Jazz News

Slow Ticket Sales Sink Langerado Festival

Source: All About Jazz
February 3, 2009

The Langerado Music Festival in Miami is the first large-scale U.S. festival to fall victim to a poor economy in 2009. The seventh annual event, which was set for March 6-8 at Bicentennial Park, has been cancelled “due to sluggish ticket sales," organizers announced.

Artists that were confirmed to perform at Langerado included Death Cab For Cutie, Snoop Dogg, Ryan Adams and the Cardinals, Dashboard Confessional, Broken Social Scene, Girl Talk, Thievery Corporation, Slightly Stoopid, Flogging Molly, Chromeo, Mute Math, ...

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Larry Crockett & Jared Booty Interviews

Source: All About Jazz
February 3, 2009

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Felix Hell Pomp and Mendelssohn with Fluid Pedal Work

Source: Michael Ricci
February 3, 2009

By the reckoning of some, Mendelssohns organ music included several of the most significant pieces for the instrument since those of Bach. That contention hardly seems remarkable, given Mendelssohns astonishing mastery across a range of genres. Yet whereas his orchestral and chamber works are widely known, the organ music is largely the stuff of cognoscenti.

This being the Mendelssohn bicentenary (with Tuesday the anniversary of his birth), we can be sure that few corners of his output will go unexplored. ...

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Hank Crawford Saxophonist for Ray Charles Dies

Source: Michael Ricci
February 3, 2009

Hank Crawford, whose fluidly emotional saxophone solos as a sideman for Ray Charles led to a long career as a leader of jazz and soul bands and a lengthy discography for Atlantic, Kudu and Milestone Records, died Thursday at his home in Memphis. He was 74.

The cause was complications of a stroke he had in 2000, his sister Delores said.

Beginning in the early 1960s, when Mr. Crawford was music director for Charless big band and also recorded on ...

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Lukas Foss Prolific American Composer Dies

Source: Michael Ricci
February 3, 2009

Lukas Foss, the polyglot American composer, conductor and pianist who directed half a dozen Ojai Music Festivals, led marathon concerts at the Hollywood Bowl and succeeded Arnold Schoenberg as head of composition at UCLA, has died. He was 86.

Foss died Sunday at his home in New York, according to his wife, Cornelia Foss. No cause of death was given, but Foss was known to have had Parkinson's disease.

Lukas Foss Lukas FossAmerican composer Aaron Copland once called Foss' works ...

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Emails from the Prez- What's in Your Blackberry

Source: Michael Ricci
February 3, 2009

A president and his BlackBerry Wouldn't you love to know what Obama's typing?

Is a president with a BlackBerry on his belt really just like the rest of us? From the leaked e-mails of Barack Obama:

7:58 a.m. To: Michelle Obama From: BHO In line at Starbucks. Oh wait, they're waving me to the front. Nice. More later.

9:02 a.m. To: Rahm Emanuel From: BHO This meeting will not end. ...

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Austin Music Foundation Presents Graham Reynolds Interview with Alex Coke

Source: All About Jazz
February 3, 2009

Austin Music Foundation presents Graham Reynolds Interview with Alex Coke


Jazz listeners know, a gig where Alex Coke is playing is a great place to be. The audience finds the multi instrumental musician, composer and producer in many places, with a style all his own. This month, Club DeVille hosts The Austin Music Foundation's Small Group Session, Graham Reynolds Interview with Alex Coke.

Join AMF as they host one of Austin's most admired and ...

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Chick Corea Collaborates with Japanese Pianist Hiromi on Duet

Source: On Target Media Group
February 3, 2009

Grammy-award winning pianist Chick Corea released Duet, a 2- CD live performance with up-and-coming virtuosic Japanese pianist Hiromi, this week via Concord Records. Originally released in Japan in 2007 on Universal, Duet became the top-selling jazz album of the year. The 12-track, 2-CD release marks Chick Corea’s first recorded piano duet album since 1978’s An Evening With Herbie Hancock & Chick Corea: In Concert. The first CD features an original by each ...

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