Music Industry News

Jazz Lives Here: How Jazz Nourishes the City's Soul: Hour 16 & Hour 19

Source: All About Jazz
October 12, 2008

Hour 16 At 8 a.m. Sunday, jazz great Wynton Marsalis is in his apartment, saying it’s not so bad having the sleepy time blues. “It's early in the morning, it's still kind of dark. Well, not now, it's 8 o'clock, but I'm imagining it,” says Marsalis, before breaking into a piano improvisation. “It's just the blues.” Marsalis offers the visiting television crew some coffee and an extra cup of encouragement. “It's good that you’re staying up, because that's the real ...

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YMCA Program Teaches Students About Music, Life

Source: All About Jazz
October 12, 2008

The music is opening up doors for other stuff Fourteen-year-old Tommy Fleming didn’t know playing rock ‘n’ roll could be so good. That was before he learned to play jazz. He didn’t know jazz could be so good, either. That was until he joined the YMCA Center for the Creative Arts, an after-school program of the YMCA of the Greater Tri-Valley. The program is dedicated to creating music opportunities for school-aged children. Since 2003, the program has allowed students such ...

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Hitmaking Producer/Saxophonist Darren Rahn Joins De'Nate'

Source: Cheryl Hughey Promotions
October 12, 2008

Saxophonist/producer Darren Rahn recently announced that he has joined De'Nate', the nuGroove band created by industry veteran David Chackler. “The chemistry between Rahn, Connors and Harasim is remarkable. In many ways, it reminds me of the magic that happened when Keith Olsen and I introduced Stevie Nicks and Lindsay Buckingham to Mick Fleetwood of Fleetwood Mac. It's an indescribable energy that you can see feel and hear," said David Chackler, President of nuGroove.

Rahn, who has been responsible for several ...

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Correspondence: About Erroll Garner

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
October 12, 2008

Julius LaRosa sent a reminiscence.

This quote from Wikipedia: “Garner was self-taught and remained an 'ear player' all his life - he never learned to read music."

A hundred years ago we shared a bill in Pittsburgh...or was it Boston...or was it Chicago...and by coincidence went there on the same flight. Anyway, during the usual small talk I asked, re: “MISTY", how he came up with that gorgeous melody.

He replied, I daresay innocently, “I was sittin' in ...

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French Quarter Has Bounced Back, Differently

Source: All About Jazz
October 11, 2008

Sloshing your way down Bourbon Street, past the banks of Slurpee-like machines spewing mango daiquiris by the gallon, it's hard to wrap your head around the notion that by dancing to raucous music, eating too much and drinking way too much, you're helping get a fallen American city back on its feet. Even as you grow progressively less steady on yours. But tourism is what drives New Orleans' economy, and the French Quarter is its revving engine. By sipping a ...

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Cynthia Basinet Petitions the United Nations

Source: All About Jazz
October 11, 2008

Sixty-second General Assembly Fourth Committee on behalf of issues facing the Western Sahara. From the UN official site: “CYNTHIA BASINET, singer and actress, said that the international community had a moral responsibility as steward of the Saharawi people, and that a shift in heart and not just policy was required. Anaemia, diabetes, tuberculosis, stunting and acute malnutrition were plaguing the Saharawi population, and yet 90 per cent of the population had attended school and were literate, according to a 1998 ...

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Grand Lady of Jazz Turns 75

Source: All About Jazz
October 10, 2008

She started singing at a tender age of six in stage shows which also allowed her to display her acting talent. At 12, she performed for American servicemen detailed at the former Clark Air Base in Pampanga. At 15, she was a frontliner at Jimmy’s Night Club along Dewey (now Roxas) Boulevard. At 20, she clinched a contract to perform in Okinawa, where her older sister also worked as a singer. For more than six decades now, Annie Brazil, tagged ...

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Hitmaking Producer Darren Rahn Officially Joins De'Nate'

Source: Cheryl Hughey Promotions
October 9, 2008

Saxophonist/producer Darren Rahn recently announced that he has joined De'Nate', the nuGroove band created by industry veteran David Chackler. “The chemistry between Rahn, Connors and Harasim is remarkable. In many ways, it reminds me of the magic that happened when Keith Olsen and I introduced Stevie Nicks and Lindsay Buckingham to Mick Fleetwood of Fleetwood Mac. It's an indescribable energy that you can see feel and hear," said David Chackler, President of nuGroove. Rahn, who has been responsible for several ...

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