News from JAZZ.FM91 - Canada's Premier Jazz Station http://www.jazz.fm Fri, 03 Sep 2010 04:02:37 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.jazz.fm/images/M_images/jazzfm91_rss.gif http://www.jazz.fm News from JAZZ.FM91 - Canada's Premier Jazz Station http://www.jazz.fm/content/view/3683/62/ JAZZ.FM91’s 2010-2011 Sound of Jazz Concert Series returns! The 35th season features 10 special concerts, September 2010 through March 2011, at The Old Mill Inn, Toronto. Buy Tickets (https://secure.e-registernow.com/cgi-bin/mkpayment.cgi?state=1662) News & Events - JAZZ.FM91 News Tue, 24 Aug 2010 12:55:16 +0100 http://www.jazz.fm/content/view/2035/62/ Saxophonist David Sánchez born 1968 in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico. Pianist/musicologist James Dapogny born 1940 in Berwyn, IL. Baritone saxophonist Serge Chaloff records The Fable of Mabel with pianist Richard Twardzik, 1954. News & Events - This Day In Jazz Fri, 03 Sep 2010 01:00:00 +0100 http://www.jazz.fm/content/view/3706/62/ Dan Pritzker has spent more than 15 years and millions of dollars trying to bring the story of a jazz singer of whom little is known to the big screen. Then he decided to release another movie first. And not just any other movie, but a silent, black-and-white movie about Louis Armstrong. News & Events - JAZZ.FM91 News Mon, 30 Aug 2010 10:09:39 +0100 http://www.jazz.fm/content/view/3696/178/ This is the fourth and final day of the 24th edition of the Red Sea Jazz Festival. Besides the highly visible, nine evening concerts, there is more that happened quietly behind the scenes. These events concentrated on sharing and educating. Each afternoon of the festival there were workshops for Israeli musicians conducted by Dave Douglas, Stefon Harris, Danilo Perez, Jeff “Tain” Watts and David Weckl. News & Events - JAZZ.FM91 Blog Thu, 26 Aug 2010 01:00:00 +0100 http://www.jazz.fm/content/view/3687/178/ It is another beautiful, hot day in Eilat with a high of 41 C. Today, I went for my first swim in the Red Sea. The water is the warmest I have ever been in (with temperatures hovering between 21 and 24 C)... and its salinity is among the highest in the world reaching 4.1 (Translated…. means I can float). News & Events - JAZZ.FM91 Blog Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:53:10 +0100 http://www.jazz.fm/content/view/3686/178/ Did you know..... Avishai Cohen, who is a musician and artistic director of the Red Sea Jazz Festival, is often confused with another Avishai Cohen (or is it the other way?) They are both from Israel, however they do play different instruments; RSJF Cohen plays the bass, the other Avishai Cohen is a trumpeter and brother of saxophonist Anat Cohen. News & Events - JAZZ.FM91 Blog Tue, 24 Aug 2010 01:00:00 +0100 http://www.jazz.fm/content/view/3682/178/ Eilat is a little piece of paradise removed from the hustle and bustle of the large cities normally associated with jazz festivals. It is tucked away in the southern most tip of Israel, on the Red Sea. The city is adjacent to the Egyptian village of Taba to the south, the Jordanian port city of Aqaba to the east, and within sight of Saudi Arabia to the south-east, across the gulf. News & Events - JAZZ.FM91 Blog Tue, 24 Aug 2010 10:56:33 +0100 http://www.jazz.fm/content/view/3681/62/ Bruce Cockburn continues to work on his new recording, his first studio album since 2006’s Life Short Call Now. News & Events - JAZZ.FM91 News Tue, 24 Aug 2010 09:46:40 +0100 http://www.jazz.fm/content/view/3656/62/ For decades jazz cognoscenti have talked reverently of “the Savory Collection.” Recorded from radio broadcasts in the late 1930s by an audio engineer named William Savory, it was known to include extended live performances by some of the most honored names in jazz — but only a handful of people had ever heard even the smallest fraction of that music, adding to its mystique. News & Events - JAZZ.FM91 News Tue, 17 Aug 2010 14:30:16 +0100 http://www.jazz.fm/content/view/3655/62/ Herman Leonard, a celebrated photographer whose iconic images of Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, and Frank Sinatra documented one of the most creative eras of jazz from the late 1940’s through the 1960’s, has died. He was 87. News & Events - JAZZ.FM91 News Mon, 16 Aug 2010 16:13:12 +0100 http://www.jazz.fm/content/view/3645/62/ The jazz singer and songwriter Abbey Lincoln has died in New York at age 80. Known for her independent and uncompromising style, Lincoln made records and acted in films in the 1950s and '60s, then saw her career surge again in the 1990s when she was a songwriter. News & Events - JAZZ.FM91 News Mon, 16 Aug 2010 10:32:59 +0100 http://www.jazz.fm/content/view/3639/62/ Thirty-one years after its founding, the Juno Award winning New World Jazz group Manteca will premiere music from an upcoming 11th album to be released internationally in 2011. Manteca will make two concert appearances, in its only shows in Toronto this year on September 22 and 23 at Glenn Gould Studio. News & Events - JAZZ.FM91 News Fri, 13 Aug 2010 11:36:43 +0100