Jazz News

Why Didn't Apple Anticipate the iPhone 4 Frenzy?

Source: All About Jazz
June 18, 2010

When Apple (AAPL) and AT&T (T) began accepting early orders for the new iPhone on Tuesday, Jon Rifenburg was on his computer at 6 a.m. to be among the first to reserve a phone.

He was one of the lucky ones. So many folks jammed Apple and AT&T websites and customer service phone lines that by Wednesday, AT&T said it was suspending early ordering for now. So did Best Buy (BBY), the nation's largest electronics retailer. “I stood on line ...

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Enter the "Grover Washington, Jr. - Grover Live" Giveaway Contest

Source: All About Jazz
June 17, 2010

All About Jazz members are invited to enter the G Man Productions “Grover Washington, Jr.--Grover Live“ giveaway contest starting today. We'll select FIVE winners at the conclusion of the contest on July 18th. Click here to enter the contest

(Following Grover Washington, Jr. at AAJ automatically enters you in the contest.)

Good luck!

About Grover Live

The godfather of today's urban contemporary jazz scene, Grover Washington, Jr., was one of the most popular and influential saxophonists of the ...

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All About Jazz Musician Database Tops 24,000 Profiles

Source: Michael Ricci
June 18, 2010

The All About Jazz Musician Center is growing by the day and has just eclipsed 24,000 musician profiles. AAJ profiles work a little like Wikipedia, where musicians, fans, industry folks can create and maintain them. Most of the profiles are created by an individual, but we now create skeleton profiles from CD reviews and calendar date submissions. We're asking musicians and readers to claim unfinished profiles to contribute bios, upload photos, insert videos, and add their knowledge.

To request access ...

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Remembering Bill Dixon: 1925-2010

Source: Michael Ricci
June 17, 2010

By Ben Young

Trumpeter and composer Bill Dixon died June 16th at his home in North Bennington, Vermont after a two-year illness. He was 84 years old.

Dixon was a revered and idiosyncratic figure in the avant-garde of Jazz music, and a creative force who strived at all times to place the music in ever more respectful circumstances. Dixon developed an often controversial profile as an outspoken and articulate defender of musicians' rights as artists, and specifically the challenges to ...

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"Treme's" Unique Star: New Orleans

Source: Michael Ricci
June 17, 2010

The music, the food, the culture, the disasters. The show brings the Big Easy to life in a natural, jazzy way.

Shooting has just wrapped for the season on HBO's “Treme," and Khandi Alexander is packing up, trying to fit Zulu parade coconuts and Mardis Gras beads into her boxes along with an overflow of bittersweet memories. “What we've gone through down here in the past few months it seems surreal. I don't have the vocabulary to describe it," says ...

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MCG Jazz Launches New Rhiza Folio Website About Jazz

Source: Michael Ricci
June 17, 2010

From the filing cabinet to the web: Nation's jazz archives go online

By Maryl Curran Widdows

Imagine easy online access to everything you wanted to know about live jazz performances in America. What was the top tune played last year? How many people attended live jazz shows? How did the set lists differ for the same artist on different nights? What did it sound like when two artists played together for the first time?

Next month, MCG Jazz will launch ...

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Legendary P-Funk Guitarist Garry Shider Dies

Source: All About Jazz
June 17, 2010

Legendary funk guitarist Garry Shider, whose work with Parliament and Funkadelic earned him a spot in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, has died. He was 56.

Shider was known to millions of fans as “Starchild" or “Diaperman," the latter because of the loincloth he often wore onstage. Shider's son, Garrett, says his father died Wednesday at his home in Upper Marlboro, Md. He had been diagnosed with brain and lung cancer in March. He then briefly went on ...

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Tickets Now on Sale for Inaugural Mizzou New Music Summer Festival to be Held July 12 -18 in Columbia, MO

Source: Michael Ricci
June 17, 2010

COLUMBIA, MO - Tickets are now on sale for the inaugural Mizzou New Music Summer Festival, which will be held Monday, July 12 through Sunday, July 18 in Columbia, MO. The weeklong series of events will include four public concerts, culminating in the world premieres of new works written by eight international composers and performed by the acclaimed new music ensemble Alarm Will Sound at 2:00 p.m., Sunday, July 18 in the newly renovated Missouri Theatre Center for the Arts ...

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