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Source: All About Jazz
August 19, 2008

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Legendary Composer, Conductor, and Performer Lalo Schifrin Celebrates His Life with Autobiography

Source: All About Jazz
August 19, 2008

Mission Impossible: My Life in Music Reflects on Life's Work in Classical, Jazz, and Film LOS ANGELES, Aug 19, 2008 -- Scarecrow Press will release the autobiography of six-time Academy Award nominated composer Lalo Schifrin this summer. Mission Impossible: My Life in Music, edited by Richard Palmer, is a journey from Schifrin's formative years in Argentina to the classical and jazz atmospheres in Paris in the 1950s; from his jazz career with Dizzy Gillespie to his development as a film ...

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Why Tom Piazza Matters

Source: All About Jazz
August 18, 2008

It was one of those Jazzfest moments of perfect grace. The Carolina Chocolate Drops launched into the Blind Willie Johnson song “City of Refuge," and there, on an aisle seat, clapping along and rocking out, was music writer Tom Piazza. It was as if the Chocolate Drops were singing just for him, right to him, not knowing his book of the same title was coming four months in the future. It was a moment of blessing, the kind New Orleans ...

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Dick Twardzik Bio Lives!

Source: Night Lights Classic Jazz
August 4, 2008

Richard Twardzik, the rather haunted-looking pianist who was a mainstay of the Boston jazz scene in the early 1950s, recorded only once as a leader before dying at the age of 24 during a European tour with Chet Baker. His quirky, fluid style, influenced by Bud Powell and Art Tatum and sprinkled with touches of dissonance and classical music, has led some to compare him to fellow 1950s iconoclasts Thelonious Monk and Herbie Nichols. Now Bouncin' With Bartok, a long-awaited ...

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Blues in the Press Room / Meet Me in Obits

Source: Michael Ricci
July 30, 2008

And they call this fiction? Black & White and Dead All Over By John Darnton An editor is murdered. And the suspect? That would be all the reporters.

ANY GREAT newsroom worth its salt is an ink-stained asylum, a toxic landfill, a college of cranks and a museum of misfits who never learn, despite years of broken promises to weary spouses, that they will not be home for dinner. I've had the luck of seven newspaper jobs in ...

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Jazz and Jack Kerouac

Source: Night Lights Classic Jazz
July 28, 2008

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AllAboutJazz-New York August 2008 Issue Now Available

Source: All About Jazz
July 28, 2008

Last month found New York hosting the 2008 Major League Baseball All-Star Game at Yankee Stadium. The House that Ruth Built was given the honor in its final season; next season the Yankees will play in a new home. The old stadium was opened in 1923 and has been witness to some amazing baseball history. And let's not forget that this is also the final year for Shea Stadium, the Mets' home since 1964. All this nostalgia makes you realize ...

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Recommended Reading: No BS! And Jason Arce in Urban Views Weekly

Source: RVAjazz
July 24, 2008

My article on the upcoming NO BS! Brass and Jason Arce Quintet gig at The Camel on August 1st was published today in Richmond's new Urban Views Weekly newspaper.[...]"We made a band with the intention of not having any saxophones in it," Pace says. When Arce first asked Pace if he could join the band, he was denied, although later an offer was extended to him. “I told Jason to play cowbell for a year, and he did ...

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