Jazz News

L.A. Live Turns On the Lights

Source: Michael Ricci
December 3, 2008

The $2.5-billion entertainment district across from Staples Center in downtown L.A. celebrates its opening today. Times architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne writes: The project is relentlessly focused on creating its own wholly separate commercial universe: a brighter, more strategically frenzied place than the world outside its doors.

In its first phase, L.A. Live unveiled a large plaza, covering nearly 2 acres, across Chick Hearn Court from Staples Center and at the foot of the Nokia Theater. The plaza was designed by ...

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Odetta 1930-2008

Source: Michael Ricci
December 3, 2008

Odetta Holmes folk singer championed black history, civil rights

Odetta, who used just her given name professionally, had trained as a classical vocalist as a child and later discovered folk music, which she said really touched where I live. She became an inspiration to other folk singers and eventually received a National Medal of Arts and a Living Legend Award. Odetta, the classically trained folk, blues and gospel singer who used her powerfully rich and dusky voice to champion African ...

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Fleetwood Mac Returning to the Road In '09

Source: All About Jazz
December 3, 2008

As expected, Fleetwood Mac will embark on its first tour in five years next spring, beginning March 1 in Pittsburgh.

Tickets for the Live Nation-produced Unleashed tour begin going on sale Dec. 15.

So far, 16 dates are on tap through March 26 in Toronto, but the trek is expected to run through the summer. Core members Lindsey Buckingham, Stevie Nicks, John McVie and Mick Fleetwood are all on board.

There was no sense we had to jump right in ...

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Steve Winwood Celebrating the New Year with East Coast Concerts

Source: All About Jazz
December 3, 2008

Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Steve Winwood, recently named one of Rolling Stone magazine's “100 Greatest Singers of All Time," will ring in the New Year with a series of East Coast concert performances in January. Winwood's upcoming East Coast concert dates mark the first U.S. headline tour since 2007 for the legendary rock superstar, who last toured the states with Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers in the summer of 2008. Winwood is currently enjoying the success of his ...

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The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics

Source: All About Jazz
December 3, 2008

The short speaks volumes on the nature of jazz. “The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics" was awarded the Academy Award for Animated Short Film in 1965. It is based on the book by Norton Juster published two years earlier, a budding romance between a dot and an initially unyieldingly straight line.

The trigonometric love story has a third person (love triangle) involved - a rather unruly squiggle - with the dot attracted by the ...

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New Holiday Album from Wayne Bergeron with the After Hours Brass

Source: All About Jazz
December 3, 2008

Celebrate this holiday season with Wayne Bergeron's new CD, Music & Mistletoe.

This “Pint-Sized Big Band" redefines classics such as “Jingle Bells", “We Three Kings" and “Santa Baby". And introducing a brand new classic, “Christmas Is The Warmest Day Of The Year" featuring jazz vocalist Tierney Sutton.

Music & Mistletoe is now available at WayneBergeron.com and CD Baby.

About Wayne Bergeron Wayne Bergeron is enjoying a career as one of the most active players on the Los Angeles ...

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FCC Considers Free Internet Access with Program Censors

Source: Michael Ricci
December 3, 2008

Kevin Martin, the agency's chief, wants to provide free wireless access, but he wants it filtered for porn and other objectionable material. That's not the job of the government.

Universal Internet access sounds great. But not the way the head of the Federal Communications Commission envisions it.

FCC Chairman Kevin J. Martin is proposing that free wireless Net access be made available to everyone as part of a sale of public airwaves. At the same time, he wants filters put ...

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Music Industry in Five Years

Source: All About Jazz
December 3, 2008

What will the music industry look like in five years? In a new study by Forrester Research, U.S. Music Forecast 2008 to 2013, industry analysts attempt to cook up some numbers.

No huge surprises here: The U.S. music market is expected to shrink over the next five years from $10.2 billion to $9.8 billion. Digital music sales are expected to grow from 18 percent to 41 percent of the total (as physical product shrinks from 64 percent to ...

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