Gina Saputo & Courtney Lemmon @ Salvage Lounge in LA, next Wednesday

Special Wednesday Night @ Salvage Lounge in the heart of Downtown LA:
Gina Saputo vs. Courtney Lemmon!
March 7, 8:30-11:30pm

Free Entrance + Drink Specials

Oh yes, these two divas are hitting the stage! Courtney and Gina are the Soprano and Alto of dueting daring divas. It will featuring duets of our original songs and both our favorites made famous by: Aretha Franklin, The Beatles, Sammy Davis Jr., The Police, Adelle, Fiona Apple, Nat King Cole, Van Morrison, Regina Spektor, Billie Holiday, Jamie Lidell, and Antonio Carlos Jobim!

Scot Albertson Trio live @ Tomi Jazz, NYC

Next Thursday, March 8, singer Scot Albertson will be appearing at Tomi Jazz (239 East 53rd Street) in New York with Ron Jackson (guitar) & Sedrick Chouckroun (sax & flute). Cover charge: $10 plus $10 Food & Drink Minimum. Call (646) 497-1254 for reservations.

Sally Street @ Every Woman Festival

Message from Sally Street:

"After a rip snorter of an Every Woman Festival last year, we can't wait to play all the new hits for you tomorrow night at Sydney's hottest new club, Blue Beat! Come and support ovarian cancer research with 5 awesome original Australian bands and celebrate International Women's Day!

I have promised to wear hotpants, red FMBs and a black faux ostrich!! (I'm not kidding! *giggle*) performing a new original set with my gorgeous boys who drip with talent (Gerard Masters, James Muller, Alex Hewetson and Fabian Hevia) and also a new dancing member of our band - dancer for the rock stars, Miss Charlotte Howells!"

Click here for $25 tix:
http://www.moshtix.com.au/event.aspx?id=54859&caller=CAL&noadd=true&skin=

Watch Sally's raunchy new "raw indie-art" Vampire music video: "Without You"
Gulp down the popcorn! Cover your neck and enjoy!
Chat to Sally on her new website! www.sallystreet.com

Have a snoop around for all the latest Sally Street gossip about "Love Is Like A Bindi-eye" being placed in a new Ozzie-Afghan feature film, "Lexi" soaring up the pop-jazz charts to number 3 in GERMANY!, the new single "Love Tequila" to be released next week, Sally's latest guest appearance on the Smiths Crisps TV commercial with Steven Curry from "The Castle" and more!

Newport Jazz Festival 2012: line-up & pre-sale

SATURDAY, AUGUST 4, 2012:

PAT METHENY UNITY BAND
with Chris Potter, Antonio Sanchez, & Ben Williams
DIANNE REEVES
70th Birthday Celebration: JACK DEJOHNETTE GROUP & JACK DEJOHNETTE with special guests featuring Lionel Loueke, Jason Moran, Christian McBride, Tim Ries, Luisito Quintero, George Colligan & Jason Palmer
BILL FRISELL: THE JOHN LENNON SONGBOOK
SOUND PRINTS: JOE LOVANO & DAVE DOUGLAS
THE BAD PLUS with BILL FRISELL
JAMES CARTER ORGAN TRIO with special guests Rodney Jones & Miche Braden
DAFNIS PRIETO SEXTET
3 CLARINETS: KEN PEPLOWSKI, EVAN CHRISTOPHER & ANAT COHEN
CHRISTIAN MCBRIDE'S INSIDE STRAIGHT
DARCY JAMES ARGUE'S SECRET SOCIETY
JOHN ELLIS & DOUBLE-WIDE
PEDRITO MARTINEZ GROUP

SUNDAY, AUGUST 5, 2012:

TEDESCHI-TRUCKS BAND featuring Susan Tedeschi & Derek Trucks
MARIA SCHNEIDER ORCHESTRA
JASON MORAN & THE BANDWAGON
KURT ELLING
MIGUEL ZENÓN'S RAYUELA
JENNY SCHEINMAN & BILL FRISELL
AMBROSE AKINMUSIRE QUINTET
RUDRESH MAHANTHAPPA'S SAMDHI
GRETCHEN PARLATO & LIONEL LOUEKE with special guest Becca Stevens
JOHN HOLLENBECK'S CLAUDIA QUINTET + 1 featuring Theo Bleckmann
3 COHENS: YUVAL, ANAT & AVISHAI
VINCE GIORDANO & THE NIGHTHAWKS
LEWIS NASH QUINTET featuring Jeremy Pelt & Jimmy Greene
RYAN TRUESDELL'S GIL EVANS CENTENNIAL PROJECT
BERKLEE GLOBAL JAZZ INSTITUTE SEXTET
PRE-SALE & DISCOUNT OFFER
Tickets for events at Fort Adams State Park, August 4 & 5, go on sale this Thursday, March 15, at 10am, but as an NJF subscriber, YOU can take advantage of these Pre-Sale Offers Now...

GENERAL ADMISSION DISCOUNTS
Two-Day Packages
$110* for 2-day general admission package for August 4 & 5 (regularly $135)

Single-Day Tickets
$60* for any single-day tickets for either August 4 & 5 (regularly $74)
*Service charges apply.

RESERVED TICKETS**
"FIRST-IN-LINE"
Get your reserved seat tickets before they go on sale to the general public using this promotion now. Note: Discounts not available for reserved seating areas.

PURCHASE TICKETS ON-LINE NOW WITH PROMO CODE: NEWJAZZ

Funeral services for Red Holloway, tomorrow @ The Chapel of the Hills in LA

R.I.P.: Eddie Fritz

Eddie Fritz Dies; Well-Known Jazz Pianist and Bandleader
by Calvin Wilson - St. Louis Post-Dispatch
March 3, 2012

Eddie Fritz, a jazz pianist and bandleader whose career harked back to the glory days of Gaslight Square, died Monday (Feb. 27, 2012) of a liver ailment at St. Anthony's Medical Center. He was 69 and lived in Eureka.

Mr. Fritz was a familiar presence on the jazz scene, but he performed only occasionally in recent years because of his illness, said a son, Eddie Fritz Jr. of Los Angeles.

In a 1990 interview with the Post-Dispatch, Mr. Fritz said that jazz has an audience that deserves to be addressed. "Nobody's taking care of the needs of these people, and that's what we're trying to do," he said.

Mr. Fritz became interested in music as a youngster, taking piano lessons at the St. Louis Institute of Music. During his years at St. Louis University High School, he formed a dance combo called the Hi-Note Quartet. While earning a business degree at St. Louis University, Mr. Fritz led a jazz group at the Upstream Lounge at Seventh and Pine streets.

Mr. Fritz and his combo performed in Gaslight Square in the mid-1960s. He had a long-term gig at the Breckenridge hotel in Frontenac, and also performed on the Admiral and at the Chase Park Plaza and Ritz-Carlton hotels. Jazz greats such as trumpeter Cootie Williams, singer Nancy Wilson and singer-pianist Buddy Greco often sat in at the Breckenridge, Mr. Fritz recalled in a Post-Dispatch article in 1998. He said he was particularly fond of big band jazz.

"I love that energy, that power on stage that transfers to the people on the dance floor," he said. "We're talking swing, tango, mambo, cha-cha and Latin salsa."

Visitation will be held from 10 a.m. to noon Monday at the Ethical Society of St. Louis, 9001 Clayton Road, Ladue, followed by a memorial service. Interment is private.

In addition to his son, among the survivors are his wife, Deborah; another son, Matthew Fritz of St. Louis County; a daughter, Jennifer Thissen of Wildwood; two sisters, Rosemary Wilson of Little Rock, Ark., and Carolyn Gleason of Des Peres; and two grandchildren.

R.I.P.: Anne Marie Moss

http://www.reverbnation.com/annemariemoss

Anne Marie Moss was one of the greatest living jazz and popular singers of her time. She was born in Toronto 6 Feb 1935. Except for lessons in breath control from Portia White in 1955, she did not study formally, but she was an excellent voice and jazz teacher. In the 1950s she appeared on CBC TV variety shows and toured 1956-8 in Canada and the USA with the saxophonist Don Thompson. In 1959 she joined Maynard Ferguson's big band in the USA, where she also sang with the Count Basie Orchestra and replaced Annie Ross briefly in the jazz vocal trio Lambert, Hendricks & Ross. In 1961 she married, and began singing with, the US singer-guitarist Jackie Paris. The two appeared together until 1980 in nightclubs across the USA and made the LP Live at the Maisonette (Different Drummer 1004). Moss resumed her solo career in 1980, recording the album "Don't You Know Me?" (Stash ST-211, issued in 1981) appearing in concert, nightclubs, and at colleges. She performed on several occasions in Toronto during the 1980s. Moss taught voice privately and, beginning in 1987, at the Manhattan School of Music, New York into the mid 90's.

