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News: Festival

Pittsfield CityJazz Festival Headliners, Other Events Announced by Berkshires Jazz

April 15, 2010

Randy Weston, Claire Daly, The American Jazz Repertory Orchestra Featured in Berkshires Jazz 2010 Season, Festival and Special Events PITTSFIELD, Mass., April 15, 2010 -- Berkshires Jazz, Inc., today announced the headline performers for the sixth annual Pittsfield CityJazz Festival, as well as a special Memorial Day weekend concert with jazz master Randy Weston. The group ...

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News: Event

Randy Weston Returns to the Berkshires for Career Retrospective in May

April 15, 2010

“Berkshire Blues" composer will perform in concert, and meet the press, at Pittsfield's Berkshire Museum PITTSFIELD, Massachusetts, April 15, 2010 Berkshires Jazz, Inc., today announced that pianist/composer Randy Weston will appear in a special concert in Pittsfield on Saturday, May 29 at The Berkshire Museum. After nearly a 10-year absence, the NEA Jazz Master returns to ...

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News: Recording

Stone River Boys Are Hacienda Brothers' Dave Gonzalez and Hollisters' Mike Barfield, Debut CD out June 1

April 15, 2010

Group's debut album Love on the Dial out June 1 on Cow Island Music AUSTIN, Texas -- After tearing it up in the Lone Star State and across the country for nearly two years, Austin's Stone River Boys will issue their recording bow Love on the Dial on June 1 via Northampton, Mass.-based Cow Island Music. ...

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News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Bessie Smith

April 15, 2010

All About Jazz is celebrating Bessie Smith's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Bessie SmithBessie Smith- vocalist, composer, recording artist (1894-1937) “Empress of the Blues” She embodied the meaning of the blues, living the life she sang about. Bessie Smith set the standard for blues singers on how ...

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News: Interview

Jazz Vocalist Jose James Talks Inspiration, Flying Lotus, and Tonight's Zanzibar Gig

April 15, 2010

With the genre perennially accused of atrophy, it's little surprise that precocious vocalist and “Jazz Times" darling Jose James has been hailed as a so-called “savior of jazz." But the hype surrounding the Minneapolis-bred and Brooklyn-based crooner is well deserved, with his smoky, golden-throated grooves among the most dynamic to emerge from the tradition in recent ...

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News: Music Industry

Concord Aquires Rounder Records

April 15, 2010

Terms of the purchase were not revealed Beverly Hills-based Concord Music Group has acquired Boston-based roots music label Rounder Records. Terms of the purchase were not revealed. Rounder, which is currently celebrating its 40th anniversary, issued one of the biggest roots releases of recent years, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss' “Raising Sand," winner of the album ...

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News: Festival

Juke Joint Festival Spotlights Miss. Blues History

April 15, 2010

In Clarksdale, epicenter of the blues, this year's Juke Joint Festival has everything from legendary blues singers like Grammy- winner David “Honeyboy" Edwards, all the way to racing pigs and monkeys riding on dogs. More than 50 musical acts are scheduled to play at the three-day event that starts Thursday in the Mississippi Delta city ...

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News: Recording

Marc Hoffman Channels Neal Hefti for Tribute Single

April 15, 2010

CHARLOTTE, NC -- Ahead of the release of his remixed and remastered CD Curioso, North Carolina jazz composer/performer Marc Hoffman has released a single entitled “Hefti" that's dedicated to Neal Hefti, the popular composer and arranger most people remember for the “Odd Couple," “Batman," and “Barefoot in the Park" theme songs. Hoffman studied film composition under ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Bill Frisell Trio at Largo at the Coronet

April 15, 2010

Not many words were said from the Largo at the Coronet stage Tuesday night. Armed with a new trio featuring frequent collaborator Kenny Wollesen on drums and celebrated New York pianist Jason Moran, guitarist Bill Frisell was mostly mum apart from some humorously incredulous comments regarding Hank Williams being awarded a posthumous Pulitzer Prize (taking issue ...

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News: Recording

Keller Williams Covers Dead: Winehouse, YMSB on New Album

April 15, 2010

KELLER WILLIAMS' BRAND NEW ALBUM, THIEF, TO BE RELEASED MAY 25 THE ALL-COVERS ALBUM, RECORDED WITH LARRY AND JENNY KEEL, OFFERS KELLER VERSIONS OF SONGS BY AMY WINEHOUSE, THE GRATEFUL DEAD, KRIS KRISTOFFERSON, RYAN ADAMS YMSB, PATTERSON HOOD, THE RACONTEURS, DANNY BARNES AND MANY OTHERS LOOK FOR KELLER ...