Music Industry News

Girl Talk: Reveling in the Party

Source: JamBase
August 22, 2008

By: Chris Clark

Girl Talk by Christos Schizas Gregg Gillis is a music-making machine. Better known throughout the world as Girl Talk, the one-man mixing master has risen to international acclaim after the critically heralded release of 2006's Night Ripper. Everyone from Rolling Stone and Pitchfork to Beck and Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips had it on their Best Albums of the Year list, turning heads from all angles and opening the world's ears ...

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Songs for Some Jazz Fathers: Shorter, Silver and Wilson

Source: Night Lights Classic Jazz
August 20, 2008

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More on Jean Kittrell's Retirement

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
August 20, 2008

Following up on last week's post about the retirement of veteran St. Louis jazz singer and pianist Jean Kittrell, you may recall a reference in that post to a press release sent out by the Sheldon Concert Hall announcing that pianist Pat Joyce would be replacing Kittrell on a show there due to “health concerns." At the time, I expressed the wish that those concerns would be quickly resolved so that Kittrell might enjoy her well-deserved retirement after more than ...

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Jazz It up New Orleans

Source: All About Jazz
August 19, 2008

IT comes as a bit of a surprise to learn that a popular pastime in New Orleans is the hurricane party. As the clouds build over the Gulf of Mexico, they watch, drinks in hand, as the storm looms bigger and blacker. The preferred drink-in-hand is, of course, the Hurricane, a rum-based creeping stunner which has been a port in every storm since long before Katrina became an ugly word. The way one French Quarter barman tells it, this ritual ...

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Jazz and R&B Photography by Skip Bolen on Youtube

Source: All About Jazz
August 19, 2008

This video contains an impressive portfolio of Skip Bolen's music portraits from New Orleans and Los Angeles: James Brown (The Godfather of Soul), the luminous jazz vocalist Jimmy Scott, plus many other jazz and R&B musicians including Wayne Shorter, Henry Grimes, Roy Hargrove, Dave Brubeck, Herbie Hancock, Nicholas Payton, David Murray, Marcus Roberts, Terence Blanchard, Irvin Mayfield, Ellis Marsalis, Etta James, Cassandra Wilson, Donald Harrison, Jason Marsalis, Jeremy Davenport and many more seasoned performers to several new rising sensations such ...

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Bohemia in Brooklyn

Source: All About Jazz
August 18, 2008

Move over, Manhattan: There's a new jazz nucleus For more than 50 years, Manhattan was an epicenter of jazz. The music especially thrived in areas where crime and abandoned buildings kept the cost of living low for artists like Charlie “Bird" Parker, who rented an apartment at 151 Avenue B. On a recent rainy Friday night at a caf in Park Slope, Brooklyn, as listeners packed in to hear new music by the bassist Todd Sickafoose (cryptogramophone.com), it was clear ...

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Vinyl Records Make a Return

Source: Michael Ricci
August 18, 2008

Music on discs, the big, old-time kind, is popular again. Baby boomers and even kids seek it out. The industry responds.

When the doorbell rings at Monti Olson's Glendale home in the middle of the night, it can mean only one thing: Jeff Bowers, his partner in Original Recordings Group, has brought new album artwork for him to inspect. “I'll come out in my pajamas and look it over," Olson said. “He drives home, and I'll go back to bed." ...

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The Wayne Shorter Songbook

Source: Night Lights Classic Jazz
August 18, 2008

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