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DETROIT LEGEND PASSES

It is with deep regret that I inform all of you jazz fans about the passing of piano great Harold McKinney. He was 72. He was always teaching and helping out the younger generations of aspiring jazz musicians. I also heard Wendell Harrison refer to him as his “musical father". But, he left behind so many ...

THE 30th ANNUAL VJM COLLECTORS

New Found Truth and Kokopellli Latin Jazz Ensemble Perform Orignial Jazz in San Diego

ARGENTI CD release

Funky-Groovy-Jazzy Sounds from Amsterdam: Chris Beckers with Jimmy Haslip, Peter Erskine, Ernie Watts, Michiel Borstlap

Funky-Groovy-Jazzy Sounds from Amsterdam CrisCrazz Records,the music company of producer, composer and guitarist Chris Beckers, is back on duty.The new base for these activities is Amsterdam, from where the label plans the release of new CDs in the field of jazz, acid, funk, groove and fusion. Chris has also established his new BEAU GARAGE STUDIO in ...

Rocco's Jazz Club to reopen in Hollywood

Rocco Somazzi, whose jazz club, Rocco's, in Bel-Air was a much-favored hangout until it shut down in December, is surfacing with a new venue in Hollywood. The room, at 6320 Santa Monica Blvd., will be part of a multi-function cafe and performance space. The jazz events will take place late, starting at 10:30 p.m. or later--an ...

CHRISTIAN McBRIDE on www.doctormusic.com

Jazz in the Garden at The Newark Museum

John Lee Hooker: Eight Decades of the Hook

In 1989, blues singer/guitarist John Lee Hooker exploded, again, onto the music scene with an extraordinary recording. The Healer, which might have easily been a denouement in a luminous career, served as a new beginning, marked with a Grammy award for “I'm in the Mood," a re-sculptured duet with singer/slide guitarist Bonnie Raitt. While the record ...

Chico O'Farrill: Prime Mover in Afro-Cuban Jazz

Chico O'Farrill was one of the main guiding lights in the emergence of Afro-Cuban Jazz in the late 1940s and early 1950s. He arrived in New York from his native Cuba at a point where musicians like Dizzy Gillespie and Machito had begun to forge a distinctive fusion of bebop and Cuban music, dubbed Cubop at ...