Music Industry News

Focusing the Spotlight: Brian Andres and the New Wave of Bay Area Latin Jazz Drummers

Source: All About Jazz
May 2, 2008

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The Getaway

Source: All About Jazz
May 2, 2008

Mrs. Rifftides and I spent her birthday far from the madding crowd--and from blogging. We arrived at the Sleeping Lady Mountain Retreat just after a hundred or so conferees had checked out. The sixty-seven enchanted acres on Icicle Creek in the foothills of the Cascades were almost exclusively ours for a day and night. Winter--several feet of it--was still evident on the peaks above us, but down below we had spring and no obligations.

We wandered the paths, played horseshoes ...

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Nu Jazz Entertainment Announces the Launch of the World's First Jazz Record Label with Audio & Video Content Exclusively for Digital Download

Source: All About Jazz
May 1, 2008

(New York, NY) - Nu Jazz Entertainment--a long time producer of high quality audio and video content in the genre of jazz--announced the launch of two new labels, dedicated to the production and distribution of audio & video recordings--exclusively for digital download.

Nu Jazz Entertainment founder Jerald Miller, has announced the formation of two separate labels, to release high definition video and audio content--exclusively for digital download in the genre of jazz. Nu Jazz Records and ...

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Jimmy Giuffre

Source: All About Jazz
April 29, 2008

Jimmy Giuffre could play the tenor saxophone with a rhythm and blues raucousness that reflected his Texas origins. For a time in the 1950s, though, the low-register intimacy of his clarinet was one of the most identifiable sounds in jazz. Giuffre died last Thursday of complications from the Parkinsons disease that for years had limited his activity in music.

Featuring Jim Hall's guitar and Ralph Pea's bass or Bob Brookmeyer's valve trombone, he rooted his trio in blues, folk music and standard ...

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Review: A Quincy Jones Concert

Source: All About Jazz
April 29, 2008

Quincy Jones is an icon, a legend. Heavy-laden with honorary doctorates, awards, Grammys (27 of them), Kennedy Center Honors, he is lauded for his work with Frank Sinatra, Barbara Streisand and Michael Jackson. Almost lost in the mists of time is the reason Jones came to the attention of such artists: his enormous talent for composing and arranging for a big jazz band.

Last night, at the Voice of America auditorium in Washington, DC, those compositions and arrangements were brought ...

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Live Jazz @ Sidecar Bar & Grill in Toronto

Source: All About Jazz
April 29, 2008

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The New York Blues and Jazz Society Needs Your Help!

Source: Just Roots PR
April 29, 2008

Want to see the blues survive? The only way to keep this music going is to GET THE WORD OUT! The way to do that is to JOIN THE SOCIETY AND MAKE A DIFFERENCE! We are a non-profit organization so we don't make any money but we do get many perks and have some fun! Join the family and help the blues scene grow, cause if you don't do it, there won't be anywhere left to see this music!

Fundraiser ...

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Jazz Impressions of Brubeck

Source: All About Jazz
April 28, 2008

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