl, along with a new element - archival photos from 29 years of festivals shown on the big screens before and after each day's lineup. Blanchard, who will perform ...

Musicologists May Score Mozart's Work

June 1, 2008

Musicologists may find new works by Mozart Scores “could be unknown authentic Mozart," says the head researcher WARSAW, Poland - A team of musicologists is reviewing 19th-century copies of musical scores from a Polish monastery's archives in hopes that some might prove to be previously unknown works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the lead scholar ...

Concord Releases 5th Installment of Keepnews Collection Series

June 1, 2008

On June 6, 2008 the Concord Music Group will release part four of its historic reissues series, Keepnews Collection, which spotlights classic albums by jazz titans put on the map by the legendary producer Orrin Keepnews. An icon of the jazz world who continues to be actively involved, Keepnews provides insider insight into the music's history ...

Kate McGarry Headlines La's Jazz Bakery on June 17t

June 1, 2008

Kate McGarry, hailed by Downbeat as one of the top female vocalists of 2007, will bring her inspired repertoire of standard and not-so-standard fare to LA's Jazz Bakery on June 17th. A singer who's also a favorite among singers, McGarry, who has not performed in the LA area in over a year, will preview tracks from ...

Sean Smith Quartet @ 55 Bar- Sunday, June 8 (6:30-9:00)

June 1, 2008

The Sean Smith Quartet Performs at: 55 Bar on Sunday, June 8 From 6:30-9:00 PM (early set) With: John Ellis - Saxophones Keith Ganz - Guitar Sean Smith - Bass & Composition Russell Meissner - Drums NO COVER! -1 Drink minimum The ...

Sat Eye Candy: John Bonham

June 1, 2008

WE MISS YOU, BONZO John Bonham would have turned 60 today. The Led Zeppelin drummer was a majestic beast, equally capable of shaking Olympus as he was at turning a tear with his delicacy. Possessed of Keith Moon's brutality and the complexity of Elvin Jones, Bonham was all things rough 'n' tumble about rock with a ...

Michael Dessen Trio - Between Shadow and Space (Clean Feed, 2008) ****

June 1, 2008

I have been checking how many trombone-bass-drums trios I know, and there aren't many, but that has probably says more about my knowledge than about their existence. Steve Swell has a few, so does Julian Priester, Jeb Bishop has one and there is of course BassDrumBone, with Ray Anderson, with several CDs. Now there is the ...