This week's Jazz in the Afternoon rotation

Week Of FEBRUARY 7. 2010 ARTIST / CD TITLE / RECORD LABEL ARTURO O'FARRILL / RISA NEGRA / ZOHO ANNIE SELLICK / STREET OF DREAMS / CHALICE JAY D'AMICO TRIO / NOCTURNE / CAP CHRISTOPHER LEHMAN / POPJAZZIC / EARLIN RON HORTON / IT'S A GADGET WORLD / A BEAT AHMAD JAMAL / A QUIET TIME / DREYFUS PAT METHENY / ORCHESTRION / NONESUCH HIROMI / PLACE TO BE / TELARC JASON BODLOVICH / THE CULPRIT / SELF RELEASE TOBIAS GEBB & UNIT 7 / FREE AT LAST / YUMMY HOUSE ERICA LINDSAY & SUMI TONOOKA / INITIATION / ARC JOE LOCKE / FOR THE LOVE OF YOU / E1 TINEKE POSTMA / THE TRAVELLER / ETCETERA NORMAN - McCARTHY BIG BAND / BRIGHT FUTURE / OA2 GAIL PETTIS / HERE IN THE MOMENT / OA2 DAVID BERGER / SING ME A LOVE SONG / SUCH SWEET THUNDER KAREN MARGUTH / WAYFAE MUSIC JOHN STEIN / RAISING THE ROOF / WHALING CITY SOUND MATT SLOCUM / PORTRAITS / CHANDRA RECORDS HADLEY CALIMAN / STRAIGHT AHEAD / ORIGIN GIA NOTTE / SHADES / GNOTE ABDULLAH IBRAHIM & WDR BIG BAND / BOMBELLA / SUNNYSIDE SALTMAN KNOWLES / YESTERDAY'S MAN / PACIFIC COAST JAZZ DON BRADEN & MARK RAPP / THE STRAYHORN PROJECT / PREMIUM STEVE HOBBS / VIBES, STRAIGHT UP / CHALLENGE GABRIEL RIESCO PROJECT / SCRIPTURES IN TIME / WUC JOSH RZEPKA / MIDWEST COAST / SELF RELEASE AMANDA CARR & KENNY HSADLEY BIG BAND / COMMON THREAD / OMS KAT EDMONSON / TAKE TO THE SKY / CONVIVIUM WHITNEY JAMES / THE NATURE OF LOVE / DAMESELFLY CUTRONE, PIZZARELLI, LEGGIO, BRUNO / FOURXFOUR / CUTRONE RG ROYAL SOUND ORCHESTRA / IMPACT / RG RICKEY WOODARD / PINEAPPLE DELIGHT / WOOD & WOOD MIKE'S TEN FAVORITE JAZZ CDs OF 2009 ARTIST / CD TITLE / RECORD LABEL ALLEN TOUSSAINT / THE BRIGHT MISSISSIPPI / NONESUCH MARK WEINSTEIN / LUA E SOL / JAZZHEADS CLAYTON BROTHERS / BROTHER TO BROTHER / ARTISTSHARE BILL HEID / WYLIE AVENUE / DOODLIN' BILL WIMMER / PROJECT OMAHA / WIMJAZZ TOM HARRELL / PRANA DANCE / HIGHNOTE BLUE NOTE 7 / MOSAIC / BLUE NOTE PONCHO SANCHEZ / PSYCHEDELIC BLUES / CONCORD PICANTE SOPHIE MILMAN / TAKE LOVE EASY / EI ENTERTAINMENT CHRISTIAN McBRIDE & INSIDE STRAIGHT / KIND OF BROWN / MACK AVE. CHRISTOPHER'S TEN FAVORITE JAZZ CDs OF 2009 ARTIST / CD TITLE / RECORD LABEL BLUE NOTE 7 / MOSAIC / BLUE NOTE ALLEN TOUSSAINT / THE BRIGHT MISSISSIPPI / NONESUCH BUD SHANK/FASCINATING RHYTHMS/JAZZED MEDIA MARGIE NOTTE AND FRIENDS/JUST YOU, JUST ME & FRIENDS: LIVE AT CECIL'S/GNOTE RECORDS TOM HARRELL/PRANA DANCE/HIGH NOTE CHARLES TOLLIVER BIG BAND/EMPEROR MARCH/HALF-NOTE RECORDS BILL WIMMER /PROJECT OMAHA/ WIMJAZZ ALVIN QUEEN /MIGHTY LONG WAY/ JUSTIN TIME RECORDS ANN HAMPTON CALLAWAY/ AT LAST /TELARC DAN MCMILLION JAZZ ORCHESTRA/NICE AND JUICY/SEA BREEZE RECORDS

