Music Industry News

London Jazz Club Ronnie Scott's Celebrates 45th Anniversary

Source: All About Jazz
October 20, 2004

Ronnie Scott's, the most famous jazz club on earth, is this week celebrating its 45th anniversary. It's an endurance record hardly any other establishment running an all-jazz programme has ever managed. “Like a prison sentence," the late Ronnie Scott once exhaled wearily, when the 30th anniversary came up, in 1989. “Thirty years in a jazz club."

Scott lived for playing jazz, and for the opportunities his unique club offered to get close to some of the most gifted artists who ...

Continue Reading...

Get to Know BD Jazz

Source: All About Jazz
October 18, 2004

We'd like to announce the launching of BD Jazz, a new French label that's put out a series highlighting some of the most highly acclaimed jazz musicians in history. The set includes double CDs, featuring artists such as Charlie Parker, Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Nat King Cole and Dizzy Gillespie among others. Additionally, a 16 page illustrated book is included, which offers insight into their lives and music. This specially formatted piece is a must-have for jazz fans as well ...

Continue Reading...

3000 Vinyls of Bill Lane's collection '50s -'80s 65% are Jazz

Source: All About Jazz
October 5, 2004

The “Bill Lane Album Collection" consists of over 3000 albums. The list contains 33 1/3 rpm vinyl albums and there are additional 78 rpm and 12" disco albums. The recordings consist of Pop, R & B, Musical Theater, high quality Classical boxed sets and, for the most part, Jazz. This collection sports Bill Lane's tremendous love for a diversity of music, which he expressed throughout his career. This collection was appraised in 1996 for $25,000 buy a record resale company ...

Continue Reading...

Bearden Created the Visual Equivalent of Jazz

Source: All About Jazz
October 5, 2004

Music - particularly jazz, the blues, folk - was a persistent theme in the life and art of African-American artist Romare Bearden. Jazz musicians were among his close friends. He wrote lyrics to supplement his meager income in the early 1950s. Many of his paintings are named after songs.

Paintings throughout Bearden's career don't merely depict musicians and bands. They explore ways in which color and form might visually express something parallel to the audible fluidity, improvisation, structure, stir, and ...

Continue Reading...

Please Help Drummer Jimmy Lovelace!

Source: All About Jazz
September 29, 2004

Drummer Jimmy Lovelace, perhaps more than anyone else, exemplifies the spirit of Smalls. His warm smile and gentle demeanor lit up many a night, and his playing there supplied the soundtrack for many of our lives. Jimmy's hip accompaniment is unparalelled in the eyes of many horn players, and he was always--always--the crowds' favorite, just as he is the favorite of scores of jazz musicians who turned up to perform at his recent benefit at St. Peter's church.. We are ...

Continue Reading...

Hank Johnson Trio and Vocalist Dianne Allen Take No Prisioners at Elk's Lodge

Source: All About Jazz
September 20, 2004

The Hank Johnson Trio consisting of Lon Livy on drums (filling in for Gary Smith), and “Cool Mike" Fitzbenjamin on bass and Hank Johnson on piano packed the joint! Vocalist Dianne Allen performed and showed she is truly a great vocalist who really can sing! She did a stunning version of Swinging Sheperd Blues, My Funny Valentine, and other standards gluing the audience to their seats! The Elk's Lodge in Queens Village, New York on the 3rd Sunday of the ...

Continue Reading...

Jimmy Lovelace Benefit Concert Sept. 19th, 7 pm, at St. Peter's Church

Source: All About Jazz
September 14, 2004

SEPT. 19th, 7 pm, at St. Peter's Church. 619 LEXINGTON AVE. at 54th St.

Musicians performing: George Coleman, Hank Jones, Roy Haynes, Lou Donaldson, Lonnie Smith, Barry Harris, Jimmy Cobb, John Hicks, Brad Mehldau, Charles Davis, Louis Hayes, Chris Anderson, Harold Mabern, Charlie Persip, Bob Cranshaw, Earl May, Reggie Workman, Ben Riley ...And Many More!

$25 Normally Gets You In To See One Of These Great Performers, This Sunday Night You Can See Over 30 Of ...

Continue Reading...

Niels Lan Doky Jazz Film-Hot Nights In Copenhagen

Source: All About Jazz
September 11, 2004

The pianist Niels Lan Doky conceived, wrote, co-directed and stars in a documentary film about jazz as a universal language.

Mike Zwerin INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE Wednesday, September 08, 2004

PARIS: The pianist Niels Lan Doky - part Vietnamese, part Danish, educated in America, and living in France - conceived, wrote, co-directed and stars in a documentary film, now in post-production, about jazz as a universal language. Although he has accompanied such acts as David Sanborn, Al Jarreau, the ...

Continue Reading...