Music Industry News

Niagara Falls: Jazz Reunion Remembers City's Roots

Source: All About Jazz
September 7, 2008

Charlie Reedy remembers his friend John “Spider" Martin well. They attended music classes at Niagara Falls High School together in the 1940s and eventually formed a band to play at the Ontario House. Without Spider's help, who knows if Reedy -- who still performs regularly at the Colored Musicians Club of Buffalo -- would ever have became the jazz musician he is today. “I couldn't talk my parents into buying me a horn, but Spider did," Reedy remembers with a ...

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Michael Weintrob Photo Exhibit

Source: JamBase
September 6, 2008

SEE THE SOUND AT SPENCER LOFTS - MICHAEL WEINTROB'S PHOTO WORK New Music Photography Exhibit Showcases Modern Music Experience Captured Through the Lens of Young Brooklyn Photographer

Regina Spektor - Outside Lands by Michael Weintrob Music meets visual art on the walls of Chelsea's Spencer Loft Gallery at the “See the Sound" exhibit featuring the music photography of Brooklyn based photographer, and JamBase regular, Michael Weintrob. Images exhibited will include candid and live performance shots spanning ...

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Jessie on World Cafe with David Dye Today! | Jessie Baylin | News

Source: All About Jazz
September 3, 2008

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Red Cat Publicity - Fall Preview 2008

Source: Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity
September 2, 2008

New Releases: The Wee Trio, Michael Bates, Trumpeter Avishai Cohen and David Weiss On Tour: The Wee Trio, Marcus Strickland, Michael Bates, Miles Okazaki, Dan Pratt Festival: Announcing the 6th annual Festival of New Trumpet Music Venue: Tribeca PAC 25th Anniversary Event - Bobby Sanabria Live at The Tribeca PAC on Halloween Related RedCat News Contrabassist/Composer Michael Bates on Tour in Support of... New Jazz Composers Octet, “The Turning Gate," Available in... ...

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Last of the Lions: Gerald Wilson

Source: Night Lights Classic Jazz
September 2, 2008

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Other Places: Jazzwax on Louis and Bix

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
September 2, 2008

The Bix Beiderbecke discussion that began here last week has spread to other precincts of the internet, most recently in an entry on Marc Myers's JazzWax. Marc builds on what he points out is an absurd trumped-up competition, Beiderbecke vs. Louis Armstrong; as if music was boxing, a track event or a beauty contest. To read it, and hear the recording of Bix's “Sorry," go here.

And don't miss this phrase in Myers's text...

...the rubbery bark of ...

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Denver Jazz Musician All Too Familiar with Devastating Effects from a Hurricane

Source: All About Jazz
September 1, 2008

Denver jazz musician Henry Butler this weekend called friends who live in his old hometown of New Orleans, checking on how they were as Hurricane Gustav bore down upon the Gulf Coast. Some were getting ready to evacuate. Some planned to ride it out. They are all in his thoughts, said Butler, who lost his home, his recording studio and his piano three years ago in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. “I feel so sorry the people who are still ...

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Happy Birthday Van Morrison!

Source: JamBase
September 1, 2008

FOND NATAL DAY WISHES TO ROCK'S GRUMPIEST CURMUDGEON GENIUS

Van “The Man" Morrison turns 63 today. Notorious for his mercurial mood swings and, uh, “artistic temperament," he's been known to perform whole concerts with his back to the audience, grumbling forced thank-yous between songs and he's as likely to spit in your eye as answer your questions in an interview, but the cat is bloody brilliant and produced an unbroken string of inspired albums between 1968-1974 rivaled ...

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