Time: up to the 17th of December Location: Different locations in Tallinn Website: www.jazzkaar.ee The Christmas Jazz festival is now in its 14th outing. The festival actually got started by chance when the world-famous Danish bassist, Nils Henning Orsted Pedersen, who was too busy to come to the annual Jazzkaar Festival in the spring, agreed to come to Estonia in December 1996 instead together with...
The Gregg Rolie Band Rain Dance (Limited Edition) Review by Nightwatcher Forty years ago, in a muddy pasture, part of a dairy farm in the rural town of Bethel, New York, the original Santana band performed a show stopping set at the legendary Woodstock Music and Arts Festival. Stunning the 500,000 plus in attendance with their unique, visionary blend of heavy blues based guitar rock melded with Latin...
On the eve of the 20 anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall it is our privilege to present a special almost-middle-of-the-month Here's what the current Top 10 looks like as of today ... and for today. Tomorrow it will have changed: 1. Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention Holiday In Berlin, Full Blown - Burnt Weeny Sandwich 2. Mahavishnu Orchestra Open Country Joy - Birds Of Fire 3. Yes Sweetness...
The brilliant French fiddler Jean-Luc Ponty was leading a double musical life in Paris in the early 1960s, performing with the symphonic orchestra Concerts Lamoureux before dashing over to the Blue Note to play jazz until 4 a.m. Warned he'd be fired if he...
Playlist Rheostatics – The Blue Hysteria Haydn – Piano Sonatas Jean-Luc Ponty – Enigmatic Ocean Weather Report – Live in Offenbach 28/09/78 (DVD) Weather Report – Weather Report Lovely morning... Turning to rain by the time I got home again to be greeted by Meg the Black Cat at the back door... Tasty home made soup sustained... Upstairs to start sorting out CDs for next...
Playlist Bigelf - Cheat the Gallows Cloudland Blue Quartet - Myspace Player Jean-Luc Ponty - Enigmatic Ocean (LP) Hawkwind - BBC In Concert 1972 Bruford/Borstlap - In Two Minds Hawkwind - Take Me to Your Leader Mike Taylor Quartet - Pendulum Gong - Shamal Gong - Expresso II Up at 5:45 and to the PC to work on publicising the upcoming gig... Updated the CBQ Myspace Player - adding two songs from "Soundingfall"...
"Jazz, Funk and R&B Legend George Duke and Quartet To Perform Benefit Concert for the Bob Moog Foundation and the Museum of Making Music in Carlsbad, CA CARSLBAD, CA/ASHEVILLE, NC On Friday, November 6, 2009 at 7 PM, George Duke —whose very name is synonymous with funk, R&B, pop, soul and jazz and who is heralded as a world class keyboardist, synthesizer pioneer, composer and Grammy...
The new release from iconic pianist and bandleader Ramsey Lewis, Songs from the Heart: Ramsey Plays Ramsey, hits stores this week (CD and digital) via Concord Jazz Records. Songs From the Heart contains a refined collection of 12 new originals composed over a period of two years, including music from two commissioned world premiere performances at the Ravinia Festival in Highland Park, Illinois...
Singer Devante Swing of Jodeci is 40. Actor Steve Forrest is 85. Actress Anita Ekberg is 78. Singer Jerry Lee Lewis is 74. Actor Ian McShane is 67. Jazz violinist Jean-Luc Ponty is 67. TV theme composer Mike Post is 65. Actress Patricia Hodge is 63. Guitarist Mike Pinera of Iron Butterfly is 61. Singer-guitarist Mark [...]
The Office of Addresses and Encounters , the world's first recorded dating service, was opened by one Henry Robinson in Threadneedle Street in 1650. The Metropolitan Police force was founded in 1829. The cornerstone for the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., was laid in 1907. The first of what would be seven victims of a mass murder via poison-laced Tylenol capsules was found in Chicago in 1982....
In 2007, he won the first prize of the “Trophes du Sunside”, one of the most important Award for a young jazz musician in France. Some months later, he moves to New York City. Scott has studied in several workshop with some of the finest jazz musicians like: Elvin Jones, McCoy Tyner, Ste...
There is a lot of programming diversity going on near and far for jazz and jazz venues in September. These caught my interest. I know I will catch at least one of them in person. And it is a great time to confirm that jazzlives#September 2-- Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles - The original members of Retu...
For Jazz fans, Labor Day week presents an array of all-star attractions. Jazz greats Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke and Lenny White, the original members of Return to Forever, re-uinite, Sept. 2, at the Hollywood Bowl in Southern California. The concert will feature guest appearances by vocalist Chaka Khan, violinist Jean-Luc Ponty and original RTF guitarist Bill Connors. The event heralds the beginning...
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