Kenny Burrell News

The Nashville Jazz Workshop will present the Jim Ferguson Trio for the July 11 installment of its popular Snap On 2 & 4 series.

The show celebrates over a hundred years of Jazz. It will enthrall a worldwide audience by featuring star hosts, scintillating dance numbers, and live performances by today's international jazz stars.

Dee Dee Sharpe Godfathers of Groove: Reuben Wilson, Grant Green Jr., and Bernard Purdy Joey DeFrancesco with Christian McBride and Karriem Riggins Lalah Hathaway Mike Stern Band featuring Lincoln Goines, Lionel ... via Detroit News Online

“In my capacity as a jazz aficionado (and city official) we are going to do everything in our power to make sure the festival goes off smoothly and without a hitch”

East Coast meets Midwest for this year's Detroit International Jazz Festival. The 29th annual festival - the largest free jazz festival in North America - will salute the jazz and soul music of Philadelphia and ... via C & G Newspapers

The National Guitar Workshop is excited to announce the curriculum and guest artists for the 2008 season. via Harmony Central

The National Guitar Workshop is proud to announce its 25th Season of presenting outstanding week long music workshops across the country, and featuring guest artists such as Paul Gilbert, John Scofield, Lisa ... via Press Release News From 24-7 Press Re...

“Guitar gets ignored all too often in the jazz pantheon”

As a major jazz guitarist, Bobby Broom has for many years been hiding in plain sight. via All About Jazz

“She plays with tremendous fire. She can do pretty much anything she wants on the guitar.”

In addition to playing with the best of the best in the jazz world, including Charlie Byrd, Stanley Jordan, Kenny Burrell and Branford Marsalis, to name a few, Fox has achieved musical success and fame in her ... via HeraldTribune.com

The National Guitar Workshop has confirmed the John Scofield Trio and Kenny Burrell as guest artists for 2008. via All About Jazz

“But I didn't know much about that stuff then. I was as clean as the Board of Health”

Like so many other sleek, high-powered jazz musicians who rolled out of Detroit in the 1950s, trombonist Curtis Fuller quickly made his mark on the Big Apple's booming scene. via Hartford Courant

Free-flowing progressions of tone and color that are a synthesis of Eastern and Western motifs -- this could be a description of both the musical and visual art of Yusef Lateef. via Free Times

Well-known in jazz circles for his early work as a ubiquitous sideman with the likes of Gene Ammons, Kenny Burrell, Lou Donaldson and Red Garland and for fronting his own world class Latin jazz ensemble during ... via All About Jazz

“I could have a conversation with him about sax players, because he knows all about that stuff. So even though I was taking simple theory classes, I was able to relate, and from there I started to write tunes.”

If an arts foundation wanted to conduct a demographic survey of the stereotypical college graduate who leaves Pittsburgh as soon as humanly possible, it could just interview guitarist Matt Hudson at his home in ... via Pittsburgh City Paper

“The difference between a fable and a koan is that a fable tells you the moral”

A music festival, cultural marketplace and health fair put on by the medical school, with jazz maven James Janisse handling the emcee duties. via LA Weekly