Music & Music Artists

As part of this year's San Francisco Jug Band Festival, Ezzie Films will debut its documentary on the roots and influence of jug band music. Chasin' Gus' Ghost, which features performances and commentary by many popular musicians including John Sebastian of the Lovin' Spoonful and the Grateful Dead's Bob Weir, will premiere on August 25. The "Chasin' Gus' Ghost Jug Band Extravaganza" concert will include many of the featured artists and take place on August 26...

Fifty years ago, Dizzy Gillespie blew "Star Spangled Banner" on his bent trumpet to herald the birth of the Monterey Jazz Festival. No one ever had seen or heard an all-star lineup like this: Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong, Sonny Rollins, Ernestine Anderson, Gerry Mulligan with Art Farmer, Benny Carter, Harry James, Max Roach, Shelly Manne, Dave Brubeck, and the Modern Jazz Quartet...

Right Down Front Ron Hudson-Jazz Images, a new book of jazz portraits by Seattle photographer Ron Hudson, is scheduled for release at Borders Books at the 50th annual Monterey Jazz Festival September 21. The 144-page hardcover book is a collection of intimate portraits taken by a gifted photojournalist who documented hundreds of jazz legends across America and beyond...

Duke Performances, the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, and the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz will present FOLLOWING MONK, a twenty-event festival taking place over six weeks and celebrating the 90th birthday of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer/pianist Thelonious Monk. FOLLOWING MONK - running September 15 through October 30, 2007 - offers three world premieres, special concert events (including the Kronos Quartet, Hank Jones/Charlie Haden, Charles Tolliver and his orchestra, Jason Moran, Jessica Williams and many others), commentaries and master classes, and a four-day Following Monk Institute exploring the genius of the jazz legend and his heritage in the small eastern North Carolina towns of Rocky Mount and Newton Grove...

Cooler in the Shade 2007 Innovative Music, Intermedia and Free Lemonade Lotus Music and Dance, 109 W. 27th, 8th Fl. (6th Ave.) 212/627-1076 $10. Sbwy: #1 to 28th St. Saturday, August 4, 8pm JASON KAO HWANG / EDGE Taylor Ho Bynum - cornet, flugelhorn Ken Filiano - string bass Andrew Drury - drums Jason Kao Hwang - violin, viola, composer...

Charlie Hunter's new album and first release on Fantasy Records (Concord Music Group), Mistico is a stunning combination of jazz, rock, fusion and signature Charlie Hunter guitar work, which defies easy categorization. Mistico is Hunter's first release for two years and is being hailed as his most ambitious release yet, while retaining his signature sound...

Cachaa 35 West 8th St (bet. 5th and 6th Aves.) NYC * tel 212-388-9099 sets at 9,11 and 1am * $10 cover, $15 min. Menus from selected restaurants available New York City's Newest Jazz Hang In The Heart of Greenwich Village Mon. Aug. 6 Toninho Horta and Friends Note: First set is solo and friends will join him later...

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