Thursday, June 08, 2006

JAZZ CHILL NEWSBITS: JVC JAZZ FESTIVAL, BRAND NEW HEAVIES, KING BRITT, REGINA CARTER, CHAKA KHAN & OTHERS…

Jazz Chill Corner Newsbits……….BET will honor Chaka Khan at the BET Awards ’06. The event is scheduled to take place at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on Tuesday, June 27. Khan will receive the BET Lifetime Achievement Award………. King Britt will perform a DJ Session at Zanzibar (CA) on June 9……….Maceo Parker appears at Irving Plaza in New York City on June 14……….The Brand New Heavies are back in swing and will appear at Warsaw in New York City on July 10……….Stanley Clarke and George Duke are back as the Clarke/Duke Project and have scheduled a series of key concert appearances during the summer, one of which will be at the JVC Jazz Festival. The Clarke/Duke Project will perform on July 13 at Avalon in New York. Also slated to perform at the New York JVC Jazz Festival include the Marcus Miller Band at Irving Plaza on June 16; Chris Botti and Lizz Wright on June 17 at Carnegie Hall; Smokey Robinson at Carnegie Hall on June 22; and Herbie Hancock and guests at Carnegie Hall on June 23……….Rainer Truby will perform an exclusive DJ set at Cielo (NY) on September 7.......... Verve is set to release Regina Carter's latest CD entitled - I'll Be Seeing You: A Sentimental Journey on June 13. The album pays tribute to the memory of her late mother, Grace Carter, in a swinging journey through the some of the classic songs of the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s that her mother loved during her youth. With effervescent arrangements featuring dare-devilishly spontaneous improvisations and interplay between Carter and her bandmates, I'll Be Seeing You is a feel-good foray into the joys of small-group swing and classic mid-century songs.

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