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News: Performance / Tour

A Rockin' Jazzman (or is He a Jazzy Rocker?) Ignites a Quiet Cabaret

June 11, 2009

A lean, pop-jazz hipster whose buzz-saw voice, much like that of Tom Waits, slices away glib sentimentality, Curtis Stigers is not the usual sort of act one finds at the Oak Room of the Algonquin Hotel, although he has played there before. (The last time was five years ago.) Depending on your definition he is either ...

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News: Event

Icelandic Pianist Sunna Gunnlaugs in VA. Beach, Sat. June 13th

June 11, 2009

This will be her only Tidewater appearance. The internationally acclaimed jazz pianist from Iceland Sunna Gunnlaugs will be joined by bassist Jimmy Masters and drummer Scott McLemore for a night of music from her recent release “Songs from Iceland" as well as new originals (to be recorded with her quartet in NY later this month). June ...

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News: Contest

Announcing the Winners of the "NOMO - Invisible Cities' Giveaway

June 11, 2009

Aaron, Daniel Vice, Jill Miller, Liz Cueller and Brian Shanahan, Congratulations! You're the lucky winners of the Ubiquity Records “NOMO - Invisible Cities“ giveaway. All About Jazz will contact you about claiming your prize. We'd like to thank everyone who participated in the contest and please visit Ubiquity Records for more jazz releases. Enjoy the music! ...

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News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Shelly Manne

June 11, 2009

All About Jazz is celebrating Shelly Manne's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Shelly ManneShelly Manne - drums (1920 - 1984) As a jazz drummer, studio musician, bandleader and businessman, Shelly Manne was one of the most prolific instrumentalists of modern times. “I’ve really had the best of ...

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News: Event

"Inimitable" Annie Ross!

June 10, 2009

Riverbank State Park, in association with Brownstone Entertainment Complex, LLC, for our fifth consecutive year are pleased to present: “Jammin' On The Hudson." 'Jammin'; The Summer Concert Series for the 'serious' Jazz Lover! What could be more inviting than listening to the sounds of great Jazz Artists, cast out over The Hudson River, at sunset, for ...

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News: Recording

Susie Meissner Releases New Jazz CD "I'll Remember April"

June 10, 2009

New York, New York-June 8, 2009--Susie Meissner began performing professionally with a dinner theatre group in the mid-70s earning a paltry $7 a night. The education she received during that tenure goes beyond anything tangible. Prior to that sojourn her lifetime love for jazz and great songwriters began in her youth by exploring that wonderful world ...

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News: Recording

Jay & the Americans "Complete United Artists Singles" Coming from Collectors' Choice Music on July 21

June 10, 2009

Sixties vocal quintet, whose hits included “This Magic Moment,” “Cara Mia,” “Come a Little Bit Closer,” “She Cried" and “Only in America,” worked with Leiber & Stoller, Brian Wilson, Phil Spector, Neil Diamond, Jimmy Miller, Jimmy Page, and even Donald Fagen and Walter Becker of Steely Dan LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Jay & the Americans’ roots ...

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News: Performance / Tour

The O'Farrill Family Quintet at Puppets Jazz Bar, July 16-17

June 10, 2009

The O’Farrill Family Quintet will be performing at Puppet’s Jazz Bar in Brooklyn, NY on July 16th & 17th, 2009. Set time: 6:00PM to 8:30 PM. Come and join the O’Farrill family for this very special musical event where Arturo O’Farrill will be joined by both of his sons for an early evening set of some ...

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News: Radio

WBGO Jazz 88.3FM Receives FCC Approval for New Manhattan Transmitter to Reach One Million More People

June 10, 2009

Newark-based WBGO Jazz88.3FM has received authorization from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to relocate its broadcast antenna and transmitter to a midtown Manhattan location in order to provide better reception for listeners in the metropolitan New York and New Jersey vicinity. WBGO’s administrative offices and broadcast studios will continue to operate in Newark. The FCC authorization ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Seattle Times: Bucky Pizzarelli is a Jazz Guitarist for the Ages

June 10, 2009

In the post-bop world of jazz, the guitarist Bucky Pizzarelli is a novel concept. He is a jazz musician who remembers when his job description was to play dance music; he prefers to be a sideman and would sooner strum than pick; you would not call his style minimalist, but he understands getting more out of ...