Toronto all jazzed up
TORONTO, Canada (Toronto Sun) - Ray Charles, Wayne Shorter, Joe Zawinul, Joshua Redman, Dianne Reeves and Wynton Marsalis are some of the major stars booked to play this year's du Maurier Downtown Jazz Festival, the 17th edition of the annual jazzathon. While the official festival runs from June 20 ...
| Nina Simone draws civil rights tributes
NEW YORK (Jazz magazine) - The world of jazz has paid tribute to singer Nina Simone, who died at her home in France Monday aged 70. She will be remembered as a key figure in the civil rights movement, said promoter George Wein. "That's what separated Nina from the other singers. Nina took civil rights ...
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Pete Fountain gives up nightclub
NEW ORLEANS (Jazz news Website) - After 43 years, jazz clarinetist Pete Fountain is bowing out of the New Orleans nightclub business. Fountain opened his first New Orleans club on Bourbon Street in 1960, but has been playing the last 26 years at the Hilton Riverside club, where he held his finale Friday ...
| noJazz meet Earth, Wind & Fire!
LOS ANGELES (Warner press release) - During a club tour of North America, noJazz met with Maurice White and Earth, Wind and Fire at the Conga Room in Los Angeles. David Porter, the composer of 'Soul Man' and 'Hold On I'm Coming', along with Wayne Vaughn, composer of "Let's Groove", were also present ...
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Jazz trumpeter Ruby Braff dies at 75
CHATHAM, Mass. (Jazz magazine) - Ruby Braff, a jazz trumpeter and cornetist who rose to fame in the modern era despite an old-fashioned style, died on Sunday in Chatham, on Cape Cod. He was 75. A cause of death was not announced but a spokesman for Arbors Records, which released much of his most recent ...
| Natalie Cole recalls father's influence
NEW YORK (Natalie Cole Official Website) - Natalie Cole knows a little something about musical influences. First, there was her father, Nat King Cole. Then, there were all of his friends. "When I was growing up, I had so many musical influences I still feel a little schizophrenic," Cole told the audience ...
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Melbourne International Jazz Festival starts this week
MELBOURNE, Australia (Mijf.org Website) - The 2003 Melbourne International Jazz Festival will kick off next week with ten days and nights of fantastic jazz in venues around the CBD and Stonnington from Friday, January 17 until Sunday, January 26. The Festival will begin on a high note with three concerts ...
| Michael Lington's Album Release Event Raised $3500 For The Whitman-Walker Clinic
NEW YORK (Jazz Magazine) - Three Keys Music's R&B-jazz saxophonist Michael Lington performed with his band at an album release benefit event held last month at Saks Fifth Avenue Men's Store in Washington, DC. The event, which was sponsored by the department store and Esquire Magazine, raised $3500 for ...
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Wynton Marsalis performs for the Elderly
NEW YORK (Jazz NY Magazine) - Wynton Marsalis had senior citizens dancing until the early morning hours as he and his jazz quartet gave a rousing performance at a center for the elderly. The sold-out event was held at Fort Greene Senior Citizens Center in Brooklyn on Friday night to save certain centers ...
| Mary Kadderly Does 'Christmas Memories' With Jazz Style
NEW YORK (Mary Kedderly Official Website) - Following the advice of famed movie actress Ruth Gordon, stylist vocalist Mary Kadderly, never, ever, ever looks at the olds. Valuing complete artistic control and not willing to compromise integrity for sales, Kadderly has her own record label, Mary Margaret ...
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Spyro Gyra's 'Original Cinema' Due February 25
NEW YORK (Top 40 Charts) - With over 10 million albums sold, Spyro Gyra continue to break new ground with the February 25 release of "Original Cinema" (Heads Up), their most complex and challenging album to date. Though just as accessible as anything else they've done, "Original Cinema" defies preconceptions ...
| G. F. Mlely’s '88 Keys And Counting'
NEW YORK (All Aboiut Jazz Reviews) - In playing solo, the art of music is defined by expertise. Outstanding technique may indulge the player, but there has to be enough creativity to carry the listener. In order to succeed, the focus should not be divided and the pulse has to be constantly fed from ...
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Nadine Shanti Prepares For Appearance With The Everett Symphony
NEW YORK (Jazz Events Magazine) - Nadine Shanti is of course excited to appear with the Everett Symphony on their well-received Popular Music series. Nadine will perform on the first of the Pops Concerts on a night entitled "All That Jazz" in January. She is more pleased however that the Symphony commissioned ...
| Tony Bennett & K.d. Lang: 'A Wonderful World': In Stores Tuesday, November 5
NEW YORK (Tony Bennett Official Website) - Friends and famed Grammy Award-winning superstars Tony Bennett and k.d. lang come together to bring us "A Wonderful World," a collection of songs inspired by the legendary Louis Armstrong. Produced by T Bone Burnett, the album consists of twelve Armstrong classics ...
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Wynton Marsalis & Paul Simon Headline Jazz Benefit
NEW YORK (Jazzatlincolncenter.org) - Annual benefit concert and awards ceremony is a highlight of New York City's social calendar. Join the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, special guests Patti LuPone, Denyce Graves, Paul Simon, Woody Allen and others for an evening dedicated to music ...
| Tony Bennett's Wonderful World: Live from San Francisco will air on PBS TV
NEW YORK (PBS) - Tony Bennett heads to PBS this winter. Tony Bennett's Wonderful World: Live from San Francisco - taped at the Fairmont Hotel on Nob Hill, where he first performed in 1962 - will air on PBS television stations nationwide in December. (For exact air times, check local listings.) The 90-minute ...
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Kenny G For The Heroes Of 9/11
NEW YORK (Kenny G Official Website) - In the spirit of the times - and the season - Arista recording artist Kenny G, producer Walter Afanasieff and Arista Records have determined to donate their royalties and net proceeds from the sales of Kenny G's next single, "Auld Lang Syne (Freedom Mix)," to benefit ...
| Rod Stewart's Jazzed
LOS ANGELES (LA Jazz News magazine) - Rod ain't so mod anymore. Mr. Stewart has taken to '40s jazz standards, and his new boss, Clive Davis, was happy to show him off Monday (Oct. 14) night at L.A.'s swank St. Regis Hotel. At a cocktail party to launch his new It Had to Be You ... The Great American ...
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Tony Bennett & K.D. Lang's 'Wonderful World'
NEW YORK (NY Jazz magazine) - The night belonged to Tony Bennett.On Wednesday, the 76-year-old singer was standing on his favorite stage - Carnegie Hall, where he'd performed a near-flawless set from his giant songbook. And he was completely at ease. "I want to do something for you," he said as if we ...
| New Jazz Room In Halifax
HALIFAX, Canada (Halifax Press) - The new Music Room opened this week end in Halifax. There were several performers on the weekend including Jaff Reilly and Peter Tonyer The new Music Room opened this week end in Halifax. Anchored by a new Steinway Grand, it is supposed to be one of the finest natural ...
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