Jazz News

For Chinese, Web is the Way to Entertainment

Source: Michael Ricci
April 19, 2010

The daily Web habits of a typical 18-year-old college student named Li Yufei show why American Internet companies, one after another, have had trouble penetrating what is now the worlds most wired nation. Li Yufei, an 18-year-old student at Shanghai Maritime University, finds Korean television shows online, plays video games and has 300 Web buddies. Gary Wang, founder of Tudou, a video-sharing site. He writes a blog, downloads Korean television shows, manages two Web sites devoted to music and plays ...

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Michael Buble Tops Juno Awards

Source: All About Jazz
April 19, 2010

It was all about crooning and swooning this weekend as Vancouver singer Michael Buble topped the 32nd Juno Awards, Canada's music honors, with four trophies, while teen YouTube phenom Justin Bieber -- shut out of his three nominations -- caused fan pandemonium.

Seven statues were handed out on Sunday at a ceremony broadcast on CTV, featuring several live performances, while 32 Junos were bestowed at a non-televised gala dinner on Saturday night, both held in the fog-bound east coast city ...

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Walking the Talk: Rocky Dawuni Uniting Ghanaian Roots with Global Soul

Source: rock paper scissors, inc.
April 19, 2010

Walking the Talk: Rocky Dawuni, Humanitarian Reggae Rebel, Unites Ghanaian Roots with Global Soul

Rocky Dawuni walks the talk. Fist held high and dreadlocks flowing, the Ghanaian reggae artist is a rebel among rebels, tackling serious social issues with uplifting ballads and reggae rockers. All while working to challenge everything from infectious diseases to clean water to poverty across the rural communities of his homeland.

On Hymns for the Rebel Soul (Aquarian Records; May 25, 2010), Dawuni's infectious, groove-driven music ...

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"Egypt Noir": Ali Hassan Kuban, Salwa Abou Greisha, and More...

Source: Michael Ricci
April 19, 2010

In the last decades, Western archeologists unearthed the remains of an advanced Black African civilization thousands of years older than Egypt's under the deserts of Sudan. But they could have just as easily discovered the funky echoes of this lost world at certain Cairo hotspots, by spending an evening with the rollicking music of the city's Nubians.

Driven from their homeland when the Aswan dam flooded a great stretch of the upper Nile that once was the kingdom of Nubia, ...

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Herbie Hancock Releases Free Track from 'The Imagine Project,' Celebrates 70th Birthday!!

Source: Michael Ricci
April 19, 2010

Los Angeles, CA -- In honor of Herbie Hancock's 70th birthday on Monday, April 12th, fans around the globe were offered the opportunity to download a free track, “The Song Goes On," from Herbie Hancock's The Imagine Project, set for release on June 22nd via Hancock Records/RED. Featuring Anoushka Shankar (sitarist daughter of Ravis Shankar), Chaka Khan and Wayne Shorter, “The Song Goes On" was recorded in Mumbai, India, along with a stellar group of Indian musicians, and will be ...

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MOJA Radio/Weekly Features: April 19-25, 2010

Source: Michael Ricci
April 19, 2010

Monday, April 19th, we'll present another “Happy Birthday" edition of our special feature, MONDAY WITH THE MASTERS on MOJA Radio. This time the focus is on one of the most important flutists in all of jazz history, HERBIE MANN, just three days after the day that would have been his 80th birthday. You'll hear all about his beginnings in his hometown of New York City, his personal philosophy on jazz, his contribution to the fusion era, the many phases of ...

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Jazz Offerings in the Big Apple NY

Source: All About Jazz
April 19, 2010

New York Jazz Scene this Week

GERI ALLEN QUARTET (Tuesday through Thursday) Geri Allens pianism leads a first-rate band with Ravi Coltrane on saxophones, Joe Sanders on bass and Jeff (Tain) Watts on drums. (Through April 25.) At 9 and 11 p.m. Village Vanguard 178 Seventh Avenue South, at 11th Street, West Village (212) 255-4037, villagevanguard.com

APEX: RUDRESH MAHANTHAPPA AND BUNKY GREEN (Tuesday and ...

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Opportunities for Indie Filmmakers, Pop Composers

Source: All About Jazz
April 19, 2010

For years it was common for studios to cross-market a film with a well known performer, but today niche artists are landing more tracks in films and reaping the spoils, especially around award season.

Glancing at recent best song nominees, offbeat names like “Bird" York ("In the Deep" from “Crash"), A.R. Rahman ("Jai Ho" from “Slumdog Millionaire") and Marketa Irglova and Glen Hansard ("Falling Slowly") have slipped into the category, elbowing out bigger artists contributions and often winning. Most studio ...

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