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Performers Announced for the 19th Annual Comcast San Jose Jazz Festival
SAN JOSE, CA - San Jose Jazz announced today the performing artists for the 19th Annual Comcast San Jose Jazz Festival, presented by Southwest Airlines. The festival is scheduled for Aug. 8-10 and will feature over one hundred bands comprising over 1,000 musicians on 10 stages in downtown San Jose. Headlining performers include David Sanborn, Big ...
Vocalist Chris Williams Performs for Special Engagement Steamers Event
Chris Williams, local award winning jazz vocalist, will be performing at the prestigious Steamers Jazz Caf on Friday, August 8 at 8 PM to record a new CD and DVD. The special engagement concert also celebrates Chris' 30th birthday. Seating for the performance is limited with a $10 cover charge and 2-item minimum. Canadian-born jazz vocalist ...
Jordon's Genius Closes out Jazz Fest
YOU CAN SAY what you want about other jazz artists. But the truth, the absolute truth, is there is nobody like Sheila Jordan. At age 79 (and a half, she meticulously observes), she can still hold a 500-plus audience in pin-drop thrall as she and bassist Cameron Brown did for 90 magical minutes Saturday night in ...
Guitarists Go Beyond Conventional Harmony & Chords with Modern Chord Melody
Jazz chord melody may very well be the most challenging of all guitar styles to truly master. Players must develop right-hand thumb and finger independence, a robust vocabulary of jazz voicings, a strong sense of melody and and arranger's feel for composition. And these are just the fundamentals. Once you have the “easy" stuff down, it's ...
You Sing Jazz (Vol. 1)/Downloadable Sing-a-Long Tracks
Finally a sing-a-long recording that provides not only a real jazz rhythm section, intros and endings, room to solo but six different singer friendly keys too! These tracks are recorded with chord changes only in the style of seven standard jazz tunes that every singer should know arranged in traditional settings that provide a realistic idea ...
Freddy Cole to Perform at the OC Pavilion on August 29
The OC Pavilion is pleased to welcome jazz great Freddy Cole on August 29 at 8 PM. Lionel Frederick Cole was born on October 15, 1931, the youngest of Edward and Paulina Nancy Cole's five children. His three elder brothers, Eddie, Ike and Nat (twelve years Freddy's senior) were all musicians. “I started playing piano at ...
Jazz Stars to Sail on First-Ever Playboy Jazz Cruise
The Playboy Jazz Festival will take to the high seas when it teams up with Jazz Cruises LLC to present the first-ever Playboy Jazz Cruise in celebration of the Festival's 30th anniversary. Renowned bassist Marcus Miller will serve as musical host for the cruise, which will feature 2008 Grammy winner Herbie Hancock as a special guest, ...
21st Annual Long Beach Jazz Festival Has Soul and R&B
Long Beach, CA - Southern California's premiere music festival presenting the best in Jazz and Rhythm & Blues for the 21st year. The Long Beach Jazz Festival takes place the weekend of August 8, 9, and 10, 2008. Once again, the festival venue is the breath-taking seaside setting of Rainbow Lagoon Park on Shoreline Drive in ...
Pianist George Kahn Wins Temecula Valley Jazz Festival
JAZZ PIANIST GEORGE KAHN WINS THE TEMECULA VALLEY JAZZ FESTIVAL-- #38 WITH A BULLET ON THE JAZZ WEEK CHART WITH “COVER UP!" July 12, at the Temecula Valley International Jazz Festival, George Kahn had the honor of WINNING THE 2008 CHUCK NILES BEBOP AWARD. This award, in its fourth year, is given by the Niles family ...
Miles Davis Concerts Online
Wolfgang's Vault, where live music lives, has available for free streaming five great concerts from 1970 and 1971. 1970 CBS Records Convention features Directions, Bitches Brew, The Mask and Spanish Key. Also available: 1970 :: Tanglewood 1971 :: Fillmore West 1970 :: Fillmore East 1970 :: Fillmore East ...
