Music Industry News

Correspondence: About Wellstood

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
August 9, 2008

The Frishberg, Sullivan, Wellstood item in the next exhibit brought quick responses from two men who knew Wellstood well. The first was Ted O'Reilly, the Toronto broadcaster who produced a few Wellstood recordings.

Wellstood was one of the brightest men I ever met, never mind how great a pianist he was. And great he was, and not afraid to play the way he did: as a stride/swing player in the bop era, and do it so well! (I've ...

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Frishberg, Wellstood and Sullivan

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
August 8, 2008

Dick Wellstood has been on my mind. Maybe it's because I heard Dave Frishberg play the piano the other night at The Seasons. Frishberg was in concert singing his inimitable songs and accompanying himself, but he opened up plenty of space for piano solos. Before he became famous for performing his songs, Frishberg worked with Zoot Sims, Al Cohn, Ben Webster, Jack Sheldon and Carmen McRae, among other demanding leaders. He was, and is, a versatile and idiosyncratic pianist who ...

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New Orleans Photographer Skip Bolen Launches New Website of Jazz Photos

Source: All About Jazz
August 7, 2008

NEW ORLEANS, LA. -- The new Skip Bolen Photography website has been officially launched this week. The website features an eclectic mix of both black + white and color photographs primarily of musicians in New Orleans; downtown street scenes of New Orleans, Los Angeles and New York City; rural water towers from Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas; and lastly, stills photography from Fox Television's K-Ville. The new website can be viewed at SkipBolen.com. The new website contains an impressive portfolio of ...

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Play It in the Closet: The Return Farewell of J.D. Salinger

Source: Night Lights Classic Jazz
August 7, 2008

43 years ago J.D. Salinger, the reclusive writer who rose to cult status in the 1950s and early 1960s on the strength of his novel The Catcher in the Rye and his stories about the talented but troubled Glass family, bade farewell to the published literary life with a long piece of fiction titled Hapworth 16, 1924. It appeared in the New Yorker in June of 1965 and elicited little critical or commercial fanfare; the Salinger media mania that accompanied ...

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Beatles Reel-to-Reel Tape Sells For $23k

Source: All About Jazz
August 6, 2008

A newly discovered tape of the Beatles laughing and chatting during an early recording session has sold for about $23,000.

Cameo Auctioneers said the reel-to-reel tape was recorded in 1964 and had recently been discovered by a man in northern England while he was clearing out his father's attic.

The half-hour tape sold to an Internet bidder Tuesday afternoon for $23,446 including tax and the buyer's premium, the auction house said, adding that it had yet to contact the winner. ...

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Other Places: Bill Holman at Length

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
August 6, 2008

In his JazzWax, Marc Myers has a fascinating four-part interview with Bill Holman. I'm no enthusiast of transcribed verbatim interviews, but Myers's introductions, questions and production values make the format work, and in the great arranger he has a subject whose articulateness and wit carry the reader along. Two excerpts:

I used to think that writing a jazz arrangement was like stream of consciousness, the same as a jazz solo. You just started playing and built on what ...

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David Byrne Tour/Free Track

Source: All About Jazz
August 5, 2008

EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENS WILL HAPPEN TODAY SONGS OF DAVID BYRNE AND BRIAN ENO TOUR

David Byrne As previously reported, David Byrne and Brian Eno have paired up for their first record together as co-writers since the highly influential and critically acclaimed 1981 release My Life in the Bush of Ghosts. Due out August 18, Everything That Happens Will Happen Today is the culmination of a year's worth of writing, recording, and travel between New York and London. The ...

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Morgan Freeman Seriously Hurt in Car Accident

Source: All About Jazz
August 4, 2008

Ground Zero Blues Club owner Morgan Freeman Seriously injured

Police say actor's car left Mississippi highway and flipped several times. Academy Award winning actor Morgan Freeman was seriously injured in a car accident in Mississippi on Sunday night according to the Mississippi Highway Patrol. Police report that Freeman, 71, was driving eastbound on Highway 32 near the town of Ruleville, Miss., around 11:30 p.m. when his car left the road and flipped several times. Police say Freeman and a female ...

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