Jazz News

International Festival for Creative Music

Source: All About Jazz
January 31, 2009

So it is time for the third Perspectives festival for contemporary experimental, improvised music, March 5th throught 7th Vasteras Sweden.

We want to show, that there is a music different from the one that usually dominates our medias and acts as subject of generosity from those in power. This music is a spearhead in the development, and gives us, in the long term, new tools to understand and influence a reality in change. Much of this new music has geographical ...

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George Perle Theorist and Composer Championed Atonal Music Dies

Source: Michael Ricci
January 31, 2009

Scholar, theorist and composer George Perle, always highly regarded by his peers, began to draw wider public attention only after he won a Pulitzer Prize and MacArthur Fellowship in 1986. The American music theorist and scholar who was widely regarded as the composer who put a human face on atonal music, has died. He was 93.

Always highly regarded by his peers, Perle began to draw wider public attention only after he won a Pulitzer Prize -- as well as ...

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Vocalist Marlene VerPlanck Celebrates 20th CD with U.S. & European Tours

Source: Carolyn McClair Public Relations
January 31, 2009

Vocalist Marlene VerPlanck Celebrates Her 20th CD, “Once There Was A Moon," In New York And Florida “Something old, something new, everything fantastic..." --Paul Coladarci, KUNV Jazz Radio, Las Vegas, NV NEW YORK - Vocalist Marlene VerPlanck celebrates her 20th CD, Once There Was a Moon, at concerts in New York and Florida throughout February. A master of the Great American Songbook, she will present music from her new CD as well as some of her favorite standards. Tour dates ...

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AllAboutJazz-New York February 2009 Issue Now Available!

Source: All About Jazz
January 31, 2009

We hate to be the ones to temper all the post-election enthusiasm for potentially more arts support, but it seems like the financial crisis facing the world has trickled (or deluged) down into jazz. Recent reports indicate that Festival Network, which took over George Wein’s Festival Productions company last year, has laid off most its staff, making it uncertain if New York (or any other city for that matter) has seen its last JVC Jazz Festival. We will report more ...

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Fewer Fans Are Splurging on Super Bowl Bashes

Source: Michael Ricci
January 31, 2009

Many recession-wary Americans are scaling back spending on party goods and food. Allen Channel's house is usually party central on Super Bowl Sunday. Not this year.

With the economy in recession and unemployment on the rise, many Americans will party less hearty for this year's Super Bowl. One measure of that might be called the Guacamole Index. The California Avocado Commission says Americans will consume 46 million pounds of avocados this weekend, down from nearly 50 million pounds last year. ...

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Bob Dylan Teams up with Will.i.AM for Pepsi Super Bowl Commercial

Source: All About Jazz
January 31, 2009

How do you make Super Bowl Sunday even more of a spectacle? By adding Bob Dylan, even if it is just for a $3 million minute.

The legendary singer-songwriter and the Black Eyed Peas‘ once again ubiquitous Will.i.am will make a cameo appearance during this Sunday’s Super Bowl broadcast when the pair team up for a new ad for Pepsi.

As Billboard reports, the duo will sing a new song penned specifically for the commercial. No other details have been ...

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Innerviewworld.com Interview: Drummer Terreon Gully

Source: All About Jazz
January 30, 2009

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Paul McCartney at Coachella That's Huge!

Source: Michael Ricci
January 30, 2009

The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival got famous by presenting the sounds of today and tomorrow. But this year California's most celebrated live-music event is gambling on Paul McCartney and the music of “Yesterday."

Booking the former Beatle, who is listed in the record books as the most successful musician in pop history, would be the safest choice imaginable for most music festivals.

But the internationally respected Coachella festival, which is set for April 17-19, has been pulling in ...

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