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Music Industry

Vatican Makes Peace with the Beatles

Source: All About Jazz
April 12, 2010

The Vatican has finally made peace with the Beatles, saying their drug use, “dissolute" lives and even the claim that the band was bigger than Jesus are all in the past -- while their music lives on. Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano paid tribute to the Fab Four in its weekend editions, with two articles and a front-page cartoon reproducing the crosswalk immortalized on the cover of the band's album “Abbey Road." The tribute marked the 40th anniversary of the band's ...

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TV / Film

Wall Street Touts Plans to Bet on Box Office

Source: All About Jazz
April 12, 2010

Think you're better than Hollywood at gauging whether an upcoming flick will be a box office bomb or a sleeper hit? You'd get a chance to put your money behind that under two proposals that movie studios are denouncing as legalized gambling. The proposals the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission are expected to rule on this month would let movie fans, industry executives and speculators bet on expected box office receipts. Investors profit if their predictions come true and lose ...

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Performance / Tour

Mazz Swift (Violin) and Ben Tyree (Acoustic Guitar) Bring Daring and Adventurous Sonic Explorations to Rose Live Music -- Thursday, April 22nd. @ 9PM

Source: Michael Ricci
April 11, 2010

Out of the primordial stew that is Burnt Sugar comes the inevitable string & noise duo: violinist/vocalist Mazz Swift and guitarist Ben Tyree plan to pull out all the stops with their fiery brand of virtuosic and heavily improvised avant-chamber jazz. On Thursday, April 22nd at 9pm, Swift and Tyree will present MazzMuse (feat. Ben Tyree) at Rose Live Music (345 Grand St - btwn Havemeyer & Marcy - Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY). At the age of 12, violinist and singer ...

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TV / Film

Richard Zanuck a Living Film History Time Capsule

Source: Michael Ricci
April 11, 2010

Growing up with the last name Zanuck in Old Hollywood was just like real life -- only different. As a youngster, Richard D. Zanuck had to sell copies of the Saturday Evening Post to learn the value of hard work. “Of course," Zanuck said with a wink, “my dad did have a chauffeur take me to pick up the papers." And even though Zanuck says he never played “catch on the beach" with his dad, he knew his pop cared ...

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TV / Film

Film Productions Leaving the Coasts

Source: All About Jazz
April 11, 2010

Fewer yellow signs are popping up in Los Angeles this spring. Those placards, which direct cast and crew members to a location shoot, normally sprout like wildflowers in March and April, as pilot production reaches full bloom. But despite an uptick in broadcast pilot orders this year, Los Angeles -- and New York, too -- is increasingly losing out to a wide variety of locales across the country. The trend is most notable in drama, as a majority of pilots ...

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Recording

Myron Walden's Youthful Inspiration Reborn

Source: Michael Ricci
April 11, 2010

NYC sax man Myron Walden departs from the standard jazz idiom with Myron Walden Countryfied (out in June from Demi Sound Records), a funky, down-home project where “lithe, Southern soul-drenched melodies" (JazzTimes) meet a little blues and rock and roll. An early Countryfied performance at NYC venue Pianos showed the sheer energy of the group. Countryfied, Walden says, is “down-home music. Nod your head, tap your foot, say 'Amen.' From the first bar, we're in the groove." Countryfied results from ...

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Recording

Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews is Naturally Funky

Source: Michael Ricci
April 11, 2010

Troy “Trombone Shorty" Andrews comes by his funky New Orleans musical style by nature and nurture. The 24-year-old's homegrown blend of rock, R and funk, as featured on his new album “Backatown" (Verve, April 20), is not only a product of the 6th Ward neighborhood known as Trem; it also comes out of a long family tradition of NOLA music-making. Shorty's grandfather, Jessie Hill, was a legendary R singer and songwriter best known for the classic top 40 hit, “Ooh ...

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Event

Quincy Jones to Speak at IU Bloomington Commencement

Source: Michael Ricci
April 11, 2010

Legendary musical composer and arranger, record and television producer, magazine publisher and trumpeter Quincy Jones Jr. - known to many simply as “Q" - is being presented with an honorary Doctorate of Music by Indiana University at its 2010 undergraduate commencement ceremonies, May 8, in Bloomington, Ind. The ceremonies will be conducted in two sessions, one at 10 a.m. and one at 3 p.m., in Assembly Hall The all-time most nominated Grammy artist, Jones will address graduates along with IU ...

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