TODAY'S NEWS

RIVIERA BEACH JAZZ & BLUES FESTIVAL
The city of Riviera Beach, FL will host the 5th Annual Riviera Beach Jazz & Blues Festival on Friday, April 1 and Saturday, April 2.
The event will take place on Singer Island in Riviera Beach, FL. The Jazz on the Beach Festival will feature top talent, including Chaka Khan, Nicole Henry, Roberta Flack, Isaac Hayes, Jean Carne, Phil Perry, and Mindi Abair, just to name a few.

DAVE KOZ NEW ALBUMS
Dave Koz is working on two upcoming albums: his next Capitol release is being produced by famed producer Phil Ramone; and his follow-up to his 2002 Grammy nominated Golden
Slumbers lullaby album. Golden Slumbers II: A Father's Love be issued on Rendezvous Entertainment, an independent label he co-founded.

CASSANDRA WILSON TOUR
Cassandra Wilson is scheduling a round of upcoming appearances in the coming days: Raleigh, NC on March 31; Atlanta on April 1; Orlando, FL on April 2; and Naples, FL. on April 3. She's also scheduled to perform with Al Jarreau on June 6 in Vienna, Austia, and a July 21 show in Istres, France. Wilson is currently in Los Angeles finishing work on her sixth Blue Note recording due out in the fall.

STEEL PULSE - TRUE DEMOCRACY & EARTH CRISIS
Rhino is set to release the first two albums from famed-reggae band Steel Pulse. True Democracy and Earth Crisis will be reissued June 7 in remastered and expanded form. The reissues add previously unreleased 12" and dub mixes of album tracks and new liner notes. Among the band's upcoming tour dates is a May 1 set at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival.

SONO JAZZ TRIO - BLACK BUTTERFLY
New Music...The Sono Jazz Trio releases the tentatively titled CD Black Butterfly which features the track The Boy Next Door from the 1944 movie Meet Me In St. Louis.

AL GREEN ALBUM REISSUES
A couple of weeks ago, we mentioned that The Right Stuff was set to release a series of Al Green reissues on June 7, but now we have just been informed that this has been pushed back to June 28. The albums are: Al Green Is Love, The Belle Album, Full of Fire, Have A Good Time, Livin' For You and Truth N' Time.

FRANK SINATRA CAPITAL RELEASES
Capitol releases two Frank Sinatra collections on June 7: The Classics Sinatra Collection and Vintage Sinatra.

NANCY WILSON BLUE NOTE RELEASES
Blue Note has scheduled a couple of Nancy Wilson albums that include The Great American Songbook, Guess Who I Saw Today and Save Your Love For Me for August 2.

RAUL MIDON - STATE OF MIND
Blue Note has also recently released singer-guitarist Raul Midon's debut album, State of Mind. Midon has previously worked with Louis Vega on a number of projects, including the Elements of Jazz album as well as on the soundtrack to the Spike Lee film She Hate Me.

JOHN BUTLER TRIO 2005 TOUR DATES
The John Butler Trio is currently in the midst of a tour to promote their album Sunrise Over Sea. On March 30 they will appear on The Late Show With David Letterman. Here is a sampling of the John Butler Trio tour dates:

April 20: Lyon, France (Urban Roots Festival)
April 21: Marseille, France (Urban Roots Festival)
April 22: Bordeaux, France (Urban Roots Festival)
April 24: Paris (Bataclan)
April 25: Evreux, France (L'Abordage)
April 27: London (Carling Academy)
April 29: New Orleans (Jazz & Heritage Festival)
May 1: Nashville (3rd & Lindsay)
May 5: Indianapolis (Vogue)
May 6: Atlanta (Fox Theatre)
May 7: Cincinnati (Taft Theatre)
May 8: Milwaukee (Eagle's Ballroom)
May 10: Seattle (Chop Suey)
May 11: Portland, OR. (Douglas Fir Lounge)
May 13: Joshua Tree, CA (Joshua Tree Music Festival)
May 14: Los Angeles (Troubadour)
May 15: San Diego (House of Blues)
May 18: Philadelphia (Theatre of Living Arts)
May 22: San Francisco (Great American Music Hall)
June 12: Manchester, TN (Bonnaroo)
June 16: Telluride, CO (Telluride Bluegrass Festival)
June 18: Lawrence, KS (Wakarusa Music Festival)

OTTMAR LIEBERT RECORDING NEW ALBUMS
Flamenco guitarist Ottmar Liebert is in the studio preparing two separate albums for release in the coming months, one of which will be a new holiday CD (his second).

MOBY - HOTEL
Moby's latest, entitled Hotel was released in Mar 22 on the V2 label.

AMOS LEE DEBUT ABLUM
The highly anticipated debut album from singer/songwriter Amos Lee was released on Mar. 1 via the Blue Note label. Amos Lee will be touring the U.S. during March and April alongside Bob Dylan.

SMOOTH JAZZ ON THE RADIO
New Music On The Radio...Here are some new Smooth Jazz chart and Radio debuts from the last couple of weeks. These are either songs or albums that have just been recently added to station rotations:

Hiroshima Obon (Heads Up International)
Michael Brandeburg Midnight (MJ Brandy Records)
Marcus Miller Silver Rain (Koch Records)
Chieli Minucci Got It Goin' On (Shanachie)
Steve Cole Spin (Narada)
Victor Wooten Soul Circus (Vanguard)
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass Lost Treasures (Shout Factory)
Chuck Loeb When I'm With You (Shanachie)
Patches Stewart Blow (Koch Records)
Michael Higgins Daybreak (Cuate Records)