September 2010

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AWARD: Philippine Jazz Icon Boy Katindig, Youngest to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award from Pari/23rd Awit Awards

Jazz Musician/Yamaha Artiste/ KoolKat Productions Pres. Boy Katindig, recently received the Lifetime Achievement Award (Dangal ng Musikang Pilipino Award) from the 23rd Awit Awards. The youngest recipient of the award, Mr. Katindig was recognized for his exemplary and outstanding achievement as one of the pioneering artists in the propagation of original Filipino music and as an award winning songwriter and producer by the Philippine Record Industry (PARI). “It came quite early cause I’m not done yet” quoted the jazz artist in his acceptance speech…

Back to the future

Hot Club of Cowtown Hot Club of Detroit . Hot Club of Las Vegas Hot Club of Norway Hot Club of New Orleans Hot Club of San Diego Hot Club of San Francisco Back when their Hot Club of France quintet was cooking in Parisian bistros in the 1930s, could guitarist Django Reinhardt and violinist Stephane Grappelli have envisioned that their humble combo …

Torrington: Jazz Great Pat Metheny Returns To The Warner

Clubs & Organizations Submitted by Lynn Gelormino, Warner Theatre, on 2010-09-29. &nbsp Pat Metheny is one of the most successful and critically acclaimed jazz and New Age musicians to come to prominence in the 70’s and 80’s. Winner of 17 Grammy Awards, Pat Metheny returns to the Warner Theatre with his Orchestrion Tour on Oct 23.

Jazz concert today in Wesley Chapel

West Virginia Wesleyan College’s big band will perform at 8 p.m. today in Wesley Chapel in an Evening of Jazz.

RADIO/PODCAST: New Podcast “Jazz Now! Seattle” Debuts Oct. 1st Playing Seattle’s Best Current Jazz

Seattle jazz musicians have a new outlet for their music, and jazz fans around the world have a way to hear all of the amazing jazz that’s coming out of Seattle, WA. “Jazz Now! Seattle” is a new podcast that makes its debut Friday, October 1, 2010.

“Jazz Now! Seattle” is hosted by m: Jason Parker and m: David Marriott, Jr., both working jazz musicians in Seattle. Because they are both active on the scene they will bring listeners an insider’s perspective on the music they feature, and their unprecedented access to the music and musicians will ensure that the show covers the widest spectrum of music as possible…

EVENT: New Orleans Feast and Jazz Jam in Chestnut Hill (Pa) on October 17th

Come hear m: Jim Holton, Cindy Leblanc and friends!

Authentic New Orleans dinner prepared by All About Jazz’s gumbo central gourmand c: Wade Luquet.

Chestnut Hill United Church (Directly across from Chestnut Hill Hospital) Sunday, October 17, 5pm-8pm

$20 includes food and music. Musicians eat free! For more information: 215-242-9321 All are welcome…

CD/DOWNLOAD/ALBUM: Bing Crosby Archive Opens up Vault Once Again

Christmas Comes Early For Bing Crosby Fans Bing Crosby Archive Opens Up Vault Once Again

New Bing Crosby CD and DVD Releases Set For November 9th From Collectors’ Choice Music and Infinity Entertainment Group

The Crosby Christmas Sessions (CD) and Bing Sings the Great American Songbook (CD)

The Television Specials: Volume 2&#151The Christmas Specials (DVD)…

PERFORMANCE/TOUR: Matthew Montfort and Bui Huu Nhut of Ancient Future Featured on Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC

Matthew Montfort, guitarist and bandleader of the pioneering world fusion music group Ancient Future, was interviewed and performed on the Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC on Friday, September 24th, 2010.

Kent Jones, the Rachel Maddow Show’s pop-culturist, was in San Francisco September 23rd and 24th to cover the opening of the Music for People and Thingamajigs Festival. Matthew Montfort kicked off the festival by showcasing his unusual guitars: the Godin Glissentar, an 11 string fretless guitar, and the scalloped fretboard guitar, a special modified instrument able to produce ornaments characteristic of the sitar…

OBITUARY: John Lennon at 70? We Can Only Imaginea€|.

Fourteen years after Pete Townshend dismissed the very idea of growing up when he wrote “Hope I die before I get old,” a 40-year-old John Lennon sang a very different tune.

“I can hardly wait to see you come of age,” he sang in 1980 to his then-5-year-old son, Sean, unabashedly anticipating the future. And to his wife, Yoko Ono, he borrowed a sentiment from poet Robert Browning and crooned “Grow old with me / The best is yet to be … whatever fate decrees, we will see it through…