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Jozef Van Wissem & Jim Jarmusch @ Le Poisson Rouge

Our good friends at Le Poisson Rouge have offered to our readers a pair of tickets to each of these upcoming shows. First up, this Monday, Dutch lutenist Jozef Van Wissem will be performing with legendary filmmaker (and guitarist) Jim Jarmusch, in support of their album collaboration "Concerning the Entrance into Eternity," out now on Important Records. Opening the night are Matteah Baim and Sophia Knapp. To enter to win a pair of passes, email tickets@othermusic.com.

And for those of you who missed out on tickets to the now sold out Four Tet show on Saturday, March 10th with Mike Slott opening, here's one more chance!
Email giveaway@othermusic.com to enter. Good luck!

LE POISSON ROUGE
158 Bleecker St.
NYC, NY

Dannielle DeAndrea live @ Steamers, tonite!

TONITE, MAR 1, 8PM-MID
NO COVER ALL AGES
CALL 714-871-8800 TO RSVP
AUSTRALIAN VOCALIST DANNIELLE DEANDREA

Steamers Jazz Club and Cafe
138 W. Commonwealth Ave
Fullerton, CA 92832

Bunker ticket giveaway - Sandwell District

We know a lot of Other Music regulars are going to be heading to Public Assembly for tomorrow night's installment of the Bunker, with residents Spinoza, Eric Cloutier and the rest of the crew hosting a Sandwell District showcase in the backroom featuring: Function, Silent Servant and Rrose!

Simultaneously in the front, Amsterdam's Juju & Jordash will officially join forces and Lebanon's Morphosis will be making his return to the Bunker as well. Phew. You know what to do, enter to win a pair of tickets by emailing contest@othermusic.com. They'll notify the two winners by email tomorrow afternoon.

TONIGHT, FRIDAY, MARCH 2
PUBLIC ASSEMBLY
70 N. 6th St.
Williamsburg, Brooklyn

SHM-CD of the Month - "Fuse One"

SHM-CD of the Month
Fuse One: "Fuse" (CTI) 1981

Rating:
**** (musical performance)
***** (recording, mixing & remastering)

Produced by Creed Taylor
Recorded by Rudy Van Gelder @ Van Gelder Studios, Tom Vicari @ Westlake Audio & Evergreen Studio, and Jack Malken & Michael Barry @ Secret Sound Studios
Mixed & Digitally Remastered by Rudy Van Gelder @ Van Gelder Studios
Cover Photo: Creed Taylor
Album Design: Ed Caraeff

Featuring: John McLaughlin, Larry Coryell, Stanley Clarke, Will Lee, Joe Farrell, Ronnie Foster, Jeremy Wall, Jorge Dalto, Victor Feldman, Don Grusin, Suzanne Cianni, Leon "Ndugu" Chancler, Tony Williams, Lenny White, Michael Epstein, Paulinho da Costa, Roger Squitero, Hugh McCracken, David Nadien, Jonathan Abramowitz, Gerald Tarack, John Pintaville, Charles Libove, Barry Finclair, Jan Mullen, Max Ellen, Richard Sortomme, Charles McCracken
Legendary engineer Rudy Van Gelder (RVG) & the no less legendary producer Creed Taylor were pictured at Van Gelder Studio, in NJ, during the remastering sessions of the CTI albums that were released in Japan, in the "CTI RVG SHM-CD Series" distributed by King Records.
The above shot (reproduced in all the OBI strips attached to this SHM-CD series) was done by another dear friend, the great NY-based Japanese photographer Takehiro Tokiwa, with whom Arnaldo DeSouteiro had the honor to work some years ago, when Tokiwa-san was invited to do the pics for the Asian issue of Paula Faour's debut album on JSR (Jazz Station Records), "Cool Bossa Struttin'."

For the very first time, 20 CTI titles from the 70s acame out on SHM-CD format (some of the albums from the 60s, from the A&M/CTI era, had appeared before, such as Wes Montgomery's best-selling "A Day In the Life").
AND, also for the first time ever, such albums were digitally remastered, in 2009!, by the man who recorded most of them during the CTI heyday in the early 70s, the wiz Van Gelder, under the direct supervision of Creed Taylor!!!
The liner notes were written by Arnaldo DeSouteiro, Ira Gitler, Leonard Feather, Toshio Handa, Shoich Yui and Masa Asanishi.
The booklets preserve the original LP artworks, done mostly by the unmatched team of Pete Turner (front cover photos) and Bob Ciano (album design).

There's one big mistake in this particular Fuse One item, though. Track # 2, Bedrich Smetana's "Waterside" is credited to Santana! Jesus!
*********
All previous CTI CDs released in Japan in the past 25 years had been remastered at King Studios by such engineers as Seiji Kaneko and Kuniaki Takahashi, sometimes under Arnaldo DeSouteiro's supervision; and all the CTI CDs released in the USA and Europe by Sony had been remastered by experts like Tim Geelan and Mark Wilder, with whom DeSouteiro worked respectively in the first domestic releases of such titles as Deodato's "In Concert - Live at Felt Forum" and Jobim's "Stone Flower."

CD Reissue of the Month - "Caldera: Sky Islands"

CD Reissue of the Month
Caldera: "Sky Islands" (Capitol/EMI Music Japan) 1977/2011

One of the rarest items on the Jazz 9999 Forecast series, Caldera's "Sky Islands" is arguably the masterpiece recorded by the cult LA-based group led by the Argentinian keyboardist-arranger-composer Eduardo del Barrio (aka Eddie Del Barrio), better known for the songs he wrote for Earth Wind & Fire, including their mega-hit "Fantasy."

"Sky Islands" was the second of four excellent albums that Caldera recorded for Capitol between 1975 and 1979. Originally released in 1977, features the then-newcomer vocalist Dianne Reeves on the first two tracks (the radio-friendly title tune and the gorgeous "Ancient Source"), with the group line-up consisting of Eduardo del Barrio (acoustic piano, Fender Rhodes, Moog, Roland & Oberheim Polyphonic synths), Jorge Strunz (acoustic guitar, electric guitar, percussion), Steve Tavaglione (flutes & saxophones), the late Carlos Vega (drums), Dean Cortez (electric bass), Hector Andrade (timbales, congas, percussion), and the Brazilian musician Mike "Baiano" Azevedo (congas, percussion), who wrote the last track, "Pescador."

The list of special guests includes keyboardist Larry Dunn, drummers Chester Thompson and Ralph Humphrey, flugelhorn master Ralph Rickert, percussionist Ray Armando (where are you now, Ray?) and a string section masterfully arranged & conducted by Eduardo's brother George Del Barrio. Fusion at its best!

DVD of the Month - "Michael Brecker Quindectet: Angel of Repose"

DVD of the Month
Michael Brecker: "Angel of Repose/Live in Japan" (JazzDoor) 2012

Rating: ***** (musical performance & sonic quality)

A stunning 80-minute performance filmed live @ Blue Note jazz club in Tokyo, Japan, on February 12, 2004, during the promo tour of the "Wide Angles" album for Verve. A chamber-jazz masterpiece!
Featuring: Gil Goldstein, Boris Kozlov, Antonio Sanchez, Daniel Sadownick, Adam Rogers, Roger Rosenberg (superb on the bass clarinet solo), Bob Sheppard, Dan Willis, Robin Eubanks, Alex Spiagin, Peter Gordon, Joyce Hammann, Meg Okura (fantastic on violin!), Louis Martin & David Eggers.

Vocal CD of the Month - "Yvonne Washington: Trust In Me"

Vocal CD of the Month
Yvonne Washington with Gary Norian: "Trust in Me" (Mercator Media) 2011

Rating:
**** (musical performance & sonic quality)

Produced by Gary Norian & Brad Sayles
Arranged by Gary Nirian
Recorded & Mixed by Brad Sayles @ KUHF Studios (Houston, TX)

Long one of the busiest and most versatile singers on the Houston scene, Yvonne Washington is about to step onto the national stage with "Trust in Me," her new Mercator Media CD. Pianist Gary Norian, her preferred musical partner for the last decade, arranged and co-produced the duo date, which highlights their unique musical empathy.

