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Six Degrees Announces New Niyaz Album

April 28, 2008

Six Degrees Records is proud to announce the new album from Niyaz, entitled Nine Heavens. Nine Heavens will be released as a double CD (featuring one disc of electronic and one disc of acoustic versions of the tracks) on June 24, 2008. Niyaz consists of three prominent artists, Azam Ali, best known as the vocalist of ...

Jazz Impressions of Brubeck

April 28, 2008

In the 1950s and 60s the Dave Brubeck Quartet became one of the most popular jazz acts in the world--one of the reasons why the group ended up doing a State Department tour in 1958 at the height of the Cold War that took them to countries such as India, Poland, and Iraq. The music inspired ...

Westchester Jazz Orchestra to Perform Works of Antonio Carlos Jobim on June 7th in Chappaqua

April 28, 2008

Westchester, NY -- The Westchester Jazz Orchestra has been called a “local" orchestra “in about the same way as, say, the New York or Berlin Philharmonic Orchestras are local." On June 7, this world-class big band will welcome summer with the works of Antonio Carlos Jobim, who first captivated Americans with his early-1960s mega-hits The Girl ...

New on JazzPianoOnline.com

April 28, 2008

Four Walking Basslines Continue your study of walking basslines by taking a gestalt approach with this lesson. Watch, listen and read along with transcriptions of four walking basslines played over the chord changes to There is No Greater Love, Mr. PC, Cherokee and There Will Never Be Another You. When you have absorbed the “feel" of ...

Born with the Blues, Chasing a Dream: Pedro Rodriguez, Chilean Jazz Guitarist to Give Concert on May 2, 2008

April 28, 2008

Pedro Rodriguez brings his unique brand of Latin Jazz and The Blues to a New York audience on Friday, May 2, culminating a journey of many years and many miles from his hometown of Santiago, Chile. The son of a medical doctor who played the trumpet, Rodriguez grew up in Santiago, listening to Jazz, Tango and ...

Bebe Barron, Scored the Science Fiction Film "Forbidden Planet"

April 28, 2008

Bebe Barron, a pioneering composer who started manipulating sounds after receiving a tape recorder as a wedding present and later scored the 1956 science-fiction film “Forbidden Planet," the first full-length feature to use only electronic music, has died. She was 82. Barron died April 20 of complications related to old age at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in ...

Another Train, Another River: Jimmy Giuffre, 1921-2008

April 28, 2008

Glows in the Dark's Kung Fu Obsession

April 28, 2008

Glows in the Dark returns to Commercial Taphouse this Sunday, April 27. The band, led by Scott Burton and known for its original pieces inspired by Warren Oates films and Kung Fu flicks, is premiering a new piece called “One Armed Swordsman."Read more about why you should come and drink a lot.

51st Annual Monterey Jazz Festival

April 28, 2008

The Monterey Jazz Festival is the longest running jazz festival in the world. It is held annually on the 20-acre, oak-studded Monterey Fairgrounds, located at 2000 Fairground Road in Monterey, California. This has been the site of the Festival since its inception in 1958. More than 500 top jazz artists perform throughout the weekend on 9 ...

Leslie Byers at Chris' Jazz Cafe on April 28, 2008

April 28, 2008

On Monday, April 28, Chicago-based jazz vocalist, Lesley Byers will be swingin' hard at Chris's Jazz Cafe, 1421 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA from 8:00 PM - Midnight. Byers and her trio will be touring the East coast performing their interpretations of wonderful standards from the Great American Songbook as well as some lesser known jazz gems. ...