Coryell, Auger, Sample Trio: Featuring Julian Coryell on guitar Karma Auger on drums Nick Sample on bass It's in the genes!! The sons of fusion legends Larry Coryell, Brian Auger, and Joe Sample have formed an exciting and fresh group that is packing clubs and garnering great press. Festivals are really excited about this group. A number of festivals are even booking the two generations together: Coryell, Auger, Sample Trio on the same bill with Brian Auger's Oblivion Express, Larry Coryell Trio, and Joe Sample...

RHYTHMflow Vacations and Group Travel, in conjunction with RHYTHMflow Radio is happy to announce Jazzy Montreal IV", their fourth annual group adventure to the Montreal Jazz Festival, Wednesday July 1st Monday, July 6th, 2009. It's the perfect way to kick-off the summer season. Celebrate the Independence of Canada (Canada Day) and The USA (4th Of July), along with the 30th anniversary of the Montreal Jazz Festival, while enjoying the European nuances of le belle cite...

Join us for an evening of Classic Jazz in a cabaret table setting. We’ll transform the Roswell VFW into a New Orleans style club to celebrate the works of jazz greats King Oliver, Kid Ory, Jelly Roll Morton and the great Louis Armstrong. Philip Carroll of The Atlanta Jazz Party handpicked the...

Singers Denise Thimes and Anita Rosamond and bassist Tom Kennedy (pictured) are among the musicians who will be on board for the fall 2009 edition of "The Jazz Cruise" produced by the St. Louis-based company Jazz Cruises LLC. The cruise is scheduled for November 8 - 15 on the Holland America ship We...

JAZZ music fans were left high and dry on Saturday as the much- publicised Stay Alive Jazz Festival was a no-show. According to placards posted around East London the festival, which was sponsored by Amathole District Municipality, Buffalo City Municipality and the Eastern Cape provincial government, was scheduled to start at noon at East London’s Jan Smuts Stadium...

The St. Louis-based traditional jazz and swing bands Cornet Shop Suey and the St. Louis Rivermen will be among the featured attractions at the 2009 Central Illinois Jazz Festival, which will be held Friday, January 30 through Sunday, February 1 in Decatur, Illinois.Other performers at the fest will...

The Portland Jazz Festival will present numerous free performances throughout Portland, February 13-22. Performances will take place at venues that include The Art Bar at the Portland Center for the Performing Arts, Rogue Ales Public House, West Caf and Dragon Fish at the Paramount Hotel. The ongoing PDX Jazz @ RiverPlace series at the RiverPlace Hotel will also present Portland vocalist Rebecca Kilgore, saxophonist Devin Phillips and pianist/vocalist Dave Frishberg...

While probing the mysteries of the Macintosh universe and meeting with frustrations, roadblocks and delights (man, this thing is FAST), I have continued to listen. Here are impressions of two of the CDs that have kept me company during my slam-bang self-tutorial and late-night iMac school. Carla Bley And Her Remarkable Big Band: Appearing Nightly (Watt/ECM). Somehow, this album got by me when it came out in late summer. Since it arrived a few days ago, I've listened to it repeatedly, chuckling, occasionally laughing out loud and shaking my head at Bley's ingenuity and the skill and good humor of her soloists. It had been too long since my last Carla Bley fix.Briefly, then, the premise of these pieces seems to be that nostalgia is what it used to be, only more fun. The title composition, "Appearing Nightly at the Black Orchid," was a commission from the 2005 Monterey Jazz Festival. It begins with Bley unaccompanied at the piano. She synthesizes a set that she might have played at the Monterey bar where she worked as a teenaged cocktail pianist in the 1950s. In one minute and twenty-seven seconds, she melds into a coherent whole, phrases from "I'll Be Seeing You," "My Foolish Heart," "Come Rain or Come Shine," "I've Got You Under My Skin," "Night and Day," "Here's That Rainy Day," "Stella By Starlight" and "Sweet and Lovely." Then the suite begins. Whether or not it fufills the CD booklet's tongue-in-cheek claim that it is "A Carla Bley Masterpiece in Four Parts," it is serious jazz orchestration at a high level. The leader's usual array of superior soloists has a field day with it. Bley was commissioned by a band on the Italian island of Sardinia to write the CD's first two pieces, "Greasy Gravy" and "Awful Coffee," around the theme of food. There are plenty of allusions to support the proposition..."Salt Peanuts," "Watermelon Man," "Tea for Two," "You're the Cream in My Coffee, " "Chopsticks," "Life is Just a Bowl of Cherries" and "Hey, Pete, Let's Eat Mo' Meat." Bley's "Someone to Watch," also loaded with quotes, and Ray Noble's "I Hadn't Anyone 'Til You" wrap up the album. The recording took place before an audience at a night club in Paris, so, naturally, Bley felt obligated to work in an orchestrated quote from "April in Paris...

Matisyahu, the kosher-pop singer, welcomes Hanukkah with his Festival of Lights series, which continues this week and next at Webster Hall in the East Village and the Music Hall of Williamsburg, in Brooklyn. Matisyahu deployed what may be the only large, mirrored, rotating dreidel in show business — a Jewish answer to a disco ball — at Webster Hall on Sunday night, the first night of Hanukkah. It was also the first of eight New York City shows for Matisyahu in his third annual Festival of Lights series, bringing different opening acts and guests each night. A large menorah was set up for a mid-concert lighting ceremony, with the blessings declaimed in Hebrew by an audience volunteer...

Aretha Franklin, Tony Bennett, Jakob Dylan, Joe Cocker, Spoon, Buddy Guy and Kings of Leon join the 40th anniversary of New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. Common doesn't commonly share a bill with Aretha Franklin, Tony Bennett, Jakob Dylan, Joe Cocker, Spoon, Buddy Guy and Kings of Leon, but that's how music rolls at the proudly eclectic New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, marking its 40th anniversary April 24-26 and April 30-May 3...

Christine Brewer, a leading dramatic soprano who will sing Brnnhilde in the Metropolitan Operas production of Wagners Ring this spring, does not leap to mind as a Handel interpreter. So the prospect of hearing her sing sacred arias by Handel in the final concert of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Centers annual Baroque Festival was very intriguing...

The 22nd annual Kiama Jazz and Blues Festival features something for everyone, the event will be celebrated on the 13th, 14th, 15th of March 2009 and will feature: Free jazz and blues in the park, concerts, cabaret, dance, eat to the beat, dinner jazz, breakfast jazz, jazz gospel service and an exhibition of previous Kiama jazz events at the old Fire Station...

The New York Times is reporting that General Motors is withdrawing its sponsorship from the Montreal Jazz Festival, one of the North American continent's most acclaimed annual jazz celebrations...

Today I'm proud to announce RVAjazzfest! The event is going to include performances by internationally renowned New York City trumpeter Steven Bernstein with Fight the Big Bull, as well as Brian Jones' Boots of Leather and Scott Burton's Glows in the Dark. To read more about each artist, go to the o...