Niagara
Smooth Jazz A Hot Ticket! June
16, 2005 - Southern Ontario has been experiencing a heat wave, and the weekend
was no exception! Mother Nature joined popular Smooth Jazz artists in really turning
up the heat, down on the farm in Winona, Ontario for Niagara's
Smooth Jazz Festival. More
NIAGARA'S
BEST TO PASS THE TEST, JUNE 11th &12th June
9, 2005 - Smooth Jazz takes center stage at Canada's first large scale Smooth
Jazz event in Winona, Ontario this weekend (June 11th and 12th). The two day festival
which features some of the genre's stand out stars, including Canadian flautist
Alexander Zonjic (he will perform with
Jeff Lorber and Kevin Whalum in Sunday's
line-up), Dave Koz (who brings along friends
Jeffrey Osborne, Praful, and Marc
Antoine), and Kenny G. More
Smooth
Jazz and Cool Cars June
8, 2005 - Everyone knows cool cars and smooth jazz go hand in hand. At least they
will every Thursday from June 30th - August 4th, at the Walter Chrysler Museum
in Auburn Hills, Michigan during the 2005 Cool Cars and Smooth Jazz Concert Series.
Attendees will be allowed to take a spin in a 2005 Chrysler, Jeep, or Dodge vehicle
before each evening show and the new Dodge Charger will also be spotlighted in
a special exhibition showcasing eight decades of Dodge vehicles. The free series
will feature Smooth Jazz stars Spryo Gyra,
Chuck Mangione, Marion
Meadows, Paul Taylor, Alexander
Zonjic, Ken Navarro, and Michael Brock
among others. - by Cheryl Philips Alexander
Zonjic Behind the Mic and Artist of the Month for June June
1, 2005 - For the first time ever Smooth Jazz Now has combined our "Artist
of the Month" and "Behind the Mic" features to highlight the career
of a proud Canadian who like his best buddy, Bob James, has been doing it long
before the format had a name. Alexander Zonjic is often mentioned in the same
breath as James, Earl Klugh or Jeff Lorber not just because they work together
and are close friends but without them this format may not exist. Zonjic was a
recent nominee for 'Broadcaster of the Year" at the Canadian Smooth Jazz
Awards and served as the event's host. The Flutist was recently nominated for
Radio Personality of the Year at the R&R magazine's Industry Achievement Awards
for his work as morning man at V98 in Detroit. Read
our latest Interview with Zonjic. Canada's
Niagara Falls for Smooth Jazz Superstars! May
4, 2005 - It is a smooth jazz fans dream come true as Kenny
G and Dave Koz share top billing at Niagara's
Best Smooth Jazz Concert, a two day extravaganza of Smooth Jazz on June 11 and
12, 2005 at E.D. Smith Fruit Farms in Winona, Ontario. (Some fine jam sessions
on a jam farm). On Saturday, June 11 smooth jazz sax man Dave
Koz takes to the stage with Rendezvous recording artists Marc
Antoine, Praful and Jeffrey
Osborne. Also featured throughout the day are Philadelphia's phenomenal group,
Pieces of a Dream and award winning Canadian smooth jazz talents Alfie
Zappacosta and The Clayton-Scott
Group.It's
the smooth saxophone of master musician Kenny G
on the evening of Sunday, June 12. Daytime ear candy includes guitarist Robert
Michaels, flutist Alexander Zonjic
with keyboardist Jeff Lorber and the entertaining
vocalist, Kevin Whalum. More Alexander
Zonjic Set To Host Canadian Smooth Jazz Awards January
2, 2005 - Congratulations to Alexander Zonjic
for being nominated for three Canadian Smooth Jazz Awards. The flutist who is
the "Artist Of The Month" on Smooth Jazz Now is up for Broadcaster Of
The Year, wind instrumentalist and his "Seldom Blues" CD is up for Album
Of The Year. No matter what the outcome Zonjic will have a busy night, he's slated
to host the event which will be held at the Oakville Centre for the Performing
Arts on April 10th, 2005. Read the new
interview with Zonjic from December 2004. Mary