KIOS Jazz Calendar

The Capital Jazz Society announces its ongoing series of events for winter and spring of 2010. The Monday Night Big Band performances feature a 17-piece big band and the Wednesday Night Jazz Series features an array of local and regional jazz artists including Capital City Dixieland Preservation Society Jazz Band, Bryan McCune, Steve Helfand, Jazzocracy, Kerry Strayer, and more. All events are held at Brewsky's Jazz Underground, 201 North 8th Street, Lincoln, Nebraska, from 7:30 to 10:00 p.m. Admission is $6 for adults and $5 for students with valid ID, or $3 if you bring an instrument and sit in with the band (Mondays only). For more information please contact the business office of the Capital Jazz Society, 402-477-7899 or visit http://www.artsincorporated.org/CJS/ The Chicago Underground Duo will play at the Bemis Center's cave-like A Pre-Conscious Space on Wednesday, February 17. Chicago Underground Duo is an avant-garde jazz duo consisting of cornetist Rob Mazurek and drummer/percussionist Chad Taylor. They formed in 1997, having both been members of Chicago Underground Orchestra. They have released numerous recordings on the Thrill Jockey label. When asked to describe their music, they said: [The Duo is] "an organic mixture of African, Electronic, Coloristic, Jazz influenced life supporting systematic, non-systematic feeling from two humans trying ever to expand outward and inward for the people and ourselves." Concert takes place at the Bemis center 724 South 12th Street, Omaha Wednesday, February 17. Doors open at 8:00 and tickets are $8 for Bemis Center members and $10 for non-members. For more information you may visit http://www.bemiscenter.org/residency/index.html Area high school and middle school jazz ensembles will gather again this year for the 38th annual UNO Great Plains Jazz Festival. The festival takes place Friday and Saturday, February 19th & 20th. The Friday performances take placeat the University of Nebraska at Omaha. The Saturday program will be held at the Holland Performing Arts Center. The music begins at 8:00am Friday at UNO in the Strauss Performing Arts Center for high school ensembles and the Milo Bail Student Center Ballroom for middle schools. A performance by The United States Air Force Notables Jazz Ensemble will take place at 12:30 and a concert by the Jim Widner Big Band along with UNO's Jazz I and the Metropolitan Area Youth Jazz Orchestra will get underway at 8:00PM. On Saturday the 20th, the festival moves to the Holland Performing Arts Center and features more school performances beginning at 8:00am and at 4:30pm, the UNO Jazz Ensemble will perform. The festival will conclude with a concert by Bela Fleck at 8:00pm. For more information on the festival, you may visit www.unomaha.edu/music and www.omahaperformingarts.org Omaha Performing Arts presents Bela Fleck, The Africa Project  Collaborations with Amazing African Musicians at the Holland Center's Kiewit Concert Hall on Saturday, February 20 at 8:00 p.m. Bela Fleck is widely recognized as the premier banjo player in the world, an artist who has virtually reinvented the image and sound of the banjo through a remarkable performing and recording career that has taken him all over the musical map, including solo projects and collaborations. Fleck's latest collaborative effort features African musicans Bassekou Kouyate, Ngoni Ba, Anania Ngoliga with John Kitime and is an extension of Throw Down Your Heart the third volume in Bela's renowned Tales From the Acoustic Planet series. The show has been hailed as "more than just a history lesson. They also present Africa's thriving, present-day acoustic music: "music that's played on rough-hewn, handmade instruments in remote villages... [offering] a more immediate encounter with too-oftenoverlooked African music" (Nashville Scene). During on-location collaborations with musicians from Uganda, Tanzania, Senegal, Mali, South Africa and Madagascar,  Fleck explored the African origins of the banjo, the prototype of which was brought to American shores by African slaves. Transcending barriers of language and culture, Fleck found common ground with musicians ranging from local villagers to international superstars, such as the Malian diva Oumou Sangare, to create some of the most meaningful music of his career. Throw Down Your Heart is a companion to the award-winning film of the same name, which Fleck and director Sascha Paladino are currently premiering at festivals nationwide. Tickets for the Bela Fleck concert are priced $19-$45 and may be purchased through Ticket Omaha online at TicketOmaha.com, by phone at (402) 345-0606 or in person at the Ticket Omaha Box Office inside the Holland Center, 13th and Douglas streets. You may also visit the website at http://www.omahaperformingarts.org/ This presentation is supported by Mid-America Arts Alliance with generous underwriting by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Nebraska Arts Council, and foundations, corporations and individuals throughout Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Texas. Omaha Performing Arts presents Ruthie Foster at the 1200 Club on Saturday, March 6, at 8:00 p.m. Hailed as a "Blues Powerhouse" by "O" Magazine, Ruthie Foster's voice is drop-dead gorgeous, whether she's belting out a little blues, funk, soul or jazz. Foster knew at a very young age that her life would evolve around music. As a child, Foster was always taking in a wide variety of music, whether through the hymns her mother taught her, the Beatles songs she analyzed in a book given by her guitar teacher, the 45s her truck-driving uncle would drop off during his visits, the old-school country she heard while watching various country variety shows with her grandfather, or the pop songs that crackled through the family radio. After moving to Waco to attend McClennan Community College, she mixed classes in music and audio engineering with visits to clubs at night. After a stint in the Navy, Foster's path led to New York, where it became apparent that she wasn't destined to be a mainstream power-ballad singer. So Foster returned to her roots in Texas and has since progressed through five albums and a steady regimen of hard work, whether fronting a full band or working solo. With a sound that ignores demographic lines and a charisma that can ignite any audience, Foster emerges on her latest release, The Truth According to Ruthie Foster (2009), as an artist of all-encompassing appeal. Her shows have inspired a string of reviews in which the essential points are made repeatedly: Ruthie Foster merits comparison to the legends that inspired her, even as her unique contributions stake out a place of her own in the spotlight. Tickets for Ruthie Foster are $25 in advance and $30 the day of the show. and may be purchased through Ticket Omaha by phone at (402) 345-0606, online at TicketOmaha.com or at the Ticket Omaha Box Office inside the Holland Performing Arts Center at 13th and Douglas streets. You may also visit the website at http://www.omahaperformingarts.org/

Jazz Resources And Links

Resources: http://www.allmusic.com/ http://www.allaboutjazz.com/ http://www.jazz.com/ http://www.jazzdepot.com/ http://www.npr.org/music/ http://www.americanjazzmuseum.com/   LABELS: http://www.bluenote.com/ http://www.concordmusicgroup.com/ http://www.ecmrecords.com/ http://www.emarcy.com/ http://www.origin-records.com/ http://www.palmetto-records.com/ http://www.vervemusicgrouo.com MEDIA: http://www.downbeat.com/ http://www.jazztimes.com/ http//www.jazziz.com