Music Industry News

A Ferment of World Jazz Yields a Trove of Tapes

Source: Michael Ricci
October 22, 2008

WOODSTOCK, N.Y. — The Creative Music Studio here remains underdocumented and little understood. But a definitive history of jazz in the 1970s — a book yet to be written — ought to give it central importance. During the dawning years of jazz education the studio, run out of various repurposed settings — a barn, a Lutheran youth camp, a motel — was the unmusic school, roughly analogous to Black Mountain College, the progressive school in North Carolina that brought together ...

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Jazz Society Seeks New Music Venues in Yuma

Source: All About Jazz
October 22, 2008

Nonprofit groups strive to better their community in lots of ways, but one wants to give Yuma the gift of jazz and blues. A local music promoter founded the Yuma Jazz Society in August with the goal of creating more jazz and blues events in Yuma, including an annual festival and smaller events ranging from jams to jazz camps. “The society will be organizing events and promoting jazz to the community," said founder and director Richard Bridgeforth. “We just want ...

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Record Site Taken Down for Violating Own Copyright

Source: PC Magazine
October 22, 2008

A donation-based record label is back online Tuesday after its Web-hosting company took the label's Web site offline for alleged copyright violations. One problem, though. The label – Quote Unquote Records – produces all of its own content, and was perplexed as to how it could have infringed upon itself. “A little over a week ago, I was notified by my web hosting company that I had some files of copyrighted music on my Web site," label founder Jeff Rosenstock ...

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Edie Adams and Stan Getz

Source: Night Lights Classic Jazz
October 22, 2008

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Mingus Awareness Project: A Benefit for ALS Research

Source: RVAjazz
October 21, 2008

By Dean ChristesenOne year ago on a sunny Sunday afternoon, the Mingus Awareness Project found its home away from home in Richmond, Virginia. Created and first held in Chicago by Jon Godston in May 2007, M.A.P. was formed to educate people on two topics: jazz bassist Charles Mingus and Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (or ALS), the disease that killed him and continues to kill thousands every year. The project's goal is to raise money to benefit an ALS research ...

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The Baroness of Jazz

Source: Michael Ricci
October 21, 2008

If the mysterious Baroness Pannonica de Koenigswarter is at all remembered today, it is for her proximity to the deaths of two legendary jazz musicians. In 1955 Charlie Parker died on a sofa in her Fifth Avenue home; 27 years later Thelonious Monk died after secluding himself for years in her New Jersey house. Both deaths made the baroness an immediate target of tabloid headlines and a long-term subject for scurrilous gossip. Almost no one, though, beyond the insular jazz ...

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Birdland Jazz Club Announces November 2008 Schedule

Source: O&M Co.
October 20, 2008

Birdland (315 West 44th Street between 8th & 9th Aves.) is pleased to announce an exciting line-up of extraordinary entertainment for the month of November. A detailed schedule follows:

Enrico Pieranunzi Latin Quintet Born in Rome in 1949, Enrico Pieranunzi has long been one of the best-known and appreciated personalities on the European jazz scene. As pianist, composer, and arranger, he has recorded more than sixty CDs under his own name, ranging from solo piano to trio, and ...

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David Sanborn Helps Raise Money for VH1's Save the Music Foundation

Source: Universal Music Enterprises
October 20, 2008

Maverick saxophonist David Sanborn, who has performed alongside such heavyweights as James Brown, Eric Clapton, Stevie Wonder, Bruce Springsteen, David Bowie, and innumerable others is stepping up in support of young musicians across the country and participating in two exclusive auctions to benefit the VH1 Save The Music Foundation, which donates instruments for public school music programs.

Beginning on October 14th and closing on October 24th on eBay.com, bidders can choose between two auction packages. The first consists of two ...

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