Music Industry News

Bart Weisman: A Drummer Rolls In

Source: All About Jazz
October 22, 2005

By Sean Corcoran (for the Cape Cod Times) “This was where I was going to come someday,” he remembers thinking. “It just felt right: the water, the houses, the smells, everything. It was the whole feel, not just of Cape Cod, but of Provincetown. Everything was right.” Twenty-five years later, Weisman and his wife have a condo in Provincetown and a living room view of Cape Cod Bay. He compares that first glimpse of Provincetown to a similar moment of ...

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Ars Nova Workshop brings the messiahs of Chicago's contemporary avant-garde to Philly

Source: All About Jazz
October 20, 2005

This is big, people. The city is getting slammed with a succession of concerts featuring some of the most innovative jazz composers of our time, thanks to Ars Nova Workshop. Ars Nova is partnering with the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM)-a Chicago-based collective of black musicians created in 1965 that's arguably the most innovative and vital music organization of its time-for a local celebration of what many aficionados consider the messiahs of contemporary avant-garde jazz: composers and ...

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Amid All That Jazz, Herb Snitzer Took Pictures of Pioneers

Source: All About Jazz
October 19, 2005

Herb Snitzer considers jazz music a metaphor for freedom. His photos show its practitioners in unguarded moments.

By JON WILSON, Times Staff Writer Published October 19, 2005

ST. PETERSBURG - Herb Snitzer played ping-pong with jazz piano great Thelonious Monk. He knew Louis Armstrong well enough to know friends didn't call the trumpet star “Satchmo," but “Pops."

Snitzer, a St. Petersburg-based fine arts photographer, has chronicled the jazz world since 1958, when he captured a moody image of ...

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Kansas City Label Seeks Interns

Source: All About Jazz
October 19, 2005

'ASR RECORDS of Kansas City USA is seeking Fans of great music who would also like to gain professional experience, or simply get involved working in the music industry, as an Intern with our record label. These are unpaid positions. The available positions currently provide an opportunity to be an Authorized Fan Representative or Intern of 'ASR RECORDS, and still remain based in your own geographical location. Due to the inherent nature of the work, it ...

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Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra Makes Waves In The U.K.

Source: All About Jazz
October 18, 2005

NY1 News October 18, 2005

Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra may hang their hats inside the House of Swing at Columbus Circle, but they're also musical ambassadors around the world. NY1's Stephanie Simon tagged along on the orchestra's recent tour of Great Britain, and found out that life on the road isn't easy – no matter how well you play.

“You miss your family and your kids," Winton Marsalis says of life on the road. ...

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Berkeley Artist Seeks Reconciliation In Story of Jazz Pianist Grandmother

Source: All About Jazz
October 18, 2005

by Richard Brenneman Berkeley Daily Planet

Sometimes the greatest mysteries are closest to home. Just ask Kent Brown, a Berkeley man who’s embarking on a quest to learn about his grandmother. And what a grandmother.

Beryl Booker was anything but the stereotypical grandma. After all, how many grandmothers played with the 4 Toppers, Marian McPartland, Slam Stewart, Miles Davis, Dinah Washington and the incomparable Billie Holiday?

How many African American women had their own integrated jazz ...

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Alaadeen Endorses Alexander Superial Reeds

Source: All About Jazz
October 16, 2005

Kansas City USA -- Alaadeen officially endorses Alexander Superial Reeds: “After 50 years of performing in a diverse range of situations on both tenor and soprano saxophones, the Alexander Superial DC reeds are by far the best I have found to date. Following the clear and concise break-in recommendations that come with each box of reeds, I have found my reed concerns solved in most all aspects. The discriminating factors that I have found with Tom Alexander's reeds that place ...

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Losing Legends hurts local jazz scene

Source: All About Jazz
October 16, 2005

The silence on the North Side is a little scary to anyone who loves jazz. Legends James Street Tavern closed a little more than two weeks ago, its owners citing “undercapitalization" and a feeble cash flow. The dark shadow of blame could be cast anywhere, but the most important point is simple. Right now, there is not a good jazz club in this area. The Crawford Grill on the Square in Station Square, South Side, is a great space for ...

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