Jazz News

Mick Goodrick/Wolfgang Muthspiel Duo Release "Live at the Jazz Standard"

Source: Michael Ricci
April 9, 2010

"Mick Goodrick and Wolfgang Muthspiel have given us a map of the world on the guitar. The guitar fretboard is vexing terrain. Unlike the piano fingerboard, which proceeds with relentless logic from the lowest note on the left to the highest on the right, the fretboard has a geometry all its own.

Exploring the possibilities of the guitar involves endless stumbling into cul-de-sacs; combinations and series of notes easily realized on the piano simply can't be done, but there are ...

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Q&A with Cuong Vu of Speak

Source: Michael Ricci
April 9, 2010

Forward-thinking trumpeter Cuong Vu has performed with the likes of Pat Metheny, Laurie Anderson and David Bowie. He's toured the world and released four albums under his own name. After a stint in New York, Vu moved back to the Northwest, where he is now assistant professor of jazz studies at the University of Washington.

It's there at UW that he coached an ensemble that included members of Speak. After mentoring the students -- saxophonist Andrew Swanson, keyboardist ...

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iPad Etiquette: The 'Official' FAQ

Source: All About Jazz
April 9, 2010

Etiquette on the iPad is white space on the map. It's not a smartphone. It's not a laptop. It's something new.

As early adopters, the opportunity to define proper etiquette is ours.

If we let them, the old guard will try to take the reins on when and how we should use this goddamned thing. Yet if we adhere to the societal mores newspaper mannerists are certain to inflict upon us, we'll all be huddled in dark closets, singularly and ...

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HDtracks is Proud to Present the Concord Music Group

Source: Michael Ricci
April 8, 2010

For the first time ever the Stax, Prestige, Fantasy, Heads Up, & Hear Music catalogs in HDtracks' amazing 96/24 sound.

Here at HDtracks, it just keeps getting better and better. Now we have some of the greatest classic jazz, soul, blues, rock, and world music recordings ever done, sounding better than you could have ever imagined in HDtracks' stunning 96/24 sound.

Now you can hear the classic Prestige recordings right in your living room in hi-res 96/24 sound: John Coltrane's ...

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Graciela, the First Lady of Afro-Cuban Jazz, Passes at 94

Source: Kim Smith Public Relations
April 8, 2010

Graciela, the legendary First Lady of Afro-Cuban Jazz, has passed at the age of 94 at New York Cornell-Presbyterian Hospital in New York City at 7:58 am, Wednesday, April 07, 2010. A pioneer in music, as a black Cuban woman, in a so-called mans world she opened doors for all those who followed her. She performed around the world, recording and sharing the stage with her foster brother Machito (Frank Grillo) and brother-in-law, Mario Bauza (originator of the genre Afro-Cuban ...

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Jazzitalia CD Review: Allison Adams Tucker "Come with Me"

Source: Michael Ricci
April 8, 2010

Allison Adams Tucker - Come With Me Kamau Kenyatta - piano/arrangement; Peter Sprague - guitar; Evona Wascinski - bass; Dylan Savage - drums; Fabio Oliveira - percussion; Louisa West - flute; Reiko Obata - Japanese koto harp; Ray Suen - violin; Derek Cannon - trumpet; Patrick Berrogain - French guitar; Danny Green - Brazilian piano; Allison Adams Tucker - vocals “an exceptional slice of music from all corners of the world performed by one of the better vocalists around..."

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Court Drives FCC Towards Nuclear Option to Regulate Broadband

Source: All About Jazz
April 8, 2010

A federal appeals court all but told the FCC Tuesday that it has no power to regulate the internet, putting large chunks of the much-lauded national broadband plan at risk. And the FCC has only itself to blame. Telecoms and many internet activists have long argued that the internet is a developing technology that was innovating so quickly that strict regulations would hamper it. In 2005, that argument drove the FCC under the Bush Administration to win a fight in ...

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Cookin' in the Kitchen Radio Release -- Bringing a Tasty Album of Jazzy Tunes to a National Audience

Source: Michael Ricci
April 8, 2010

This September, Anne Mironchik will celebrate the official, national radio release of her first, full-length, jazz CD of original music, “Cookin' in the Kitchen". Or will she? Between now and July 4th, Independence Day, Anne is offering this independently produced album first on Kickstarter.com!. Your purchase there will mean you get the music first, and you get first notice about her official album release celebration and it will allow Anne to aggressively ...

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