"Gary gives me the room that I need to move around," says Washington. "Stuff comes out of me that I didn't even know I had in me. Sometimes we get real surprised." In fact, the CD takes its name from the Etta James hit "Trust in Me" -- because "musically that's what we do," says the singer. "With the piano and voice fully exposed," adds Norian, "we hoped to achieve a simple, raw, and pure performance -- an intimacy that will beckon you right into the room with us."

Repertoire on the new disc consists for the most part of familiar standards, but what Washington and Norian do with "Pure Imagination," "My Funny Valentine," and "What a Difference a Day Makes" is quite uncommon. Washington's varied vocal influences include Mahalia Jackson, Shirley Caesar, Aretha Franklin, Jackie Wilson, Sam Cooke, Barbra Streisand, and Ella Fitzgerald. There's even a tip of the hat to Louis Armstrong in her playful reading of "A Kiss to Build a Dream On."

Drawing on those and other influences, including her childhood fondness for country music and her teenage infatuation with the Beatles, Washington has developed a singing style all her own, one that makes ample use of sustains and octave leaps and is rife with the syllable-splitting curlicues associated with gospel and soul music. And while she weaves wondrous melodic contours, her enunciation remains spot on as she cuts to the emotional cores of the lyrics. She is a jazz singer in the truest sense, and, as Norian notes, she never sings a song the same way twice.

"It's kind of like the best of both worlds," Norian says of playing for Washington. "I can get really deep harmonically and do very intricate, creative things, but it's tied in with the vocalist who's telling the story. I'm supporting that. I'm trying to make the sound more emotional and propel the pulse and the harmony so that the story can be told in the best possible way."

Born in 1949 in San Antonio, Texas, Yvonne Washington started singing in church in her teens, then at talent shows and in clubs in Austin, where she attended college. She also made her recording debut there early on, cutting an R&B single for a local label with trumpeter Leo Polk's band. In 1973 Yvonne and her husband relocated to Houston, and she's maintained a busy singing career with regular engagements in town as well as in Austin, San Antonio, and New Orleans. Her first CD, "Holiday with Yvonne Washington," was released locally in 2002. She was invited to Hollywood in 2000 to sing the title tune of the MGM motion picture "Autumn in New York" by Greg Curtis, a Southern California record producer who had once attended Houston's High School for the Performance and Visual Arts with her daughter. Although Washington's rendition didn't make the final cut of the film, it can be found on the "Autumn in New York" soundtrack CD on the Hollywood label.

Chicago native Gary Norian (b. 1964) began classical piano studies at age 6 but developed a passion for jazz piano in his teens. He studied at the University of Miami and credits pianist Vince Maggio, one of his instructors, for helping him develop an appreciation for the art of accompaniment. After a detour from jazz in the late 1980s as keyboardist with Exposé, a Miami pop group with six Top 10 hit singles, he moved to Houston in 1999 and settled into the jazz scene, performing with visiting New York trumpeters Randy Brecker and Marvin Stamm as well as with many Houston-area musicians. Norian released his own solo piano CD, "Heart First," in 2006, and with his trio backs Bryan Anthony on the vocalist's just-released Mercator CD, "A Night Like This." In recent years he's begun to compose tunes in the tradition of the Great American Songbook; both Washington's and Anthony's CDs feature brilliant originals by Norian.

Instrumental CD of the Month - "Henning Sieverts: Symmethree"

Instrumental CD of the Month
Henning Sieverts: "Symmethree" (Pirouet) 2012

Rating: ***** (musical performance & sonic quality)

Produced & Engineered by Jason Seizer
Recorded (June 10 & 11, 2011) & Mixed (November 27, 2011) @ Pirouet Studio, Munich
Mastered by Christoph Stickel @ MSM Studios, Munich
Cover Design & Artwork: Konstantin Kern

Featuring: Henning Sieverts (acoustic bass, cello), Ronny Graupe (electric guitar) & Nils Wogram (trombone)

A truly perfect album. Great interplay in astounding 10 tracks (all composed by Sieverts, with "Nine on Twelve" and "Nine O.M." based on a symmetrically constructed nine-tone scale developed by French composer Olivier Messiaen that always fascinated Sieverts); great mix with Wogram's trombone on the right channel, Graupe's guitar on the left, and bass (or cello) in the middle. With these three musicians, it all sounds incredibly easy - the themes and motifs bubble out like water from a wellspring. The listener never senses the kind of effort that can go into playing pieces of this sort of difficulty, simply because these three musicians' music has a lot of spirit and soul. This music is fun and beautiful!

The internationally acclaimed bassist, cellist, and composer Henning Sieverts has appeared on over 100 CD productions, including the Pirouet CDs "Glow," "The Inward Song," "Soprano," "Serendipity" and "Mirage." Sieverts has recorded eleven albums under his own name; among them are the Pirouet albums "Symmetry," "Blackbird" and now "Symmethree." Sieverts has been honored with numerous prizes and awards, including the first prize of the International Society of Bassists Jazz Competition (1991), the Bavarian State Music Award (2004), the New German Jazz Award 2009, and the Echo Jazz Award 2010 as best player for his Pirouet CD "Blackbird."

Henning Sieverts has played with hundreds of musicians, among them such major players as Benny Bailey, Phil Woods, Marc Copland, Roy Hargrove, Ngyen Le, Richie Beirach, Jim Black, Julian Arguelles, Marc Ducret, John Hollenbeck, Achim Kaufmann, Christof Lauer, Jean-Marie Machado, Michael Moore, Tom Rainey, Brad Shepik, Andy Sheppard, Tyshawn Sorey, Chris Speed and Norma Winstone. Since 2003 Sieverts has been a regular moderator of the jazz show at the Bavarian radio.

"DownBeat" - March 2012

Cover Story
George Benson -- DownBeat catches up with legendary guitarist George Benson, who is a 10-time Grammy winner and a NEA Jazz Master. His latest album, Guitar Man, puts the spotlight on his virtuoso skills as a guitarist, but it also showcases his graceful vocals. Benson's collaborators on the album include pianist Joe Sample, bassist Ben Williams and drummer Harvey Mason.

FEATURES
Anthony Braxton -- Saxophonist Anthony Braxton is undoubtedly one of the most significant American musicians of the last 40 years. His career has included hundreds of recordings, including the four-CD opera set, Trillium E, released in October by New Braxton House.

Enrico Rava -- Italian trumpeter Enrico Rava sat down at the 2011 Barcelona Jazz Festival for a DownBeat "Winefold/Blindfold Test," which combined the famous Blindfold Test with a selection of wines chosen by a sommelier.

John Hollenbeck -- In addition to leading his own groups (including his Large Ensemble and the Claudia Quintet), percussionist John Hollenbeck is a professor of jazz drums and improvisation at the Jazz Institute Berlin. The John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble won the Rising Star-Big Band category in the 2011 DownBeat Critics Poll.

Special Section: Jazz Camp Guide -- DownBeat's annual guide has descriptions of over 100 jazz camps, including information on dates, applications, costs, faculty and more.

Special Section: Indie Life -- In this special section, DownBeat profiles independent artists and labels who are creating great music and figuring out creative ways to get their music out to fans. Included are WJ3 Records, Brooklyn Jazz Underground and Jeff Hedberg.

PLAYERS
Helen Sung (piano)
Otis Brown III (drums)
Colin Stetson (saxophone)
John Taylor (piano)

BLINDFOLD TEST- Donny McCaslin live at the 2011 Monterey Jazz Festival

THE BEAT
* Chick Corea's November residency at the Blue Note in New York City.
* Record label profile: Landslide Records
* Vinyl Freak
* Caught: Otis Taylor's Trance Blues Festival in Boulder, Colorado; Hiromi in Chicago;
Kennedy Center Honors for Sonny Rollins in Washington, D.C.

