Jazz News

Jazz Video Guy Asks: How Cool is the Monterey Jazz Festival

Source: All About Jazz
January 12, 2009

The latest installment of the Jazz Video Guys blog is How Cool Is the Monterey Jazz.

Festival featuring highlights from the 51st edition of the extravaganza. Bret Primack, aka the Jazz Video Guy reports that he attended his first Monterey Jazz Festival this past September, at the invitation of Jason Olaine, and not surprisingly, I had a ball. The quality and quantity of music, the food, the whole vibe and sense of community made it a tremendously uplifting experience. That's ...

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Guided Tour of the Most Awesome Depression Ever

Source: All About Jazz
January 12, 2009

Another Great Depression! Hardly are those words out when vast images straight out of Walker Evans trouble my sight: Hoboes! Okies! Hoovervilles! Women who resemble Harry Dean Stanton! It's all so very... 75 years ago.

Our go-to icons of abject, debilitating American poverty are so nostalgic, so sentimental, so analog. Our recurrent national nightmare deserves an upgrade.

Let's face it Flat broke and rattling a mug full of pencils, we'll still be the same wiki-addicted, diversion-craving ...

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Supreme Court Refuses to Clear Way for Cable Companies to Copy Shows

Source: Michael Ricci
January 12, 2009

The nation's high court asks the Justice Department to weigh in, delaying a decision in the case that could have a major impact on video-on-demand services.

The Supreme Court refused today to clear the way for cable TV companies to copy broadcasts for later viewing by their customers and instead asked the Justice Department to weigh in on whether this new video recording service would violate the Copyright Act.

The court's move will delay for months a final decision on ...

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Golden Globes 2009 Music Awards

Source: All About Jazz
January 12, 2009

BEST SCORE

Alexandre Desplat - The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button Clint Eastwood - Changeling James Newton Howard - Defiance Hans Zimmer - Frost/Nixon

WINNER: A. R. Rahman - Slumdog Millionaire

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

“Down To Earth" from Wall-E Music By: Peter Gabriel, Thomas Newman; Lyrics By: Peter Gabriel

“Gran Torino" from Gran Torino Music By: Clint Eastwood, Jamie Cullum, Kyle Eastwood, Michael Stevens; Lyrics By: Jamie Cullum

“I Thought ...

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U2 to Play New Single at Brit Awards

Source: All About Jazz
January 12, 2009

U2 will play its new single, “Get on Your Boots," at the BRIT Awards ceremony on Feb. 17 at London's Earls Court.

The band's new album, No Line on the Horizon, arrives March 2 internationally and a day later in North America. The band has previously won seven Brit awards, five of them for best international group.

The BRIT Awards will live on ITV1 and are sponsored by MasterCard. The other confirmed performer is Pet Shop Boys, recipient of the ...

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Motown Stars Mark 50th Anniversary in Detroit

Source: All About Jazz
January 12, 2009

A variety of Motown alumni returned to Hitsville USA today (Jan. 12) -- in Studio A, which the Four Tops' Abdul “Duke" Fakir referred to as “hallowed ground" -- to officially kick off a year-long celebration of the famed label's 50th anniversary.

Fakir was joined by other Detroit-based Motown artists, including Bobby Rogers of the Miracles, Rosalind Ashford of Martha & the Vandellas and Rare Earth's Gil Bridges, Funk Brothers Uriel Jones, Ivy Joe Hunter and Dennis Coffey, producer/arrangers Paul ...

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Henry Grimes Times!

Source: Margaret Davis Grimes
January 12, 2009

Monday, January 19th release date for Henry Grimes Solo, the phenomenal double-CD set Henry Grimes Times on the ILK Music label. Henry playing acoustic bass and violin for more than 2&1/2 hours of continuous improvisation! Thursday, January 22nd, 6 p.m: Deep Tones for Peace fundraiser at the United Nations in New York City, with Henry Grimes playing solo bass, and others among the Deep Tones for Peace musicians listed below also playing at the fundraiser either in person or in ...

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New Omar Sosa CD - Winter 2009 Tour Schedule

Source: All About Jazz
January 12, 2009

Recorded at the Blue Note jazz club in New York City, Across The Divide is a song cycle documenting the shared rhythms of Omar Sosa and Tim Eriksen, a New England multi-instrumentalist specializing in native and adopted American musics. The album is a narrative, a tale of musical and spiritual passage, melding and mingling seemingly disparate cultures yet highlighting the musical roots common to us all. Featured within are sampled readings from Langston Hughes, renowned giant of the Harlem Renaissance, ...

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