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Patti Austin and Siedah Garrett Cultivating “Secret Garden”
July 7, 2008 - Grammy Award winning singer Patti Austin will team up with her friend famous vocalist Siedah Garrett for a new "all female" version of Quincy Jones all-star ballad “Secret Garden”. |
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John Legend Honoured as Humanitarian
 July 7, 2008 - Famous R&B singer, pianist and composer John Legend is not only an accomplished musician (winner of 5 Grammy Awards), but he is also known to serve various humanitarian causes. More.
Long Beach Jazz Festival
 July 7, 2008 - The 21st edition of Long Beach Festival will take place August 8th, 9th and 10th in Long Beach. The festival will host an amazing line-up of contemporary Jazz artists. More. |
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The hit will be the first single from Siedah's forthcoming yet to be titled CD. These two Grammy winners are calling all their DIVA friends -- from Ashanti to Jill Scott to Angie Stone to Maysa -- to see who will fill the remaining two slots. Patti says, "This project will show that woman at any age can be all that and more".
The original version of “The Secret Garden” featured famous R&B/soul singers Barry White, James Ingram, Al B. Sure, and El DeBarge, and appeared on Jones' 1989 album “Back On The Block”. Garrett, who like Austin sang backgrounds on many Jones' projects also appeared as a singer on that album
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Both Austin and Garrett earned their first Grammy Awards this year. Austin received the Jazz vocal Grammy for her live big-band set Avant Gershwin, while Garrett shared the best song written for a screen project Grammy for Dreamgirls - By Akbar Nour
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Robin Thicke Juggles Cats With Ease
 July 7, 2008 – Robin Thicke likes to multi-task. So much so that the singer says as well as a new CD, he’s also writing a movie score, a novel, a screenplay and his first poetry book. More.
Al Jarreau Ready with New CD
 July 5, 2008 - Seven time Grammy Award-winning vocalist and composer Al Jarreau is currently working on his next solo album, after his most recent musical work “Love songs” (a collection of some of his classics with covers of other favourites) came out in January 2008. More. |
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Late
Great Michael Brecker Wins 2 Grammy's
 February
10 2008 - It was another reminder tonight of just how much Michael
Brecker is missed. The late saxophonist picked up two
Grammy Awards, 'Best Jazz Instrumental Solo' for his tune
"Anagram" and the album it's from "Pilgrimage"
won 'Best Jazz Instrumental Album.' Brecker
died from complications of leukemia on January 13, 2007.
Other Jazz Grammy's went to Herbie
Hancock winning 'Best Contemporary Jazz Album' for "River:
The Joni Letters" and Smooth Jazz mainstay Patti
Austin picked up 'Best Jazz Vocal Album' for "Avant Gershwin."
Also congratulations to Terence Blanchard winning
'Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album' with "A Tale Of God's
Will (A Requiem For Katrina)." The 'Best Latin Jazz
Album' was "Funk Tango" by Paquito D'Rivera
Quintet. New Age album went to Paul Winter Consort picked up New Age album. - by John
Beaudin
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Beyonce Gets £500,000 for One Show
 July 3, 2008 – What would you do with £500,000? Maybe buy a dream home? Help a downtrodden charity or you could go really nuts and hire Beyonce? That’s right, for a measly £500,000 you could have Beyonce all to yourself – well kind of. More.
Queen Latifah Inks Deal for Fragrance!
 July 3, 2008 - Rapper-turned-actress Queen Latifah has signed a deal to create her own signature perfume for Florida-based Parlux Fragrances, E! Online reports. The product should be on the market by fall 2009. More. |
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Smooth
Jazz Christmas 2005
 September
28, 2005 - Smooth Jazz artists Dave
Koz, Brian McKnight, Chaka Khan, Eric
Marienthal, Vanessa
Williams, Norman Brown, David Benoit, Toni
Braxton, Rick Braun,
and Gerald Albright,
will all contribute to this holiday seasons "A Charlie
Brown Christmas Tribute". The album is due October 4th
from Peak Records.
Anita Baker will also
release a holiday album with Blue Note. "Christmas Fantasy"
hits stores October 4th, and will feature appearances by Joe
Sample, Larry Carlton, Nathan East, Ricky Lawson,
and all four members of The
Yellowjackets. Barry Eastman, who co-produces here, also
wrote three original tunes for the outing.
Diana Krall will deliver
her first Christmas album in 2005. The outing, "Christmas
Songs" will be released on Verve November 1st.
Dave Koz and friends, David
Benoit, Patti
Austin,
and Jonathan Butler will be hitting the road on "A Smooth Jazz Christmas
Tour". Dates are available on www.davekoz.com - by Cheryl Philips |
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Smooth
Jazz Goes Cruising Crazy
 February
21, 2005 - Seems like everyone is cruising these days. Smooth
Jazz Cruise pioneer Warren
Hill has just completed his second sell out full charter
while, almost at the same time, Bob
James was sailing on a musical journey out of San Diego.
Later in the year Rick Braun is leading a top-notch line up on a seven-day trip out of
Galveston and Warren Hill's 2006 event is already proving
to be a big early seller. Sandwiched among all this is the
"Dave Koz & Friends
At Sea" cruise that sails from San Diego on November
5 and is being managed by the same organization that made
Hills last event such a success. Calling at destinations
that include Mazatlan, Cabo San Lucas and Peurto Vallarta,
Koz has assembled a line up every bit as good as one would
expect from this master of live Smooth Jazz. Artists already
confirmed, and who performed on the Hill cruise, are Wayman
Tisdale, Kirk Whalum, Jeff Golub, and Jonathan
Butler. Joining them will be Marc
Antoine, Patti Austin, David Benoit, Chris
Botti, George Duke, Jeffrey Osborne and Praful. It's a line
up that promises to produce seven days of high quality Smooth
Jazz. - By Denis
Poole
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