Jazz News

Apple iPad Gets iWork Pages App, Word Processor Replication Released

Source: All About Jazz
April 7, 2010

The number one selling iPad App the Apple iWorks Pages.

Irrespective of what is cooking between Apple and Microsoft, we are glad to announce that the Microsoft Word proxy for the Apple iPad, the iWork Pages application has finally arrived. It is unclear why Microsoft isnt giving MS Office for the iPad app. a thought but, amidst these confusions, a Word Processor replica has arrived and it does look very Word like.

The Mac users seem to be able to ...

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Charlie O's Jazz Schedule

Source: All About Jazz
April 7, 2010

Charlie O's April Schedule April is Jazz Appreciation Month

Roger Neumann Quartet Dave Koonse, guitar; Richard Simon, bass and Devin Kelly, drums. Tues 6th

Ron Anthony Trio Bruce Lett, bass with Kendall Kay, drums. Wed 7th

Don Menza Quartet Thurs 8th

Denise Donatelli, Songstress With the John Heard Trio Roy McCurdy, drums and Andy Langham, piano. Friday nite 9th

Lanny ...

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The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts to Give a Free Premiere Screening of the Documentary in My Mind, with an Introduction by Jazz Pianist Jason Moran on April 19

Source: Michael Ricci
April 7, 2010

As part of The Jazz Loft Project exhibit, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts and the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University presents a screening of the documentary In My Mind on Monday, April 19 at 5:30 p.m. in the Bruno Walter Auditorium at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. The film will be introduced by Jason Moran, jazz pianist and subject of the film, and followed by a Q&A session with filmmakers ...

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Grammy Award Winner Steve Reich, Ethan Iverson, and Others to Discuss the Life and Career of Composer Hall Overton in the Free Program Hall Overton: Out of the Shadows at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts on April 14

Source: Michael Ricci
April 7, 2010

In collaboration with The Jazz Loft Project exhibit, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts welcomes Steve Reich, Joel Sachs, Carman Moore, Ethan Iverson, and Sam Stephenson to discuss famed composer Hall Overton in Hall Overton: Out of the Shadows on Wednesday, April 14 at 6:00 p.m. in the Bruno Walter Auditorium at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Doors will open at 5:30 p.m. Admission is free. The New York Public Library for the ...

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Mike Metheny Releases "60.1"

Source: Michael Ricci
April 7, 2010

60.1 is trumpeter Mike Metheny's ninth album as a leader. The eclectic set covers styles ranging from evocative ballads and straightahead jazz to the raucous title track and a novel nod to marching bands. Featured on 60.1 are some of Kansas City's finest jazz musicians including Roger Wilder and Paul Smith (keyboards), Bob Bowman (acoustic bass) and Brandon Draper (drums). Seven of the ten tracks are originals by Mike, and in addition to his instrument of choice, the flugelhorn, the ...

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Rare Al Jolson Movie "Mammy" Now on DVD

Source: Michael Ricci
April 7, 2010

The 1930 movie musical “Mammy" is an important -- if almost shockingly racially insensitive -- piece in the canon of the legendary Al Jolson's career. “Mammy" stars “The World's Greatest Entertainer" -- a moniker Jolson had for 40 years -- in his only feature that was shot partly in early two-strip Technicolor. The score was by the legendary Irving Berlin and includes the standard “Let Me Sing and I'm Happy." The film was directed by Michael Curtiz, who later won ...

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Terence Blanchard @ Catalina Bar & Grill

Source: All About Jazz
April 7, 2010

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Archivist and Author of The Jazz Loft Project, Sam Stephenson, Interviewed at AAJ

Source: All About Jazz
April 7, 2010

When, in 1997, writer, scholar, and archivist Sam Stephenson serendipitously came across audio tapes, photographs and other documents involving jazz musicians congregating in photographer W. Eugene Smith's Manhattan loft in the late 1950s and early 1960s, he was surprised as anyone. The wall of cartons had been unopened since before Smith's death in 1978. Stephenson and his cohorts spent several years studying the documents, including tapes in which one can hear jazz musicians conversing, brainstorming and playing in a relaxed, ...

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