Jazz News

Producers Track Record as a Label Executive is Raising Questions

Source: Michael Ricci
February 7, 2009

Less than two years after Sony Music Entertainment made a daring move by hiring the legendary music producer Rick Rubin to run its Columbia Records label, the company is learning a lesson from baseball: sometimes the best players dont make the best managers.

Sony hired Mr. Rubin a founder of Def Jam Records who has produced hits for Run-DMC, the Beastie Boys, the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Johnny Cash hoping the appointment would lead to a new business model ...

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Artist of Famed Obama Poster Arrested in Boston

Source: Michael Ricci
February 7, 2009

L.A.-based artist Shepard Fairey created the now-ubiquitous graphic of Obama, who wrote to him, Your images have a profound effect on people.

BOSTON -- A street artist famous for his red, white and blue “Hope" posters of President Obama has been arrested on warrants accusing him of tagging property with graffiti, police said today.

Shepard Fairey, 38, was arrested Friday night on his way to the Institute of Contemporary Art for a kickoff event for his first solo exhibition, called ...

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All-Star Tribute to Neil Diamond at Musicares Gala

Source: All About Jazz
February 7, 2009

The most commonly heard phrase spoken by attendees and artists alike at Fridays MusiCares tribute to Neil Diamond Feels like a Bar Mitzvah!

Or the biggest karaoke party ever, but rather than having to suffer through your drunk friends closing time rendition of Sweet Caroline, instead some 2,500 music industry VIPs got the man himself backed by Grammy vets like Coldplay, Tim McGraw, Foo Fighters, Faith Hill and Chris Cornell, along with newcomers the Jonas Brothers, Jennifer Hudson and Adele. ...

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Las Vegas is One Long Happy Hour

Source: Michael Ricci
February 7, 2009

I love martinis. I average about two a year, usually here in Las Vegas, where they are known to spawn. A cold glass of beer is a splendid sight, and a glass of Chardonnay has a lovely sort of moon glow. But a martini comes with that great stiletto heel.

And after the first sip of my very first martini, I become disoriented and hopelessly lost. We'd arrived in Vegas at 5 p.m., Posh and I, and by 6 we ...

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Read What Musicians Are Saying About All About Jazz

Source: All About Jazz
February 6, 2009

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AAJ is working on several projects in 2009 including a new photo gallery ...

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New York Week End Jazz Clubs

Source: Michael Ricci
February 6, 2009

Jazz Listings

RASHIED ALI QUINTET (Sunday) Rashied Ali has had a substantial career in the jazz avant-garde, beginning with his role in the late-period bands of John Coltrane. But hard bop is the foundation for this quintet, with a front line of the trumpeter Josh Evans and the tenor saxophonist Lawrence Clark. At 7:30 and 9:30 p.m., Jazz Standard, 116 East 27th Street, Manhattan, (212) 576-2232, jazzstandard.net; cover, $25.

AVANTANGO (Sunday) The Argentine bassist Pablo Aslan, ...

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What's Cooking Around L.A.

Source: All About Jazz
February 6, 2009

The jazz picks this week are on the rad side.

Take powerful tenor and baritone Dale Fielder at Vibrato on Friday: This guy can rock a room. Or across town at the Caf 322, where The Bobby Bradford Motet slips his out-there stuff by the crowd by hiding it in some fairly traditional arrangements. It works. Guitarist/picker Bruce Forman is the melodic third of the house trio at the Foundry on Melrose on Friday, while pianist Josh Nelson ...

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Boston Jazz

Source: All About Jazz
February 6, 2009

The Complete Works of John Coltrane - Broms Organ Trio Pianist and Organist Ed Broms will complete his two year series of performances playing the complete works of jazz legend John Coltrane. 2/6/2009 Friday 7:30p The Cathedral Church of St. Paul

Boston MA Eliane Elias This Brazilian pianist/composer/vocalist's show is a sultry & sophisticated mix of superb piano work & haunting vocals. 2/7/2009 Saturday 8:00p (repeats 3 times) ...

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