WOODSHED
* Master Class: by Ignacio Berroa
* Transcription: JD Allen tenor saxophone solo

GEAR BOX
* Cakewalk Z3TA+ 2 synthesizer
* RS Berkeley/Drake Mouthpieces Frank Foster Legends
* Rico padded sax strap
* Line 6 Pod HD Pro effects processor
* Mel Bay Publication's Metric Modulations, Volume 2: Contracting And Expanding Time Within Form, book/DVD, written by Ari Hoenig and Johannes Weidenmueller
* Roland R-26 portable recorder

TOOLSHED
* Yamaha Custom Z soprano saxophone
* Vigier USA GV Wood single cutaway guitar
* P. Mauriat PMB-302 GL baritone saxophone
* Godin 5th Avenue Jazz Piano Black HG guitar

JAZZ ON CAMPUS
* Slide Hampton's Master Class, McGill University

REVIEWS - Hot Box
* The Dave Brubeck Quartet, Their Last Time Out (Columbia/Legacy)
* Trio M, Guest House (Enja/Yellow Bird)
* Opus 5, Introducing Opus 5 (Criss Cross Jazz)
* Gregory Tardy, Monuments (SteepleChase)

CD Reviews
* Jason Stein Quartet, The Story This Time (Delmark)
* Sharon Lewis & Texas Fire, The Real Deal (Delmark)
* Jeff Williams, Another Time (Whirlwind)
* São Paulo Underground, Três Cabeças Loucuras (Cuneiform)
* Matt Baker, Underground (self release)
* Rez Abbasi's Invocation, Suno Suno (Enja)
* Emmet Cohen, In The Element (BadaBeep)
* Aki Takase & Han Bennink, Two For Two (Intakt)
* Taylor Ho Bynum Sextet, Apparent Distance (Firehouse 12)
* Burnt Sugar, All Ya Needs That Negrocity (Avant Groidd)
* Ernie Watts Quartet, Oasis (Flying Dolphin)
* Yuval Cohen, Song Without Words (Anzic)
* Adam Rudolph, Go: Organic Orchestra: 1 (Meta)
* William Carn's Run Stop Run, William Carn's Run Stop Run (Mythology)
* David Budway, A New Kiss (MaxJazz)
* Marilyn Mazur, Celestial Circle (ECM)
* Theo Bleckmann, Hello Earth! The Music Of Kate Bush (Winter & Winter) combined with the new album from Kate Bush, 50 Words For Snow (Anti-)
* Guillaume Bouchard, Bleu Et Blanc (self release)
* Jason Palmer, Here Today (SteepleChase)
* Hal Galper Trio, Trip The Light Fantastic (Origin)
* Ehran Elisha and Roy Campbell, Watching Cartoons With Eddie (OutNow Recordings)
* Cinque, Catch A Corner (Alma Records)
* Michael Bates, Acrobat: Music For, And By, Dmitri Shostakovich (Sunnyside)
* Melissa Aldana, Free Fall (Inner Circle)
* Greg Abate, Horace Is Here: A Tribute To Horace Silver (Rhombus Records)
* Sam Yahel, From Sun To Sun (Origin)
* John Colianni Quintet, On Target (Patuxent Music)

Jazz Column
* Erin Dickins, Nice Girls (self release)
* Lisa Lindsley, Everytime We Say Goodbye (Blondsongstress)
* Judith Wexler, Under A Painted Sky (Jazzed Media)
* Yvonne Washington (with Gary Norian), Trust In Me (Mercator)
* Sophie Milman, In The Moonlight (Entertainment One)

Blues Column
* Duke Robillard Band, Low Down And Tore Up (Stony Plain)
* Morgan Davis, Drive My Blues Away (Electro-Fi)
* Cornell Dupree, I'm Alright (Dialtone)
* Scott Ramminger, Crawstickers (Arbor Lane)
* Mark Nomad, Torch Tones (Blue Star)
* Laurie Morvan, Breathe Deep (Screaming Lizard)
* Diunna Greenleaf, Trying To Hold On (Blue Mercy)

Beyond Column
* Mastodon, The Hunter (Warner Bros).
* Earth, Angels Of Darkness, Demons Of Light, Vol. 1 (Southern Lord)
* Wolves In The Throne Room, Celestial Lineage (Southern Lord)
* Krallice, Diotima (Profound Lore)
* YOB, Atma (Profound Lore)
* Rwake, Rest (Relapse)
* Cave In, White Silence (HydraHead)

Historical Column
Nessa label's historical releases:
* Roscoe Mitchell, Before There Was Sound
* Von Freeman, Have No Fear
* Eddie Johnson, Indian Summer
* Fred Anderson, The Missing Link

Book Review Column
* David Evanier, All The Things You Are: The Life Of Tony Bennett (Wiley)

Ted Curson live in NY, March 6

Join us for an exciting musical evening on Tuesday evening, March 6 when Trumpet Great Ted Curson brings his dynamic ensemble to the John Birks Gillespie Auditorium in the New York City Baha'i Center at 53 East 11th Street (between University Place & Broadway). This evening Ted Curson’s ensemble features Ted Curson on Trumpet, Michael Cochrane on Piano, Bruce Cox on Drums, Calvin Hill on Bass, and Paul Abler on Guitar. There will be 2 shows at 8:00 and 9:30 p.m. Please call 212-222-5159 for reservations and information.

An outstanding and flexible trumpeter, Ted Curson is well-known for his work with Charles Mingus’ quartet (which also included Eric Dolphy and Dannie Richmond). He studied at Granoff Musical Conservatory; moved to New York in 1956; played in New York with Mal Waldron, Red Garland, and Philly Joe Jones; and recorded with Cecil Taylor (1961). After the 1959-60 Mingus association (which resulted in some classic recordings), Curson co-led a quintet with Bill Barron (1960-65), played with Max Roach, and led his own groups. He spent time from the late ‘60s on in Europe (particularly Denmark) and then returned to the US in 1976.

Ted Curson has led sessions for Old Town (1961), Prestige, Fontana, Atlantic, Arista, Inner City, Interplay, Chiaroscuro, and several European labels. A dogmatic approach to playing one’s own way that has marked the work of his mentors - Mingus, Miles, Dolphy and Cecil - is what defines Curson’s incredibly difficult to pinpoint approach, one that seems to hit every adjective in the book while harping on none. At present he has over 20 solo albums to his credit. He is sought after as a music instructor and is in demand for jazz clinics and concerts at universities and music schools throughout the world.

Admission is 15.00, 10.00 for students.
Tickets will be sold at the door, or call 212-222-5159 for reservations and information.
For more about the NYSAJE and other acts at "Jazz Tuesdays", check out our website at www.jazzbeat.com

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DIANA KRALL IN CONCERT
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The following performances have just been announced:

June 29, 2012
Cape Cod Melody Tent
Hyannis, MA

June 30, 2012
South Shore Music Circus
Cohasset, MA

July 6, 2012
Chautauqua Institution Amphitheater
Chautauqua, NY

August 28, 2012
Wells Fargo Center for the Arts
Santa Rosa, CA

Pre-Sale tickets for the above dates will be available tomorrow, February 29 at 12pm local time:
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Diana Krall Premium Ticket Bundle Package includes:
One Premium Reserved Seat Ticket
One Limited Edition Signed Diana Krall Poster
One Exclusive Diana Krall T-Shirt
One Diana Krall Cork Screw
One Commemorative VIP Laminate

Regular pre-sale tickets will also be available.

R.I.P.: Red Holloway

(born May 31, 1927, in Helena, Ark;
died february 25, 2012, in Morro Bay, CA)

From www.redholloway.com:

James W "Red" Holloway was born in Helena, Arkansas on May 31, 1927 to a mother who played piano and a father who played violin. At the age of five, he and his mother moved to Chicago, where he graduated from DuSable High School and attended the Conservatory of Music.

During grade school, Red played banjo and harmonica in school bands. His first musical instrument, a tenor sax, was given to him by his stepfather when he was twelve years old. During high school, he was in the DuSable big band, where he sat next to fellow classmate and reedman Johnny Griffin. At sixteen and while still in school, he was hired for his first professional engagement by bassist Gene Wright, who later went on to become a member of the Dave Brubeck Quartet. Red played with Wright's Big Band for three years at the Parkway Ballroom. When Red was nineteen, he joined the Army, where he became bandmaster for the U.S. Fifth Army Band.

After completing his military service, Red returned to Chicago and played with Yusef Lateef and Dexter Gordon, among others. In 1948 he was asked by blues vocalist Roosevelt Sykes to join Sykes' U.S. Road Tour. During this time, other bluesmen heard him and subsequently hired him, including Nat "Lotsa Poppa" Towles, Willie Dixon, Junior Parker, Bobby "Blue" Bland, Lloyd Price, John Mayall, and B.B. King. Because of these associations, Red became typecast, perhaps unfairly, as primarily a blues player.

