Jazz News

Omar Sosa CD Release & Tour Dates

Source: All About Jazz
February 9, 2009

Half Note Records is proud to release Omar Sosa Sextet's Across the Divide: A Tale of Rhythm & Ancestry on March 24, 2009. Across The Divide is a song cycle highlighting the shared rhythms and ancestry of Cuban pianist OMAR SOSA and New England multi-instrumentalist and vocalist TIM ERIKSEN, a specialist in native and adopted American musics. It is a narrative, a tale of musical and spiritual passage, drawn from the roots of our common cultures. It is a folkloric ...

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World Premiere of Love Songs by Brad Mehldau Comes to Carnegie Hall

Source: All About Jazz
February 9, 2009

MEZZO-SOPRANO ANNE SOFIE VON OTTER SINGS JAZZ PIANIST AND COMPOSER BRAD MEHLDAU'S LOVE SONGS IN ITS WORLD PREMIERE ON FEBRUARY 11 AT CARNEGIE HALL

Also on the Program: American Popular Songs Accompanied by Mr. Mehldau and Works by Sibelius, Hahn, and Schumann Performed with Pianist Bengt Forsberg

Carnegie Hall presents mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter in a program featuring the world premiere of jazz pianist and composer Brad Mehldaus Love Songs on Wednesday, February 11 at 8:00 p.m. in Stern ...

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Voices Newly Amplified by Grammy Nominations

Source: Michael Ricci
February 8, 2009

With 1,117 nominees performers, songwriters, producers and more sprinkled over 110 categories, the Grammy Awards can be an unnavigable thicket. Here are some worthy discoveries that shouldnt be allowed to slip through the cracks.

Luis Fonsi The Puerto Rican star Luis Fonsi, 30, has been famous for a decade, but now hes becoming interesting too. Up for best Latin pop album, Mr. Fonsis artfully constructed seventh release, Palabras del Silencio (Universal Music Latino) was one of last years ...

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Album of the Year Nominee Has Everything the Academy Loves ... but Will It Win?

Source: All About Jazz
February 8, 2009

Robert Plant And Alison Krauss Raising Sand Was Made For The Grammys

If it were possible to create the perfect Grammy album, there's a good chance Robert Plant and Alison Krauss' Raising Sand could be it. Take two well-worn, respected veterans. Add one critically lauded producer. Throw in some sandpaper-and-velvet vocals and a baker's dozen of time-tested standards. Mix with some artful black-and-white photography. Shake well. Serve on ice. Reap rewards.

The only difference is, unlike some Grammy albums, Raising ...

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2009 Grammy Awards Live!

Source: Michael Ricci
February 8, 2009

Live-blogging the 2009 Grammy Awards

5:01 p.m.: Here we go, opening the 2009 with a Grammy preview of 2010. U2's performing “Get On Your Boots." How many noms are U2 up for? That's right, none.

Radiohead, or even Coldplay, should have opened the show. Let one of the album of the year artists start the Grammys. Instead, Bono is singining with the lyrics to to song blasted on the screen behind him -- it's all set for inclusion in Rock ...

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And the Winner Is... Grammy Faceoff '09

Source: All About Jazz
February 8, 2009

Did Weezy make the album of the year? Are the JoBros really the best new artists? Our A-list panel of singers, rappers and producers give you the lowdown on who's taking home a trophy on music's biggest night

Grammy's Top 2009 Nominees: Lil Wayne, Coldplay, Radiohead, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss and More

Grammy predictions are a delicate art fragile constructions, built on a buckling framework of name recognition, critical consensus and pure blind luck.

And, of course, they usually ...

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The Man Who Created the Word "Grammy" and Other Idle Gossip

Source: All About Jazz
February 8, 2009

According to the Grammy Awards website, the music industry's highest honor got its name from a nationwide “name the award" contest back in 1959.

Not so according to Grammy-, Emmy- and Clio-winning writer-comedian Stan Freberg, who recently toured the Grammy Museum and emerged incensed. He says the honor's origins (and his role in them) have been erased like a bad overdub.

Here's Stan's correction and recollection:

In 1958, I was on the founding Board of Governors of the Recording Academy. ...

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Paula Abdul Predicts a Guy Will Win 'American Idol?'

Source: Michael Ricci
February 8, 2009

The Dish Rag caught up with American Idol judge Paula Abdul last night at Clive Davis' annual pre-Grammy bash.

We got the scoop on her strapless satin printed cocktail dress, who she's wearing to tonight's Grammy Awards and some hints about the new season of American Idol.

Paula predicts a guy will win this season! You read it here first. Oh, and she also revealed how Dr. Evil, er, Simon Cowell, really felt about the show's new judge. ...

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