New Online Jazz

The New Year has already seen a pair of new websites opening for business. Below are brief glimpses of each.


Jazz.com calls itself, "a comprehensive jazz portal with thousands of pages of reviews, interviews, features, discographies and photos."

A team of more than thirty writers, photographers and artists has been working for almost two years in preparation for the launch. Under the direction of Ted Gioia, author of The History of Jazz and West Coast Jazz, this team has prepared more than 1,000 new reviews, a comprehensive jazz encyclopedia, and other exciting content of interest to the global jazz community.


“Orrin Keepnews, Producer,” is a new video Podcast series
Veteran Jazz producer Orrin Keepnews and his Keepnews Collection releases from the Concord Music Group are the subject of a new video Podcast series created and produced by Bret Primack now available on YouTube and iTunes, as well as the Concord Music Group website.

One of the most respected of all Jazz producers, Orrin Keepnews, in his long and productive career, has worked with such artists as Rollins, Monk, Bill Evans, Wes Montgomery, and Cannonball Adderley, and has also founded the influential Jazz labels Riverside and Milestone.

Orrin Keepnews, Producer: “Orrin Keepnews Meets The Saxophone Colossus”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3L6Ws2DsEY

Schedule for “Orrin Keepnews, Producer”
January 14: The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery
January 28: Cannonball Adderley Quintet in San Francisco
February 11: George Russell - Ezzethics
Febraury 25: Bill Evans – Portrait in Jazz
March 10: McCoy Tyner -- Horizon
March 24: Cannonball Adderley Sextet in New York
April 7: Thelonious Monk -- Brilliant Corners
April 21: Thelonious Monk – Brilliant Corners, Part 2
May 5: Coleman Hawkins – The Hawk Flies
May 19: Nat Adderley – Work Song
May 22: Freedom Suite – Sonny Rollins
June 9: Freedom Suite – Sonny Rollins, Part 2
June 23: Fly with the Wind – McCoy Tyner
July 7: Bill Evans – Sunday at the Village Vanguard
July 21: Thelonious Monk – Town Hall Concert
August 4: Thelonious Monk – Town Hall Concert, Part 2
August 18: Blue Mitchell – Blue Soul