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Newport Festival Names Back Where They Belong
It sounds like the Newport Jazz Festival and Newport Folk Festival names are back in use by producer George Wein, starting with the 2010 editions.When Festival Network LLC bought Wein's longstanding company, Festival Productions Inc., less than three years ago, it acquired the rights to use the two names, as well. After Festival Network ...
Rollins '57: Sonny Rollins Takes the Lead
Sonny Rollins is one of the great saxophone improvisers of jazz history, playing with the passion and energy of a giant, the wit and humor of a savvy, streetwise New Yorker, and a lover’s knowledge of the Great American Songbook. In 1957 Rollins was coming off a superlative year: he’d recorded albums like Saxophone Colossus and ...
Enter The Beatles 14-CD Giveaway Contest!
All About Jazz members are invited to enter The Beatles remastered and rediscovered CD giveaway contest starting today. 7 winners will receive 2 of the 14 CDs listed below. We'll announce the winners on October 11th. Click here to enter the contest (Following The Beatles at AAJ automatically enters you in the contest.) Good luck!
Quincy Jones at the 14th Annual Bermuda Music Festival
Legendary producer & composer Quincy Jones (or Q" as he has come to be known amongst fans and friends alike) and boxing-turned-entertainment promoter Rock Newman today unveiled the growing group of award-winning musicians that will assemble to perform with Quincy for one weekend only at the 14th Annual Bermuda Music Festival. Quincy Jones and Friends" will ...
Montreux Jazz Winner/Cole Porter Fellow, Dan Tepfer, Tours Midwest and Toronto 9/09
Critically acclaimed pianist/composer, Dan Tepfer, will return to the Midwest for a tour of Chicago, South Bend, Toronto and Ann Arbor, Michigan. After stops in Poland, New York, Greece and France earlier this spring/summer, Dan is touring this current work, The Goldberg Project" , which is a celebration of the J.S. Bach Variations on Goldberg" mixed ...
Award Winning Canadian Jazz Pianist Steve Holt to Perform in Fort Lauderdale
FORT LAUDERDALE, Sept 8 – Top Canadian jazz pianist and composer Steve Holt is confirmed to perform three nights in Fort Lauderdale next month, at BLUE JEAN BLUES – Fort Lauderdale’s new jazz and blues club. The performances will mark the first time Mr. Holt has performed in Florida. Born in Montreal Canada, Steve Holt was ...
Aguilar Announces Latin Bass Master Class Featuring Oskar Cartaya and Ruben Rodriguez
Aguilar Amplification, maker of high-quality bass amplifiers, speaker cabinets and accessories for bassists is pleased to announce a Latin Bass Master Classes on Saturday, September 26th 2009 at their New York City headquarters with endorsing artists, Oskar Cartaya and Ruben Rodriguez. This master class is free of charge. Mainstays in the Latin jazz world, Oskar and ...
Paul Motian Trio Still Leading the Jazz Vanguard
Jazz has its fair share of musical characters. It's the improvisers' stock and trade to take that personality and translate it through their chosen instrument. While, of course, there are past legends that range from sophistication of Duke Ellington to the rabid virtuosity of Art Tatum to lyrical nuance of Lester Young to the angular brilliance ...
2009 Clean Feed Festival in New York: September 16-20
Top Portuguese Winery Sponsors the Clean Feed Jazz Festival in NYC PENAFIEL, PORTUGAL -- During this year’s Clean Feed Festival NYC IV (September 16-20), guests will have something extra to jazz about – an authentic taste of Portugal in the form of the unique wine called Vinho Verde. Aveleda, one of Portugal’s top wineries known for ...
Bontaj Roulet: Bonnie Raitt & Taj Mahal @ Berkeley Greek
This summer, Alone & Together", Bonnie Raitt and Taj Mahal two leading lights of modern blues are joining forces for their first-ever tour together. The BonTaj Roulet" tour a coast-to-coast, 30-date outing in August and Friday September 11th at the University of California Berkeley Greek Theater. The show will feature Bonnie and Taj on stage alone ...

