Jazz News

Guitarist Derek Trucks Interviewed at AAJ

Source: All About Jazz
February 24, 2009

Over the past few years guitarist Derek Trucks has been on the cover of Down Beat and Rolling Stone; he's been profiled in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal; he's toured with Eric Clapton and Carlos Santana; he's guested on recordings with J.J. Cale, Elvin Bishop, Buddy Guy, David Sanborn and Nashville dobro virtuoso Jerry Douglas; and he's done a DVD with McCoy Tyner, Ron Carter, and Jack DeJohnette. A child prodigy, he joined Bob Dylan on ...

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Trombonist Steve Turre Interviewed at AAJ

Source: All About Jazz
February 23, 2009

Few can match Steve Turré's skill as a trombonist. His technical mastery, which has seen him win five Down Beat polls, goes hand-in-hand with a deep respect for the music that has gone before him, and over the course of forty years he has honed his skills with some of the best. Since his formative experience as a teenager playing alongside the great saxophonist/flautist Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Turré has gone on to play with many artists including Ray Charles, B.B. ...

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81st Academy Award Winners

Source: All About Jazz
February 23, 2009

2009 Oscar Winners Winners in bold

BEST PICTURE “Slumdog Millionaire" “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" “Frost/Nixon" “Milk" “The Reader"

BEST ACTRESS Kate Winslet, “The Reader" Anne Hathaway, “Rachel Getting Married" Angelina Jolie, “Changeling" Melissa Leo, “Frozen River" Meryl Streep, “Doubt"

BEST ACTOR Sean Penn, “Milk" Frank Langella, “Frost/Nixon" Brad Pitt, “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" Mickey Rourke, “The Wrestler" Richard Jenkins, “The Visitor"

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Penelope Cruz, “Vicky Cristina Barcelona" Amy Adams, “Doubt" Viola Davis, ...

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A.R. Rahman Takes Oscar for Slumdog Original Score, Best Song

Source: Michael Ricci
February 23, 2009

Original score: 'Slumdog Millionaire's' A.R. Rahman

Rahman, composer of countless Bollywood scores, won for his transporting soundscape in Slumdog Millionaire, Danny Boyle's crowd-pleaser that is part potboiler, part fairy tale.

Rahman started writing music for Indian TV ads in the early '90s, eventually switching to film and composing dozens of soundtracks a year. In 2002, Andrew Lloyd Webber commissioned him to write the music for the play “Bombay Dreams," which ran in London's West End. Rahman also collaborated with London ...

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Brazil's Carnival Kicks into High Gear with Parades

Source: All About Jazz
February 23, 2009

Brazil's five-day Carnival got into high gear Sunday with its famous parades in Rio de Janeiro adding choreographed extravagance on top of lusty street parties and fancy-dress balls already underway.

Locals, tourists and television audiences around the world were to be treated to thousands of dancers and the drum bands from the city's samba schools marching behind topless, sequined beauties for two nights of colorful processions.

The parades, a carefully timed competition that comes at the mid-point of Carnival, mark ...

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Photographer Frank Kuchirchuk Donates Rare 1950s Jazz Photographs to Oberlin

Source: All About Jazz
February 23, 2009

Images of Legends Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Art Tatum, Stan Getz and More

Taken at Famed Lindsay's Sky Bar in Cleveland OBERLIN, OHIO -- Frank Kuchirchuk, a retired photographer who took live performance photographs of some of the greatest jazz artists during the height of their careers, has donated his entire collection of jazz images to the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. The Frank Kuchirchuk Collection of Jazz Photography contains some 200 images, most of which are negatives that ...

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Major Label Acts Get Hip to Music Apps

Source: All About Jazz
February 23, 2009

Apple's app store is doing for music promotion what the company already did for music sales: making it portable, desirable and easy to access.

Forget about ringtones and Rhapsody; these apps let you subscribe to artists. Unlike the Presidents of the United States of America app we discovered last week, Kyte's iPhone apps for Universal Music Group artists don't give you full tracks, but they do keep fans updated with new information through exclusive videos -- mostly filmed on cellphone, ...

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Live Nation/Ticketmaster Merger Face Antitrust Subcommittee Hearing

Source: All About Jazz
February 23, 2009

The potential merger of Live Nation and Ticketmaster will face off against the Department of Justice tomorrow as the Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights will decide whether the two concert industry superpowers can join forces or if whether the merger violates monopoly laws.

The hearing will be titled “The Ticketmaster/Live Nation Merger: What Does it Mean for Consumers and the Future of the Concert Business?” Confirmed witness include Ticketmaster CEO Irving Azoff, Live Nation president Michael Rapino, ...

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