Eliane Elias - Just One Of Those Things

Heineken Concerts 1996 Eliane Elias & Convidados Jack Dejohnette: Drums Marc Johnson: Bass Mannolo Badrena: Percussion

Friday 8th May: London Horns (aka Most Wanted).

The Sound of the modern horn section. Three of London’s most talented and versatile musicians form a front line wall of texture, rhythm and virtuosity. The members of London Horns have shared the stage with such greats as Quincy Jones, James Morrison, Kyle Eastwood, Jamie Cullum, The Brand New Heavies, Amy Winehouse, Zero 7 and most recently from a world tour with Kylie Minogue. Whether playing as the horn section in a band or as a band in it’s own right, the ability to effortlessly cross styles like Funk, Jazz, Soul and House, allow the band to deliver an explosive live show whatever the context.

Rolling Stones - Sympathy for the Devil

From their Bridges to Babylon tour Sympathy for the Devil, St. Louis, USA.
Homage to Rock and Roll

Theresa Andersson - Oh Mary

08/20/08 - Haddon Heights, NJ - Oh Mary - Theresa opened for Hoots And Hellmouth at Haddon Park - for more info on Theresa go to:
www.myspace.com/theresaanderss onmusic

Theresa Andersson....

After her successful residencies at L.A.'s Hotel Cafe and S.F.'s Hotel Utah Saloon in January, Theresa Andersson returns to Cali and more. If you missed her, here's another chance to find out why The Los Angeles Times heralded her as an “Artist to Watch in 2009." Theresa has been garnering quite an audience thanks to her jaw-dropping live performance - don't miss this chance to see her up close and personal.
Raised in Sweden but based in New Orleans for over a decade, Theresa mines her sonic roots of both homes on her gorgeous album Hummingbird, Go! (Basin Street Records), an intriguing blend of breezy, 60s-era pop combined with soul, gospel and Motown that features guest appearances by fellow Scandanavian Ane Brun and legendary New Orleans producer and composer Allen Toussaint.
“Swedish vocalist blends chockablock rhythms, fairy tale instrumentation and dreamlike melodies for music that recalls a spacier, sultrier Feist." - Rolling Stone
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=34969

Tony Bennett Donates Instruments During Jazz Fest....

By STACEY PLAISANCE
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Jazz crooner Tony Bennett handed out dozens of new instruments Thursday to students at a charter school founded in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, hoping the tubas, trumpets and trombones would be used to carry on New Orleans' vibrant musical tradition.
Meanwhile, the second half of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival got under way.
As Bennett shook hands with students and posed for photographs, some of the $100,000 worth of instruments were laid out on a table at KIPP Believe College Prep, a public charter school established after Hurricane Katrina flooded 80 percent of the city in 2005. The school is one of five KIPP charter schools serving roughly 1,000 of the city's students since Katrina.

"This means instruments will be available to these students for years to come, to continue making music history in New Orleans," said Bennett, who was treated Thursday to performances of "Free Spirit Overture" and "My Funny Valentine" by the school's symphonic and jazz bands.
"These kids are amazing. What I heard today was real music. They played with feeling, with such heart," the 82-year-old Bennett said.
The donation effort was set in motion by a jazz fan from New York who won a "Big Give" contest hosted by Oprah Winfrey's magazine. The winner, Barry Jaffin, wanted to use his $5,000 in winnings to put instruments in New Orleans schools.
Bennett and a host of charitable groups such as Music Rising and the Mr. Holland's Opus Foundation got on board with the cause.
"We were all very excited," said 13-year-old Deon Butler, a 7th-grade trumpet player who performed in both the symphonic and jazz bands for Bennett. "Out of all the schools in the U.S., he came to hear us."
Bennett, a 15-time Grammy winner, released his signature "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" in 1962 and remains a popular performer.

