Event:
01/06/09 - 01/10/09
Tuesdays-Thursdays: 7:30 & 9:30pm; Fridays & Saturdays: 7:30, 9:30 & 11:30pm
Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola
New York, NY
Brazilian native pianist/singer/composer Eliane Elias brings her Trio to Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola for five nights. Featuring Eliane Elias, piano/vocals; Marc Johnson, bass; Rafael Barata, drums. Elias is known for her distinctive and immediately recognizable musical style which [...]

Bassist extraordinaire Henry “Skipper” Franklin has been performing five nights a week at Mission Inn Hotel in Riverside for very close to ten years. He has used a variety of pianists over the time, keeping the mix well stirred.
Of great pianists working in the business, Gary Matsumoto comes from a fine educational [...]

Sonny Fortune, the great post bop alto saxophonist, flutist and composer, appears at the Jazz Showcase in Chicago for four nights from Thursday, January 8th through Saturday, January 11th. Fortune is a riveting improvisor who can play inside or out with a logic and passion that never loses the listener. In his monthly Jazz [...]

Event:
Feb. 5th-7th, 2009
(7:30 nightly)
Wilmington, North Carolina

Since its inception in 1980, the North Carolina Jazz Festival continues a tradition of bringing world-class jazz musicians to Wilmington, North Carolina. During the weekend of February 5th through 7th, 2009, the 29th Annual North Carolina Jazz Festival will present concerts by more than a dozen traditional jazz artists who [...]

While the “Standards”are vanishing from many traditional radio stations one up-start internet station is trying to reverse the trend. As Frank Sinatra belted out ‘I did it my way’ so to has The Standard Media Group’s internet radio station MartiniInTheMorning.com. The North Hollywood, CA based MartiniInTheMorning.com is a totally listener supported internet radio station and [...]

Multi-reedist and Skokie, IL native John Temmerman’s new recording, Live in Evanston – John’s Mixed Bag captures his band in live quartet and quintet performances from 2007 and 2008. “It’s a live recording, which is a first for me… Probably the last,” he says drolly in his characteristic dry manner. “I’ve learned that live [...]

An audience of almost 3,000 clapped and cheered as Woody Allen and his jazz band gave their first ever concert in Poland on Sunday. The filmmaker, playing the clarinet, was accompanied by his New Orleans Jazz Band for a performance of traditional jazz.

“We will do our best to entertain you,” Allen told the audience at [...]

Legendary Jazz Pianist & Composer Fahir Atakoglu Live At Nighttown. Legendary Jazz composer Fahir Atakoglu will be performing live on January 22nd at 8:00 pm at Nighttown in support of his latest CD, Istanbul in Blue, which has reached #1 on the JazzWeek World Music Charts, at NightTown in Cleveland, Ohio.

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Planet Arts Recordings congratulates the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra (VJO) on receiving 2 Grammy nominations for their critically acclaimed recording Monday Night Live At The Village Vanguard. The two nominations were for Best Large Jazz Ensemble & Best Instrumental Arrangement.

After five Grammy-nominated and award winning studio recordings, the VJO decided to go live at the [...]

Event:
Jan. 2nd - 4th
(Fri-Sat: 8:00 pm & 10:00 pm; Sun: 7:00 pm)
Yoshi’s Jazz Club
Oakland, CA
Jazz legend Pharoah Sanders descends on the Bay area to play Yoshi’s in Oakland on Friday, January 2nd through Sunday, January 4th. He will also make his way to Santa Cruz for one night at the Kuumbwa Jazz Center [...]