During the Fifties, Red continued playing in the Chicago area with such notables as Billie Holiday, Muddy Waters, Chuck Berry, Ben Webster, Jimmy Rushing, Arthur Prysock, Dakota Station, Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson, Wardell Gray, Sonny Rollins, Red Rodney, Lester Young, Joe Williams, Redd Foxx, Aretha Franklin,a nd many others. During this same period, he also played road tours with Danny Overbee, Sonny Stitt, Memphis Slim, Lefty Bates, and Lionel Hampton.

The public finally became aware of Red during the Sixties as a result of his association with organist "Brother" Jack McDuff. Another member of this band was guitarist George Benson. The band was together from 1963 to 1966 and performed road tours in the States as well as concerts in Europe. Red recorded several albums with McDuff on Prestige, including the hit single Rock Candy.

In 1967 Red moved to Los Angeles and in 1969 became the coordinator of talent and member of the house band at the famed Parisian Room. This association lasted for the next fifteen years and saw Red hire virtually everyone who was anyone in the world of jazz and blues. Red quit as talent coordinator for the Parisian Room after his request for a cost-of-living raise was denied. The club closed eight months later.

During Red's tenure at the Parisian Room, he took occasional breaks for European, South American, and Japanese tours. From 1977 to 1982, he and altoist Sonny Stitt became a duo and cut two records on Catalyst: Forecast; Partners - Sonny and Red. In fact, it was Sonny who encouraged Red to take upthe alto saxophone, believing that anyone who could also play clarinet, flute, piccolo, piano, bass, drums, and violin could probably master yet another instrument. Sonny was right, and Red is equally proficient on both tenor and alto. In The Encyclopedia of Jazz in the Seventies, Leonard Feather wrote that "Holloway is capable of generating great excitement with his big sound and hard-driving, mainstream-modern style."

Since Stitt's untimely death in 1982, Red has spent most of his time touring the States and Europe, either as a single or with his own band. He is now in partnership with trumpeter Clark Terry, with whom he has recorded on both Concord and Delox.
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-0227-red-holloway-20120227,0,3139932.stor

Red Holloway, 1927-2012
Highly regarded L.A. tenor, alto saxophonist played with A-list stars
by Don Heckman for Los Angeles Times
February 27, 2012

Red Holloway, a tenor and alto saxophonist who was one of Los Angeles' most highly regarded jazz artists for more than four decades, died Saturday in San Luis Obispo. He was 84.

The cause was kidney failure, complicated by several strokes, according to family spokeswoman Linda Knipe.

Holloway's career reached from the post-World War II arrival of bebop to 21st century jazz fusion. Whatever genre he played, the powerful muscularity of his sound, combined with his propulsive sense of swing, consistently made him one of the most listenable tenor saxophonists in jazz.

His creative focus was enhanced by far-reaching versatility. "Music to me is music," he told Jazz Journal International some years ago. "I really don't care what kind it is. I just try and figure out how I can make that particular type of music swing. That's what is important."

Holloway had already affirmed that viewpoint early in his career, when he played with an A-list of artists covering the full gamut of jazz -- from Sonny Rollins and Lester Young to Red Rodney, Lionel Hampton and dozens of others.

His capacity to enhance his style with lyrical expressiveness also made him a favorite companion to singers such as Etta James, Joe Williams, Carmen McRae and Jackie Ryan.

James W. Holloway was born May 31, 1927, in Helena, Ark. His mother was a pianist and his father played violin. He and his mother moved to Chicago when Holloway was 5, where, at his mother's insistence, he began piano lessons, supplementing them with banjo and harmonica.

After taking up the tenor saxophone at the age of 12, Holloway played his first job as a professional musician in 1943 with bassist Eugene Wright's Dukes of Swing. At 19, he joined the U.S. Army, eventually serving as headmaster of the U.S. Fifth Army Band.

When he was discharged from the service, Holloway returned to Chicago, frequently playing with such artists as Roosevelt Sykes, Willie Dixon and B.B. King. And his intimate understanding of the subtleties of the blues always remained an essential part of his music.

In the early '60s, he began to achieve visibility with the wider jazz audience via a 2 1/2-year run with organist Jack McDuff, working alongside newly arrived guitarist George Benson.

Holloway moved to Los Angeles in 1967. Two years later he played in the house band at the famed jazz club the Persian Room. He retained the position for 15 years, meeting and often performing with some of the biggest names in the jazz world.

From 1977 to 1982, Holloway was teamed with veteran bop alto saxophonist Sonny Stitt, recording a pair of albums together. In addition to more than a dozen albums under his own name, he recorded with McDuff, Clark Terry, Plas Johnson, Horace Silver, George Benson and John Mayall.

In the mid-'60s, Holloway moved to the Central California coastal town of Cambria, where he ran unsuccessfully for mayor in 2004. From the early '90s until this year , he played a prominent role in the town's Famous Jazz Artist Series. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Los Angeles Jazz Society in 2004.

Holloway, who was divorced, is survived by sons Michael and John; daughters Lianne Holloway, Marsha Aregullin and Denice Holloway-Rivers; six grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. A third son, James "Binkey" Holloway, died in 1995.

FOR THE RECORD:
The LA Times obituary said that he died in San Luis Obispo. He died at a nursing home in Morro Bay. It also misidentified the Parisian Room music venue in Los Angeles as the Persian Room. Additionally, the obituary said that Holloway ran unsuccessfully for mayor of Cambria, his home since the mid-1980s. The post is an honorary position, not an elected one.

Vinyl releases in February

All available from www.jazzloft.com

Miles Davis - Agharta (180g 2-LP Set)
Miles Davis - Pangaea (180g 2-LP Set)
Soft Machine - Live at Het Turfschip, Netherlands 1970 (180g 2-LP Set)
Van der Graaf Generator - H To He, Who Am The Only One (180g)
Grateful Dead - Terrapin Station (200g)
Captain Beefheart - Translucent Fresnel: Live 1973 (180g 2-LP Set)
Pink Floyd - The Wall (Remastered) (180g Capital)
Roots - Stablemates (180g In and Out) (Arthur Blythe, Chico Freeman & Sam Rivers!)
Roots - Saying Something (180g In and Out)
Ravi Shankar - The Master Musicians of India (180g Doxy)
Glenn Gould - Bach: Goldberg Variations (180g Doxy)
Bobby Hamilton - Dream Queen (180g Superfly)
Boz Scaggs - Come On Home (180g Friday Music)
Bushman's Revenge - A Little Bit of Big Bonanza (Rune Grammophon)
Motorpsycho and Stale Storlokken - The Death Defying Unicorn (Rune Grammophon)

Tonight is THE Night! Anna Mjoll & Lew Soloff live @ Vibrato with the Pat Senatore Trio

Your best choice for tonight in California: the LA-based Icelandic jazz princess Anna Mjoll with trumpet master Lew Soloff and the Pat Senatore Trio live @ Herb Alpert's Vibrato in Bel-Air (2930 Beverly Glen Circle). 9PM!

NO COVER but reservations are a must.
Call 310.474.9400.

For more details, please check:
http://jazzstation-oblogdearnaldodesouteiros.blogspot.com/2012/02/anna-mjoll-live-vibrato-with-pat.html

Scot Albertson & David Pearl Duo @ Tomi Jazz, NYC, Feb. 28

R.I.P.: Mike Melvoin

(born May 10, 1937, in Oshkosh, WIS, USA;
died February 23, 2011, in Burbank, CA, USA)

For more detailed info, please check his official website: www.mikemelvoin.com
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Mike Melvoin Dies at 74; Studio Musician, Composer
by Don Heckman - Los Angeles Times
February 24, 2012

Mike Melvoin, a pianist-composer-arranger whose credits reach from Stan Getz and Frank Sinatra to Michael Jackson and the Beach Boys, and who was the first active musician to serve as national president of the Recording Academy, has died. He was 74.

A first-call pianist and keyboardist since the early 1960s, Melvoin died Wednesday at Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, said his daughter Wendy. He had cancer.

In addition to his studio work, Melvoin remained strongly linked to jazz, his first musical love, performing on a regular basis in local clubs, frequently touring internationally and releasing numerous recordings of his own groups.

Pianist-composer Michael Lang, also a busy member of the Los Angeles community of jazz and studio musicians, expressed high praise for Melvoin's many accomplishments, noting his "unique, significant contributions to jazz and popular music as a pianist, arranger and songwriter as well as a composer of film music."

Jazz alto saxophonist Phil Woods, who performed on Melvoin's album "It's Always You," was equally enthusiastic about another area of Melvoin's skills -- his songwriting. "They're not just your regular Tin Pan Alley," Woods said. "It's the American song form raised a notch. Mike is like fine wine."

