Jazz News

Utopia Records Bari Saxophonist Rebecca Buxton Burns on "Step Back"

Source: One Creative Publicist & Management
June 1, 2010

Rebecca Buxton is a talented Baritone Saxophonist on Utopia Records' burning hot single “Step Back".

(New York, NY) Beautiful Baritone Saxophonist Rebecca Buxton can blow her saxophone with the best of them. The funkadelic track “Step Back" through Utopia Records is a display of her mean sax play. Backed by legendary music impresario Alfonzo Blackwell's lush songwriting, production, arrangement and multi-instrumental work, Ms. Buxton delivers on this funk masterpiece that gets everyone up and dancing to the soulful grooves. Visit ...

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The Beatnik Cafe: Musical Revue of the Jazz Beat Generation

Source: Michael Ricci
June 1, 2010

June 20th at 8:30 Richmond Shepard Theatre 309 E 26th St. (@ 2nd Ave) New York, NY 10010 (Last show sold out!) beatnikcafemusical.com

The NYC Off Broadway Show live at the Regent!

June 25th at 8 PM Regent Theater 7 Medford Street Arlington, Massachusetts regenttheatre.com 781-646-4TIX (4849)

The Beatnik Cafe by Namaya live from New York! A musical revue of the Jazz Beat Generation an off Broadway revue has played ...

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The Bobby Shew Quartet at Vernon's Jazz Club on June 11th

Source: Michael Ricci
June 1, 2010

Vernon's Jazz Club proudly presents the Bobby Shew Quartet June 11th and 12th 8:30-Midnight!

Vernon's Jazz Club 6855 4th St. Village of Los Ranchos Albuquerque NW (hidden behind Calico) 505-341-0831 Artisan cocktails & Appetizers available at the bar. Tell 'em, “Joe Sent Me." $10 Seating charge.

International trumpeter Bobby Shew is winner of the Grammy for Jazz Album of the Year (1983 Heavy Company). An Albuquerque ...

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Remembering Dennis Hopper, Photographer

Source: Michael Ricci
June 1, 2010

A self-described compulsive creator, the late Dennis Hopper was as prolific behind a camera as in front of it.

And not just making motion pictures, but still images, by the thousands. He photographed most avidly during the 1960s, chronicling the burgeoning L.A. art scene and its prime movers. His pictures have been included in virtually every book or exhibition about the era and have been featured widely in gallery and museum shows around the world, including numerous retrospectives. Last fall, ...

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Betty Lavette Gets to the Soul of British Rock

Source: Michael Ricci
June 1, 2010

Her 'Interpretations: The British Rock Songbook' puts a new spin on classics by the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, the Who and more.

The woman on stage was nearly 65, dancing across the boards in high heels and shaking her hips to an old Beatles song called “The Word." Except that Bettye LaVette was singing it less as rollicking British Invasion pop and more like a James Brown funk tune, reinterpreting the song to fit her own needs ...

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Dennis Hopper: Photographs, 1961-1967

Source: All About Jazz
June 1, 2010

I was doing something that I thought could have some impact someday. In many ways, it's really these photographs, that kept me going creatively. - Dennis Hopper

The Sixties In all their turbulence and revelation, have been documented many times over but the photographic recollections of actor/artist/director Dennis Hopper have set themselves decidedly apart. Now an undisputed icon of the era, Hopper captured some of the most intriguing moments of his generation with a keen ...

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Will.i.am on Rave Culture

Source: Michael Ricci
June 1, 2010

“The underground is bigger than the surface. That's what people don't understand." Black Eyed Peas co-founder and producer will.i.am discussed his experiences discovering the first-wave rave scene in the early 1990s. In fact, he and Electric Daisy Carnival founder Pasquale Rotella went to high school together (Palisades Charter High School), and attended the same early raves and club nights (the most popular being Club What?). Here's an edited transcript of the conversation. Will was on the phone in Europe while ...

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Artist Louise Bourgeois Internationally Revered Artist Passes

Source: Michael Ricci
June 1, 2010

Louise Bourgeois, an internationally revered artist whose intensely personal work was inspired by psychological conflict, feminist consciousness and a fertile imagination, has died. She was 98.

Bourgeois died Monday at Beth Israel Medical Center in Manhattan after suffering a heart attack on Saturday, said Wendy Williams, managing director of the Louise Bourgeois Studio in New York. Known for sculptures of giant spiders, women with extra breasts, double-headed penises and rooms that resonate with loneliness and dread, Bourgeois was a fearless ...

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