mixing trip-hop with pop, lounge, film soundtracks and reggae. With Morcheeba, she sold five million records and graced stages around the world. After her departure from the band, Skye immersed herself in writing songs that eventually became her debut solo release, Mind How You Go, a sublime album of vivid compositions that present Skye in an entirely new light. Of course, there is much that is familiar - the beguiling quality of her voice, the potent melodies that bury themselves deep inside your brain and the cool elegance of her delivery. Mind How You Go is set for delivery on August 22……….Japanese-born vocalist, Tomoko Miyata has just released a version of Mongo Santamaria’s Afro Bllue on her recent CD This Side Up. She recently performed with the Doug Klug Group at the Jazz Bakery in Los Angeles on July 19……….David Dahlsten’s new CD release Study Your Heart has been received by radio programmers across the country with his new brand of folk-jazz music. His new generation of jazz music is a blend of styles mastered during his touring years with R&B greats Bobby Womack, Buddy Miles and Jackie Wilson; Latin/Salsa’s Camilo Azuquita and Johnny Martinez; and infused with his straight-ahead Jazz chops from sessions with Jack Doherty, Jackie Mills and Ray Draper……….Jazz vocalist Stephanie Jordan is slated to perform on August 6th at the Chicago JazzFest Heritage 2006 in Chicago, Illinois and during the Provincetown Jazz Fest on August 12th in Cape Cod, MA. Jordan hails from New Orleans and recently performed at The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.
Tuesday, August 01, 2006
JAZZ CHILL CORNER NEWSBITS: CHET BAKER JAZZ FESTIVAL, SKYE, STEPHANIE JORDAN, DAVID DAHLSTEN, TOMOKO MIYATA & MORE…
Jazz Chill Corner Newsbits……….The 23rd Annual Stockholm Jazz Festival was being held on the small island of Skeppsholmen in downtown Stockholm from July 18-22 where 25,000 people attended. A total of 41 concerts were held and acts that appeared included Sting, Miriam Makeba, Kenny Garrett, the Neville Brothers and Maceo Parker…….. The Malta Jazz Festival took place July 21-23 at the Valletta Waterfront, with performances from Percy Jones, Bull Bruford, Tim Garland, the Blues Brothers, Alan Parsons Project, Noir and Renzo Spiteri……….The upcoming 1st Annual Chet Baker Jazz Festival is to be held in Toronto on September 1-3 and it will commemorate the newly formed Chet Baker Foundation. Set for the Chet Baker Jazz Festival are such artists as Riccardo Del Fra, Tony Purrone, Randy Brecker, Harold Danko, Hilario Duran, Jane Bunnett, Guido Basso, Pat Labarbera, Kevin Turcotte, the Canada Pops Orchestra, and many others. Baker died in Amsterdam in 1988……….As the voice of Morcheeba, Skye became the soundtrack of our lives with albums such as Who Can You Trust? and Big Calm, 
mixing trip-hop with pop, lounge, film soundtracks and reggae. With Morcheeba, she sold five million records and graced stages around the world. After her departure from the band, Skye immersed herself in writing songs that eventually became her debut solo release, Mind How You Go, a sublime album of vivid compositions that present Skye in an entirely new light. Of course, there is much that is familiar - the beguiling quality of her voice, the potent melodies that bury themselves deep inside your brain and the cool elegance of her delivery. Mind How You Go is set for delivery on August 22……….Japanese-born vocalist, Tomoko Miyata has just released a version of Mongo Santamaria’s Afro Bllue on her recent CD This Side Up. She recently performed with the Doug Klug Group at the Jazz Bakery in Los Angeles on July 19……….David Dahlsten’s new CD release Study Your Heart has been received by radio programmers across the country with his new brand of folk-jazz music. His new generation of jazz music is a blend of styles mastered during his touring years with R&B greats Bobby Womack, Buddy Miles and Jackie Wilson; Latin/Salsa’s Camilo Azuquita and Johnny Martinez; and infused with his straight-ahead Jazz chops from sessions with Jack Doherty, Jackie Mills and Ray Draper……….Jazz vocalist Stephanie Jordan is slated to perform on August 6th at the Chicago JazzFest Heritage 2006 in Chicago, Illinois and during the Provincetown Jazz Fest on August 12th in Cape Cod, MA. Jordan hails from New Orleans and recently performed at The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.
mixing trip-hop with pop, lounge, film soundtracks and reggae. With Morcheeba, she sold five million records and graced stages around the world. After her departure from the band, Skye immersed herself in writing songs that eventually became her debut solo release, Mind How You Go, a sublime album of vivid compositions that present Skye in an entirely new light. Of course, there is much that is familiar - the beguiling quality of her voice, the potent melodies that bury themselves deep inside your brain and the cool elegance of her delivery. Mind How You Go is set for delivery on August 22……….Japanese-born vocalist, Tomoko Miyata has just released a version of Mongo Santamaria’s Afro Bllue on her recent CD This Side Up. She recently performed with the Doug Klug Group at the Jazz Bakery in Los Angeles on July 19……….David Dahlsten’s new CD release Study Your Heart has been received by radio programmers across the country with his new brand of folk-jazz music. His new generation of jazz music is a blend of styles mastered during his touring years with R&B greats Bobby Womack, Buddy Miles and Jackie Wilson; Latin/Salsa’s Camilo Azuquita and Johnny Martinez; and infused with his straight-ahead Jazz chops from sessions with Jack Doherty, Jackie Mills and Ray Draper……….Jazz vocalist Stephanie Jordan is slated to perform on August 6th at the Chicago JazzFest Heritage 2006 in Chicago, Illinois and during the Provincetown Jazz Fest on August 12th in Cape Cod, MA. Jordan hails from New Orleans and recently performed at The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.
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