It's still a long way to go, but Java Festival Productions is already preparing for next years edition. They just sent a press release with the new dates for Jakarta International Java Jazz Festival 2011.
The 7th Edition of The Penang Island Jazz Festival will be held from the 2nd to 5th of December 2010. The Main feature of the Festival - the outdoor "Jazz By The Beach" (Main Stage) will be at the Bayview Beach Resort Gardens on the 4th & 5th of December starting from 6.30pm to 11pm featuring five (5) acts (local and international) per night.
LOS ANGELES (AFP) - – American photographer Herman Leonard, whose smoky black-and-white pictures immortalized jazz stars between the 1940s and 1960s, died this weekend aged 87, his spokesman said in a statement. Born in 1923 in the US state of Pennsylvania to Romanian parents, Leonard obtained a degree in photography shortly after World War Two, and opened his first photography studio in New York in 1948.
NEW YORK - Jazz singer Abbey Lincoln, whose career spanned six decades and included acting, composing and participation in the U.S. civil rights movement, died on Saturday at age 80, The New York Times reported. Lincoln, who was often said to have been strongly influenced by famed jazz singer Billie Holiday, died at her Manhattan apartment, the Times said, citing her brother David Wooldridge.
by Hatice Ahsen Utku, Istanbul
Serambi Jazz in August 2010 only presents one performer, Mery Kasiman, whose music projects present guest musicians, among others guitarist Dewa Budjana, bassist Barry Likumahuwa, saxophonist Arief Setiadi and pianist Riza Arshad.
KuDeTa comes for its 10th Anniversary Celebration with a special treat. They invited one of the most successful acid-jazz/UK funk groups of all time, The Brand New Heavies. After having a rotating roster of lead vocalists such as Jay Ella Ruth, Siedah Garrett, Carleen Anderson, Nicole Russo, the second featured vocalist, who the band enjoyed the most success with, N'Dea Davenport returned to The Heavies in fall of 2005.
British jazz drummer Jack Parnell, who served as bandleader on The Muppet Show, has died aged 87, his family says. Parnell died on Sunday at his home in Southwold, eastern England, following a year-long battle with cancer.




