Jazz News

The Apocalypse is Coming: Musicians Guide What You Need to Pack

Source: All About Jazz
January 4, 2009

Saxaphone, check. Extra reeds, check. Crisis schmisis. Its nothing more than a crisis of consumer confidence, and Wired.com Editor Dylan Tweneys list of 12 Good Gadgets for Hard Times is a great way to spend some money to survive it.

But what happens in a real crisis, the kind where the world stops working, the electricity stops working and (gasp) the internet stops working? Every New Years Eve, some wacko predicts the End of Days. What might you ...

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Richard Bliwas Performs at Googie's Lounge ( Upstairs from the Living Room)

Source: All About Jazz
January 4, 2009

Please come to The Living Room/Googie's Lounge located at 154 Ludlow Street New York , NY, 10002 January 12th at 7pm for a one hour set . Admission is free.

The pianist ---now finishing up his 6th CD for Rising Rose Records --- has been compared to Brian Wilson, Miles Davis, Patricia Barber, The Beatles, Van Dyke Parks, Mose Allison, and Sun Ra-- but as All About Jazz said in its review of Rising Rose Records 2004 release Ghost His ...

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Roswell Roots Festival Celebrates Black History of Classic Jazz

Source: Michael Ricci
January 4, 2009

Join us for an evening of Classic Jazz in a cabaret table setting. We’ll transform the Roswell VFW into a New Orleans style club to celebrate the works of jazz greats King Oliver, Kid Ory, Jelly Roll Morton and the great Louis Armstrong. Philip Carroll of The Atlanta Jazz Party handpicked the All Star lineup from New Orleans including Jason Marsalis on drums, James Singleton on bass, Steve Pistorius on piano, Duke Heitger on trumpet; Evan Christopher on clarinet and ...

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150 New Additions to AAJ Upcoming Jazz CD/DVD Release Center

Source: All About Jazz
January 4, 2009

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Miles Davis Live

Source: Michael Ricci
January 4, 2009

The Miles Davis groups in 1958 and 1959, with John Coltrane on tenor saxophone and Paul Chambers on bass (and varied others, depending on time and occasion) were really, really good, and for bands that became so well known by studio records, they were fabulous live.

You can find a fair number of stage bootlegs if you know your way around the shadowlands of file sharing, but not nearly enough of it is available via normal commercial channels. So proceed ...

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"The Jazz Pianists: Eighty Years in Review" at Mira Costa High School (Manhattan Beach) in January and February

Source: All About Jazz
January 4, 2009

A Multimedia Educational/Entertainment Experience of the South Bay Adult School Robert Bragonier, MD, PhD Retired Physician Educator and Administrator Jazz Reviewer and Educator--Lifelong Jazz Enthusiast Mira Costa High School 701 S. Peck Ave. Manhattan Beach, CA (Peck Ave. at Artesia Blvd.) Room 41 Five Tuesday Evening Sessions: January 6, 13, 20, 27 February 3, 2009, 7-9:30 PM $74 Special Off-Site Opportunity on ...

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B.J. Jansen Joins Red Holloway, Donald Harrison, James Carter and Azar Lawrence as an International Woodwind Artist

Source: JM Creative
January 4, 2009

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Music Sales Boom but Albums Fizzle For '08

Source: All About Jazz
January 4, 2009

Americans bought more music in 2008 than ever before, but album sales the music industry's main source of revenue dropped for a fourth year.

According to the Nielsen Co.'s year-end figures, music purchases CD, vinyl, cassette and digital purchases of entire albums (grouped together as total albums), plus digital track downloads, singles and music videos attained a new high of 1.5 billion, up 10.5% over 2007. More than 70% of those transactions were digital track downloads, a record total of ...

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