By All About Jazz News on May 20, 2012
All About Jazz is celebrating Bob Florence’s birthday today!
For close to 50 years now the release of a new Bob Florence recording has been a major cause for celebration in the jazz world and with each album, going all the way back to 1958\’s “Name Band 59″, it seems that he has reached an absolute pinnacle in the possibilities of contemporary big band writing. But he has continued to surprise us, year after year… Read more…
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By All About Jazz News on May 20, 2012
Like father, like son.
For Nico Thom, the love of music is rooted in his childhood travels with his dad, an amateur musician with a passion for live performance, playing the saxophone, clarinet, and flute, as well as singing, from clubs to car salesrooms. It awakened Thom to the creative possibilities of melody, how instruments can open the doors to artistic expression. When he received an electronic drum kit at the age of 13, Thoma€(TM)s imagination blossomed. However, it wasna€(TM)t until he discovered the six-string electric bass that Thoma€(TM)s world flipped over. The bass had the scorching impact of lightning on his thought process…
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By All About Jazz News on May 20, 2012
If the seminal punk bands Black Flag or the Dead Kennedys were to jam with members of Sun Ra’s Arkestra, the Art Ensemble of Chicago, and James Brown’s JBs, the end result might sound a bit like the Dead Kenny Gs, who are coming to St. Louis next Saturday, May 26 to perform at 2720 Cherokee.
The music of percussionist/vocalist Mike Dillon, saxophonist/keyboardist Skerik, and bassist and saxophonist Brad Houser has been dubbed “punk jazz”, since it combines the thrashing beats, heavy riffing, and angry and/or satirical lyrics associated with punk rock with an ever-shifting variety of other styles, from marches to funk to skronk to surprisingly lyrical passages dominated by Dillon’s work on vibraphone…
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By All About Jazz News on May 19, 2012
(May 18, 2012 – Wimbledon, ND) World-renowned jazz legend Miss Peggy Lee is being memorialized by her childhood hometown of Wimbledon, North Dakota with a permanent installation of photos, music and memorabilia from her unparalleled career at the transportation depot where she lived a number of years as a child. The exhibition will be dedicated at a Grand Opening ceremony attended by Lee’s grandchildren on Saturday, May 26, which would have been the singer’s 92nd birthday…
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By All About Jazz News on May 19, 2012
RODRIGUEZ’S MYSTERY AND THE IMPACT OF HIS MUSIC ON SOUTH AFRICAN YOUTH DURING APARTHEID REVEALED IN DOCUMENTARY
Soundtrack available everywhere starting July 24, 2012
“The buzzworthy Sundance documentary” a€’Yahoo!
“An acclaimed new documentary goes hunting for the lost Dylan” a€’Grantland
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By All About Jazz News on May 19, 2012
All About Jazz is celebrating Sonny Fortune’s birthday today!
When critics speak of Sonny Fortune, names like Coltrane, Cannonball, Young, Bechet, Hawkins and Parker are mentioned. Quite a legacy – but well deserved – for Sonny Fortune embodies all of the finest qualities of those late, great musicians: hard work, dedication to his art, and exceptional music. Lucky for us, Sonny is still here and blowing hard. Born in Philadelphia on May 19, 1939… Read more…
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By All About Jazz News on May 19, 2012
Jazz is often caught in peak form when there are no frills, no studio glaze.
The sign of a true musician is one who can excel minus the gimmicks and production makeup. Recorded live with only one microphone in a crowded house, Nathan Woodwarda€(TM)s A Quartet Session (Live from Martin Hall) is jazz served raw, the way it should be…
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By All About Jazz News on May 19, 2012
Set to perform at Dizzy’s Club Coca-ColaA in New York City on June 19, 2012
Since first joining forces in 1998 with guitarist and kindred spirit Jordan Officer in her Swing Band, Montreal-based singer Susie Arioli has been casting her seductive spell on jazz fans throughout Canada, and in Europe. Her sultry voice, clear articulation and fondness for the Great American Songbook places her squarely in the camp of such classy jazz divas from the 1950s as Peggy Lee, Chris Connor, June Christy, Julie London and Lee Wiley, with allusions to jazz vocal icons Sarah Vaughan and Billie Holiday in her powerfully emotive delivery…
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By All About Jazz News on May 18, 2012
Susie Mclean will be releasing her album “Til the Morning Comes” at The Screen Lounge at 7pm on Tuesday May 22 in Toronto for an intimate industry reception hosted by Anthony Mclean, former CBC TV Personality, Film Director and Motivational Speaker.
What makes Susie Mclean a Triple Threat? She is not only a pure musician, soulful-jazz singer but also a model and actor who can be seen on TV shows (L.A. Complex) and National commercial campaigns throughout the U.S. and Canada. Susie hails from Toronto, Ontario, with an extensive musical background and unique style described as jazzy- soulful with folk undertones. Many industry professionals have described her style to resemble the legendary Norah Jones and Corinne Bailey Rae…
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By All About Jazz News on May 18, 2012
All About Jazz members are invited to enter the Palmetto Records “Kate McGarry – Girl Talk” giveaway contest starting today. We’ll select FIVE winners at the conclusion of the contest on June 19th.
Click here to enter the contest
(Following Kate McGarry at AAJ automatically enters you in the contest.)…
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