Jazz News

Drummer Ravish Momin Interviewed at AAJ

Source: All About Jazz
March 3, 2009

Drummer Ravish Momin's Trio Tarana is one of the most consistently rewarding and intriguing groups to grace the roster of Portugal's Clean Feed Records. Formed in 2003, the group has notably featured violin and oud as its instrumental color of choice in staggeringly complex yet hard-swinging compositions. Momin--and Tarana--are a genre-fogging unit, blending jazz improvisation with forms from South and East Asia and North Africa. However, this mixing of genres is endemic to Momin's working methods and has expanded to ...

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Bela Fleck Throw Down Your Heart: Tales from the Acoustic Planet Vol. 3, Africa Sessions

Source: Michael Ricci
March 2, 2009

BELA FLECK Throw Down Your Heart: Tales From the Acoustic Planet Vol. 3, Africa Sessions(Rounder)

Four years ago the banjoist Bela Fleck went to Africa with an agenda. He had long been intrigued by his instrument’s ancestral history there; he had also been gripped by the transcendent voice of Oumou Sangare, the queen of Malian Wassoulou music. His journey resembled fieldwork in the sense that he was traveling with a recording engineer and film crew. But he also ...

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Hammond B3 Legend John Novello Redefines the Groove in B3 Soul with Multi-Platinum Songwriter/Producer Andy Goldmark

Source: Cheryl Hughey Promotions
March 2, 2009

Moorestown, NJ - Legendary Niacin band member and Hammond B3 player John Novello joined forces with nuGroove Records for the release of B3 Soul in conjunction with the NoGo label. B3 Soul is co-produced by the multiplatinum songwriter/producer Andy Goldmark. The first single to be released to radio in March 2009 is Feelin' the Beat. About John Novello: If fences were responsible for the demise of the old West, some might say that genre categories did the same thing to ...

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Prosecutor, Hollywood Demand Prison for Pirate Bay Crew

Source: All About Jazz
March 2, 2009

STOCKHOLM — Three entertainment lawyers and a Swedish prosecutor demanded jail time Monday for the four defendants in The Pirate Bay trial, though they couldn't agree on how much. The prosecution is seeking a year in prison for each, while Hollywood is leaning toward the maximum two-year terms.

Defendants Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Peter Sunde and Carl Lundstrm face prison and fines as high as $180,000, for alleged contributory copyright infringement. In addition, motion picture and record companies are ...

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John McLaughlin Signs with Ted Kurland Associates (TKA)

Source: All About Jazz
March 2, 2009

Touring the electric Fourth Dimension group in 2010 March 2, 2009 (Boston, MA) -- Ted Kurland Associates announces the addition of the legendary guitarist John McLaughlin to their roster for representation in North America. John McLaughlin is available for booking in North America through TKA by special arrangement with Christophe Deghelt Productions, management and exclusive International Representative for John McLaughlin. Considered by many critics and fans to be one of the greatest guitar players of all-time, John McLaughlin has famously ...

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2 Approaches to Monks Historic Night

Source: Michael Ricci
March 2, 2009

In 1959, at 41, Thelonious Monk had only recently located a broader audience. That February he gave a concert with a 10-piece orchestra at Town Hall: a risky, expensive way to secure an official beachhead in New York culture, a way to get beyond his reputation, such as it was, for small groups, jabbing dissonance and cultishness.

Last week’s concerts at Town Hall, on Thursday and Friday — an outgrowth of a Monk festival at Duke University in 2007 — ...

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Songs from Iceland Featuring Tony Malaby

Source: All About Jazz
March 2, 2009

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April Hall, Mark Poniatowski and Pamela Hines at the AJC on March 8th

Source: All About Jazz
March 2, 2009

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