All About Jazz Improvements: January 2012
We got out of the gate fast in 2012 releasing a calendar widget and making several enhancements to our website. WHAT'S NEW Calendar Widget For Website Publishers or Bloggers With All About Jazz's calendar widget, website publishers and bloggers can place either a local calendar or a musician's calendar on their pages. Simply create the code ...
Interview: Roberta Flack
You haven't lived until you hear Roberta Flack sing Feel Like Makin' Love over the phone. Her folk-soul voice is still so warm and rich. In today's Wall Street Journal (go here), I write about Roberta's new Beatles album, Let It Be Roberta. This CD isn't your typical pop-tribute album. Instead, It's a bold, revisionist interpretation ...
Don Was upped at Blue Note Records
Don Was has been promoted to president at EMI Music's Blue Note Records. The Grammy-winning producer joined the venerable jazz and pop label as chief creative officer in August . Elevation lifts Was into the ranks of top producers holding label reins; he joins an elite group that includes Verve Music Group chairman David Foster and ...
Terell Stafford Quintet Pays Tribute to Lee Morgan in the Kimmel Center’s Jazz Up Close Series, Feb. 25
Terell Stafford Quintet continues the Kimmel Center's 2011/12 Jazz Up Close Series, which honors Philadelphia jazz legends, with a tribute to Philly born hard-bop trumpeter, Lee Morgan, on February 25, 2012 at 7:30 p.m. in Perelman Theater. The quintet will perform a bebop-infused program of select works from the legendary composer, arranger and musician's catalogue of ...
Jammin’ at the Gem Concert Series Showcases Vibraphonist Roy Ayers with Spoken Word and Jazz Poetry Innovators
The second installment in the American Jazz Museum's noted 2011/2012 “Jammin' at the Gem" concert series season headlines another musical master of world renown, the vibraphonist/composer, Roy Ayers. Mr. Ayers will be joined by two pioneers of jazz poetry and spoken word, Jessica Care Moore and Louis Reyes Rivera. Of poets, Moore and Reyes Rivera, AJM ...
Denise King at Society Hill Playhouse on February 16th
Appearing at Jazz at the Playhouse will be singer Denise King and her band featuring pianist Aaron Graves, bassist Lee Smith and drummer Khary Shaheed at the Society Hill Playhouse, 507 S. 8th Street in Philadelphia on February 16th. One Show: 7:30-9 p.m. Admission: $10/$5 for students. No advance sales. For info: 215-517-8337 or 856-858-8914. Parking ...
Karen Rodriguez' Latin Jazz in Media, PA on February 15th
Appearing at Jazz in Media! at the Unitarian Universalist Church, 145 W. Rose Tree Road in Media, PA, on February 15th will be singer Karen Rodriguez and her Latin Jazz Ensemble. One Show: 7:30-9 p.m. $10/$5 students. No advance sales.
For info: call 610-745-3011.
Free refreshments and free on-site parking. (Please check ...
Variety to launch Russian edition
Variety is launching a monthly Russian edition in conjunction with Planeta Inform, tapping into the need for industry info in one of the world's fastest-growing markets. The first edition will bow in March. Variety Russia will publish in Russian and in English during international industry events, and it will be distributed to 25,000 entertainment and media ...
Black Sabbath Drummer Says He Objects to ‘Unsignable Contract’
The long-awaited reunion of Black Sabbath, the seminal British heavy-metal band, has suffered another personnel problem as its drummer, Bill Ward, said that he was feeling “ostracized" from the group and would not agree to what he called “the unsignable contract." Black Sabbath, the band behind such prototypical head-banging anthems as “Iron Man" and “Paranoid," announced ...
How Advertising Killed the Radio Star
How Pop Music and TV Ads Became Inseparable. Pop singers and TV advertising seem to be a perfect match for each other. Chances are you've heard indie singer-songwriter Ingrid Michaelson. But not on the radio. Or in a music video. And probably not from buying her album, or even downloading her songs from iTunes. Instead, you ...
Close to Home, a Cosmic Setting for Her Songs
IN the Himalayan art and artifacts that are the heart of the Rubin Museum of Art in Chelsea, some traditions go back thousands of years. Other traditions there, like Rosanne Cash's series of acoustic performances, are more recent—and are a stretch from Tibetan Buddhism—yet are part of the institution just the same. Since the Rubin opened ...
Musicmetric: CO-Founder Talks Pro Edition, P2P Data Tour Planning App
Musicmetric is a web analytics platform that recently launched a Pro edition in Beta. It offers an impressive range of stats on everything from social media activity to mentions in articles on websites. One of the most noted features in recent media coverage is their tracking of file sharing activity. Access to such data also powered ...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Jazz, February 3-9
Having missed much of the last week of local music (in favor of a few days in New York), I am doubly looking forward to the coming week and yet another weekend filled with delightful dilemmas. Another new venue (The Lexington) previews its jazz schedule, one of our local bands-gone-international returns to the Artists Quarter; an ...
At Last, the Miles Davis Stamp
U.S., France to honor Prince of Cool Word is finally out now that the U.S. Postal Service, in some kind of conjunction with France (Don't ask me what. Do we ever know what France is up to? They are music lovers tho, and have proven over decades to be jazz lovers), is issuing a Miles Davis ...