Among the numerous sessions in his lengthy resume, Melvoin played on such memorable recordings as Frank Sinatra's "That's Life," Natalie Cole's "Unforgettable," the Jackson 5's "ABC," and "Pet Sounds" and "Good Vibrations" by the Beach Boys.

"It was a marathon," Melvoin said, mentioning the "Good Vibrations" recording dates while describing the ups and downs of life as a studio musician. "Six double sessions," he recalled. "All for one song."

His name turns up with remarkable consistency among the backing players for one varied hit after another, including Helen Reddy's "I Am Woman," John Lennon's "Stand By Me," Barbra Streisand's "Evergreen" and Quincy Jones' all-star collective, "We Are the World."

As a busy studio musician for a good part of his career, Melvoin was always quick to defend the skills and the versatility of the players who performed, as he did, on recordings, films, television shows and beyond, bringing life to every style and genre of music.

"Studio guys get sold short," he told the Boston Herald in 2004. "There's an innate distrust that people have that if you do one thing, somehow that's the authentic article, and if you do more than one thing, somehow it's not. The truth is the great studio players are the authentic article in everything they do."

In 2011, when the Recording Academy made changes in the Grammy awards structure, Melvoin was in the vanguard of the movement to rescind the category changes. As a pianist whose career had touched every stylistic area, he was especially bothered by the effect of the changes upon instrumentalists.

"Everyone who has ever played an instrument," he said in a public statement, "has had the possibility of receiving recognition from the Grammys gutted. That cannot and will not stand."

Melvoin's advocacy for the recognition of instrumental musicians continued until his death.

Michael Melvoin was born May 10, 1937, in Oshkosh, Wis. He began to play piano at the age of 3, and was an active performing musician as a teenager.

After graduating from Dartmouth College in 1959 with a bachelor's degree in English, he moved to New York, focusing on a career as a professional musician. He relocated to Los Angeles in 1961.

Melvoin, who was separated from his wife, Sandra, is survived by twin daughters Wendy and Susannah, both singer-songwriters; four grandchildren; a brother; and Melvoin's companion, actress Theresa Russell. His son, Jonathan, a member of the group Smashing Pumpkins, died in 1996 of a fatal heroin overdose.

Bria Valente's new single, "2 Nite," produced by Prince, comes out today!

IN STORES WORLDWIDE - OUT NOW
AVAILABLE ON 12" VINYL, CD SINGLE, LIMITED PICTURE DISC & DIGITAL FORMATS

Purple Music proudly announces the release of a new club anthem: "2NITE" by Bria Valente. Produced by PRINCE!

BRIA VALENTE (born Brenda Fuentes) is an American singer based in Minneapolis. She released her debut album, ELIXER as part of a three-album set with Prince's LOtUSFLOW3R and MPLSoUND in 2009, which debuted at #2 on the top Billboard albums chart. She first met Prince at the age of 17 at Paisley Park Studios while working with keyboardist Morris Hayes and later began her association with Prince, contributing vocals to his 2007 album "Planet Earth."
In 2009 she recorded the Elixer album, singing lead vocals with Prince on guitar and Morris Hayes providing beats.

2NITE comes out today, Feb 23, on vinyl, CD-single and picture disc formats featuring brand new club mixes by Jamie Lewis (Purple Music) & David Alexander (Icon Collective).

R.I.P.: Kay Davis

Kay Davis, Coloratura, Soared in Wordless Songs, Dies at 91 - by Dennis Hevesi for The NY Times
February 23, 2012

Kay Davis, who wove her haunting soprano tones through many of Duke Ellington's records in the 1940s, often using her voice as an instrument within the orchestra, died on Jan. 27 at her home in Apopka, Fla. She was 91.

Her death was confirmed by her son, Edward Lawson Wimp.

Ms. Davis performed with the Ellington orchestra from 1944 to 1950. As a member of a trio of female vocalists -- the others were Joya Sherrill and Maria Ellington (no relation) -- she offered the maestro an opportunity to reprise something he had long relished: wordless vocalization.

"She was a classically trained coloratura," Phil Schaap, curator of Jazz at Lincoln Center, said in an interview on Tuesday, noting that Ellington had used "the high-register female voice as instrumental color" in the middle and late 1920s. Among the best-known wordless works was "Creole Love Call," sung by Adelaide Hall in 1927.

"With Kay Davis, he returned to this practice," including revisiting "Creole Love Call" in 1944, Mr. Schaap said. "And he took a work that featured the trombone, 'Blue Light,' renamed it 'Transblucency,' and blended trombone with her highest-notes coloratura voice."

While "Transblucency" may be her signature piece in the genre, Ms. Davis recorded several other noteworthy wordless vocals -- many accompanied by the renowned trombonist Lawrence Brown -- including "Violet Blue," "Minnehaha" and "On a Turquoise Cloud."

Kay Davis was born Kathryn McDonald in Evanston, Ill., on Dec. 5, 1920, one of three children of Samuel and Katherine McDonald.

"As early as the age of 10 I knew I wanted to sing professionally," she said in a 2001 interview with Northwestern magazine, published by Northwestern University, from which she received a bachelor's degree in 1942 and a master's degree a year later.

As one of only six African-American students enrolled in the school of music at the time, she was not allowed to stay in the residence halls. "We used to drool over Willard Hall, which was right across from the music building," she said. "I had a good time at Northwestern, but there were those limitations."

Ellington came to Evanston in 1944 and, after hearing Ms. Davis at a recital, asked her to join his band. She was soon singing alongside Ms. Sherrill and Al Hibbler. She and Mr. Hibbler handled the vocals on one of the Ellington band's best-known songs of that era, "I Ain't Got Nothin' but the Blues." A major moment in her career came on Nov. 13, 1948, when she sang Billy Strayhorn's "Lush Life," with Strayhorn at the piano, at Carnegie Hall.

Ms. Davis left the band in 1950 to marry Edward Wimp; he died in 1991. Besides her son, she is survived by a grandson.

"She had a purity of tone and accuracy of intonation that added another instrumental voice to the Ellington palette," Richard A. Wang, a jazz scholar and an associate professor emeritus of music at the University of Illinois at Chicago, said.

"If one made a classical reference, it would be to the sounds in Sergei Rachmaninoff's 'Vocalise' -- also a wordless vocal," he added.

Barbra Streisand re-signs with Columbia

(Diana Krall & Barbra Streisand during the "Love Is The Answer" recording sessions in 2009)

Barbra Streisand Re-Signs with Columbia Records, Will Celebrate 50 Years (Exclusive)
by Shirley Halperin
Hollywood Reporter, February 22, 2012

Barbra Streisand will remain on Columbia Records, the Sony Music-owned label has announced today.

The Grammy- and Oscar-winning singer and actress has been with the label for 50 years, having originally signed in the early 1960s. She released her first album, "The Barbra Streisand Album," in 1963. Only crooner Tony Bennett has been on the label longer.

"From the day Goddard Lieberson signed me almost 50 years ago, Columbia Records has been my recording home, and I am thrilled to continue that partnership for many years to come," said Streisand in a statement.

Added Steve Barnett, Chairman and COO of Columbia Records: "There are stars and there are superstars, and there's Barbra Streisand... Columbia Records is proud to play a vital role in her extraordinary career. We're looking forward to the next chapter in our long and fruitful relationship."

In July, The Hollywood Reporter wrote about "heated" talks to keep Streisand in the Sony family. Manager Marty Erlichman told THR at the time, "I'm not peddling Barbra. I will stay with Columbia unless I can't make a deal, then I'll go elsewhere."

To commemorate the landmark anniversary, Columbia will also release a 12-set DVD featuring unprecedented access into Streisand's professional and personal life. The DVD set will consist of never before seen footage directly from Barbra's archives.

Streisand has sold over 70 million albums in the U.S. including her most recent Grammy nominated album, "What Matters Most," which was her 31st to reach the Top Ten.

Diana Krall's ticket pre-sale & VIP offer alert

The following Diana Krall performance has just been announced:
August 10, 2012
Pala Casino at Starlight Theater
Pala, CA

Pre-Sale tickets for the show in Pala, CA will be available today, February 22 at 12pm local time:
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A Pre-Sale VIP offer will be available for this show!

Diana Krall Premium Ticket Bundle
Package includes:
One Premium Reserved Seat Ticket
One Limited Edition Signed Diana Krall Poster
One Exclusive Diana Krall T-Shirt
One Diana Krall Cork Screw
One Commemorative VIP Laminate

Regular pre-sale tickets will also be available.

