http://www.proexpression.com/ Anybody Can Learn Music! 2008-09-07T19:21:19+02:00 en http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=22564 Events also include pre-concert conversation with 2009 NEA Jazz Masters Washington, DC - The National Endowment for the Arts will sponsor its annual NEA Jazz Masters Awards Ceremony and Concert on October 17, 2008, at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City. The event will begin at 8 p.m. in Rose Theater at Frederick P. Rose Hall, home of Jazz at Lincoln Center at Broadway at 60th Street and feature the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis in a program dedicated to the honorees' ... 2008-09-03T17:24:11+02:00 http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=22562 STOCKHOLM, Sweden: Arne Domnerus, one of Sweden's most influential jazz musicians, has died. He was 83.The alto saxophonist and orchestra leader died Tuesday morning after a long period of illness, his son, Leif Domnerus, told The Associated Press.He said Domnerus had heart surgery last year, after which he suffered pneumonia and a brain hemorrhage... 2008-09-03T16:28:56+02:00 http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=22561 Clea Bradford, 67, a versatile jazz singer who toured the Soviet Union with Earl "Fatha" Hines and recorded with Clark Terry in the 1960s, died Aug. 19 of complications from breast cancer at Holy Cross Hospital. She lived in Silver Spring.Ms. Bradford, who settled into a second career as a voice coach in the Washington area after two decades of touring, was not a big star but a "huge twinkle," as she once joked to The Washington Post, and was a favorite of critics. She performed locally in the 1 ... 2008-09-03T16:26:11+02:00 http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=22560 CLEVELAND (AP) -- The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame will pay tribute to the "father of the electric guitar" this fall.Les Paul will be honored at the annual American Music Masters series, a weeklong event that begins Nov. 10, Rock Hall officials said Tuesday. A tribute concert -- artists will be named later -- is scheduled Nov. 15 at Cleveland's State Theater... 2008-09-03T16:22:32+02:00 http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=22559 Both Rebecca Martin and Kate McGarry are native New Englanders in their 40s, and both create exceptionally appealing blends of folk and jazz in their new albums. Yet thanks to their contrasting voices and arrangements, Ms. McGarry's "If Less Is More . . . Nothing Is Everything" (Palmetto) and Ms. Martin's "The Growing Season" (Sunnyside) take their listeners on divergent sonic paths. Ms. McGarry sings in a broad, bluesy soprano that dominates her sound. Ms. Martin sings in a slightly lower regis ... 2008-09-03T15:18:25+02:00 http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=22558 Westchester, NY -- The Westchester Jazz Orchestra has been called a "local" orchestra "in about the same way as, say, the New York or Berlin Philharmonic Orchestras are local." On Saturday, September 20, this world-class big band will begin their sixth season celebrating Hard Bop at 8 PM at the Irvington Town Hall Theater, 85 Main Street, Irvington, NY. Spearheaded by Horace Silver, Nat Adderley, Art Blakey and others, Hard Bop is a hard-driving and bluesy style that developed from bebop and ret ... 2008-09-03T14:49:52+02:00 http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=22552 Will Google Chrome sink Firefox? Not exactly, according to Mozilla chief executive John Lilly."More smart people thinking about ways to make the Web good for normal human beings is good, absolutely," Lilly wrote in a blog post. "Competition often results in innovation I'd expect that to continue now that Google has thrown their hat in the ring... 2008-09-03T08:00:49+02:00 http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=22550 MySpace plans to launch a contest on Tuesday to market the latest in Walt Disney Co's blockbuster franchise "High School Musical 3" in what the News Corp Internet social network called its biggest film campaign to date.Disney is hoping to build interest in the third movie in its hit television films series, and the first to hit theaters, by tapping MySpace's estimated 76 million unique users as of July, according to comScore... 2008-09-03T08:00:49+02:00 http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=22544 The Dead To Tour In 2009 Obama Benefit on October 13The Dead Word on the Web is that the surviving fellas from The Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh, guitarist Bob Weir, and drummers Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann are getting back together to tour in April and May of 2009. There are no further details available at this time and no indication who will join the core four to complete the lineup. Past lineups of The Dead and The Other Ones have included Warren, Haynes, Steve Kimock, Mark Karan, Jimmy ... 