Jazz News

Spirit of New Orleans Performs at the Riverboat Jazz Festival in Denmark

Source: Spirit Of New Orleans Productions
May 11, 2009

Spirit Of New Orleans, the Helsinki-based band that was founded in 2001, will be performing at the Riverboat Jazz Festival in Silkeborg, Denmark June 25-27, 2009. This is the first time in the festival's 44- year history that jazz musicians from Finland are a part of the performer roster.

Riverboat Jazz Festival is one Europe's biggest festivals featuring traditional jazz. The five-day festival draws about 50 000 music lovers and 70 bands and soloists to the small picturesque town of ...

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Wynton Marsalis on Letterman

Source: On Target Media Group
May 11, 2009

Wynton Marsalis will perform on the ‘Late Show with David Letterman’ this week, Wed May 13th.

The Pulitzer Prize & 9-time Grammy Award winner will perform the song ‘School Boy’ from his new Blue Note album He & She - his 5th Blue Note release that features 22 tracks of his signature jazz, as well as spoken word and poetry tracks, all centered around the theme of the relationship between man and woman.

The show will air 11.30 ET/PT, this ...

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Peter Krause Discovers Jazzy Side with Tamela D’Amico

Source: All About Jazz
May 11, 2009

Best known for his roles on ‘Six Feet Under‘ and ‘Dirty Sexy Money,’ Emmy-nominated actor Peter Krause recently added “producer” to his many credits - as in music producer.

The handsome TV star served as executive producer for jazz singer Tamela D’Amico’s new album, “Got A Little Story,” which came out April 14th.

“I like most music,” says Krause, who plays a little guitar but had never thought about producing an album until he called D’Amico to wish her happy ...

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Uptown Blues Bash Comes to Cambridge, Ohio

Source: Just Roots PR
May 11, 2009

Meltdown Productions and Cambridge Elks Lodge present the winners of the 2009 River City Ohio Blues CompetitionLong Tall Deb and the Drifter Kings and regional heavyweights The Blues Cannibals and the Troubled Troubadours.

On Saturday, May 23, Award-winning Columbus act Long Tall Deb and the Drifter Kings will team up with Cambridge all-stars the Blues Cannibals and The Troubled Troubadours for a special blues event at the Cambridge Elks #448. The event is open to the public. Partial proceeds from ...

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Travis Edmonson Half of Folk Duo Bud & Travis Dies

Source: Michael Ricci
May 11, 2009

They influenced other musicians during the folk revival of the late-50s and early 60s with their trademark harmonies, electrifying guitar work and embrace of Spanish folk music.

Travis Edmonson, a singer-songwriter who as part of the duo Bud & Travis influenced other folk musicians and helped expand the audience for Spanish- language songs, has died. He was 76.

Edmonson, who had Parkinson's disease and other illnesses, died Saturday at a hospital in Mesa, Ariz., said Mike Bartlett, a family spokesman. ...

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Bonnie Raitt and Friends Remember Guitarist Stephen Bruton

Source: Michael Ricci
May 11, 2009

I've been crying all day and never thought I'd get through this show, Bonnie Raitt told an Austin audience Sunday night at the end of her Mothers Day performance.

She was talking about the impact on her of the death on Saturday of Texas guitarist-songwriter-producer-actor Stephen Bruton, who'd once been a member of her band and who had been her friend for nearly four decades.

She told the audience that during Brutons tenure with her, she'd often avoid making eye ...

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Komuro Given Suspended Sentence for His Part in Copyright Scam

Source: All About Jazz
May 11, 2009

Tetsuya Komuro, once Japan's most popular music producer, whose hit tunes built media conglom Avex into a powerhouse in the 1990s, has been handed a suspended sentence for a copyright sales scam. On Monday, Osaka District Court handed Komuro a three-year sentence, suspended for five years.

In August 2006, Komuro, who had fallen on hard times after the hits stopped coming, inked a 1 billion ($10 million) deal with a buyer from Ashiya, Hyogo Prefecture, for the rights to 806 ...

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NYTimes Reader Shows Graceful Future of Online News

Source: All About Jazz
May 11, 2009

I read the news today in a whole new way. And Im betting you will too, soon.

Journalisms grey lady, the New York Times just threw down her cane and sprinted to the forefront of online newspapers with the release of version two of the Times Reader a downloadable application built on Adobes AIR framework.

The new version is a lightweight application takes advantage of Adobes expertise in print layout to dynamically re-size images and flow text depending on the ...

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