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News: Performance / Tour

Jazz This Week: Trio Globo, Box Deserter Trio, Jazz St. Louis All-Stars, and More

April 27, 2009

After a veritable banquet of musical activity last week, the menu of jazz, improvisation and creative music this weekend in St. Louis is a bit shorter, but still offers some potentially tasty choices. Also notable in these recessionary times is the fact that the two touring attractions in town are both doing shows with no admission ...

News: Performance / Tour

"Visions of Sound" Extended Until August 29

April 27, 2009

If you're interested in seeing the Sheldon Art Galleries' “Visions of Sound" exhibit but haven't yet had the chance to check it out in person, you're in luck. The display of jazz and African instruments from the Hartenberger World Music Collection has been extended through August 29. The Sheldon Art Galleries will host a ...

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News: Video / DVD

Paul Simon: Live DVD

April 27, 2009

Paul Simon and Friends Debuts on DVD May 19 Paul Simon In May of 2007 the Library of Congress gathered an unprecedented group of musicians together in Washington, D.C., to honor Paul Simon as the first recipient of the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. Alison Krauss, Stevie Wonder, Lyle Lovett, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Marc Anthony, Art ...

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News: Music Industry

AMI Signs Mark Rapp to Artist Roster

April 27, 2009

Addeo Music International who represents Maceo Parker, Gerald Clayton, Aaron Goldberg, Steve Turre, Tom Harrell, Eldar and more has signed jazz trumpeter Mark Rapp AMI was founded in 2008 as a multi-genre, international music agency committed to fostering the careers of some of the most culturally significant and forward thinking artists in the world. AMI is ...

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News: Recording

Time Magazine Reviews Hanjin Tan's "Raw Jazz"

April 27, 2009

Tan's swinging debut brings together some of the best names in the Hong Kong jazz scene Hong Kong isn't known as a city of swingin' hepcats, but it does play host to a small, surprisingly busy jazz scene and a newly launched international jazz festival. It's against this homespun backdrop that the album Raw Jazz emerges, ...

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News: Education

New Online Jazz Improvisation Lesson Available: Transcribed Sonny Rollins Solos

April 27, 2009

A new scooby-sax.com lesson examines two transcribed solos of Sonny Rollins on “What Is This Thing Called Love." The lesson highlights similarities and differences among the master take and the alternate take. Additionally, it presents a method of extracting ideas from the solos and internalizing them while simultaneously memorizing the harmony of the tune. Finally, the ...

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News: Radio

Accujazz Internet Radio Launches "New York Now" Streaming Jazz Channel

April 27, 2009

AccuJazz Internet radio continues its weekly roll-out of new streaming jazz channels today with Regions: New York Now, a channel devoted to music made by New York musicians in the last two decades. The channel is completely free to use and available 24 hours a day. Ever since the big bands of Fletcher Henderson and Duke ...

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News: Education

New on JazzPianoOnline.com: Improvising over Confirmation

April 27, 2009

Tommy Flanagan spins out a dizzyingly virtuosic solo (at quite a brisk tempo, needless to say) over this classic Charlie Parker standard on his 1977 Enja trio recording “Confirmation," with George Mraz on bass and Elvin Jones on drums. In this lesson, the tune is analyzed for harmonic content by deriving chordscales from the progression and ...

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News: Recording

Irvin Mayfield and the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra Release New CD, "Book One"

April 27, 2009

IRVIN MAYFIELD AND THE NEW ORLEANS JAZZ ORCHESTRA RELEASE NEW CD, “BOOK ONE” DURING JAZZ FEST! Book One will be available at the New Orleans Jazz Fest Music Tent, LA Music Factory and Peaches Records. New Orleans -- Irvin Mayfield and The New Orleans Jazz Orchestra (NOJO) announced today that they are issuing a limited local ...

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News: Festival

JazzAscona Celebrates Its 25th Anniversary: June 25 - July 5, 2009

April 27, 2009

We are excited to announce some of the first musicians and performances scheduled for JazzAscona 2009, one of the most significant jazz events in Europe: Homage to the legendary Kansas City singer and “king of blues & rock 'n' roll Big Joe Turner by soul-jazz stars Bernard Pretty Purdie, Reuben Wilson & friends; tributes, one hundred ...