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News: Recording

Hiromi Kanda Transforms the Great American Songbook

March 15, 2010

Hiromi Kanda doesn't just sing the standards, she embodies them. On her new album, Hiromi In Love-to be released March 16th on the Music Gate label -and the sensational videos that accompany the recordings, due April 13th on DVD, the stirring vocalist transforms each classic into a work of art. With an elegant visual style that ...

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News: Festival

Steve Blanco Trio to Play LIC Jazz Festival on March 28th

March 15, 2010

New York City) Steve Blanco Trio will be performing at The Secret Theater as part of the LIC Jazz Festival in Long Island City, NY on Sunday March 28th. The event will be a entire day of talented local Jazz musicians performing in a variety of different ensembles and settings. Long Island City is home to ...

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News: Event

The G Project Perform World Premieres of Renowned Jazz and Contemporary Fusion Composers in London.

March 15, 2010

THE G PROJECT is an exciting and virtuosic new collaboration between classical cellist Gabriella Swallow and percussionist Genevieve Wilkins. Both musicians are renowned for breaking the boundaries of the perceived classical stereotype and their union in the G Project is no exception. The G Project's vibrant and individual performing style is continually reflected in exciting new ...

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News: Performance / Tour

From Jazz to Avant Garde at Carnegie Hall

March 15, 2010

In April and May, renegade Dutch composer Louis Andriessen comes to Carnegie Hall as holder of this season's Richard and Barbara Debs Composer's Chair. Highlights of his spring residency include: A program featuring the New York premiere of Andriessen's Symphony for Open Strings as well as works by young American composers whom he has mentored on ...

News: Festival

Pizarro: Tough Spot for San Jose Jazz

March 15, 2010

Just a year after getting a much-needed rescue by AT&T, San Jose Jazz is struggling to keep its doors open until the late-summer festival. But the group's board isn't crying poor to the cash-strapped city. Instead, it hopes the thousands of jazz fans who flock to the festival each year or a company interested in those ...

News: Interview

Ted Nash Helps Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Expand Repertoire

March 15, 2010

Saxophonist Ted Nash might play with one of the best-known classic jazz ensembles of today, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, but it doesn't mean his composer side is stuck in the traditional jazz genre. “We tend to limit ourselves based on what people have done before us and what we have done before," he says. ...

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News: Festival

Add a Little Jazz to Your Life with the 33rd Annual Atlanta Jazz Festival

March 15, 2010

ATLANTA - Whether it's out-of-this-world improvisation or boogie-woogie notes of Big Band music that moves you, the 33rd Annual Atlanta Jazz Festival embodies the spirit of Jazz and will unite the City of Atlanta for 31 days of amazing music during the “31 Days of Jazz" this May. The month-long celebration culminates in Piedmont Park on ...

News: Technology

Who Hates the National Broadband Plan?

March 15, 2010

Are you ready for more Internet? That's the question that U.S. regulators will soon be asking, as Reuters is reporting that the Federal Communications Commission is set to reveal the National Broadband Plan on March 16. While some details of the plan remain to be seen, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski has already mentioned a few of ...

News: Radio

The Jazz Session #151: Brandon Seabrook

March 15, 2010

Guitarist and banjo player Brandon Seabrooks trio plays a raging blend of metal, bluegrass and improvised music on their new CD, Seabrook Power Plant (Loyal Label, 2009). In this interview, Seabrook talks about the intense rhythmic drive of the album; why he started playing the tenor banjo; and the many projects hes been involved with as ...

News: Technology

A Dream for Music, but Label's Nightmare

March 15, 2010

THE Apple iPad, which goes on sale April 3, will access video, applications and Web sites wirelessly no cords or cables needed. But to move your trusty old music collection onto this wonder gadget and take it with you to work, or on vacation, you'll have to pull out a U.S.B. sync cable, plug the device ...