JAM celebration starts in Estonia with a prestigious music contest
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- JAM celebration starts in Estonia with a prestigious music contest
- Where does the road lead for jazz?
- Talking Jazz – Features Music – The Independent
- Jazz Listings
- Pamporovo-2007 Ethno-Jazz Festival
- Grammy nominee launched own label to get music heard
- Town jazzes up its tourism appeal
JAM celebration starts in Estonia with a prestigious music contest
eJazzNews – Mar 29, 2007
n Thursday evenings ETV will show films of Bobby McFerrin Dee Dee Bridgewater Keith Jarrett and Lois Vargas. n Klassikaraadio 60 hours of jazz will sound during April plus 16 hours of live Jazzkaar concerts. The Grand ld Man of Estonian jazz musician and music historian Valter jakaar will introduce the most exiting recordings from his collection on Jazzikuu special. Music store chain Lasering also celebrates the month of jazz. In April there is a 10% discount on jazz CDs and surprises for people who buy for a bigger sum. Jazz guitarist leg Pissarenko?s new album presentation concert will also fit to Jazzikuu as well as exhibitions of the poster contest works in many places over Estonia and the contest for articles about jazz music. Jazzikuu culminates with the biggest and most influential jazz festival in the Baltic countries ? Jazzkaar Festival… n Klassikaraadio 60 hours of jazz will sound during April plus 16 hours of live Jazzkaar concerts. The Grand ld Man of Estonian jazz musician and music historian Valter jakaar will introduce the most exiting recordings from his collection on Jazzikuu special. Music store chain Lasering also celebrates the month of jazz. In April there is a 10% discount on jazz CDs and surprises for people who buy for a bigger sum. Jazz guitarist leg Pissarenko?s new album presentation concert will also fit to Jazzikuu as well as exhibitions of the poster contest works in many places over Estonia and the contest for articles about jazz music. Jazzikuu culminates with the biggest and most influential jazz festival in the Baltic countries ? Jazzkaar Festival.
Where does the road lead for jazz?
nMilwaukee.com – Mar 29, 2007
“Kids these days don’t like jazz at least in my experience” Noble says. “Classic bebop is not something that you grow up with socially. Lack of radio airplayne reason perhaps is a lack of radio airplay for jazz music. Milwaukee listeners used to be able to tune in to 88. 9 for their jazz music fix but that stations recently changed formats and it’s too early to tell if jazz will have a spot in the rotation. Brent Goodsell who DJs with Noble and owns Neapolitan records says that: “Radio is a commercial industry so demand will drive (what gets played). Even Smooth Jazz 93.
Talking Jazz – Features Music – The Independent
Independent – Mar 29, 2007
This served to protect British jazz from harsh comparison but also to slow the adoption of new advances; and it led to a suspicion that homegrown practitioners were not producing music as authentic as their US counterparts. This served to protect British jazz from harsh comparison but also to slow the adoption of new advances; and it led to a suspicion that homegrown practitioners were not producing music as authentic as their US counterparts.
Jazz Listings
New York Times – Mar 29, 2007
Jazz Standard 116 East 27th Street Manhattan (212) 576-2232 jazzstandard. ; Tazz performs at 8 and ther Dimensions follows at 10. The Stone Avenue C and Second Street East Village thestonenyc. com; cover $10 a set. (Chinen)★ CHARLES TLLIVER QUINTET (Tonight and tomorrow night) The trumpeter Charles Tolliver leads a hard-charging band with Billy Harper on tenor saxophone George Cables on piano and Victor Lewis on drums.
Pamporovo-2007 Ethno-Jazz Festival
Ð’ÐРРадио Ð’ÑÐ»Ð³Ð°Ñ’Ð¸Ñ – Ð’ÐРРадио Ð’ÑÐ»Ð³Ð°Ñ’Ð¸Ñ – Mar 29, 2007
Meeting foreign musicians is very enriching. We worked with a Norwegian musician who played the shepherd?s flute and had studied Bulgarian ethno music. It was an incredible experience hearing a Norwegian perform your music. ? We offer you next a live recording from the Pamporovo jazz festival of the Mrtinez Brothers and Bulgarians Rumen Toskov Vesselin Vesselinov-Eco and Hristo Yotzov. Within the framework of the International Ethno-jazz festival there were also several Bulgarian formations. Among the musicians who performed for the joy of the audience were those from the ?Kanopus? band. It is a relatively new formation one of its members being rlin Kyurkchiiski son of prominent Bulgarian composer Krassimir Kyurkchiiski.
Grammy nominee launched own label to get music heard
Toronto Star – Mar 29, 2007
She’ll test that affection starting tonight at Live@Courthouse the first international visitor to the newest and most promising jazz venue in town. She and her trio pianist Tamir Hendelman lauded drum veteran Jake Hanna and Hogtown bass stalwart Neil Swainson will perform for three nights with three sets nightly. Some may recall Gambarini’s appearance here in 2005 at the Downtown Jazz Festival opening for Roy Hargrove’s funk combo RH Factor and singing with the Dizzy Gillespie Tribute Band. I recall her delectable rendering of the classic jazz standard "Stardust. " Nowadays jazz pundits refer to her as a true successor to the great triumvirate of Ella Fitzgerald Sarah Vaughan and Carmen McRae. To my ears it’s the clarity of an early Ella and the brilliant vocalese of a mature Ella plus immaculate time sense that stand out. There are superior treatments of jazz and mainstream American Songbook classics on her CD very hip versions of "n the Sunny Side of the Street" and "Centrepiece" for example… She and her trio pianist Tamir Hendelman lauded drum veteran Jake Hanna and Hogtown bass stalwart Neil Swainson will perform for three nights with three sets nightly. Some may recall Gambarini’s appearance here in 2005 at the Downtown Jazz Festival opening for Roy Hargrove’s funk combo RH Factor and singing with the Dizzy Gillespie Tribute Band. I recall her delectable rendering of the classic jazz standard "Stardust. " Nowadays jazz pundits refer to her as a true successor to the great triumvirate of Ella Fitzgerald Sarah Vaughan and Carmen McRae. To my ears it’s the clarity of an early Ella and the brilliant vocalese of a mature Ella plus immaculate time sense that stand out. There are superior treatments of jazz and mainstream American Songbook classics on her CD very hip versions of "n the Sunny Side of the Street" and "Centrepiece" for example. She expresses the emotional pain in every note of "Lover Man.
Town jazzes up its tourism appeal
BBC News – Mar 29, 2007
“It brings people in to the town so it helps the local economy but it’s not just the fact it brings money into the businesses its the whole atmosphere. “It’s one of those smile-on-your-face events. Gwyn Williams chief executive of the music eisteddfod and the Royal Pavilion said the event would include more modern jazz as well as swing and gospel. ‘Enormous range’He added: “People have varying conceptions of jazz without perhaps understanding that jazz covers an enormous range of different kinds of music. Jazz fan Thomas Jones from Bradley near Wrexham said: “I came every year until about four years ago. “In the beginning I thought it was brilliant it was more my scene. I like modern jazz the Dave Brubeck kind of stuff.