Music Industry News

Replay: Joe Segal's Jazz Showcase Lives Again

Source: All About Jazz
June 14, 2008

"Good to see you up and running," says an enthusiastic attendee Thursday night at the packed opening of Joe Segal's new Jazz Showcase. “Feels like 'Up and creeping,'" responds Segal, with characteristic dry humor and skepticism. But there's a lot to be said for the perseverance of Chicago jazz club owners. Just as saxophonist Fred Anderson succeeded in reviving his Velvet Lounge on South Indiana, which was bulldozed in 2006, only to rise phoenix-like round the corner, Segal -- the ...

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Afro-Peruvian Jazz: Pasache Music

Source: All About Jazz
June 13, 2008

On a Mission to Promote Afro-Peruvian Jazz: Pasache Music NY good business begins every days work with a focus upon their mission statement. Its generally a paragraph that simply and clearly states the companys goals and defines the motivation behind their work. It provides each employee with a direction to guide their work and it allows everyone to see an overall goal. With this bigger objective in mind, each worker can ask an essential question - does my current task ...

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Bobby Womack: Soul Survivor

Source: All About Jazz
June 13, 2008

By: Kayceman

I was the third brother of five Doing whatever I had to do to survive I'm not saying what I did was alright Trying to break out of the ghetto was a day-to-day fight

I got one more thing I'd like to talk to y'all about right now Hey brother, there's a better way out Snorting that coke, shooting that dope, man you're copping out Take ...

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Bon Iver Dates w/ Wilco, AA Bondy

Source: All About Jazz
June 12, 2008

Bon Iver Adds Dates With Wilco, A.A. Bondy

Bon Iver Bon Iver has added a number of tour dates for this summer, including headlining shows with AA Bondy and Bowerbirds as well as a few high-profile slots opening for Wilco.

Not only does Bon Iver (a.k.a. Justin Vernon) put on a captivating live show, his debut album, For Emma, Forever Ago (review here) has taken the indie-folk world by storm. The emotionally-packed album caused The New York Times to call ...

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Meet George Klabin: Rising Jazz Stars Foundation

Source: All About Jazz
June 11, 2008

About George Klabin: George Klabin has been involved in jazz since the mid 60's, when he was a student at Columbia University, in New York City, and was head of the JAZZ department at WKCR FM Radio. To create original jazz content for his various jazz shows, George contacted the young jazz talents living in the City, and asked to record them for his show, in exchange for giving them copies of the recordings. He purchased pro recording equipment and ...

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Tommy Dorsey: The Postwar Years with Bill Finegan and Sy Oliver

Source: All About Jazz
June 11, 2008

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Returning to Forever Was Easy for Bassist

Source: All About Jazz
June 9, 2008

Although 25 years had passed since he had played with the pioneering jazz-fusion group Return to Forever, bass virtuoso Stanley Clarke had only one fleeting moment of doubt about reuniting. “I usually don't think too much about, 'Wow, is this music going to work?' “ Clarke says of the reunion tour that brings him, co-founder Chick Corea and Return to Forever to Phoenix on Saturday. “But I will say one thing: About 10 minutes before we played (the first rehearsal), ...

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New Jazz Showcase Set to Open in Chicago

Source: All About Jazz
June 9, 2008

Cans of paint and crumpled dropcloths are scattered everywhere. Bare windows and half-empty walls stare at a couple of dusty cabaret tables and a few wooden chairs. But come Thursday, if all goes according to plan, this space-in-progress will emerge as ground zero for jazz in Chicago. Or perhaps we should say “re-emerge," for Jazz Showcase founder Joe Segal has been presenting music in this city for 61 years. He has done it in nondescript halls at Roosevelt University, starting ...

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