Jazz News

Rimo Belli Drum Pioneer Snares a Big Chunk of the Market

Source: Michael Ricci
April 4, 2010

Remo Belli's company, Remo Inc., has been making Mylar drumheads for five decades. The innovation is credited with helping spur the rock 'n' roll craze by making drums more readily available. The gig: Chief executive and founder of Valencia-based Remo Inc., a pioneer in drumhead technology and a leading manufacturer of drumheads for more than 50 years. Background: Remo Belli, 82, started drumming at age 12, while growing up in the South Bend-Mishawaka, Ind., area near ...

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R&B Songstress Corinne Bailey Rae Undergoes a "Sea" Change

Source: All About Jazz
April 4, 2010

No one could have planned the album that became Corinne Bailey Rae's sophomore work, even though the determined young Brit tried mightily to impose her vision on The Sea. Life, and death, however, intervened. Rae, who'll showcase the album on a five-week North American tour beginning Tuesday in Los Angeles, says she wanted “a heavier, more aggressive, more dynamic record that would have more contrast" than her self-titled 2006 debut album. “I wanted to co-produce it, I wanted to record ...

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Barry Cleveland Reinvents the Protest Album with All-Star Avant-Rock Lineup on "Hologramatron" (Moonjune)

Source: Michael Ricci
April 4, 2010

New York, N.Y. 00 When Barry Cleveland isn't talking guitar with people like Jeff Beck, David Gilmour, Ry Cooder, Tony Iommi, and John Frusciante, he's busy recording globally acclaimed progressive rock and world fusion music. For more than 25 years, his epic compositions and virtuoso, eclectic guitar work have been celebrated by critics and listeners alike. And for the last decade, he's served as a key editor at Guitar Player magazine, holding court with the world's most important musicians and ...

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Grammy Winner Bill Cunliffe is Honored and Performs His Big Band Show at Vitello's

Source: All About Jazz
April 4, 2010

An Evening celebrating 2010 Grammy Winner Bill Cunliffe will be presented by Vitello's Jazz & Supper Club in Studio City on Saturday April 17, 2010. There will be a pre-show reception to honor Bill Cunliffe at 7:30p.m. followed by an 8:30 p.m. Bill Cunliffe Big Band show. Bill Cunliffe and his 17 piece big band will be performing some of Bill's original music concluding with the Grammy-winning arrangement, “West Side Story Medley." Bill Cunliffe is one of contemporary jazz's most ...

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Jerry Weintraub the Go-to Guy to Get Connected

Source: Michael Ricci
April 4, 2010

Jerry Weintraub worked with Elvis and Sinatra. He headed a studio. And now he's written a memoir that's also how-to guide.

“Look at me, do I look like an alter kocker?" Jerry Weintraub asks. Verily, he does not. At the moment, he looks like a guy ready to swing a golf club at a visitor for asking him if he feels like -- to offer a rough translation from the Yiddish -- an old fart. At 72, Jerry Weintraub is ...

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John Forsythe Actor Known for TV Series 'Bachelor Father,' 'Charlie's Angels' And 'Dynasty'

Source: Michael Ricci
April 4, 2010

John Forsythe, the suave actor with the silvery hair and mellifluous voice who was familiar to millions for his roles on the popular television series “Bachelor Father," “Charlie's Angels" and “Dynasty," died Thursday. He was 92. Forsythe, who had heart bypass surgery in 1979 and was hospitalized for colon cancer in 2006, died at his home in the Santa Barbara County town of Santa Ynez from complications of pneumonia, publicist Harlan Boll said. Skilled at both comedy and drama, the ...

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Twitter: A Box Office Oracle

Source: Michael Ricci
April 4, 2010

Silicon Valley researchers say they can predict a film's opening- weekend take by monitoring tweets. Want to know how “Clash of the Titans" will fare at the box office this weekend? Check Twitter. So say two Silicon Valley researchers who claim they have discovered a way to use the popular social media service to gauge real-time interest in movies and accurately predict how they will perform at the box office on opening weekend. Sitaram Asur and Bernardo Huberman, two social ...

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Christian Scott Releases New CD - Yesterday You Said Tomorrow

Source: On Target Media Group
April 3, 2010

The new CD from trumpeter Christian Scott, Yesterday You Said Tomorrow hits stores today (CD & digital) via Concord Jazz Records. Purchase Christian Scott's new album Yesterday You Said Tomorrow at a Borders store and receive an exclusive 5 track bonus disc Five For Freddie, a tribute to Freddie Hubbard. bord ers.com Listen to the Album now on AOL: music.aol.com Tune in tonight at 12:35am to watch Christian ...

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