By All About Jazz News on November 30, 2010
Those of us who have enjoyed Johnny Crawford’s orchestra over the past twenty-five years or more in Los Angeles have pestered him about releasing some recordings—and he’s finally answered our entreaties with this compilation of live performances. If you only know Johnny as the juvenile costar of the TV series The Rifleman…
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By All About Jazz News on November 30, 2010
Deluxe DVD of historical blues summit released on Stax Records
LOS ANGELES, Calif.—PBS has announced that the Albert King with Stevie Ray Vaughan — In Session program will air as a special on its stations beginning November 27 and throughout the month of December (check local listings). Grammy Award winning bluesman Robert Cray will serve as special fundraising host on the public television broadcasts…
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By Jazz News on November 30, 2010
Angelique Kidjo during a performance at Troy Savings Bank Music Hall in 2010 Yeah, it’s not even December yet, but already the folks at Tanglewood are looking ahead to next September, when the 2011 Tanglewood Jazz Festival closes out the summer season at the Lenox concert venue on the Labor Day weekend.
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By All About Jazz News on November 30, 2010
Woodland Hills, CA: Answering the demand of aspiring chefs of all abilities that have been lobbying composer Craig Marks to release the music from Food Networks popular primetime series Iron Chef America and The Next Iron Chef, the soundtrack was released today by CMS Media on CD and as a digital download available from www.ironchefmusic.com, iTunes, Amazon and other online retail outlets…
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By All About Jazz News on November 30, 2010
Jazz monsters spotted at the Freakin’ Frog…
For all the hype about Vegas headliners, the neon names everyone knows, the town is truly overrun with less-well known, fabulous players and voices most often seen as tuxedoed sidemen and slinky backup singers. Real monsters; many renowned worldwide for musical skills you seldom see shining, upstage in the shadows. It almost seems as if Las Vegas takes that great talent for granted…
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By All About Jazz News on November 30, 2010
Rickie Lee Jones, the acclaimed singer and songwriter, is on a short tour that includes a Saturday stop at the Temple Performing Arts Center, formerly the Baptist Temple.
Jones’ smashing debut album of 1979, Rickie Lee Jones, brought a jazz-infused, bohemian-poet ethos to both pop music and fashion, and her idiosyncratic approach to composition and singing has influenced artists from Tori Amos to Norah Jones…
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By Jazz News on November 30, 2010
There are performances in the theater and then there are Performances, the latter being those high-definition turns that bring an audience to its feet.
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By MilesDavis.com News on November 30, 2010
The Revivalist is thrilled to share with you the launch of an exciting new undertaking on our site that represents our dedication to exploring deeply the stories of jazz and beyond. Starting today, we are ushering in month-long themes or “issues” centered on exceptional, challenging and thought-provoking moments and movements in jazz.
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By All About Jazz News on November 30, 2010
For over 15 years Peter Dragotta’s most innovative music has been branded under the name pharmacopia. During the last three years between two side experiments producing a whole album on a mobile app (Pornhub Remixes 1+2) and a follow up album playing mobile apps of grooveboxes and instruments on multiple iPhones and a iPad (Mobile Music Diversions) he has been revisiting the AI (Artificial Intelligence) world of music creation that began back in 1996-97 with his monumental releases In Real Time Vol.1 and Cereal Music. Peter’s program explained very basically is a image converter that uses advanced algorithmic operations to convert color data into music…
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By All About Jazz News on November 30, 2010
“Plenty of forward-thinking jazz pianists have been painted with a modern-classical brush, but few have approached improvisation armed with the manual vocabularies demanded by Cage, Ligeti and the like with the same diligence and flair as Parisian keyboardist Delbecq.” —time out new york
acclaimed paris-based pianist benoA(R)t Delbecq has been awarded the Grand Prix de l’AcadA(C)mie Charles Cros for his simultaneously released Songlines CDs, Circles and Calligrams and The Sixth Jump, it was announced November 25 in Paris. The prize, which is the most influential music award in France, is accorded annually in some 13 categories, including popular French song, classical music, contemporary music, world music and jazz, encompassing both CDs and DVDs, as well as for outstanding books of musicology. Delbecq is the first artist to have won in the Jazz category for two recordings. Previous jazz winners include Steve Swallow, Daniel Humair/Joachim Kuhn/Tony Malaby and Terence Blanchard…
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