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Illinois Jacquet Foundation Benefit Weekend: Phoenix, AZ, May 17-19, 2013

by Patricia Myers
June 6, 2013

Illinois Jacquet Foundation Benefit WeekendPhoenix, AZMay 17-19, 2013The 2013 Desert Winds Jazz Weekend celebrated the six-decade career of the late saxophonist Illinois Jacquet with three events that raised $10,000 for jazz scholarships and music education programs in Arizona. The Desert Winds designation was taken from the title of Jacquet's 1964 album for Argo.

Article: Album Review

Beat Funktion: Moon Town

Read "Moon Town" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
June 6, 2013

"Swedish Vintage Jazz-Funk-Disco Band." That is the auspicious description of Beat Funktion, an inventive band of Scandinavians intent on teasing the worthwhile parts of disco away from the not-so-worthwhile parts. But disco is but a small part of the alchemy arranged on Moon Town. This is more funk-jazz updated to the contemporary. Heavily back-beat laden, driven ...

News: Radio

Dick Hyman, Stephanie Nakasian On Riverwalk Jazz This Week

June 6, 2013

The historic Filoli Estate and Gardens south of San Francisco is the setting for this week’s Riverwalk Jazz broadcast, “Sweet Ballads and Red Hot Pianos." Piano legend Dick Hyman and jazz vocalist Stephanie Nakasian join The Jim Cullum Jazz Band for an outdoor concert including a set of songs by composer Walter Donaldson. The program is ...

News: Performance / Tour

Dirty Dozen Brass Band to Play Sunday, June 23 at off Broadway

June 6, 2013

The Dirty Dozen Brass Band (pictured) is returning to St. Louis to play at 7:30 p.m., Sunday, June 23 at a new venue for them, the south side rock club Off Broadway. The best-known popularizers of the modern New Orleans brass band sound, DDBB made their most recent visit to St. Louis in May of last ...

News: Recording

Vocalist Kathy Sanborn Turns Up The Heat With Sultry Night

June 6, 2013

Sultry Night, the steamy and seductive new jazz album from singer, pianist, and composer Kathy Sanborn, releases July 2nd, 2013 through the Pacific Coast Jazz label. Sultry Night will be available for purchase from popular digital outlets such as iTunes. The CD version of Sultry Night debuts September 3rd, 2013. Sultry Night includes songs honoring jazz ...

Article: Album Review

The Rosenthals: Fly Away

Read "Fly Away" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
June 5, 2013

The continuing atomization and commingling of musical styles leads both to new styles and vibrant recapitulations of old ones. Either path, an evolution of the music. Father and son duo, Phil And Daniel Rosenthal, prove both directions of this observation on Fly Away, an assembly of fourteen mostly original compositions that is at once beautifully strange ...

Article: Album Review

The West Point Band's Jazz Knights: Turning Points

Read "Turning Points" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco
June 5, 2013

Based at the United States Military Academy in upstate New York, the West Point Band's Jazz Knights just happens to be one of those unheralded big bands around. Performing at public events as part of its official duties, the Knights are rarely given the credit they are due as an uncommon and exceptional musical organization. Perhaps ...

Article: Bailey's Bundles

RareNoises: Berserk! and Slobber Pup

by C. Michael Bailey
June 5, 2013

RareNoise is a British label specializing in those amorphous molecules of sound floating at the razor edge of experimental music. The label hosts names like Metallic Taste of Blood and Death Cube K, band names fashionable in the 1990s if not more so now. But among these Brainkillers and Method of Defiances, there also exists Animation, ...

Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Roswitha aka Rose Bartu

by AAJ Staff
June 5, 2013

Meet Roswitha aka Rose Bartu aka Queen Rose:Originally from Austria, Roswitha is a singer/songwriter, violinist, and producer. On her latest album, Destiny, the renowned jazz and classical artist lives her own dreams, making the bold move to step out as a singer/songwriter. Here, she embraces her total musicality and tastefully integrates her instrumental virtuosity ...

News: Performance / Tour

Coming Up At The Cornelia Street Cafe - Lederer, Musette Explosion, Stillman, Eisenstadt, Hebert & Much More!

June 5, 2013

The Cornelia Street Café is open seven days a week, serving breakfast, lunch, dinner, and weekend brunch. It serves Thanksgiving Dinner, Christmas Dinner, New Year's Eve Dinner, Valentine's Day dinner - and presents more than seven hundred cultural events a year!! Coming Up at The Cafe, June 5-12: Wednesday, June 5, 8:30 PM JEFF ...