Music Industry News

Jazz and Religion: The Church of John Coltrane

Source: All About Jazz
March 23, 2008

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Jazz for the Easter Weekend

Source: All About Jazz
March 22, 2008

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Marian McPartland at 90

Source: All About Jazz
March 21, 2008

By Dan Morgenstern There comes a time when it IS nice to mention a lady's age. Marian McPartland took the plunge in 1998, when she marked her 80th birthday with a concert at New York's Town Hall, a high point of which was the reunion with bassist Bill Crow and drummer Joe Morello, her trio partners at the Hickory House during most of the 1950s. That's just one of the long runs in this extraordinary pianist, composer, teacher, writer and ...

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Archive and Digitize Your Vinyl and Cassettes with Grace Digital

Source: All About Jazz
March 21, 2008

San Diego, CA, March 21, 2008 -- Grace Digital Inc., a leading manufacturer of audio and telephony consumer electronics, announces the expansion of their line of recordable Grace Digital and Victoria entertainment centers. Grace Digital has introduced two nostalgic entertainment centers under their Victoria brand for the music lover who desires to play and preserve their favorite LP's. The Victoria Tunewriter (ITC-TWCDR) with its built in speakers is wrapped in a beautiful paprika colored 1800's styled wood cabinet. The cabinet ...

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AUM Fidelity Partners with Improvised Communications to Promote Its Forthcoming 2008 Releases

Source: Improvised Communications
March 21, 2008

BROOKLYN, NY -- AUM Fidelity is pleased to announce it has secured the services of Improvised Communications to promote its 2008 releases to press and radio. In addition to three new recordings (from Roy Campbell, Bill Dixon and William Parker, respectively) being released in partnership with Arts for Arts, Inc., this collaboration will also include the promotion of forthcoming CDs by the William Parker Quartet, the new David S. Ware group and Eri Yamamoto.

For more than a decade, AUM ...

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Mary Stallings Felt "Predestined" to Sing Jazz

Source: All About Jazz
March 20, 2008

The sound started even before Ma Rainey and Ethel Waters and Bessie Smith came along. It grew and set new artistic standards in the work of Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan and Dinah Washington. And it's still going strong. The sound of women's voices has always been close to the heart of jazz. So it's fitting that the American Jazz Museum celebrates women in jazz by inviting two first-class singers, Mary Stallings and Karrin Allyson, to perform Saturday at the Gem ...

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Exploring Latin Jazz: Afro-Peruvian Dance and Folk Artists

Source: All About Jazz
March 20, 2008

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Martin Taylor and Alison Burns Begin New Pass/Fitzgerald Project

Source: All About Jazz
March 19, 2008

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