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 [...]

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 [...]

About 4 months ago, we brought you a post about how to get the most out of jazz improvisation (”The Key To Jazz Improvisation: Be a Storyteller”). While that article addresses some specific points for individual learning and practice, the current one will help to focus more on the instruction in the classroom. [...]

In collaboration with Red Rock Entertainment, the Django Reinhardt tradition continues with the eagerly awaited release of “Gypsy Daydream.” This disc includes fourteen newly recorded songs, including two new pieces written by Red Rock Hot Club creator Rich D’aigle.
The Hot Club has been hailed as “Best Little Bit of Paris” by the Salt Lake [...]

Los Angeles-born pianist Max Haymer may not be familiar to you, after all the young 22 year old musician does not have much of a discography. If the music on his newest album Pickpocket Witness is any indication of what we can expect from Haymer in the future, then prepare to brace yourself because you’re [...]

Leading jazz internet radio station AccuJazz.com is expanding its online footprint with a new presence on micro-blogging site Twitter and popular blogging network Blogspot.
Program director Lucas Gillan will update the two sites with info related to AccuJazz and its parent company, AccuRadio, as well as his take on noteworthy jazz news. The Twitter feed [...]

The Jazz Heritage Center has begun holding its first exhibition, “Harlem of the West…Revisited.” Having started December 6th, 2008 and lasting until March 7, 2009, the Jazz Heritage Center will feature art and photography from The Fillmore bustling jazz era of the 1940s and 1950s. This free exhibit celebrates a unique and rediscovered chapter in [...]

No one can make a piano sing like Roger Kellaway, and nowhere is that more true than on his new release, Live at the Jazz Standard. Beautifully performed and recorded at New York’s legendary Jazz Standard, Kellaway and his usual cast of virtuosos - including guitarist Russell Malone and vibist Stefon Harris - bring to [...]

All Your Jazz is happy to bring you another interview. This time we talked with the popular a cappella group Straight No Chaser. Their debut release with Atlantic Records is entitled Holiday Spirits and was released in November of this year. The group was established in 1996 at Indiana University, and this [...]

Diana Krall describes her first record in three years as intimate, sensual - and erotic.
“I’m not coy single girl singing ‘Peel Me A Grape.’ I love that song but I don’t love it for me any more,” Krall, 43, said from her Vancouver, British Columbia home in an interview last week. “I feel more womanly, [...]