By All About Jazz News on March 31, 2011
Kellylee Evans has won Canada’s 2011 Juno Award for Vocal Jazz Album of the Year. The album, entitled Nina (Plus Loin Music), is a tribute to jazz great Nina Simone. Other nominees for the 2011 award included Emilie-Claire Barlow, Nikki Yanofsky, Laila Biali and the late Jeff Healey. This was the Ottawa-based singer-songwriter’s second Juno Award nomination and first win…
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By Jazz News on March 31, 2011
Former Garaj Mahal frontman Fareed Haque will bring the new sound of his latest musical project MathGames to John’s Alley in Moscow on Tuesday.
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By All About Jazz News on March 31, 2011
John Heard Trio Charlie O’s : Thu., March 31 San Fernando Valley
Denise Perrier Quartet Crowne Plaza LAX Hotel : Thu., March 31 Westchester/ LAX
Humming Stuff and Science Fiction Theatre Hip Kitty : Thu., March 31 Pomona
Jenny Rieu Cabaret Showcase Hollywood Studio Bar and Grill : Thu., March 31 Hollywood…
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By Music Genre: Jazz & Blues on March 31, 2011
Our recent items about the Wu-Tang Clan, a certain famous English band and a late, great drummer have inspired wisdom and/or provocations from the comment section. Read a few of the highlights.
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By Music Genre: Jazz & Blues on March 31, 2011
Our recent items about the Wu-Tang Clan, a certain famous English band and a late, great drummer have inspired wisdom and/or provocations from the comment section. Read a few of the highlights.
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By Jazz News on March 31, 2011
In late 2009, the fine experimentalist/post-minimalist composer Eve Beglarian decided to escape her New York bubble, and spent more than four months paddling and pedaling down the Mississippi River by bike and kayak from at its source in Minnesota to New Orleans, talking to and performing with and for the people who lived along the way, recording …
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By All About Jazz News on March 31, 2011
12th Annual Central Brooklyn Jazz Festival—It’s All Jazz, April 1- 30, 2011 presented by the Central Brooklyn Jazz Consortium/CBJC at venues from Coney Island to Williamsburg in Brooklyn. This celebration is New York City’s longest continually running grass roots festival dedicated to Jazz. The presentation offers more than 30 events on 23 days with over 100 artists performing in clubs, community organizations, colleges, faith based, and cultural institutions throughout the borough. Featuring international known and community artists: m: Carlos Garnett, m: Candido Camero, m: Houston Person, m: Charles Tolliver, m: Arturo O’Farrill, m: Ray Abrams Big Band, Central Brooklyn Jazz All-Stars, m: Kiane Zawadi, m: Bob Cunningham, m: Ahmed Abdullah and others. For information contact CBJC at 718.773.2252 or info@cbjcjazz.org…
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By All About Jazz News on March 31, 2011
OAKLAND EAST BAY SYMPHONY PRESENTS THE HEIGHT OF ROMANTICISM, FEATURING THE WORLD PREMIERE BY BANDLEADER, COMPOSER AND DRUMMER SCOTT AMENDOLA FEATURING NELS CLINE OF WILCO
PLUS TCHAIKOVSKY’S 4th SYMPHONY AND BERNARD HERRMANN’S SUITE FROM ALFRED HITCHCOCK’S FILM VERTIGO
The Oakland East Bay Symphony (OEBS) presents an evening of intensity and drama with its concert The Height of Romanticism, held at 8 pm on Friday, April 15th at Oakland’s Paramount Theatre. Venturing through two different eras and regions, OEBS will explore obsessive love with Bernard Herrmann’s Suite from “Vertigo,” one of Alfred Hitchcock’s most well-known films, as well as Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony, a piece full of the passion and longing experienced by the composer during a time of great personal turmoil and closely associated with two women. A world premiere by m: Scott Amendola entitled Fade to Orange completes the journey through different time periods and represents the fourth and final New Visions/New Vistas premiere. Amendola will be joined by m: Nels Cline, lead guitarist for the alternative rock band m: Wilco, and bassist m: Trevor Dunn. A pre-concert talk with Amendola and John Kendall Bailey begins at 7 pm…
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By JazzIz.com on March 31, 2011
Bay area bassist Marcus Shelby’s latest project, recorded with his 15-piece Marcus Shelby Jazz Orchestra, is titled Soul of the Movement: Meditations on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (Porto Franco Records). It’s a heady, ambitious and ultimately successful piece of work that finds Shelby addressing the civil rights movement of [...]
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By All About Jazz News on March 31, 2011
Grammy-winning saxophonist Kenny G is adding a new job to his resume: radio host.
Starting Sunday, the musician will be heard for two hours each week on KKJZ-FM (88.1), better known to its fans as K-Jazz. The program will be called “C to C With Kenny G,” which the station explained stands for “Classic to Contemporary,” meaning he’ll be playing music “ranging from Dave Brubeck and Wes Montgomery to Esperanza Spalding and Chris Botti…
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