Carol Welsman live @ Steamers, this Friday

This Friday, February 24, at 8:30pm, Canadian jazz pianist & vocalist Carol Welsman will be appearing @ Steamers. Call 714-871-8800 for reservations.

Steamers Jazz Club and Cafe
138 W. Commonwealth Ave
Fullerton, CA 92832
www.steamersjazz.com

Hugh Masakela and DJ Prince Segue Segue at NJPAC, Feb. 24-25

Turn up the heat with NJPAC's Cheza! Festival of African Music, February 24th and 25th!

Get your weekend jumpin' with the Afropop Dance Party, Friday, February 24th at 7:30. Party with DJ Segue Segue, creator of 91.5 FM’s Afropop Worldwide, spinning everything from old-school Afropop to the fresh new beats of today. Cash bar and refreshments available.

Then, feel the energy when South African, multi-instrumentalist Hugh Masekela graces the hottest stage in Newark. Rolling Stone calls him, "One of the most thrilling live performers around.” Experience the best of world music fusion, Saturday, February 25th at 7:30.

Fresh off the release his newest CD, "Jabulani," South African trumpet and vocal superstar Hugh Masekela headlines the inaugural Alternate Routes Cheza! Festival of African Music at NJPAC February 24-25. An Afropop Dance Party featuring Sean Barlow (aka DJ Prince Segue Segue) spinning sounds from across the African continent kicks off the festival.

On Saturday, February 25, 2012 at 7:30pm, South African superstar Hugh Masekela brings his mix of jazz and pop to R&B, disco and Afro-Pop to the Arts Center’s intimate Victoria Theater. The festival begins on Friday, February 24 at 7:30pm when DJ Prince Segue Segue (aka Sean Barlow), the creator of the nationally syndicated radio program Afropop Worldwide, spins old-school Afro-Pop—rumba, soukous, salsa, samba, Afrobeat, chimurenga, juju, Manding swing and mbalax—as well as some of the new generation of dance favorites like coupé décolé, kuduro, baile funk.

Tickets are $48 and $58 for Masekela and $16 for the dance party, and are available by telephone at 1-888-466-5722, at the NJPAC Box Office at One Center Street in downtown Newark, and at www.njpac.org. To purchase tickets for groups of 10 or more, call 973-297-5804. The festival is made possible in part by American Express and the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation.
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About the Artists:

Hugh Masekela first picked up the trumpet in 1954. His music reflects his upbringing as a boy in Witbank, South Africa combined with his interest in the sounds created by African America musical pioneers such as Duke Ellington, Horace Silver, Ma Rainey and many others. Masekela was inspired to hone his trumpeting talent by Kirk Douglas’ portrayal of American jazz trumpeter Bix Beiderbeck in the film “Young Man With A Horn.” After leaving South Africa during Apartheid, Masekela, with help from Miriam Makeba and Harry Belafonte, began recording. Masekela has performed across the world, toured with Paul Simon, conceived a Broadway Musical (“Sarafina”), created the Botswana International School of Music, and has recorded dozens of albums.

At the end of January, Masekela released "Jubulani," his new CD, as part of the Listen 2 Africa Series from Listen 2 Entertainment Group. Sometimes wise, sometimes comical, oftentimes both, the 11-song set includes many traditional songs that date back several generations in South African wedding tradition. And Verve released "Hugh! The Best of Hugh Masekela," a compilation produced by Germany's top trumpeter Till Bronner.

DJ Prince Segue Segue (Sean Barlow) is the creator and producer of public radio's "Afropop Worldwide," the first nationally syndicated program in the US devoted to world music, and www.afropop.org. Hosted by Georges Collinet from Cameroon, the program reaches listeners throughout the US, Africa and Europe. He consults for numerous festivals, educators, film-makers, and venues.

Calendar Listing:

New Jersey Performing Arts Center presents Cheza! Festival of African Music: February 24, 2012 at 7:30pm

Hugh Masekela
February 25, 2012 at 7:30pm

New Jersey Performing Arts Center
1 Center Street, Newark, NJ 07102
Tickets: $48-$58 for Hugh Masekela, $16 for the dance party
Available at www.njpac.org, 1-888-466-5722 or at the box office at 1 Center Street, Newark, NJ


NJPAC Box Office Hours:
Tues. – Sat. Noon to 6pm
Sun. Noon to 5pm
Mon. CLOSED
* For special performance on sales, hours may vary.

By Phone:
Mon. – Sat. 10am to 6pm
Sun. Noon to 5pm
* For special performance on sales, hours may vary.

New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC), located in downtown Newark, New Jersey, is the sixth largest performing arts center in the United States. As New Jersey’s Town Square, NJPAC brings diverse communities together, providing access to all and showcasing the State’s and the world’s best artists while acting as a leading catalyst in the revitalization of its home city. Through its extensive Arts Education programs, NJPAC is shaping the next generation of artists and arts enthusiasts. NJPAC has attracted over 6 million visitors (more than one million children) since opening its doors in 1997, and nurtures meaningful and lasting relationships with each of its constituents. Visit www.njpac.org for more information.

Programming has been made possible in part by funds from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts and by funds from the National Endowment for the Arts.

NJPAC is a wheelchair accessible facility and provides assistive services for patrons with disabilities. For more information, call 888-GO-NJPAC.
ORDER TICKETS & Get More INFORMATION about Hugh Masakela at NJPAC: http://njpac.org/show_events_list.asp?shCode=15828

Randy Weston live in Tribeca, Feb 25

Randy Weston's African Rhythms Orchestra Celebrates James Reese Europe & Harlem Hellfighters
Saturday, February 25, 8PM At Tribeca Performing Arts Center NYC
Tickets: $35, $45, $55

Randy Weston, internationally renowned pianist, composer and bandleader, has performed throughout the world. "Weston has the biggest sound of any jazz pianist since Ellington and Monk as well as the richest most inventive beat," -jazz critic Stanley Crouch stated.

James Reese Europe was an American ragtime and early jazz bandleader, arranger, and composer. In 1918, Lt. James Reese Europe made military and music history by being the first African American to lead troops into battle during World War One and to spread the 'jazz germ' throughout continental Europe. Mr. Europe obtained a Commission in the New York Army National Guard, where he saw combat as a lieutenant with the 369th Infantry Regiment (the "Harlem Hellfighters"), the band of which he directed to great acclaim.

Randy Weston at Tribeca Performing Arts Center
African Rhythms Orchestra: T.K.Blue — saxophones, Neil Clarke — percussion, Alex Blake — bass, Howard Johnson — tuba, Vincent Ector — drum, Ayodele Ankhtawi Maakheru — banjo and Robert Trowers - trombone.

Obama: "This seat is yours"

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Anna Mjöll @ Vibrato with The Pat Senatore Trio and special guest Lew Soloff, Feb. 24

Iceland's First Lady of Jazz, Miss Anna Mjoll -- one of the top singers in the current jazz scene -- plays another near-guaranteed sellout at Herb Alpert's Vibrato in Bel-Air Friday, February 24th, 2012 at 9PM. As usual, with the always impeccable Pat Senatore Trio, but this time presenting another dear friend of mine, trumpet master Lew Soloff, as her very special guest.

Anna Mjoll and The Pat Senatore Trio
Special guest: Lew Soloff

Anna Mjöll / vocals
Pat Senatore / bass
Ed C / piano
Bob Leatherbarrow / drums
Lew Soloff / trumpet

Herb Alpert'S VIBRATO
2930 Beverly Glen Circle
Bel Air, CA 90077
310.474.9400

February 24th 2012 - 9 PM.
NO COVER but reservations are a must.
Call 310.474.9400 for res.

“The sweetest voice in the current Jazz scene. Period." —Arnaldo DeSouteiro

“Lightly twisted, jazzy..." —Los Angeles Times

“Do yourself a favor and catch her now, at an intimate small club, before she breaks out into larger venues." —Charles Andrews, Music Forums Moderator, HomeTheaterSpot.comLew Soloff, a true virtuoso musician, is likely best known in the USA for his work with Blood, Sweat & Tears and as a first-call session player. But, in Japan, the man is almost a pop star, due to countless tours promoting dozens of albums (and videos) he recorded as the main soloist of the Manhattan Jazz Quintet as well as with another ensemble led by arranger David Matthews, the Manhattan Jazz Orchestra. Not to mention his own CDs as a leader.

