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130 New Additions to AAJ Upcoming Jazz Release Center

November 23, 2007

The AAJ Upcoming Jazz Release Center has just been updated with 130 new releases, reissues, imports and DVDs. The Upcoming Release Center is updated weekly and can be searched by artist, month of release, record label and type (reissue or new release). It is the most comprehensive new release listing for jazz music on the internet. ...

Marlon Simon at the Painted Bride Art Center on December 1, 2007

November 23, 2007

The Painted Bride Art Center host will the Philadelphia premiere of Marlon Simon's new work “Passing By" performed by an incredible 13 member ensemble. Moving beyond standard Latin jazz formats, Marlon blends Afro-Cuban drumming and Afro-Venezuelan traditions with his Nagual Spirits sextet augmented by a bata section and a string quartet. Once a sideman to such ...

Great Basin Jazz Camp Signs Gilbert Castellanos as CO-Artist in Residence for Jazz Camp 2008

November 23, 2007

The Great Basin Jazz Camp has announced the signing of famed trumpeter Gilbert Castellanos as Co-Artist in Residence for the 2008 Camp, being held from July 14th through July 18th, 2008. The other Co-Artist is returning guitarist Bruce Forman. In addition, the 2008 Jazz Camp will relocate to the campus of Northwest Nazarene University in Nampa, ...

Dan Dechellis Trio and the Paul Thiessen Band at Puck in Doylestown Pa on November 29, 2007

November 23, 2007

Tony Scherr "Twist in the Wind" out on March 17, 2008

November 22, 2007

"One of the best guitar players I've ever seen." -Norah Jones “Tony is one of the most original and soulful musicians I know. I love his slide playing, his voice, his songs...and this new album." -Bonnie Raitt “Of all the marvelous musical roles Tony plays, I like it when he sings and ...

Sergio Cassiano Has Taken On a Project of Hope and Artistry

November 22, 2007

An integral member of the Olinda and Recife cultural community for several years, Sergio has taken part in an extraordinarily wide range of projects. He has no decided to share his time between his music performances and as Percussionist Coordinator for a project call “Escola Alberta" (Open School). The “Open School" project is a comprehensive program ...

Debut CD by the James Davis Quintet - "Angles of Refraction" - Now Available

November 22, 2007

Angles of Refraction, the debut album of the James Davis Quintet, is now available on ears&eyes Records. This album features nine original compositions by James Davis, who has also composed for the collaborative group Zing!, and the adventurous Tomorrow Music Orchestra. The quintet is grounded in the language of Jazz from the last 30 or so ...

US Jazz Great Sonny Rollins Continues to Wow Audiences in Europe

November 22, 2007

BRUSSELS, Belgium - He did jail time on Rikers Island, played the requisite dances with record labels and pioneered the bass-drum saxophone accompaniment known as strolling. The images of him blowing his tenor saxophone on the lower level of New York's Williamsburg bridge are an indispensable part of jazz culture. Sonny Rollins has been rocking the ...

London Jazz Festival: We All Love Ella / Charlie Hunter / Gerard Presencer

November 22, 2007

"I didn't want it to end," a woman in front of me was saying to her friend as the London jazz festival's We All Love Ella opening show wound up on a vocal-relay race through A Tisket a Tasket that threatened to blow the packed Festival Hall into the street. I did. I wanted to get ...

Singer Susie Arioli Interviewed at AAJ

November 22, 2007

This summer, AAJ contributor Mary Ann Lacey interviewed Susie Arioli before and after her closing concert for the 2007 Montreal International Jazz Festival. Arioli and her partner, Jordan Officer, make up the core of the Susie Arioli Band, whose gentle jazz and swing ballads have enraptured audiences across the country and abroad since their start in ...