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Enter the 2009 Litchfield Jazz Festival Giveaway Contest
All About Jazz members are invited to enter The Litchfield Jazz Festival giveaway which includes free roundtrip airfare for two courtesy of Continental Airlines, a 2-night stay at the Starbuck Inn B&B in Kent, and a 3-day tent pass! We'll select one winner at the conclusion of the contest on July 6th. Click here to enter ...
Litchfield Jazz Festival in Connecticut!
The Litchfield Jazz Festival, in the beautiful Litchfield Hills of Connecticut, has been presenting legends and introducing new talent since 1996. Over the years the festival has presented legends like Dave Brubeck, Tito Puente, Ray Charles and Sonny Rollins as well as introduced new talent and fostered the careers of Diana Krall, Brad Mehldau, Jane Monheit, ...
Litchfield Jazz Fest Line-up Announced: July 31-August 2, 2009
A Quick Look at the Litchfield Jazz Festival July 31-August 2, 2009 Grounds of Kent School, Kent, CT The Litchfield Jazz Festival, now in its fourteenth summer, is thrilled to announce the 2009 line-up and its move to the gorgeous campus of Kent School in Kent, Connecticut. This summers festival, named a Top 100 ...
“Friends and Family Celebrate Ella’S Birthday” Tickets Go On Sale.
Tickets went on sale today for the all-star charity event starring Ray Brown Jr., whose dad was famed bassist Ray Brown and mother was “America’s First Lady Of Song”, Ella Fitzgerald. Brown will perform songs from his latest SRI Jazz release, Friends And Family, an all-star duets style album released late last year. The show date ...
The Bad Plus with Wendy Lewis: For All I Care
by Matt Marshall
The recordings of too many contemporary jazz singers teeter precipitously on a cliff overlooking the meandering river of easy listening. Jane Monheit and her ilk sculpt with cake-icing spatulas, decorating standards and new material alike with a thick sheen of creamy frosting. Those who might reasonably lay claim to being the musical descendants of Billie Holiday ...
Ray Brown, Jr. Sets All-Star Charity Tribute
Shelly Liebowitz, President of SRI Jazz Records, has announced that Ray Brown, Jr. will headline a special concert during New Orleans’ Jazz and Heritage Festival week, on Saturday, April 25, at historic Generations Hall, a city landmark since 1821. Entitled “Friends and Family Celebrate Ella’s Birthday,” the event will take place on Ella Fitzgerald’s (Brown, Jr.’s ...
Jane Monheit's The Lovers, the Dreamers and Me
Grammy-nominated vocalist Jane Monheit is set to release the new CD, The Lovers, The Dreamers and Me on January 20th on Concord Records. The CD was produced by jazz veteran Matt Pierson and features songs by Fiona Apple, Corrine Bailey Rae, Ivan Lins and Paul Simon. An ode to songwriters past and present whom Monheit greatly ...
Jane Monheit Releases “The Lovers, the Dreamers and Me"
Critically-acclaimed Grammy-nominated vocalist Jane Monheit set to release new CD, The Lovers, The Dreamers and Me, January 20th on Concord Records. New release produced by jazz veterans Matt Pierson and Joe McEwen features songs by Fiona Apple, Corrine Bailey Rae, Ivan Lins and Paul Simon, as well as classics from the Great American Songbook Los Angeles, ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Jane Monheit
All About Jazz is celebrating Jane Monheit's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Jane Monheit“I\'m one of those people who go just a little too crazy over Christmas," Jane Monheit cheerfully admits. “So in my head, I\'ve been planning and conceptualizing this album for years. I was just ...
Jazz Stars Jane Monheit, Ted Rosenthal and others at Usdan Center Festival Concerts
Singer Jane Monheit, acclaimed young Polish pianist Mateusz Kolakowski, tap dance team DeWitt Fleming and Jared Grimes and pianist/composer Ted Rosenthal are among the jazz stars appearing at Usdan Center For the Creative and Performing Arts' Festival Concerts, private 30-minute educational performances, just for Usdan students, at its on-site 1,000-seat McKinley Ampitheater, beginning Monday June 30. ...
