| ……and all that jazz!!!!!! | | Posted Tuesday, February 07, 2006 9:59:43 AM by Rose Martins | Jazz music is simply Jazz. Jazz is a history and a culture unto it's own. It's a smooth rendition of musical instruments.
Jazz musicians have filled the nightclubs of the USA, creating a culture, a lifestyle and a history.  Jazz has become popular and jazz dance changed the face of the dance world as it was known.
Jazz dance broke barriers and changed the rules. Jazz guitar also gave guitar a new face.
Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola is a 2,500-square-foot, 140-seat jazz venue overlooking Central Park and the Manhattan skyline in tribute to one of the greatest jazz musicians of our time, Dizzy Gillespie. Mrs. Lorraine Gillespie, wife of the late Dizzy, said, "I know that my husband would be proud and honored that many musicians will further their careers and the awareness of jazz as an art form, in a place that bears his name."
Dizzy's Club was designed by architect, Rafael Vinoly, and not only will the club offer jazz concerts at night, but also educational programs during the day.
The program was partly funded by a $10 million leadership grant from the Coca-Cola Company.
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| | | Premier Jazz Booking Agent Thomas Stowsand Dies at 59 | | Posted Sunday, October 22, 2006 11:04:42 PM by Blog57 Team | | Thomas Stowsand, the renowned booking agent who founded Saudades Tourneen in 1983, passed away on Oct. 5 in Schwaz, Austria after a long battle with cancer. He was 59. Despite operating in what is generally considered a cutthroat field, Stowsand was trusted and beloved by many musicians the world over for his passion and love of jazz and Brazilian music and the artists who create it. He was a tireless promoter and supporter of all sorts of progressive and genre-defying music, which Saudades Tourneens roster represented. Stowsand was born in 1947 in Cuxhaven, Germany and discovered a passion for music at an early age. He began his professional career as a journalist and musician, playing cello and bassoon in an avant-jazz group when he joined the fledgling ECM label in 1970.... | |
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| | | Jazz club calls chamber group good fit | | Posted Sunday, September 10, 2006 5:07:06 PM by Blog57 Team | | It's a natural question: What are the Kentucky Center Chamber Players doing at the Jazz Factory? Classical ensembles are supposed to play in concert halls, not jazz clubs, right? Maybe most of the time, but not today. If you head down to the Jazz Factory this afternoon at 1:30, you'll be able to hear one of Louisville's oldest instrumental groups perform in one of downtown's newest musical venues. Even better, you can nibble what's described as an "a la carte light brunch" while you listen. .... | |
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| | | The best moments of Jazz Aspen festivals past | | Posted Sunday, September 03, 2006 11:16:28 PM by Blog57 Team | | ASPEN - Having covered Jazz Aspen Snowmass' Labor Day Festival, joyfully and obsessively, from its beginnings in 1995, and revisited the highlights in my mind and photos, compiling a list of the best performances is child's play (Steve Winwood, Phil Lesh & Friends, Neil Young, John Fogerty, two shows by Ziggy Marley & the Melody Makers. And pinpointing the worst performance is even easier: the clownish Chuck Berry, in 1997.) To give my brain a real workout, I turn to a task requiring more precise recollections: the best moments - a jam, a song, a backstage interaction - from a decade-plus of Labor Day festivating. 1. I can understand that Neil Young's performance (2003), which included all of "Greendale," Neil's multimedia album-theatrical show, was not for everyone.... | |
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| | | Veteran jazz musicians find new energy as a duo | | Posted Monday, July 31, 2006 5:53:26 AM by Blog57 Team | | Like gym rats who repeatedly push one another to new feats of physical endurance, alto saxophonist Sonny Fortune and drummer Rashied Ali turn every performance into a sweaty test of creative stamina. Working together over the past decade, they have developed a muscular sound built on long, flowing, independent lines that converge and separate sequentially over dozens of choruses. Using standards such as ``Love for Sale,'' ``Cherokee,'' ``The Song Is You'' and John Coltrane's ``Impressions'' as launching pads for 45-minute-plus odysseys, Fortune and Ali have forged their rigorous but unfettered art form. ``I don't abandon the chords or structure of the song, or the tempo that we start off playing, which is quite a challenge over the course of an hour,'' says Fortune, 67.... | |
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| | | TAIPEI INT'L JAZZ CONCERT TO KICK OFF JULY 28 | | Posted Wednesday, July 26, 2006 7:02:20 AM by Blog57 Team | | Taipei, July 22 (CNA) The 2006 Taipei International Jazz Faculty Concert is slated to be held July 28-July 29 at the Taan Forest Park in downtown Taipei, according to a spokesman for the Cultural Affairs Bureau under the Taipei City Government. Nine world-class jazz musicians from the United States, Germany, Holland, Belgium and Taiwan will perform for the local audience, the spokesman said, adding that music to be played by these top musicians will blend elements of funk, Latin and rhythm and blues, and jazz The opening performance on Friday will start at 7: 00 p. m., while Saturday's concert will kick off at 4: 00 p. m. and run until midnight, allowing the public to enjoy cool, relaxing and enchanting jazz music on warm summer nights upon soft grass prior to Chinese Lover's Day which falls on July 31 this year, the spokesman said.... | |
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