Music Industry News

Gramex Sells Jazz and Classical LPS and CDs

Source: All About Jazz
May 5, 2008

ith the growth of recorded music, in 1906 an enterprising - and by all accounts highly eccentric! - collector and entrepreneur called George Russell opened the Gramophone Record Exchange at the Angel London. Since then the company has been based in New Oxford Street, Shaftesbury Avenue, Wardour Street, York Road and finally at its present home, Lower Marsh behind Waterloo Station. The name Gramex was adopted in 1982, when the shop dealt exclusively in used classical recordings. Today Gramex is ...

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Memorial Service for Legendary Jazz Producer Teo Macero, May 18 at NYU's Loewe Theatre

Source: All About Jazz
May 5, 2008

Teo Macero, the legendary jazz saxophonist, composer, and record producer who died on February 19, will be remembered at a memorial service on Sunday, May 18 at New York University's Frederick Loewe Theatre, 35 West 4th Street, from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. The memorial service is open to the public.

The NYU Jazz Orchestra will perform a selection of Macero's music with special guest soloists. Macero played an important role in helping to develop the NYU Jazz Program over ...

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The Carla Bley Songbook

Source: All About Jazz
May 5, 2008

Carla Bley is renowned today for her big-band writing and its wide-ranging use of musical and emotional elements, but it was small-group recordings of her work in the 1960s by musicians such as Jimmy Giuffre, Gary Burton, George Russell, and her husband Paul Bley that introduced her to the jazz world. In her teens Bley abandoned home, religion, and school, eventually making her way to New York City, where she worked as a hatcheck and cigarette girl in jazz clubs ...

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Jason Stein and Ombak at the Camel, 5/6/08

Source: All About Jazz
May 5, 2008

"It just kind of felt like home, it was more natural than straight ahead music. Free jazz was very modern, everything else was a throw back," said bass clarinetist Jason Stein.On Tuesday, free jazz forces from Richmond and Chicago will be joining up at The Camel at 9pm for what promises to be a very modern evening.Jason Stein's Locksmith Isidore from Chicago will be pairing up with Bryan Hooten's group Ombak, which should have a near ...

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Kenny Barron in Concert

Source: All About Jazz
May 5, 2008

While the staff at Rifftides world headquarters labors over outside writing obligations, Washington, DC correspondent John Birchard fills the gap with his impressions of a concert by a major pianist and his new trio.

KENNY BARRON TRIO AT THE KENNEDY CENTER

May 3, 2008

Review by John Birchard

Any lingering suspicion that jazz is a purely American art form could have been wiped away last night (May 3), as the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, presented ...

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Wayne Shorter - Blakey, ESP and Nefertiti

Source: All About Jazz
May 5, 2008

JazzCorner.com's Jazz Perspectives producer Reese Erlich sat down for an intimate conversation with saxophonist Wayne Shorter. In this special podcast, Shorter talks about his early years with Art Blakey and Miles Davis. He also reveals what inspired him to write his original compositions, including “ESP" and “Nefertiti." Wayne Shorter will be adjudicating and performing at the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz 2008 International Saxophone Competition and Gala on October 25 and 26 in Los Angeles. For more information, visit monkinstitute.org. ...

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Sherman's Forced March

Source: All About Jazz
May 5, 2008

One of the pleasures of my trips to New York has been to drop in to the Waldorf-Astoria during the cocktail hour to hear Daryl Sherman. She has perfect taste in songs, seems to know every good one ever written, plays the piano with a repertoire of satisfying and often surprising chord changes, and sings like an angel. I mentioned the experience in this post early in the life of Rifftides. Well, the rule of all good things has caught ...

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Musicians for Harmony Names New Artistic Directors

Source: Seth Cohen PR
May 2, 2008

MFH Spring Benefit to Showcase Flutist Eugenia Zukerman Innovative 'Mentorship Program' Teaches Iraqi Music Students Via Webcam Musicians For Harmony is pleased to announce violinist and composer Colin Jacobsen and his brother, cellist and conductor Eric Jacobsen, as the new co-Artistic Directors of the respected organization. Both have performed at Musicians For Harmony concerts for the past several years, and are committed to furthering the non-profit's mission to promote peace and cultural exchange through music. Musicians For Harmony Founder & ...

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