WALES: Lions help stage 11 th jazz music festival.(News)
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WALES: Lions help stage 11 th jazz music festival.(News)
highbeam.com – Jul 27, 2007
All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Byline: By STEVE BAGNALL VISITRS to Maeshafn in Flintshire will have a toe-tapping time next month. The Miners Arms Maeshafn is preparing to host the 11th annual Jazz on a Summer Afternoon on Sunday August 5. Buckley and Mold Lions are helping to organise the musical treat in aid of Nightingale House and Hope House hospices. The four acts on the bill are the Howlin’ Moon Blues Band the riginal Panama Jazz Band The Trotters and Close Up. The event starts at 2pm and admission is free but there will be collections throughout the day. Hosts John and Gillian.
dc space Reunion to Benefit Tom Terrell
Washington Post – Jul 27, 2007
space (where he sometimes worked the soundboard) and the old 9:30 club. A gifted writer he wrote about music for Jazz Times the Village Voice Vibe and the Washington City Paper. Last year Terrell learned he had prostate cancer. He’s receiving treatment at the Lombardi Cancer Center in Georgetown. “My doctors are very happy with my progress and I’m holding steady” Terrell says by phone from Canada where he’s attending the Montreal Jazz Festival. Still medical bills are expensive so d… Despite his illness and the chemotherapy Terrell is keeping busy. (“I can’t just sit around the house” he explains. ) He reviews jazz music for NPR’s “All Things Considered” is the music director for the satellite radio channel World Zone which is carried on XM and just finished writing the liner notes for a six-CD Miles Davis box set. He has been asked to do something for Sunday’s show but he’s not sure what that will be because he has been feeling tired. But he says he’s looking forward to seeing many old friends again. “It’s great that people are still around and still remember” he says. “It’s just amazing.
Jazz Listings
New York Times – Jul 27, 2007
com; cover $10 with a $15 minimum. (Chinen)DNAL FX (Tuesday) Mr. Fox a Boston-bred pianist well versed in both jazz and classical music presents his “Scarlatti Jazz Suite” for a quartet with Warren Wolf on vibraphone George Mraz on bass and Yoron Israel on drums. Blue Note 131 West Third Street West Village (212) 475-8592.
Into it: Alfred Molina
Christian Science Monitor – Jul 27, 2007
Listening to? I’ve always been a big jazz fan. [My father] traveled a lot to South America and Cuba and brought back these 78 records so we had a lot of Latin and jazz music in our house. When I was a kid I loved that stuff. But when I started listening to pop and rock like the Beatles and the Rolling Stones I turned my back on it. Now that I’ve gotten older I’ve started listening to it again. I was just listening to Alison Krauss.
Noteworthy new jazz albums
Christian Science Monitor – Jul 27, 2007
Using an instrument long marginalized in jazz Bang fashiones a violin sound as full-bodied as Lowe’s sax. This is gritty jazz ? bluesy urgent and yet polished and hopeful. Grade: A+ Various artists ? That Devilin’ Tune: A Jazz History Volume 1 1895 ? 1927 (Music & Arts): This nine-CD box set (selling for the reasonable cost of six discs) was a Promethean labor of love on the part of ace jazz historian Allen Lowe. Lowe’s anthologizing infinitely broadens our understanding of the roots of early jazz as being far more than blues and ragtime. Through samples of slapdash vaudeville numbers jazzy military brass band marches and corny jug bands and through Lowe’s meticulously illuminating commentary you discover early jazz as multiethnic and multifaceted as classical symphonic music. Grade: A JE HARRITT ? Free Form (Gott): British jazz from 47 years ago might not sound like your cup of tea if you think Americans invented and sustained the genre. But Joe Harriott was every bit as revolutionary and robust an alto saxophonist as rnette Coleman.
This year’s Taipei International Jazz Festival continues the…
Taipei Times – Jul 27, 2007
Carter sings Having artists stay for one day says Hsieh provides an opportunity to hear great jazz but does little to increase jazz awareness. “It works very well because our background is classical music [where] you need discipline” he said. “But in jazz you are searching for freedom and being expressive. So we need to find a balance” Hsieh said. Jazz began making inroads into Taiwan in the late 1960s and early 1970s – brought in with the American GI’s stationed here – but was confined to a peripheral role in the television and entertainment industry and didn’t flourish as it’s own unique art form.