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News: Performance / Tour

Romero & Roman: Guitar Duo (USA-Russia) On tour! Summer-Autumn 2009

June 14, 2009

Contemporary melodies, outstanding technique, passionate, romantic and inescapably infectious. Latin Grammy owner Hernan Romero and one of the most prominent virtuosos in Russian contemporary jazz Roman Miroshnichenko. Line Up 2 piece: Hernan Romero - acoustic guitar Roman Miroshnichenko - acoustic guitar On Stage: duo Travel Party: 2 About Hernan Romero: ...

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News: Recording

Composer/Guitarist Torben Waldorff Goes into Studio to Record "Excavate" on Artistshare

June 14, 2009

Scandinavian guitarist/composer Torben Waldorff goes into the studio for his third recording at ArtistShare, July 28 - 29 in New York City. The CD project, with the working title of Excavate, comes on the heels of Waldorff's critically acclaimed CD Afterburn and also features the original music of Torben Waldorff on guitar, Donny McCaslin on saxophones, ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Jazz at Lincoln Center Benefit w/ Dave Douglas & Brass Ecstasy

June 14, 2009

Jazz for Justice: Annual Benefit for Legal Services NYC with Special Performance by DAVE DOUGLAS & BRASS ECSTASY On June 15th, Legal Services NYC will hold its annual Jazz for Justice benefit to celebrate its 42nd year helping improve the lives of thousands of low-income New Yorkers. The Annual Benefit, which draws some 400 attendees from ...

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News: Video / DVD

Sat Eye Candy: Roxy Music

June 14, 2009

TIME TO DANCE AWAY YOUR HEARTACHE, DANCE AWAY YOUR PAIN WITH A TRUE MODERN ROCK PIONEER While the '80s continue to reemerge in today's crop of young bands, we thought we'd lean back to a major influence on these influencers, Roxy Music. Arty, sensual, clever and quirky with a capitol “Q," Roxy emerged in ...

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News: Obituary

Jack Nimitz: 1930-2009

June 14, 2009

Sometimes fate does not distribute her gifts based on merit. Jack Nimitz never achieved the recognition, popularity or record sales of Gerry Mulligan, Pepper Adams or Serge Chaloff. Nonetheless, he was fully their peer as a baritone saxophonist of the post-bop era. Nimitz died last week in Los Angeles at the age of 79. From the ...

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News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Marcus Miller

June 14, 2009

All About Jazz is celebrating Marcus Miller's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Marcus MillerMarcus Miller, winner of the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Jazz Album of 2001, was born in Brooklyn in 1959 and raised in Jamaica, New York. He came from a musical family and was ...

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News: Recording

Sirena Riley's "The Lunatic, the Lover, and the Poet"

June 13, 2009

"...performances that enchant, surprise and ineffably capture the imagination. Riley's lyrics and Donald's music seem to flow together in a single flood of invention..." --Jazzwise Magazine Sirena Riley started her first night in London by opening a 'Time Out' magazine and going to the first jazz open mic session she could find. Australian pianist and composer, ...

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News: Performance / Tour

23rd Annual Long Beach Bayou & Mardi Gras Festival Featuring Hubert Sumlin, Willie "Big Eyes" Smith, Jimmy Vivino, Barbara Morrison, Cafe R&B, Sweet Baby J'ai

June 13, 2009

Hear the sounds of New Orleans at the 23rd Annual Long Beach Bayou & Mardi Gras Festival, Saturday, June 27 and Sunday, June 28th at the Rainbow Lagoon Park, 11:30 a.m. 8:00 p.m. Cajun, Zydeco and Blues music along with a daily Mardi Gras Parade led by New Orleans Traditional Jazz Band. Blues legends guitarist Hubert ...

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News: TV / Film

Bud Shank "Against the Tide" film on Jazzed Media Receives EMPixx Gold Award

June 13, 2009

The EMPixx Awards, a competition honoring excellence in the production of moving pixels, had honored Jazzed Media with a 2009 EmPixxAwards- Gold for the documentary film Bud Shank Against the Tide. The documentary film was produced and directed by multi-Grammy nominated and award winning filmmaker Graham Carter, founder of Jazzed Media. Jazzed Media produces jazz CDs ...

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News: Music Industry

Jazz Gospel Central Debuts with Interviews from Top Artists and “Key” Information

June 13, 2009

The genre of Gospel Jazz is growing by leaps and bounds. The unique merging of two highly expressive and improvisational African American forms of music has spawned a variety of gifted artists such as Angella Christie, Ben Tankard and Kirk Whalum. It’s with these artists and this music in mind that Founder and Editor-In-Chief, Terrence Richburg, ...