Results for "All About Jazz Publicity"

Jeffrey Hayden Shurdut at the Whitney Museum of Art, NYC, Biennial 2008

February 28, 2008

JEFFREY HAYDEN SHURDUT presents “Pianos are instruments not furniture" Live public performance and interview on Neighborhood Public Radio as part of The Whitney Museum of Art, NYC, Biennial 2008 March 8, Saturday, 3pm (FM frequency to be announced.) “HEY MADISON AVE., PIANOS ARE INSTRUMENTS- NOT FURNITURE." Jeffrey Hayden Shurdut I grew up ...

The Voice, the Focal Point of the 15th Tarragona Dixieland Festival: From African Roots to Big Bands

February 28, 2008

The voice, the oldest musical instrument, will be the focal point of the 15th Dixieland Festival of Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain. After an artistic selection where excellence has outweighed other considerations, the audience will have the opportunity to live and listen to the evolution of jazz throughout different ages. It will range from the deepest African roots, ...

National Guitar Workshop 2008 Jazz Guest Artists

February 28, 2008

The National Guitar Workshop has confirmed the John Scofield Trio and Kenny Burrell as guest artists for 2008. The John Scofield Trio will appear at the New Milford, CT campus as part of the 2008 Jazz Summit. Kenny Burrell will appear in Tom Dempsey's Giants of Jazz Seminar at the Los Angeles Campus. The National Guitar ...

This Year's Model | Elvis Costello | Album

February 28, 2008

This Year's Model (1978) was Elvis Costello's second album and his first with The Attractions. It was recorded mainly at Eden Studios in West London. It was voted the best album of the year in The Village Voice Pazz & Jop critics poll [1]. In 2000, Q magazine placed This Year's Model ...

Pure Bossa Nova | Nara Leao | Album

February 28, 2008

Nara Leo was known as the “Muse of Bossa Nova" because many of the meetings which created the Bossa Nova movement happened in her Copacabana apartment. Despite having recorded all genres of Brazilian music, her small, fragile, and sensual voice would be synonymous with Bossa Nova forever. Daring and brave, Nara Leo ...

Teo Macero, Man Behind Electric Miles and More: Rip

February 28, 2008

Paris Noir: African-American Jazz Musicians in France

February 28, 2008

The Jazz Baroness Redux

February 28, 2008

Last week JazzWax blogger Marc Myers mentioned getting an e-mail from Hannah Rothschild, producer of the BBC documentary about jazz patron Pannonica de Koenigswarter, aka Nica, that I recently posted about. Turns out that she's making a television documentary about Pannonica as well--and there's now a website devoted to the Baroness which includes the BBC radio ...

Patois Records: Documenting the Bay Area Latin Jazz Sound

February 28, 2008

Record labels historically intertwine with their local music scenes, bringing the best local talent to a larger world stage. Motown employed Detroit's top jazz musicians to support their artists. Over the course of time, this group of studio musicians became known as The Funk Brothers and changed the shape of modern popular music. Fania Records [...] ...

Cats Who Swing and Sing: Women Singer-Pianists of the 1940s and 50s

February 28, 2008

Nellie Lutcher, a star pianist and singer of the late 1940s who mixed boogie and swing riffs on the keyboards with sly and humorously suggestive lyrics, once remarked that it was 1930s performer Cleo Brown who'd “sort of started a trend for girl piano players and vocalists" with her recording of the song “It's a Heavenly ...