Kirk's Smooth Jazz Cruise Journal February
10, 2004 - Mary Kirk co-owner of the Wave
94.7 in Hamilton was not only taking in all the great music at Warren
Hill's recent Smooth Jazz cruise - she was taking notes. Kirk along with Wave
contest winners experienced a smorgasbord of "A" list Smooth Jazzer's
including Hill, Jeff Golub, Chieli
Minucci, Peter White, Marion
Meadows, Euge Groove and Alexander
Zonjic. Here are her
notes. Warren
Hill & Alexander Zonjic in Concert in Hamilton October
27, 2003 - The Wave 94.7 FM presents one of the greatest Smooth Jazz concerts
to happen in Canada. The legendary Alexander
Zonjic and Warren Hill, Sunday, November
9th beginning at 7:30pm at the beautiful Liuna Station in Hamilton. Alexander
Zonjic, morning show host of Detroit's Smooth Jazz station: WVMV FM, studied
music at the University of Windsor. Alexander played for a while in the Bob James
band where he had the chance to collaborate with some of the greatest smooth jazz
artists of today.
Saxman,
Warren Hill is one of the brightest Canadian smooth jazz stars and one of the
most popular. Warren's recent release "A Warren Hill Christmas" was
one of the most listened to smooth jazz albums of 2002 and was critically acclaimed
for its "innovative arrangements" while featuring some of warren's more
traditional jazz abilities. Warren is in the studio currently working on his next
CD while also co-producing the exciting "Smooth Cruise 2004". This cruise,
incidentally, was so popular that the first sold out and a second had to be added
that also sold out!!
Tickets
for this show can be purchased at the Wave 94.7fm studios (589, Upper Wellington
Street, Hamilton Ontario, L9A 3P8) or by phoning 905-388-8911.
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to volunteer for 'Smooth Jazz Now' email us here
June
16, 2005 - Southern Ontario has been experiencing a heat wave, and the weekend
was no exception! Mother Nature joined popular Smooth Jazz artists in really turning
up the heat, down on the farm in Winona, Ontario for 
June
9, 2005 - Smooth Jazz takes center stage at Canada's first large scale Smooth
Jazz event in Winona, Ontario this weekend (June 11th and 12th). The two day festival
which features some of the genre's stand out stars, including Canadian flautist
June
8, 2005 - Everyone knows cool cars and smooth jazz go hand in hand. At least they
will every Thursday from June 30th - August 4th, at the Walter Chrysler Museum
in Auburn Hills, Michigan during the 2005 Cool Cars and Smooth Jazz Concert Series.
Attendees will be allowed to take a spin in a 2005 Chrysler, Jeep, or Dodge vehicle
before each evening show and the new Dodge Charger will also be spotlighted in
a special exhibition showcasing eight decades of Dodge vehicles. The free series
will feature Smooth Jazz stars 
June
1, 2005 - For the first time ever Smooth Jazz Now has combined our "Artist
of the Month" and "Behind the Mic" features to highlight the career
of a proud Canadian who like his best buddy, Bob James, has been doing it long
before the format had a name. Alexander Zonjic is often mentioned in the same
breath as James, Earl Klugh or Jeff Lorber not just because they work together
and are close friends but without them this format may not exist. Zonjic was a
recent nominee for 'Broadcaster of the Year" at the Canadian Smooth Jazz
Awards and served as the event's host. The Flutist was recently nominated for
Radio Personality of the Year at the R&R magazine's Industry Achievement Awards
for his work as morning man at V98 in Detroit. 
May
4, 2005 - It is a smooth jazz fans dream come true as 
January
2, 2005 - Congratulations to 
February
10, 2004 - Mary Kirk co-owner of the 
October
27, 2003 - The Wave 94.7 FM presents one of the greatest Smooth Jazz concerts
to happen in Canada. The legendary 
