Dave Koz's Ultimate Christmas Collection, Featuring 18 Holiday Classics, Is Out Now!
19 October, 2011
Ultimate Christmas, featuring 18 holiday songs performed by Dave Koz, was released today by Capitol/EMI. The collection features the six-time GRAMMY® Award nominee's renditions of such perennial holiday classics as "The Christmas Song," "Winter Wonderland," "Deck The Halls," "O Tannenbaum (O Christmas ...
| Legendary Etta James Retires With The Release Of Her Final Studio Album The Dreamer On October 25, 2011
19 October, 2011
For over half a century, Etta James has all but defined the role of the quintessential rhythm & blues vocalist. She transcends all musical categories and styles with a recording career that spans more than five decades. On October 25, 2011, Etta James will release The Dreamer,her new album through Verve ...
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10/25: Saxophonist Kim Waters Releases His 17th Album 'This Heart Of Mine'
19 October, 2011
Kim Waters has been heralded as "simply one of the planet's best saxophonists" by Jazz Times Magazine and touted as a "romantic pied piper" by The Washington Post. Waters has built an impressive and enviable career giving his fans what they want, along the way garnering praise from critics and fans ...
| Marcus Roberts' Majestic Album 'Celebrating Christmas' Transforms Holiday Classics
18 October, 2011
'Celebrating Christmas,' preeminent jazz pianist Marcus Roberts' majestic new album, brings an astounding level of artistry and insight to fifteen beloved holiday classics. Roberts is joined by Rodney Jordan on bass and his longtime drummer Jason Marsalis, together forming an exuberant trio that weaves ...
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Chick Corea Throws Ultimate 70th Birthday Party With Herbie, Bobby, John And More At Blue Note Blowout, November 1-27
15 October, 2011
The incomparable Chick Corea, known for his genre-defying brilliance, captures the evolution of his adventurous music career with a month-long 70th birthday celebration at New York's Blue Note, featuring ten different star-studded lineups in more than forty performances.
Fresh off a 70-city, multi-continental ...
| Greatest Hits Live Album And Successful U.S. Concert Tour Promises A New Day For Basia
13 October, 2011
Although she didn't play Newport or London, multiplatinum chanteuse Basia delighted American audiences from coast to coast during a successful 20-city concert tour that concluded in Seattle last week (October 5) with a sold-out show in support of her newly released From Newport to London: Greatest Hits ...
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Soul/Jazz Artist John And Gina Carey To Perform Live In Concert Benefiting The Angel Tree Charity
12 October, 2011
UK Chart toppers John and Gina Carey and The Urban Soul Project will hit the stage once again with a concert in benefit of the Angel Tree Charity. The talented couple will perform numerous songs from their new releases Melodic and New Beginnings. This two hour free concert will benefit the Angel tree ...
| Rene Marie Shows Us Her Black Lace Freudian Slip
12 October, 2011
Rene Marie, the award winning jazz, soul and blues singer-songwriter whose voice has been compared by critics to Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughn and her social advocacy to Nina Simone and Abbey Lincoln releases her new album Black Lace Freudian Slip (Motema Music) and begins a US tour this week.
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Saxman Richard Elliot Pays Tribute To His Jazz-funk Influences On 'In The Zone'
12 October, 2011
A contemporary jazz giant whose power and passion have made the soulful saxophonist into one of the genre's most consistent chart-toppers in the 25 years since he released his solo debut, Richard Elliot salutes the instrumental jazz-funk legends from his formative years in the 1970s & 80s that influenced ...
| Pink Martini To Make Three Bay Area Concert Appearances
08 October, 2011
Rick Bartalini Presents announced that Pink Martini will perform three Bay Area concerts this fall. The concerts are scheduled for November 17 at the Marin Center in San Rafael, November 19 at Grace Pavilion at Sonoma County Fairgrounds in Santa Rosa and November 20 at the Paramount Theatre in Oakland. ...
