Music Industry News

New York West Village Jazz Septet Takes On the Music of Bobby Darin

Source: All About Jazz
August 1, 2007

"Splish Splash" is Bobby Darin's pivotal 1958 party hit. The Bronx-born musician is best remembered as a crooner from the '50s and '60s. Made famous again by the 2004 film “Beyond the Sea," starring Kevin Spacey. But when the jazz septet Waverly Seven dives into his music, Darin's big band beginnings are apparent. “It seemed like a cool idea to do the music of Bobby Darin," says Waverly Seven's Joel Frahm. About a year ago, these seven young New York-based ...

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Detroit's "Jazz Cafe Discovery Series" is Looking For Bands

Source: All About Jazz
July 27, 2007

The “Jazz Cafe Discovery Series" is booking its fall season and is looking for bands who want to perform live. All styles of Jazz are welcome! Debut performances occur most Tuesday nights on the Absopure Stage of the Jazz Cafe in the lower level of the Music Hall in downtown Detroit. Bands invited back for an encore performance are recorded and given airplay Sunday nights at 11pm on WVMV 98.7FM as well as a CD copy of their performance. Encore ...

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How Innovative Funding Transformed Chicago's Jazz Scene

Source: All About Jazz
July 23, 2007

Two years ago, several of Chicago's most famous corporations and foundations dared to invent a new model for funding the arts. In a dramatic move, they joined forces to create an informal philanthropic consortium dedicated to supporting music. This meant, in effect, that each of these big-league organizations risked losing some of the high visibility -- or the “branding" power, in marketers' terms -- that accrues with being the sole or lead underwriter of an arts event. More radical still, ...

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Morrison Hotel Gallery Announces Exclusive Representation of the Blue Note / Francis Wolff Jazz Photography Archive.

Source: All About Jazz
July 20, 2007

JThe Morrison Hotel Galleries will represent Francis Wolff's legendary jazz photographs, which graced the covers of many Blue Note albums, exclusively throughout the world. Peter Blachley and Richard Horowitz, Morrison Hotel Gallery principals and Blue Note producer Michael Cuscuna, owner of the Francis Wolff archive, announced the agreement today.

Under the arrangement, Morrison Hotel Galleries will exhibit and sell the photographs in their three U.S. galleries in New York, La Jolla and Los Angeles. In addition, the gallery will represent ...

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Prince is Determined to Revolutionise the Music Industry

Source: All About Jazz
July 16, 2007

My Way may have been the signature tune of another giant of popular music but no artist has so enthusiastically embraced the philosophy of that song as Prince. The maverick from Minneapolis has been doing things his way since 1977 when, at the age of 19, he signed a three-album deal and blew the budget for all three albums on the first one, and this after insisting that he play all the instruments himself, record all the vocals himself - ...

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Classic Bay Area Funk Images at the New Bruce Steinberg Gallery!

Source: All About Jazz
July 12, 2007

Discover the new Bruce Steinberg Gallery -- live and in living color!

If you're into the funk-music scene that exploded out of the San Francisco Bay Area in the '60s and '70s, and would like to experience up-close-and-personal visual images and stories of some of the artists and albums most closely associated with that timeless music, this is a site you'll definitely want to visit!

As a young photographer and designer coming up in the middle of that scene and ...

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ASCAP/IAJE Commissioned Works, Honoring Frank Foster, to be Premiered at 2008 IAJE Conference in Toronto

Source: All About Jazz
July 9, 2007

New Works Composed by Tim Hagans and Ayn Inserto New York, July 9, 2007: For the 11th year, the ASCAP/IAJE Commissions program has commissioned two new jazz works in honor of one of the genre's major figures. This year, the new compositions have been commissioned to honor the life and work of composer, saxophonist and bandleader, Frank Foster. The new works will receive their premiere performances at the 2008 IAJE Conference in Toronto in January. The commissioned composers are Tim ...

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Trio Gives Jazz Treatment to Dylan

Source: All About Jazz
July 5, 2007

One of modern jazz's most adventurous groups, Jewels & Binoculars, is bringing its interpretations of Bob Dylan's music to several Island venues over the next couple of weeks beginning tonight at Duncan Garage Showroom. Virtuoso reedman Michael Moore, bassist Lindsey Horner, and drummer Michael Vatcher have recently released Ships with Tattooed Sails, a CD collection of free jazz reinventions of a dozen Dylan songs. The trio of sonic innovators from New York and Amsterdam reshapes songs from the breadth of ...

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