Music Industry News

Cincinnati Jazz sessions in limelight

Source: All About Jazz
November 11, 2005

Plenty of jazz news this week from a smokin' living room concert CD to the “lost" Jimmy McGary tape and a new jazz “club." Jazz benefactor David Hall has given us another in the tremendous series of his “living room concerts" with the release of “Trio Con Brio" featuring piano man Phil DeGreg along with guitarist Dan Faehnle and bassist Paul Keller. The three don't just play with “brio" but are downright smokin' on this session, which DeGreg describes as ...

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Challenging jazz music tempts Jane Monheit

Source: All About Jazz
November 11, 2005

Some day, someone might write the perfect jazz-bluegrass Christmas song. Then Jane Monheit's favorites will merge. Until then, she can mainly stick to the jazz classics. She seems to do them splendidly. At 20, she was runner-up in the Thelonius Monk Institute vocal competition. Two years later, MacKenzie Wilson wrote in allmusic.com, “Monheit had joined Diana Krall as one of the highest touted female talents in jazz." Monheit turns 28 today and reaches the Wharton Center on Friday, for her ...

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Miami New Times Magazine chooses The Van Dyke Cafe as Best Jazz Club for the 2005

Source: All About Jazz
November 4, 2005

The Van Dyke Does It Again... “Under the able musical direction of bassist Don Wilner, Upstairs at the Van Dyke remains Miami's premier jazz club. No other venue comes close in terms of consistency -- 365 days per year. (Check the Website for calendars and newsletters.) And in terms of consistently high quality, nothing can match the club's rotating cast of regulars: Wilner, Mike Orta, Rose Max, Wendy Pedersen, Goetz Kujack, Sammy Figueroa, Turk Mauro, Jos Negroni. If they're not ...

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Incubus Bassist Records Downloadable Voice-Mail Message Exclusively for peta2

Source: All About Jazz
November 2, 2005

When he wasn't in the studio or on tour with Incubus, bassist Ben Kenney recently found time to record a downloadable voice-mail message for peta2--PETA's youth division--which is accessible at www.peta2.com. “Yo, this is Ben Kenney with Incubus and The Division Group," says Ben in the phone recording. “The person you're trying to reach wanted me to tell you that you should go vegetarian and check out peta2.com for help on making it happen." Ben appreciates the great health benefits ...

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Courtney Pine's Inspiration

Source: All About Jazz
November 2, 2005

The jazz musician reveals the cultural milestones in his life

Courtney Pine's debut album Journey to the Urge Within (1986) was the first British jazz album to make the top 40 in more than a decade. Smart-suited and prodigiously talented, the young saxophonist became a poster boy for British jazz, despite the fact that he was still playing predominantly American music.

Then something happened. “At the beginning of the '90s, I was doing the American set list," says Pine. “It ...

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The Birthplace of Cool? A Look at The Lighthouse California

Source: All About Jazz
November 2, 2005

Called by some “Birdland of the West", this venerable nightclub was the impetus of the West Coast jazz movement that started in the mid-1950s and lasted to the 1960s, guided by the Sunday Jazz Jam hosted by Howard Rumsey. Originally built in 1934 mere feet from the Pacific Ocean, the Lighthouse was a WWII hangout with a Polynesian theme that saw better days until John Levine bought it in the late 1940s. At the prodding of Howard Rumsey, he started ...

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Early Jazz Legends and Legends in the making at the Lighthouse California 1950's & 60's

Source: All About Jazz
November 1, 2005

Early Jazz Legends and Legends in the making at the Lighthouse California 1950s & 60s Some unbelievably talented people during that time frame, never before or since has there been so many with so much talent, and to see a lot of them share a stage made it even better. Didn't happen with all of them but enough to just thrill those fortunate enough to be there. Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane, Dizzy and Frank Rosolino , (now that was ...

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Higher Ground Fund Announces Grants for Greater New Orleans Area Musicians

Source: All About Jazz
November 1, 2005

JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER's HIGHER GROUND FUND ANNOUNCES GRANTS FOR GREATER NEW ORLEANS AREA MUSICANS AND MUSIC INDUSTRY-RELATED ENTERPRISES

Applications Available at http://www.FoundationsForRecovery.org.

New York, NY November 1, 2005 The Higher Ground Hurricane Relief Fund, established by Jazz at Lincoln Center and administered through the Baton Rouge Area Foundation, announces grants for musicians and music industry-related enterprises from the Greater New Orleans area. Individuals and organizations affected by Hurricane Katrina can download applications and review eligibility requirements at www.FoundationsForRecovery.org. The ...

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