Michel Camilo wins JazzWeek Artist of the Year
NEW YORK (Michel Camilo Official Website) - Latin jazz pianist and composer Michel Camilo was named "Artist of the Year" at the annual JazzWeek Awards held Saturday, June 5 in Rochester, N.Y. JazzWeek is a national radio airplay chart-a weekly report of the top fifty Jazz and Smooth Jazz recordings ...
| Gabriel Gordon's 'Gypsy living' CD released on June 8
BERLIN, Germany (Trocadero Records) - Previously released in Germany through Trocadero Records, Gabriel Gordon'?s latest CD, 'Gypsy Living' is released yesterday, June 8th in the U.S. through Surprise Truck Records. Today, June 9th, Gabriel will be opening as a solo acoustic act for George Benson in ...
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CatDesigners' best kept secrets!
NEW YORK (www.whisperinandhollerin.com, Googlie Mooglie Records announcement) - For the first time since the release of their second album, "Strange Little Creature" (on Googlie Mooglie Records), CatDesigners' lead singer and guitarist, Nick Troop, talks openly to Tim Peacock for Whisperin' & Hollerin' ...
| Delvian Records signs Gary Boggs
SAN FRNCISCO, CA (Delvian Records press release) - Delvian Records announced the signing of Jazz-New Age artist Gary Boggs to Delvian's national distribution network and the much-anticipated debut of his digitally remastered album "Motion." This album, combining tracks carefully taken from archived ...
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Kristen Cothron releases her new album 'Moment In The Moon'
NEW YORK (Kristen Cothron Official Website) - Kristen began singing and performing at the age of six, playing the guitar at age nine, and writing lyrics and music at age thirteen. She spent her high school years performing solo and with local jazz and vocal groups around Nashville. She has had 11 years ...
| Emmett North Jr. has a new agent
NEW YORK (North Star Records announcement) - Jazz/R&B guitarist, singer 'Emmett North Jr.' has a new agent from 'The Netherlands' who's building him a september european tour. You can contact his agent Barbara Verhoeve at, [email protected] or check his official site, www.interjazz.com/emmettnorthjr ...
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Jamie Cullum, 24, a shiny new face in eclectic jazz
NEW YORK (Verve announcement) - As a musical product, Jamie Cullum is a worry. He's a young Brit bloke with a pleasant voice, jazz piano chops - honed while playing aboard cruise ships - and evidently eclectic music tastes. He thanks, among others, Michael Parkinson for making it all possible. He was ...
| Jazz musician Keith Scott signs a second record deal
HONOLULU, HI. (Eighty Proof Music - BMI press release) - Jazz musician Keith Scott signs a second record deal that covers the Asia Pacific region for his debut CD entitled Waikiki. Keith was born in York, PA and educated at Dallastown Area High School and West Chester University where he won the yearly ...
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Mellon Jazz June events to include concert by legendary performer Ellis Marsalis
PITTSBURGH (Mellon Jazz press release - www.mellon.com) - Mellon Jazz welcomes two gifted jazz pianists to Pittsburgh this summer, with keyboard virtuoso Ellis Marsalis performing at 7:30 p.m. on Sunday, June 6 at Hartwood Acres, and rising star Orrin Evans appearing with his Orrin Evans Quintet at ...
| Dave Koz nominated for 'Syndicated Personality' of the Year
ARLINGTON, Va. (Crystal Media networks press release) - Crystal Media Networks announced that Radio & Records has nominated Dave Koz for "Syndicated Personality of the Year." The winner will be announced at the Radio & Records convention on June 23, 2004. The Dave Koz Radio Show is produced by Blue ...
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Jazz drummer Elvin Ray Jones dies at 76
NEW YORK (NY Jazz Online Website) - Elvin Ray Jones, the famous jazz drummer and member of John Coltrane's quartet, died Tuesday of heart failure in Englewood, N.J. Jones also played with Miles Davies, Duke Ellington and Charlie Parker - he was 76. Elvin Ray Jones was born September 9, 1927 in Pontiac, ...
| Chris Burnett Quartet
KANSAS CITY, Kansas (Chris Burnett Official Website) - Christopher L. Burnett, is a saxophonist, composer, arranger, and IAJE artist/clinician. A Kansas City-area native, he returned home to live in the metro (2001) and continues his active musical career at one of the most significant centers of jazz ...
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Barney Kessel, guitarist for jazz greats, dies at 80
NEW YORK (Online Jazz Magazine) - Jazz guitarist Barney Kessel, who shared the stage with such music legends as Charlie Parker, Benny Goodman, Billie Holiday and Art Tatum, died at his San Diego, California, home of brain cancer on Thursday. Kessel was 80. He began his career at the age of 14 with a ...
| Tony Adamo releases 'Up in It' EP
NEW YORK (Keith "MuzikMan" Hannaleck) - Tony Adamo is well on his way to becoming a star, I have no doubt about that. Right on the heels of his successful 2003 release Dance of Love, he is keeping the momentum going with an EP teaser titled Up In It in anticipation of his fall album release. "Lolita" ...
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Norah Jones helps her friend Jesse Harris
NEW YORK (Jazz online magazine) - Norah Jones is contributing guest vocals to 'While the Music Lasts', the new album from her friend and musical collaborator Jesse Harris. Norah Jones appears on five tracks on the album, which is due out in early July. Harris wrote four songs, including the Grammy-winning ...
| Rochester International Jazz Festival line up for 2004
NEW YORK (Rochester Festival announcement) - Legendary Grammy award-winning artists join jazz favorites for the Rochester International Jazz Festival's most eclectic and international edition to date June 4-12, in Rochester, New York. According to organizers announcement, the artist lineup, which encompasses ...
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Willie Nelson sings all that jazz
NEW YORK (Willie Nelson Official Website) - Willie Nelson may be 70, but he's not planning to retire any time soon. In fact, the red-headed stranger is releasing a new album, Nacogdoches, on April 29. But this project's a little different from Willie's usual country music - it's a jazz instrumental ...
| Elvis Costello agrees to two-book deal
NEW YORK (Jazz online magazine) - Elvis Costello has agreed to a two-book deal with Simon & Schuster, but don't expect any juicy music industry gossip. In a statement issued Tuesday, the publisher said Costello had "resisted the rewards for writing a traditionally scurrilous and scandalous biographical ...
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Diana Krall & Elvis Costello will play tonight to help hospital
VANCOUVER (EBay/Diana Krall Fans Website) - Jazz diva Diana Krall will play a small, intimate concert in Vancouver Friday night � with her husband Elvis Costello and close friend Elton John. It's a fundraiser for Vancouver General Hospital's leukemia bone marrow transplant unit � where Krall's mother, ...
| Norah Jones sells one million in first week!
NEW YORK (Top40 Charts) - Norah Jones' second album, Feels Like Home, sold 1.02 million copies in its first week of release - the highest sales debut for an album since 2001. That marks the best sales debut since 'N Sync's 'Celebrity' sold 1.88 million copies in its first week in 2001. "Feels Like Home" ...
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