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Guitarist Mike Fageros Releases New CD "Melange de Jazz"

March 13, 2009

Guitarist Mike Fageros has released his new CD entitled “Melange de Jazz" on the Top Secret label. This CD features the guitarist in the Organ Trio setting utilizing two different Hammond Organists and featuring them on different tracks. Organist Robert Sanders is featured on 6 cuts including Minority and Recorda Me and Organist Travis Doyle is ...

Willie Oteri's WD-41 Project

December 30, 2008

Improviser/Guitarist/Producer Willie Oteri has teamed with Austin Trumpeter Dave Laczko for an improvisational duo using loops and dueling delays to create aural landscapes and improvisational outings and recordings, which will soon be available as mp3 downloads complete with very special guests. Dave Laczko is a veteran of the Austin Jazz scene from a longtime run with ...

Guitar Maestro Carl Verheyen Finished Taping a Follow up DVD

December 15, 2008

Alex Coke's "It's Possible" CD Release in New Mexico

November 26, 2008

Alex Coke and Tina Marsh just returned from a truly great evening at Albuquerque's Outpost for the release of It's Possible. Joined by Steve Feld, Jefferson Voorhees, and New Texas Swing band member Arjen Gorter, the evening was well attended and inspiring. Tom Guralnick of The Outpost was reported to be an excellent and gracious host. ...

Performance: A Musical Tribute to Maynard Ferguson at Bass Performance Hall in Fort Worth on October 17

October 6, 2008

An upcoming concert may be the liveliest tribute possible for late jazz legend Maynard Ferguson and his body of work. Ferguson, who died in 2006, was a jazz trumpet player and bandleader, with more than 50 years of work contained in the 400-piece Maynard Ferguson Music Library, which the University of North Texas acquired in August ...

Guitarist Vernon Neilly's Tribute to Stevie Wonder

September 28, 2008

Smoothie Award winning jazz guitarist Vernon Neilly’s new CD - featuring the Legendary Hit Maker Stevie Wonder’s music - is chocked full of Wonder’s hit songs and has got to be one of the best Tribute CDs I’ve heard in a long while. The album reeks of Pure Class. Vernon has out done himself with the ...

Austin Jazz Legends Steam Heat, Starcrost, and 47 XS Its Own Weight Reunite

August 8, 2008

Fable Records, Texas' oldest Jazz record label, is pleased to announce the re-release of the Steam Heat album, Austin Funk. On August 21st, 2008, members of Steam Heat--as well as legendary jazz icons Starcrost and 47 X Its Own Weight--will reunite for the first time in 30 years for a special live performance with Beto and ...

Prashant Aswani at CMI Frontrunner 2008

June 13, 2008

ESP Guitars' Clinician Prashant Aswani is appearing at Frontrunner 2008 in Melbourne Australia. Prashant will be performing eight clinics showing new ESP product. In addition to his clinics, Prashant will be performing with Australian guitarist Brett Garsed. Prashant has recently finished producing George Lynch's Instructional DVD's for Hal Leonard entitled, “Wicked Riffs" and “Scary Licks". In ...

Dallas Museum Announces Jazz Under the Stars: David "Fathead" Newman on May 22

May 20, 2008

The Dallas Museum of Art announces a hot new lineup for the 25th annual series of free outdoor concerts - Chase Presents Jazz Under the Stars. The 2008 series hosts a diverse schedule of performances from Dixieland and swing to mainstream jazz. The free concerts begin Thursday, May 22, continuing on consecutive Thursdays through June 26 ...

All Miles 1950s with the Jeff Lofton Quintet at Austin's Elephant Room 4/24/08

April 24, 2008

The Jeff Lofton Quintet returns to the Elephant Room with new All Miles 1950s show Austin, Texas - Austin-based jazz trumpeter Jeff Lofton leads a new All Miles 1950s show with the Jeff Lofton Quintet, Thursday, April 24, at the Elephant Room. The show starts at 9:30 p.m. with no cover. The Elephant Room, located at ...