Bennett was accompanied Thursday by his wife, Susan Benedetto, who runs the couple's New York-based Exploring the Arts program, which contributed to the instrument donation. On Friday, Bennett is slated to perform at Jazz Fest, which kicked off its second weekend Thursday.
School groups from all over the city were scattered across the festival grounds. Besides listening to music, the kids got some hands-on craft experience. Jared Wilkerson, a 4th-grader at Hynes Charter School in New Orleans, helped 67-year-old carpenter Ray Weimer cut a piece of cypress wood to make an old-fashioned roof shingle.
"That was fun," Wilkerson said, chuckling with schoolmates.
Jazz Fest veterans were also having a good time.

"Jazz Fest is my religion," said Nancy Gates, a Boston native who said she has not missed a Jazz Fest since 1988. "This is the mother of all festivals, the best festival in the world. It has the best food, the best music and the best crowd. I love it all."
For the Ulf family from Kensington, Md., the festival is the site of a family reunion each year. Parents David and Ellen Ulf fly to New Orleans with their 19-year-old son, Ryan, to visit their daughter, 24-year-old Ellen, who lives there.
"We always time the trip to catch Jazz Fest," Ellen Ulf said, as she handed out cochon de lait po-boys and alligator pies to the rest of the family in a shady spot under a tree near the Cajun and zydeco stage.
"We like this stage because we don't have music like this where we live," David Ulf said. "I can see Neil Young anywhere. I can only see Corey Ledet here."
Young is slated to perform on Sunday, the festival's closing day. Thursday's closing acts were guitarist Ben Harper, country singer Emmylou Harris and soul singer Marva Wright.

Richard Groove Holmes & Jimmy McGriff - Bean´s

Richard Groove Holmes with Jimmy McGriff two giants of the Hammond playin together in 1973 with Hammonds Concorde the melody Bean´s

Richard Arnold “Groove” Holmes....

Born: May 2, 1931 | Died: June 29, 1991
Richard Arnold “Groove” Holmes, Born Richard Arnold Jackson (Camden, New Jersey) was a jazz organist who performed in the hard bop and soul jazz genre. He is best known for his 1965 recording of “Misty,” and is considered a precursor of acid jazz.

Holmes burst onto the music scene in the early 1960s (his first album, on Pacific Jazz with guest Ben Webster was recorded in March 1961). An African-American, literally a heavyweight (approximately 300 pounds) and physically rotund in stature, he gained immediate respect with an inimitable style of his own. His sound was immediately recognizable in the upper register, but even more so because of his virtuosity in creating, undoubtedly, the most rapid, punctuating, and pulsating basslines of all the jazz organists. His Prestige recording of “Live at the Front Room” recorded in Newark, New Jersey is one of the great jazz performances on the Hammond-B3. He (Holmes) seemed to make fire jump from the Hammond organ the night of that live recording. Though his recording years were relatively brief, as he died at the less than advanced age of 60, he established a recognition that is stellar within the community of notable jazz organ giants, i.e. Jimmy Smith (The Sermon), Brother Jack McDuff (A Real Good 'Un), Jimmy McGriff (I've Got a Woman). His style whether ballad, standard, or uptempo straight ahead, was always soulful, as his nicknamed implied, he was a “Groove.”
He recorded many albums for Pacific Jazz, Prestige Records, Groove Merchant and Muse Records.

Holmes died after a long struggle with prostate cancer, having performed his last concerts on a wheelchair. One of his last gigs was at the 1991 Chicago Blues Festival with his longtime friend, singer Jimmy Witherspoon.
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/musician.php?id=7706

Tuesday 5th – Wednesday 6th May: RONNIE SCOTT’S 50TH PRESENTS... Jack Dejohnette & John Surman plus Donny McCaslin Quartet

DeJohnette’s drumming has graced recordings from the likes of Miles Davis, Charles Lloyd, Keith Jarrett, Pat Metheney and John Scofield, while UK-based saxophonist Surman is a true leader in the jazz scene as a well respected international figure. Having previously recorded a duet album, 1981’s Amazing Adventures of Simon Simon, these two contemporary jazz legends re-unite for two nights in the club, offering an unparalleled pan-Atlantic perspective on modern music.
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