Music Industry News

International Jazz Star Avishai Cohen Joins the Blue Note Family

Source: All About Jazz
November 20, 2008

PARIS (NOVEMBER 21, 2008) EMI Musics Blue Note label is proud to announce that its French team has signed a worldwide deal with charismatic bassist/composer/singer & band leader Avishai Cohen. Born April 20, 1970 in Israel, this extraordinary and eclectic artist is widely considered to be one of the biggest new stars on the international jazz scene, reaching out to a broad audience around the world and becoming a much in demand musician in multiple genres. In 2003 he made ...

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CA Lawsuit Claims Obama Not Born in Us

Source: All About Jazz
November 20, 2008

Obama Birth Drama. Buena Park Pastor says Obama was born in Kenya and can not be sworn in as President

President-Elect Barack Obama says he was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. Obama provided a birth certificate to prove it, but a Buena Park pastor says Obama is not telling the truth. The Orange County Register reports that Rev. Wiley Drake, who ran for vice president on the American Independent ticket, filed a lawsuit claiming “Obama has not provided sufficient proof he ...

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Texas Prosecutor Indicts Foes, and Cheney and Gonzales

Source: Michael Ricci
November 20, 2008

HOUSTON The longtime district attorney in Willacy County, Tex., is not retiring from public office quietly after a defeat at the polls this year. Instead he has issued a flurry of indictments against his local political enemies, and then for good measure filed charges against Vice President Dick Cheney and former Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales. Mr. Cheney was charged with engaging in an organized criminal activity in connection with the 2001 beating death of an inmate by two fellow ...

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John McCain Fights Back vs. Jackson Browne

Source: All About Jazz
November 20, 2008

'Running on Empty'Senator seeks damages, claims singer's lawsuit chilled free speech.

John McCain may have lost the presidential election to Barack Obama, but his campaign seems absolutely determined not to lose to Jackson Browne. The singer/songwriter sued McCain in August after the Republican candidate for the highest office in the land used his song, Running on Empty, in a campaign commercial that targeted Obamas energy plan. At the time, many didnt take the legal threat very seriously, but based on ...

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Sassy's Happy Sobs: Sarah Vaughan at the White House

Source: Night Lights Classic Jazz
November 19, 2008

An article in the Sunday, November 9 New York Times about the history of African-American visitors to the White House came with a jazz twist at the end involving Sarah Vaughan. Vaughan performed at the White House in 1964 as part of a state dinner hosted by president Lyndon B. Johnson for the prime minister of Japan. In Leslie Gourse’s Vaughan biography pianist Bob James described the singer’s nervousness before her appearance in the East Room, an area with an ...

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Vice President Cheney Indicted

Source: Michael Ricci
November 18, 2008

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Three Little Bops Mystery Solved?

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
November 18, 2008

When Marc Myers at JazzWax.com decides to solve a mystery, he goes into full Sherlock Holmes mode. He has done that in an attempt to track down the complete personnel of the Shorty Rogers combo in the Looney Tunes cartoon Three Little Bops, which ran last week on Rifftides. I agree with critic Larry Kart's conclusion that the baritone saxophonist is Jimmy Giuffre. Follow this link to see the cartoon again and read Kart's message. Giuffre worked often with Rogers ...

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Three Little Bops + Two Peppers

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
November 18, 2008

One of jazz's wiliest mysteries involves a Looney Toons cartoon released in January 1957. The animated short is called Three Little Bops, a hep-cat jape of The Three Little Pigs. Instead of a straight retelling of the children's fable, the cartoon features three porkers as hat-clad hipster musicians who struggle to fend off a tin-eared, trumpet-playing wolf determined to jam with them at three different clubs. With the help of Stan Freberg, the legendary comedian who wrote the jive-rhyme storyline ...

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