Home » Jazz News
Music Industry News
Timely announcements covering new album releases, tours, concert series, special events, job postings, crowdfunding campaigns and more. You can find more news by searching our website, viewing our news stream, seeing what's trending or reading our blog posts. Subscribe to our news RSS feed and/or embed AAJ news content on your website or blog. Learn about our news service here. Submit news here.
Bands Have an Official Life Span of Nine Months
Source:
HypeBot
"As of '09, bands have an official life span of about nine months dating from the launch of their MySpace pages, thanks to the comically accelerated, DSL-enhanced hype cycle. Faster than you can tweet “Serena Maneesh," entire genres of music are “discovered" by attention-starved writers; bloggers engage in hilarious slap-fights about who was there first; magazines feel pressured into writing clueless, hackazoid, late-pass trend pieces; bands get elevated to a critical mass of attention they can't possibly handle; and the ...
Continue Reading
Jazzwax Mindblowers (Vol. 8)
Source:
JazzWax by Marc Myers
At the end of each quarter, I go back through my posts of the past three months and pull the best quotes from my interviews. I do this so you have a bunch of great quotes from jazz legends all in one place and a taste of what the full interview holds. Full interviews can be accessed at JazzWax by scrolling down the right-hand column to “JazzWax Interviews." For the other seven entries in this series, scroll down the right-hand ...
Continue Reading
Legendary Count Basie Orchestra Announces New Management
Source:
Dawn Singh Publicity
In agreement with the Trust of William J. Basie and for the first time since 1984, the Legendary Count Basie Orchestra is under new management. Artist Management Productions, LLC will represent the Count Basie Orchestra with its new management team including Bill Hughes, Director; Dee Askew, Booking Manager; Clarence Banks, Manager; Doug Lawrence, Operations Director. “The Count Basie Orchestra has continued to tour consistently over the past 74 years and now, thanks to our new management team, we have even ...
Continue Reading
The Cross-Cultural Chet Baker
Source:
Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
San Francisco's Company C Contemporary ballet company includes this item in the announcement of its spring season.
Charles Anderson, Beautiful Maladies Music by: Richard Rogers and Lorenz Hart, Hoagy Carmichael, George Benson and others Arranged and performed by: Chet Baker Expanded from last season's You Don't Know What Love Is, Charles Anderson's Beautiful Maladies, is set to seven exquisite ballads arranged and sung by West Coast Jazz legend Chet Baker. Enveloped by Baker's silky smooth sounds, this dramatic ...
Continue Reading
The Jazz Session #128: Dan Scofield on Sonny Simmons
Source:
Michael Ricci
Saxophonist Sonny Simmons is the subject of a new documentary now in production called Just A Guy Who Knows. The filmmakers, Dan Scofield and Mike Ercolini, have so far produced a 20-minute trailer and are raising funds to finish a 45-minute short film on Simmons. The saxophonist has lived a remarkable life, moving from his days as a colleague of John Coltrane and Sonny Rollins to near anonymity as a musician on the streets of San Francisco. Hes now back ...
Continue Reading
Articulate!
Source:
Indaba Music Artist in Residence with Greg Osby
Just a small observation: I find that many saxophone players have very little or no punctuation process in their playing. For some, there isn't a well enough defined attack at the beginning of phrases and sustained tones - at least to my ears. Sometimes complete lines are slurred throughout, which does little to detail the separation between statements. Listening to this kind of playing is reading text by people who write sentences without commas, periods, question marks, exclamation points, or ...
Continue Reading
Freedom of Choice
Source:
Indaba Music Artist in Residence with Greg Osby
To my surprise, the original Jazz Bums blog entry set off a mini-firestorm online as it obviously touched the nerves of a few who are offended by the very idea of looking decent while performing, as well as others who are offended by the sound of my playing and/or music. At this point in my career, I am entirely aware of the fact that some or most of my work will not be considered favorable by many, and as that ...
Continue Reading
