Music Industry News

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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The Birth of the Cool Songbook

Source: All About Jazz
June 9, 2008

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News from Romania

Source: All About Jazz
June 9, 2008

Every once in a while, news appears to remind us of the extent to which jazz has become an international art form and field of study. For example:

The third annual Romanian Jazz Education Summit will begin July 5, and last until July 10, 2008. All jazz music educators and most Romanian jazz students will attend. As always, the purpose of this summit is to provide intensive/detailed instruction of American jazz education techniques for Romanian educators and students ...

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Return of the New Thing - Alchemia (Not Two, 2008) ****a1/2

Source: All About Jazz
June 8, 2008

If you like creative, genre-bending, fully improvised, expansive and energetic free jazz, then you will surely enjoy this. The British-French quartet, consisting of Dan Warburton on piano and violin, Jean-Luc Guionnet on alto sax, Francois Fuchs on bass and Edward Perraud on drums, has a real take-no-prisoners approach. The three long tracks (approx. 29, 24 and 17 minutes, aptly titled 29:09, 24:41 and 17:20), are a pure powerhouse of full-speed intensity and unrelenting energy. Once in a while the wall ...

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