Sidney Bechet News

SEVENTH ANNUAL PANAMA JAZZ FESTIVAL, LED BY ARTISTIC DIRECTOR DANILO PEREZ, ANNOUNCES 2010 LINEUP Panama's annual cornerstone cultural event, the seventh Panama Jazz Festival will be held January 11-16, 2010 .

In late October, clarinetist Evan Christopher came to the Dakota and played tunes by Buddy Bolden, Sidney Bechet and Fats Waller.

Author, photographer and radio host Dennis Owsley will teach another series of jazz history classes beginning at 7:00 p.m., Thursday, November 5 at the Ethical Society of St.

A pianist and a cornetist will revisit the musical sounds that made their mark at Richmond's Gennett Recording Studios during the Starr-Gennett Foundation Legacy Concert.

"My one regret in life is that I am not someone else," Woody Allen has said. But sometimes the 72-year-old comic actor and prolific director gets close by transforming himself into a Sidney Bechet disciple and blowing clarinet with his New Orleans Jazz Band.

TONIGHT'S MUST-SEE : "Great Performances: Harlem in Montmartre," 8 to 9:30 p.m., PBS.

TONIGHT'S MUST-SEE : "Great Performances: Harlem in Montmartre," 8 to 9:30 p.m., PBS.

TONIGHT'S MUST-SEE : "Great Performances: Harlem in Montmartre," 8 to 9:30 p.m., PBS.

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Inspired by William A. Shack's book and using rare archival material from both France and America, "Harlem in Montmartre" features footage of some of the principal actors who played critical roles in shaping the jazz scene in Montmartre - Josephine Baker, Sidney Bechet, and Bricktop - but others are also featured who opened clubs, underwrote loans, ...

Ahmet Ertegun was born on July 31, 1923 and he passed away on December 14, 2006.

Buckingham Palace has been included on a shortlist of locations crucial to the development of jazz in Britain, part of a competition to pick the most important British site in honor of the 50th anniversary of the Miles Davis album Kind of Blue, the BBC reported.

TWO decades on from his first forays to Scotland, Courtney Pine had set aside the various street fashions he has sported over the years and reverted to the suit and tie in which we first saw him .

Wynton has returned to the Marciac Jazz Festival for the 20th straight year. You can join him at the festival via live webcast as he and his musicians sound check for their upcoming concert celebrating the music of Sidney Bechet on Thursday, August 6th at 10am ET.

Buckingham Palace has been included on a shortlist of the UK's most important jazz venues.

The label has some of his finest work, showing the benefits of Alfred Lion's atmospheric late-night sessions.

International jazz stars from around the world will be appearing at the 2009 Brecon Jazz Festival in Wales on Friday 7th through Sunday 9th August.

Hans Reichel's daxophone is a block of wood that changes the vibration frequency of a wooden blade inside another block with contact microphones.

For the past 14 years, the Panorama Jazz Band's variegated mash-up of world beats has consistently challenged expectations about what New Orleans jazz can be.

At any given moment, Allen Toussaint summons a world of piano: rumba-flavored blues, barroom trills, sonata ripples.