Soloff has also worked for two decades with The Gil Evans Orchestra. He has played with everyone who's everyone from George Benson to Barbra Streisand, from Tony Scott to Tito Puente, from Bob James to Marianne Faithful. And I had the honor to record with him for the first time back in 1987, in New York, during the sessions for Yana Purim's "Harvest Time" album with Herbie Hancock. Lew makes frequent guest appearances with jazz orchestras all over the world, such as the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra and the Carnegie Hall Jazz Orchestra. Now I can't wait the see him in action with the gorgeous and multi-talented Anna Mjoll.(Lew Soloff & Anna Mjöll)

"Big Band Vocalists: My Music" Premieres March 3 on PBS

TJL Productions announced today that "Big Band Vocalists," the latest installment of the popular "My Music" series, will premiere on PBS stations nationwide March 3, 2012. Hosted by Nick Clooney (whose sister, Rosemary Clooney, is among those featured on the show) and Peter Marshall, "Big Band Vocalists" showcases the timeless "crooners and canaries" of the 1940s when they started their careers performing with orchestras and dance bands, before they became stars on their own.

Featuring rare archival film footage not seen in years, this nostalgic look back offers romantic favorites from an all-star roster of legendary artists including the Andrews Sisters, Louis Armstrong, Perry Como, Doris Day, Helen Forrest, Dick Haymes, Peggy Lee, Dinah Shore, Kate Smith, Jo Stafford and the Pied Pipers and many more. Among the classic World War II era bands backing up these iconic voices are groups led by Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Harry James and Stan Kenton.

"This music has never gone away and these singers are the reason why," says co-host Nick Clooney. "They are the finest popular vocalists we've ever known."

Highlights include Doris Day singing "It's Magic" in her film debut, "Romance on the High Seas," which received an Oscar nomination for best original song; the earliest known footage of Peggy Lee with a big band, singing "Why Don't You Do Right"; and a rousing rendition of "God Bless America" delivered by Kate Smith.

As a companion to the television special, "My Music" executive producer TJ Lubinsky has also compiled a new CD collection of big band favorites exclusively for PBS. The 5-CD set, available exclusively at PBS.org, offers three volumes of the most popular singers from the era -- original classics mastered from first generation tapes -- plus two discs featuring new stereo orchestra recordings of timeless big band hits.

"Big Band Vocalists: My Music" premieres March 3, 2012 at 8:00 p.m. on PBS nationwide and airs throughout the March pledge period. Check local listings for stations and times.

Upcoming Movie needs Songs with Retro Female Vocals

Below is a special opportunity that we wanted to give you a heads up about. Just got the word about this project today, and they need the music by 9:30 AM (PST) TOMORROW, Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012. You can find this listing under the Film/TV/Video Games (Film & TV) genre in the Submit Music section of your TAXImusic.com hosting site.

TOP MUSIC SUPERVISOR is URGENTLY looking for a song with Retro Style Female Vocals for use in an upcoming Feature Film. This spot will pay in the range of $2,500 to $10,000. The Supervisor on this one is looking for songs in the spirit of...

"I Want to See The Bright Lights" by RICHARD AND LINDA THOMPSON - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57PENuNVapc

"Hey Sparrow" by THE PEAKING LIGHTS -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRJO5lVYEPU

The instrumentation, atmosphere, and mood of "Hey Sparrow" works very well - but the tempo is too slow for this particular scene. NIKO AND THE VELVET UNDERGROUND also came up as a possible stylistic reference for this spot - but they DO NOT want a slow song. The director likes the juxtaposition of singing happy words with a melody and tone that doesn't sound that happy. As always- DO NOT copy or rip-off the referenced artists. You must own or control 100% of your composition and master recording. This is DIRECT to the Music Supervisor, so you will KEEP 100% of the income -- NO Publisher Splits! All submissions will be screened by a person hand picked by the music supervisor, on a YES/NO BASIS ONLY.

Please submit 1-3 songs online by TOMORROW at 9:30 AM (PST) Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012. TAXI # Y120222FM
TAXI, 5010 N. Parkway Calabasas, Suite 200, Calabasas, CA 91302, USA

CD of the Week - "Enoch Smith Jr.: Misfits"

CD of the Week
Enoch Smith Jr.: "Misfits" (Music4MyPeople Ent.) 2011

Rating: **** (musical performance & sonic quality)

Produced by Enoch Smith Jr.
Recorded & Mixed @ Peter Karl Studio (Brooklyn, NY)
Mastered by Katsuhiko Naito @ Avatar Studios (New York, NY)
Photos: Brian Cole
Cover Art: Sophia Dawson

Pianist/composer Enoch Smith Jr. has taken his own unconventional path to a rising career in music, the latest chapter of which is the release of his CD "Misfits." The new disc, on Smith's label Music4MyPeople Entertainment, is an engaging follow-up to his 2010 debut "Church Boy."

"Misfits" boasts eight originals by the Rochester, NY native, including "Wise Man," inspired by Ellis Marsalis; the instrumental "She Moves Me," written for his wife Gabriella; and "I Want You," composed for the 2007 independent film of the same title.

The opening "A Misfits Theme" -- which contains the lyric "Misfit, misfit, misfit/You will never fit in/Nonconformist creature of peculiar inclination" -- draws on the feeling Smith had when he first attended Berklee College of Music. A self-taught musician with extensive experience as a church pianist, Smith auditioned for admission to the school at the suggestion of his high school choir director and was accepted on the spot. At the time, however, he clearly needed to upgrade his formal musical skills. His years at Berklee were "amazing and intimidating and exciting," says Smith, who possesses a rich touch and profound sense of melody and groove all his own. "I definitely saw that I didn't fit into the mold."

Throughout the album, Smith receives agile support from his rhythm team of bassist Noah Jackson, a former Detroiter whom he first met, and played with, at the Greenwich Village jazz club Smalls; and drummer Sangmin Lee, a Seoul, South Korea-born Berklee colleague who, when not playing jazz in the U.S., tours with Korean pop superstar Rain. The ringing alto tones of Sarah Elizabeth Charles are featured on six tracks. Saunders Sermons (formerly with Maxwell and currently with the Susan Tedeschi-Derek Trucks Band) sings on two selections, Mavis Poole on one ("I Won't Complain," Smith's arrangement of the classic 1990 recording by the late Rev. Paul Jones).

Misfits' other non-originals include the jaunty run through Duke Ellington's hit "Caravan" (here credited only to Duke's trombonist Juan Tizol); and Paul McCartney's "Blackbird," penned as a salute to the Civil Rights Movement.

"I've always loved the Beatles," Smith reflects. "I always loved the way they arranged music, the vocals, and some of the unorthodox recording techniques. And 'Blackbird' is a song that goes with the Misfits theme. It talks about being free and breaking out of the box and not being chained with the structure you're presented with."

Enoch Smith Jr., 33, is a true "church boy" who was raised in Rochester in the Church of God by Faith, a Pentecostal denomination, where he began singing at age 3 in the children's choir. He later played drums for services, then got a chance to sub for the regular pianist, making his way through trial and error. "Growing up and playing mostly in church, you get a whole different side of what music is all about," he says. "For me, it was always more of a spiritual connection than a connection of the head."

Smith continues playing piano in two churches, serving as music director for the Calvary Baptist Church in Paterson, New Jersey, and United Palace Cathedral, in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan, a large church founded by the late "Reverend Ike."

In addition to his musical pursuits, Smith works as an aide to New Jersey Assemblywoman Elease Evans, for whom he writes, reviews, and researches legislation and meets with her Paterson-area constituents. Law was his original career choice, and he'd done several internships at Rochester law firms while still in high school. Then came that life-altering Berklee audition.

Although Oscar Peterson is his favorite pianist, he has a special fondness for Bobby Timmons, whose soulful music "encouraged me that you can go down this road and be successful with the skills you have," says Smith. "Of course, you'll grow, but you've already got what you need. Just own it."

Web Site: www.enochsmithjr.com

Other Music Mondays @ The Ace Hotel, NYC

Other Music returns to the gorgeous lobby of NYC's Ace Hotel for the rest of the month of February, each Monday night featuring an eclectic DJ set from 8 p.m. to midnight by one of their staff members. While you're at the Ace, check out Other Music's new release display by the front desk, where they've stocked Bollywood Bloodbath, the Big Pink, Mighty Sparrow, Porcelain Raft, and several other titles on CD and LP formats.

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20: DJ SCOTT MOU
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27: DJ AMANDA COLBENSON

ACE HOTEL
20 W. 29th St.
NYC, NY