2008-09-03T08:00:48+02:00 http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=22543 By: Brian BavosaNicholas PaytonFor decades, jazz musicians have been viewed as "cool," "hip" or demonstrating an articulate, intellectual swagger that can be viewed as both polite as well as borderline taboo. New Orleans' own son, Nicholas Payton, can certainly be characterized by all of these adjectives, but also a few others all his own, especially on his Nonesuch Records debut, Into The Blue (released last April). Almost always dressed in sharp, exquisite suits, looking polite and playing in ... 2008-09-03T08:00:48+02:00 http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=22541 By: Dennis Cook... 2008-09-03T08:00:48+02:00 http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=22540 Words by: Adam Kaye | Images by: Scott NewtonMy Morning Jacket :: 08.25.08 :: KLRU Studios :: Austin, TX MMJ :: 08.25 :: ACL Taping :: Austin, TXIn 2006, Louisville, Kentucky's My Morning Jacket joined an elite group of musicians when they taped their first appearance on the long-running public television program, Austin City Limits. A little over a week ago, they joined an even more elite group who have appeared on the show more than once... 2008-09-03T08:00:48+02:00 http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=22538 Jazz St. Louis is looking for help with their information booth at this weekend's Art Fair. Their email newsletter says that volunteers "are urgently needed to staff the Jazz St. Louis booth during the Saint Louis Art Fair, held in the heart of Clayton September 5 through 7...Volunteers are needed f... 2008-09-03T08:00:29+02:00 http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=22537 Via St. Louis Post-Dispatch pop music critic Kevin Johnson's blog The Blender, the news comes that the concert by trumpeter Chris Botti scheduled for Saturday, September 13 at the Fox Theatre has been postponed. The announcement cites "scheduling complications" as the reason for the postponement. Bu... 2008-09-03T08:00:29+02:00 http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=22536 Trombonists Brett Stamps and Jim Owens will celebrate the release of their new Victoria Records CD Bad To The Bone with a performance at 7:30 p.m. next Tuesday, September 9 at the Sheldon Concert Hall. Stamps and Owens will be joined for the concert by all the musicians who played on the CD, includi... 2008-09-03T08:00:29+02:00 http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=22535 Please tune into WXPN today at 2:00 PM EST to listen to Jessie's performance and interview on World Cafe with David Dye. To find your local broadcast choose your state and scroll to the bottom here.If you miss the live performance, you can hear the archived show at NPR.org... 2008-09-03T08:00:25+02:00 http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=22534 Wonder Accepts Prize and Performs Library Commission Feb. 23 Librarian of Congress James H. Billington today named singer/songwriter Stevie Wonder - who burst on the scene in the early 1960s as a musical prodigy, and whose dance hits and love songs segued over the years into thoughtful commentaries on the joy and injustice in our world - as the winner of the Second Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. The Award presentation will take place in the Great Hall of the Library on Feb ... 2008-09-03T02:53:29+02:00 http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=22533 MY AAJ members can now view a collection of articles about their favorite musicians by clicking the "My Articles" or the "My CD Reviews" links on the All About Jazz home page, on their MY AAJ page, and on the Article Center and CD Review Center pages.The results presented on the "My Articles" and the "My CD Reviews" pages are determined by the musicians you have added to your "watch" list... 2008-09-03T02:07:03+02:00 http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=22532 Jerry Reed, a singer who became a good ol' boy actor in car chase movies like "Smokey and the Bandit," has died of complications from emphysema at 71.His longtime booking agent, Carrie Moore-Reed, no relation to the star, said Reed died early Monday. "He's one of the greatest entertainers in the world. That's the way I feel about him," Moore-Reed said... 2008-09-03T00:30:28+02:00 http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=22531 On Thursday, September 11, 2008, from 8-10:30 p.m. PLG Arts presents Igor Lumpert and Inner Textures: Igor Lumpert on tenor saxophone, Jason Palmer on trumpet, Chris Tordini on bass, and Rodney Green on drums as part of the continuing PLG Arts Jazz at the Inkwell series. "There is a quality to his playing and compositions that has absorbed the rich traditions of jazz music in this country but has also added something new and unidentifiable. " Jane Ira Bloom, Saxophonist/composer/Grammy winner... 2008-09-02T23:30:01+02:00