Jazz

From July 9th to 11th in the Southern California Wine Country City of Temecula, thousands will converge to celebrate the "first lady of song, " Ella Fitzgerald, the most popular female jazz singer in the United States for more than half a century. In her lifetime, she won 13 Grammy awards and sold over 40 million albums. She worked with all the jazz greats, from Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Nat King Cole to Frank Sinatra, Dizzy Gillespie...  

Duology + 2 Cafe Oto London November, 13, 2009 The opening night of the London Jazz Festival provided a rare opportunity to hear clarinetist Michael Marcus and trumpeter Ted Daniel--two seasoned, but unsung denizens of the New York scene--in the intimate surroundings of Dalston's Cafe Oto...  

Pete Wilhoit, Bloomington native and drummer for international indie rock band Fiction Plane, returns to his alma mater this weekend. He's participating in the 32nd annual Bloomington Jazz Festival, which takes place at Bloomington High School South on Friday and Saturday.  

Filed under: Festivals and Events, North America, United StatesWe won't have too many opportunities to put Eddie Vedder and Aretha Franklin in the same headline, so we're taking advantage of this opportunity to bring you the latest news from New Orleans: the music line-up for Jazz Fest has been announced and it's spectacular. Music legends spanning all genres will converge at the Louisiana Fair Grounds Race Course for a 10-day feast this...  

Lebanese prodigy, singer/songwriter and composer Ziad Rahbani to perform for a huge fan base of his unique classical, jazzy, and his very own authentic repertoire! An ensemble of professional musicians will join Rahbani on stage to present the best of all his compositions on the night of February 17th, 2010 at Dubai Media City Outdoor Amphitheater...  

Putting together a two-day jazz festival at Gilbert’s Highland High School is no small feat. But with little jazz education available in Arizona, organizers say the March festival will be an inexpensive opportunity for local bands to work with professional musicians.  

Jazzman Larry Ochs has seen many things during 40 years playing his saxophone around the world but, until this week, nobody had ever called the police on him.That changed on Monday night however, when's Spain's pistol-carrying Civil Guard police force descended on the Sigüenza Jazz festival to investigate allegations that Ochs's music was not, well, jazz.Police decided to investigate after an angry jazz buff complained that the Larry Ochs Sax...  

SEVENTH ANNUAL PANAMA JAZZ FESTIVAL, LED BY ARTISTIC DIRECTOR DANILO PEREZ, ANNOUNCES 2010 LINEUP Panama's annual cornerstone cultural event, the seventh Panama Jazz Festival will be held January 11-16, 2010. With upwards of 100,000 people in attendance since the festivals 2003 inception, this year's edition is dedicated to Panamanian pianist, Ellerton Oswald (better known as Sonny White), noted for his work as Billie Holiday's accompanist...  

Various venuesThe 10-day London Jazz Festival ends tonight, leaving the capital's jazz community more than usually dazed and confused. We all start off making long and impractical wish lists and end up defeated by musical indigestion and, with the more remote events taking place in Richmond and Croydon, by sheer geography.My number-one target was Sonny Rollins, the "saxophone colossus". Seventy-nine is not an outlandish age these days, but of...  

ROCHESTER, N.Y., Dec. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- A second show with guitar legend Jeff Beck has been added to the Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival (www.rochesterjazz.com) lineup on June 18, 2010. The first Jeff Beck show, scheduled for 8 p.m. was a fast sell-out. The second Jeff Beck show will be the same day at 11 p.m. Both concerts will be in Eastman Theatre's Kodak Hall.  

by Andrew Frisicano two of these three guys will be there (one w/ Jenny Scheinman, also on the cover) NYC's Winter Jazz Fest will be happening Friday, January 8th and Saturday, January 9th at a handful of Village venues. Both...  

Cabarete, Dominican Republic.- The tenth annual Dominican Republic Jazz Festival played to packed crowds on Playa Cabarete from November 6th through the 8th, drawing more than 2,000 people from across the Dominican Republic and internationally.  

NEW YORK, USA -- Melodious musique de jazz will fill the air once more this fall as the Caribbean`s longest running jazz festival, the Martinique Jazz Festival, will be held November 26 to December 6. The festival, which dates back to 1983, has long ...  

27 live recordings from the 1959 Newport Jazz Festivalcan be streamed for free at Wolfgang's Vault. Here's a few of the musicians you can listen to: Count Basie & His Orchestra, Dizzy Gillespie, The Modern Jazz Quartet, Oscar Peterson ...  

Jazz fest lands major performerMonroe Evening News2009 11:04AM The River Raisin Jazz Festival has scored a coup, booking its biggest act ever — legendary jazz saxophonist David Sanborn — for its ninth ...