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Pianist Walter 'Spicy' Bland & 'Climate Change' Announces A New International CD Release 'Sweet Gumbo'
06 October, 2011
Seasoned pianist Walter "Spicy" Band & "Climate Change" are releasing its new international CD entitled "Sweet Gumbo" to the world through The Jazz Network Worldwide. It is centered on the creative talents of its leader Walter "Spicy" Bland, pianist, composer-extraordinaire, educator, inspirational ...
| Tony Bennett On MTV With Back-To-Back Videos In September And October
06 October, 2011
September was an historic month for singer Tony Bennett who scored several music industry "firsts," becoming the oldest artist ever to have a No 1 Album on the Billboard Album Charts while landing in Billboard's Hot 100 Singles charts with "Body and Soul," his duet with Amy Winehouse.
This month ...
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Smooth Jazz New York Presents Two Hot Holiday Shows In New York City At B.b. Kings Blues Club & Grill
05 October, 2011
Smooth Jazz New York, New York City's premier live jazz concert promoter, is pleased to announce two star-studded December smooth jazz shows with holiday themes at B.B. King Blues Club & Grill in New York City. The David Benoit Quartet performs the beloved classics from A Charlie Brown Christmas on ...
| Guitar Virtuoso, David Andersen, Salutes Jazz Pioneers With New Jazz Album
05 October, 2011
David Andersen, the �Ambassador to Music City,� is back with Revelations, his fourth Jazz album. This album underscores The Revelations Jazz Band and features Andersen and is a salute to true Jazz pioneers such as Louis Armstrong, WC Handy and Jelly Roll Morton.
Revelations is a new take on classic ...
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Insight Cuba And Jazztimes Announce Havana International Jazz Festival Tour December 14-19
05 October, 2011
Music aficionados take note: for the first time in eight years, Americans can legally attend Cuba's acclaimed Havana International Jazz Festival. Insight Cuba, the leading provider of U.S. authorized people-to-people travel to Cuba, and JazzTimes, America's pre-eminent jazz magazine, have partnered ...
| Jazz Concert To Benefit Friends Of The Children
05 October, 2011
Local jazz chanteuse Marti Mendenhall raises her powerful and sultry voice in song performing classic jazz all while raising awareness and funds for at-risk youth. Her one-night-only concert, which benefits Friends of the Children, Portland Chapter, is at 7:30 PM on Saturday, October 29, 2011 at the ...
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Headhunter Artists Are Soul Funkin' With Singer Tony Adamo
04 October, 2011
The famed Headhunters jazz/fusion/funk band (once-backing members for Herbie Hancock), are recording with singer and hip/spoken word artist, Tony Adamo in October. Rob Dixon and Gary Mielke, the co-producers of the Headhunters new CD, PLATINUM on Indianapolis based label Owl Studios, along with legendary ...
| Gregg Inhofer Releases New Album At The Dakota Jazz Club
03 October, 2011
In 2007 the Minneapolis Star Tribune wrote: "After four decades on the music scene and noteworthy appearances with Bob Dylan, Pepper Fog and Olivia Newton John, Gregg Inhofer emerges as a compelling singer-songwriter with his solo-debut Inside." Ever since, fans have been waiting for a full-band follow-up. ...
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South Florida Jazz 20th Anniversary Celebration Presents "Paquito D'Rivera Quintet"
30 September, 2011
South Florida JAZZ, founded in 1991 and celebrating its 20th anniversary, kicks off its 2011-12 concert season on Saturday, November 19, 2011 at 8:00 p.m. with the 10-time Grammy-awarded and National Endowment of the Arts Jazz Master Paquito D'Rivera. The dazzling clarinet and saxophone virtuoso will ...
| Trombone Shorty Heats Up "Ferguson," NPR's "Tiny Desk," And Vevo With Video Premiere This Week, Following #1 Chart Debut
28 September, 2011
With his new album 'For True�' debuting at #1 this week on Billboard's Contemporary Jazz Chart, Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews reaches ever higher with more TV and online performances and a video premiere that can't be missed. Tomorrow, Trombone Shorty and his "blistering" (USA Today) band Orleans Avenue ...
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