Music Industry News

Glows in the Dark's Kung Fu Obsession

Source: All About Jazz
April 28, 2008

Glows in the Dark returns to Commercial Taphouse this Sunday, April 27. The band, led by Scott Burton and known for its original pieces inspired by Warren Oates films and Kung Fu flicks, is premiering a new piece called “One Armed Swordsman."Read more about why you should come and drink a lot.Glows in the Dark is Scott Burton (guitar/composition), Jason Arce (saxes), Scott Clark (drums), Reginald Pace, (trombone/shakers), Cameron Ralston (bass).Sunday, April ...

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Streaming Zoot

Source: All About Jazz
April 25, 2008

The National Public Radio Jazz Profiles program about Zoot Sims is now up on NPR's web site in streaming audio.  The show produced by Paul Conley and hosted by Nancy Wilson includes memories of the great saxophonist by Bob Brookmeyer, Dave Frishberg, Bill Holman, Harry Allen, Bucky Pizzarelli, Zoot's wife Louise and me. It also has plenty of music. To hear it, go here and click on “Listen Now."

For a recent Rifftides piece on Sims and his tenor sax ...

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Jazzis Web Shop News

Source: All About Jazz
April 24, 2008

Hello, I have devoted the 1st quarter of 2008 to expanding the selection of Jazz titles offered. Returning to an old love of mine - the British Jazz of the late 1960s / 1970s, which was a period of frantic development of European Jazz. I've established contact with several UK labels, which specialize in reissues of that material like Vocalion, Dusk Fire, Trunk, FMR and a few others which will appear on my site soon. Collectively these labels offer a ...

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Cryptogramophone Celebrates 10 Year Milestone

Source: All About Jazz
April 24, 2008

WEST COAST GUYS: Cryptogramophone founder Jeff Gauthier and fellow artists Bennie Maupin, Alex Cline and Nels Cline are celebrating the company's decade in business.

Jeff Gauthier, president of the Culver City-based jazz factory Cryptogramophone, has spent the last 10 years releasing the work of avant-garde performers with a passion for both improvisation and melody -- people like percussionist Alex Cline, bassist Mark Dresser and bass clarinet player and saxophonist Bennie Maupin, the last of whom appeared on classic albums like ...

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Other Places: Jazz Profiles

Source: All About Jazz
April 24, 2008

In his new blog Jazz Profiles, Steve Cerrra is running a multi-part series on the late pianist Michel Petrucciani. In the current installment, Cerra discusses how during his period with Blue Note Records, Petrucciani dealt with his Bill Evans influence:

To hear a very specific example of this stylistic transition in the making, compare Michel's scorching treatment of “Night and Day", in which he puts on a dazzling display of “pianism," with the searching and tentative version offered ...

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Correspondence: The Spirit of Ben Webster

Source: All About Jazz
April 24, 2008

Rifftides reader Nina Ramos listened to Carol Sloane's newest recording, encountered something that disturbed her, and sent this message:

Just finished reading your liner notes and listening to Carol Sloane's Dearest Duke. I liked it very much - except - (and am I the only one to notice?) the extremely loud breathiness in the sax part of two pieces especially - “In My Solitude" and “I Got It Bad". It just about ruins both of those songs for ...

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Ella Fitzgerald's Granddaughter Signs First Recording Contract

Source: All About Jazz
April 24, 2008

April 24, 2008 -- Los Angeles: Haylee, grand-daughter of Ella Fitzgerald, signed her first recording contract with SRI Jazz. Her debut will be a duet with dad Ray Brown Jr. singing Ella's first hit, “Tisket-A-Tasket". The song will be featured on “Friends & Family", the all-star project of duets with Ray Brown, Jr, produced by Shelly Liebowitz. “When I heard that Ray's daughter had won a school talent contest singing “Tisket-A-Tasket", I knew we had to have it on this ...

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How Sweet the Sweetwater

Source: All About Jazz
April 23, 2008

Fans get 2 Sweetwaters instead of 1

After more than 30 years in Mill Valley, Sweetwater, the rock club that became a Marin County cultural institution, had been told to close by the end of the month. Sweetwater owners Thom and Becky Steere have been given a 30-day notice by their landlord to vacate the landmark Throckmorton Avenue nightspot, where greats like Jerry Garcia, Carlos Santana, Elvis Costello, Bonnie Raitt and other rock stars have performed over the past three ...

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