Wednesday, August 02, 2006

JAZZ CHILL NEWS BITS: LENINE, LONNIE LISTON SMITH, MARCUS JOHNSON, THIEVERY CORPORATION, RUSS FREEMAN & RIPPINGTONS & MORE...

Jazz Chill News Bits……….Brazilian singer/songwriter/guitarist Lenine kicks off his debut U.S. tour in San Francisco, along with additional dates around the country. Lenine has collaborated with the legendary Milton Nascimento, Gilberto Gil and Sergio Mendes. Lenine swept Brazil’s annual TIM awards last year winning "Best CD," "Best Male Vocalist," plus two Latin Grammy’s in 2005 for "Best Brazilian Contemporary Pop Album" and "Best Brazilian Song." Lenine appears in Chicago at The HotHouse on August 5, 2006………The 27 Annual Detroit International Jazz Festival is set to topline the Funk Brothers, the Temptations Revue starring Dennis Edwards, Taj Mahal, Joan Osborne, Sergio Mendes & Brazil 2006, Oscar Castro-Neves, Brasil Brazil featuring Ana Gazzola & Sonia Santos, Joyce Cooling Band, Rachelle Farrell, Dr. John, Diane Shur, Richie Havens, Lonnie Liston Smith, Marcia Ball, Pucho and His Latin Soul Brothers. This year the festival will present over 100 musical acts on six stages. The 27th Annual Detroit International Jazz Festival will close both directions on Woodward Avenue from Hart Plaza to Campus Martius, with concerts kicking off September 1 and running through September 4……….Marcus Johnson has just released his new live CD, In Concert For A Cause, on the Three Keys Music label. Johnson appears at the Juste Lounge Jazz in Bethesda, MD on August 2, and at the 21st Amendment Bar & Grill in Washington, D.C. on August 3……….Thievery Corporation have just recently announced their only New York City live shows for 2006, with appearances on September 24-25 at Webster Hall in Manhattan. Each of the shows will include Thievery Corporation along with a full band of percussionists, sitar, horns and a myriad of vocalists……….Camp Bisco V (a music and arts festival) will take place August 24-25 at the Hunter Mountain Ski Resort located in the Catskill Mountains in New York. The festival will feature two outdoor stages, an indoor dance hall and will feature an eclectic line-up of today’s most talented musicians. Slated to appear are Brazilian Girls, The Itch featuring John Medeski (Medeski Martin & Wood), Eric Krasno (Soulalive), and Adam Deitch (Wyclef Jean, Adam Deitch Project, Club Delf), and a Thievery Corporation (DJ set)……….Elvis Costello, Dave Brubeck, Dr. John, Wynton Marsalis Irma Thomas, John Pizzarelli, and Marian McPartland will take part in the Tanglewood Jazz Festival being held September 1-3, 2006 in Lenox, Mass……….Russ Freeman and the Rippingtons celebrate their 20th anniversary with a new CD and concert tour beginning August 2 in San Diego, CA. Dave Koz and David Benoit appear with more than a dozen other smooth jazz artists on the Rippingtons new CD, 20th Anniversary.

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