Jazz News

The Resurrection of Frank Zappa's Soul

Source: All About Jazz
December 15, 2008

Two of the iconic Southern California artist's classic compositions, Lumpy Gravy and We're Only In It for the Money, will get the grand reissue treatment. Fifteen years ago last Thursday, American iconoclast Frank Zappa died at age 52; on December 21, he would have been 68. He left an impressive body of musical work, both on his commercial recordings and on various unreleased media, enough material to keep several people employed for years to come in preserving his legacy. His ...

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U.K. Musicians Claim Copyright Coup

Source: All About Jazz
December 15, 2008

Government to extend rights to 70 years. British musicians and record companies are celebrating a major victory after the governments culture secretary Andy Burnham recommended that the copyright term in sound recordings should be extended from 50 to 70 years.

The announcement marks a complete turnaround in government thinking, as up until recently the U.K. music industry was all but resigned to thinking that its campaign for copyright extension had fallen on deaf ears. However, Burnham told the ...

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Startup Banks on Making Money from Free Broadband

Source: All About Jazz
December 15, 2008

For the past three years, a startup called M2Z Networks has been figuring out a way to blanket the nation with a free wireless broadband network to ensure all Americans have access to basic high-speed Internet connections. Along the way, the company has found support in powerful corners of Silicon Valley and Washington. It has attracted funding from several of the Valley's top venture capital firms. And it has captured the interest of Kevin Martin, the chairman of Federal Communications ...

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Steinway Music System Delivers for Audiophiles Who Have It All

Source: All About Jazz
December 15, 2008

Music nuts lust after spatial sound: output so precise you can pinpoint each instrument's location in the recording hall. Well, the room-size Model C isn't just spatial, it's intergalactic.

We dare you to listen to this integrated CD player, amplifier, and speaker symphony without jumping up to conduct. While most speakers are sealed boxes, Steinway's engineers left these open, replicating the resonance of live instruments. And unlike other systems, which convert the audio signal from digital to analog in the ...

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Disc Shelf: A Place to Release Albums Online

Source: All About Jazz
December 15, 2008

Recently a service for musicians was opened. The service is called Disc Shelf and allows musicians to upload their music and present it to their listeners in form of albums: singles, EPs, LPs, promo discs and WIPs (work in progress). Each album receives a unique URL for distribution.

The whole idea of the project is to have works online that would have no ratings, comments, no weird menus and without it looking like a web page. Instead, it looks more ...

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Detroit's Palmer Woods Begins Seven-Month Series of on December 20-21

Source: All About Jazz
December 15, 2008

(Detroit, MI) - Palmer Woods, a Detroit neighborhood known for its exquisite residential architecture and design, will present a series of jazz, classical and world music in magnificent Palmer Woods homes and a dinner dance with music at the Detroit Golf Club. From December through June, internationally recognized, Detroit-based musicians will perform in the Palmer Woods Music in Homes concert series. Tickets are available for purchase online at palmerwoods.org or by calling 313-891-2514 for mail-in information. The series is presented ...

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Guitar Maestro Carl Verheyen Finished Taping a Follow up DVD

Source: All About Jazz
December 15, 2008

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Howard Fishman's Brass Band Celebrates

Source: Michael Ricci
December 15, 2008

Howard Fishman and his brass band, Etienne Charles, Howard Fishman, Jordan Perlson, Roland Barber and Jose Davila, perform in the Big Apple.

Howard Fishman has a fondness for old things and a knack for restoring them. A decade ago that combination of traits led to his first big New York engagement, at the Oak Room of the Algonquin Hotel. Leading a spry quartet, he dusted off the cameos and curios of a vanished era, drawing no distinctions among Dixieland, bluegrass ...

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