Home » Jazz Musicians » Limelight
Limelight
Chet Baker: Limelight Sessions
Source:
JazzWax by Marc Myers
In January 1964, trumpeter Chet Baker was arrested at the Blue Note in Berlin. Earlier, at a local pharmacy, he had foolishly tried to fill prescriptions for Jetrium from two different doctors—a sign of abuse or hoarding with an intent to sell. More commonly known as dextromoramide, Jetrium was a powerful opioid analgesic about three times as potent as morphine. After his arrest, Baker was confined to a sanitarium for just over a month. Rather than jail him the way ...
read more
Roland Kirk: Limelight/Verve Albums
Source:
JazzWax by Marc Myers
With the exception of Sun Ra, few jazz artists were more visually arresting than Rahsaan Roland Kirk. Blind from adolescence, Kirk wore dark glasses and often performed with multiple reed instruments hung around his neck or lodged in his mouth. Uninitiated listeners automatically assumed Kirk's music wouldn't be easy to grasp or likable. The funny thing about Kirk is that his music was always gentle, whimsical, lyrical and engaging. All those instruments around his neck? He often played them in ...
read more
Limelight: A New, Simple Way to Cover a Song
Source:
HypeBot
Have you ever thought about writing a cover version of Ring of Fire by Johnny Cash, but didn't even know where to start with the headache of trying to clear the rights and determine who to send the royalty payments? This is a similar situation that singer-songwriter Samantha Murphy, aka The Highway Girl, found herself in. Since, she has teamed up with LimeLight, a service by RightsFlow, to take care of her licensing needs. RightsFlow, a mechanical licensing and royalty ...
read more
Cincinnati Jazz sessions in limelight
Source:
All About Jazz
Plenty of jazz news this week from a smokin' living room concert CD to the “lost" Jimmy McGary tape and a new jazz “club." Jazz benefactor David Hall has given us another in the tremendous series of his “living room concerts" with the release of “Trio Con Brio" featuring piano man Phil DeGreg along with guitarist Dan Faehnle and bassist Paul Keller. The three don't just play with “brio" but are downright smokin' on this session, which DeGreg describes as ...
read more