"The Artist's" two stars talk
When the French writer-director first conceived his black-and-white tribute to the silent film, he was influenced by the sinister stylings of German Expressionist masters including F.W. Murnau and Robert Wiene. One early screenplay proposal set “The Artist" in Berlin and drew a parallel between the rise of the sound era and the Nazis' brutal ascent. It ...
Oscar nominee Viola Davis talks Hollywood, humility and digging deep to help others
Viola Davis is wearing a pair of slipper socks striped in DayGlo pink and purple. They whisper across the floor of her Granada Hills living room as she sings to her newly adopted 19-month-old daughter. Genesis has just woken from her nap, has milk on her face and is still cute enough to be on a ...
Camilla Williams, Barrier-Breaking Opera Star, Dies at 92
On May 15, 1946, an unknown singer named Camilla Williams took the stage at City Center in Manhattan as Cio-Cio-San, the doomed heroine of Puccini's “Madama Butterfly." Her performance would be the capstone of a night of glorious firsts. Miss Williams, a lyric soprano who began her career as a concert singer, had never been in ...
Jazz now Gigging in Manhattan
Ben Allison (Friday) At 10 p.m., Zankel Hall, Carnegie Hall, (212) 247-7800, carnegiehall.org Marc Copland Trio (Friday and Saturday) At 8 and 10 p.m., Kitano Hotel, 66 Park Avenue, at 38th Street, (212) 885-7119, kitano.com Crosstalk Quintet (Tuesday through Feb. 11) At 8:30 and 11 p.m., Birdland, 315 West 44th Street, Clinton, (212) 581-3080, birdlandjazz.com John ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Lil Hardin Armstrong
All About Jazz is celebrating Lil Hardin Armstrong's birthday today!
Lil Hardin helped introduce America to jazz music. She was a dedicated jazz pianist, who established a reputation as “Hot Miss Lil," one of the few female band ensemble members of the 1920’s. She played on many of the first jazz recordings ever made and she ...
Denise King at Society Hill Playhouse on February 16th
Appearing at Jazz at the Playhouse will be singer Denise King and her band featuring pianist {{Aaron Graves, bassist Lee Smith and drummer Khary Shaheed at the Society Hill Playhouse, 507 S. 8th Street in Philadelphia on February 16th. One Show: 7:30-9 p.m. Admission: $10/$5 for students. No advance sales. For info: 215-517-8337 or 856-858-8914. Parking ...
Widespread Panic Cover Jimmy Cliff on Wood Tour
ANOTHER CHOICE COVER FROM ACOUSTIC WOOD TOUR Widespread Panic are currently in the midst of their Panic en la Playa shows in Puerto Morelos, Mexico, but that doesn't mean we can't bring you another highlight from the first phase of the Wood Tour. Below, check out the guys performing the Jimmy Cliff classic “Many Rivers to ...
Bruce Springsteen to Play Apollo Theater for Sirius XM
HISTORIC CONCERT AT THE WORLD FAMOUS APOLLO THEATER CELEBRATING 10 YEARS OF SATELLITE RADIO Sirius XM Radio announced that Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will perform at Harlem's world famous Apollo Theater for the first time at a special concert event, only for SiriusXM, to celebrate 10 years of satellite radio. The concert will ...
McCartney Tribute: Tony Bennett, Foo, Neil Young and Crazy Horse
STAR-STUDDED TRIBUTE TO MUSICARES PERSON OF THE YEAR PAUL MCCARTNEY An impressive star-studded cast will come together to honor 2012 MusiCares Person of the Year honoree Paul McCartney during a sold-out gala on Feb. 10 in Los Angeles, two days prior to the 54th Annual Grammy Awards. Hosted by actor/comedian Eddie Izzard, artists set to perform ...
Lou Reed: From Vu to Lulu 2012 European Tour
LOU REED ANNOUNCES SUMMER EUROPEAN DATES Hot off the incredible reception of his collaborative album Lulu with Metallica, Lou Reed will embark on a “FROM VU TO LULU" European tour during Summer 2012. The tour will start in Luxembourg on Wednesday June 6 and will take in several festivals, including Switzerland's Caribana Festival, France's Montereau Festival, ...
New York Diary 2012
It feels like time is compressed whenever I am in New York, maybe because I try to fit so much into a few days. And that just mirrors Manhattan—so much of the world squeezed onto that one relatively small island. I learned on my last visit to make that first night the long one; fatigue is ...
Angry Birds CEO: If Piracy is Too High, It's Probably Your Own Damn Fault...
It's been official for a while now: the music industry of 2012 is exactly where other industries don't want to end up. Especially the part that includes lawsuits against fans, mispriced content, endless infighting, and disastrous profit-plunges. “We could learn a lot from the music industry and the rather terrible ways they've tried to combat piracy..." ...
Vincent Herring at the Royal Room - February 29
Seattle Jazz Scene presents: NYC Saxophonist Vincent Herring with:
Bill Anschell—piano
Chuck Deardorf—bass
Matt Jorgensen—drums WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 29
THE ROYAL ROOM
5000 Rainier Avenue South
Seattle Sets at 7:00 & 8:30pm Seattle Jazz Scene continues their foray into producing jazz concerts by welcoming New ...
