Jazz News

Saxophonist Danny Lerman to Guest with Herb Wilson Trio at Memorial Hospital Benefit

Source: Lampkin Publicity Service
March 22, 2010

3rd Annual Jazzed About Art Event! Maggie and Joe Kernan, honorary co-chairpersons, invite you to the third annual Jazzed About Art event, to take place at: Trios Restaurant & Jazz Club from 5:30 9:00 p.m. on Thursday, March 25. Saxophonist Danny Lerman and the Herb Wilson Trio will perform during this evening of jazz, art, and Creole cuisine. Tickets are $50.00 (with Dinner) and are available online at jazzedaboutart.org, at Memorial Breast Care Center and at Trios Jazz Club. 129 ...

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Jazz Singer Alison Ruble Returns to the Legendary Jazz Showcase for Live Recording!

Source: Lampkin Publicity Service
March 22, 2010

Jazz Vocalist Alison Ruble returns to the legendary Jazz Showcase 806 S. Plymouth Ct., Chicago, Ill on Tuesday March 30th, 2010 for two special shows. Alison will record these shows featuring music from her upcoming CD release, “ASHLAND", on Origin Records, scheduled to be released this summer! Showtimes: 8:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. Ticket Prices: $5 Students w/ID $10 General admission Phone for RSVPs at: 1-312-360-0234 or at jazzshowcase.com Band Members for this special evening are: ...

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Google to Move from China to Hong Kong

Source: All About Jazz
March 22, 2010

Web giant ends censorship of Chinese search engine. Google Inc. will shift its search engine for China off the mainland but won't shut it down altogether, and it will maintain other operations in the country.

It's an attempt to balance its stance against censorship with its desire to profit from an explosively growing Internet market.

On Monday afternoon, visitors to Google.cn were being redirected to Google's Chinese-language service based in Hong Kong. The page said, according to a Google translation, ...

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Wolfgang Wagner, Who Led Bayreuth Festival, Dies

Source: Michael Ricci
March 22, 2010

Wolfgang Wagner, the grandson of composer Richard Wagner and the leader of the Bayreuth opera festival for more than half a century, died Sunday. He was 90.

Wolfgang Wagner dedicated his whole life to the legacy of his grandfather, the festival said, adding that his long service as the events leader means that he goes into history as the longest-serving director in the world. Mr. Wagner stepped down after the 2008 festival following a long power struggle in which he ...

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Jerry Adler, Harmonica Virtuoso, Dies at 91

Source: Michael Ricci
March 22, 2010

Jerry Adler, a harmonica virtuoso whose pure, open sound can be heard on the soundtracks to Shane, High Noon, Mary Poppins and other films, but who labored in the shadow of his more famous harmonica-playing older brother, Larry, died on March 13 in Ellenton, Fla. He was 91 and lived in Sarasota.

Mr. Adler got off to a flying start in the music business after winning a talent contest at a local theater at 13. It was the same contest, ...

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Review: At 82 Mose Allison Sings Like a Sage

Source: All About Jazz
March 22, 2010

Mose Allison, “The Way Of The World" (Anti-) At age 82, Mose Allison is not about to change. He's still an unclassifiable classicist who would find a single musical genre as confining as being limited to one octave on his piano. And so he bridges the divides between the blues, pop and jazz on “The Way Of The World," his first studio album in 12 years. The common denominator on the 12 cuts is the joy with which ...

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SXSW is a Bands' Social Network Like No Other

Source: All About Jazz
March 22, 2010

AUSTIN, Texas -- Don't expect the bands and labels gathered at the South by Southwest Music Festival to forsake MySpace, Twitter and Facebook anytime soon. Most musicians and industry players find that none of these virtual connections replace the need to shake hands, look one another in the eye or bond over a couple of Lone Star beers -- all the ways people traditionally networked socially before the internet enabled what we now call “social networking." “It started on the ...

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The Voice of the Hollywood Bowl

Source: Michael Ricci
March 22, 2010

Mark Ferber dies at 60; longtime production supervisor at the Hollywood Bowl.

To thousands of concert-goers, Mark Ferber's voice was comfortingly familiar as he announced, “Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Hollywood Bowl." As a child, he bicycled to the Bowl to do his homework in the picnic areas he found so peaceful. He was hired as an errand runner at 14, and his career at the venue stretched over 45 years. Ferber, who was the Bowl's longtime production supervisor ...

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