Music Industry News

Yes Cancels 40th Anniversary Tour

Source: All About Jazz
June 16, 2008

Yes Legendary rock band Yes announced last week that the group will be canceling their 2008 40th Anniversary Tour. The 26-city tour was scheduled to kick off in Quebec next month and run through the summer.

Yes frontman and founding member Jon Anderson was admitted to the hospital last month after suffering a severe asthma attack. He has now been diagnosed with acute respiratory failure and was told by doctors this weekend that he needs to rest and not work ...

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Botti's Jazz Music is All About Style, Mood

Source: All About Jazz
June 15, 2008

His 2007 effort, Italia, was nominated for a Grammy Award. Smooth jazz for the hip crowd is what trumpeter and composer Chris Botti provides the musical world. Perhaps what separates the Oregon native from his peers is he rarely enters into the schmaltzy sounds of, say, Kenny G. Instead, there's an edge to Botti's work, which explains why he's played with so many big names in his nearly 15-year career. The list includes Sting, Andrea Bocelli, Jill Scott, Josh Groban, ...

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Sat Eye Candy: Montreux Jazz Fest

Source: All About Jazz
June 15, 2008

A SPLASH OF APPLAUSE FOR ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS, DIVERSE FESTIVALS EVER

As folks gather in the dusty hills of Tennessee to enjoy a rainbow of musical offerings this weekend, it's worth sparing a thought for one of the ancestors in Bonnaroo's DNA, the Montreux Jazz Festival. Begun in 1967 by Claude Nobs, the first edition featured a dozen jazz luminaries including the legendary Charles Lloyd Quartet with Keith Jarrett, Cecil McBee and Jack DeJohnette. By 1970, ...

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Bob Weinberg Joins Hot House Florida

Source: All About Jazz
June 14, 2008

Bob Weinberg is a veteran jazz and blues writer living in South Florida. For more than a dozen years, he was employed by the alternative weekly City Link, where he penned a jazz and blues column and other features. In addition to writing the Traditions column for Jazziz magazine and freelance arts pieces for the Sun-Sentinel, and contributing reviews and interviews to the Miami NPR affiliate WLRN-91.3 FM, Weinberg currently contributes artist previews and CD reviews to the Hot House ...

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Ornette Coleman Plays Burlington

Source: All About Jazz
June 14, 2008

By: Josh Potter

Ornette Coleman :: 06.07.08 :: Flynn Theater :: Burlington, VT

Ornette Coleman In most cases, the debate over a given artist's “genius" is generally moot - relative, as it were, to the way a listener fits the art in their own schema of history, interest and influence. As a result, we often talk about “legends" and “heroes," those individuals who have risen in a timeless sort of way to ...

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Sirius: Roots of the Dead

Source: All About Jazz
June 14, 2008

SIRIUS SATELLITE RADIO TO FEATURE THE “ROOTS & BRANCHES" OF THE GRATEFUL DEAD Music that inspired The Grateful Dead and artists they influenced to be featured on SIRIUS Satellite Radio's exclusive Grateful Dead Channel

The Grateful Dead WHAT: SIRIUS' Grateful Dead channel to launch a new feature celebrating music that inspired The Grateful Dead as well as the songs that were influenced by the iconic band. Each day this special feature, Roots & Branches of the ...

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E Dog Benefit for Detroit Sax Man

Source: JazzStage Productions
June 14, 2008

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How I Conquered Space

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
June 14, 2008

Anyone with a large compact disc collection will understand the difficult choice I faced: get rid of several hundred CDs (at least), build a wing on the house to accommodate the collection or find a way to make the existing shelves hold more. The point of desperation was approaching, fast. Then a friend casually mentioned that he had found the solution to his own CD space problem. The answer was vinyl sleeves sold by a company called Jazz Loft. I ...

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