Jazz News

Thelonious Monk Festival - Jazz at Lincoln Center

Source: All About Jazz
October 22, 2008

Jazz at Lincoln Centers Monk Festival November 20th thru 23rd

Nov. 20-22 Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis and Special Guest Marcus Roberts hosted by Soledad OBrien (Nov. 20) and Courtney Vance (Nov. 21-22) Rose Theater, 8 p.m.

Nov. 21-22 Danilo Prez Trio The Allen Room, 7:30 p.m., 9:30 p.m.

Nov. 21-23 Mostly Monk: One For All w/ Eric Alexander Dizzys Club Coca-Cola, 7:30 ...

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David Sanborn Save the Music Foundation Auction Update

Source: Universal Music Enterprises
October 22, 2008

Maverick saxophonist David Sanborn, who has performed alongside such heavyweights as James Brown, Eric Clapton, Stevie Wonder, Bruce Springsteen, David Bowie, and innumerable others is stepping up in support of young musicians across the country and participating in an exclusive auction to benefit the VH1 Save The Music Foundation, which donates instruments for public school music programs.

Beginning on October 14th and closing on October 24th on eBay.com. The auction boasts two tickets to any one of Sanborn’s upcoming tour ...

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Film Editor Crafts 'Alchemy'

Source: All About Jazz
October 22, 2008

Footage to craft your Jazz

As an exercise in demonstrating how the art of film editing can be used to create meaning and emotion, Pietro Scalia has fashioned a short movie from footage shot for nine other films.

The result, Alchemy, will be screened for invited guests at the Westwood Hammer Museum in L.A. on Monday.

Scalia, who won Oscars for his film editing on JFK and Black Hawk Down, undertook the project at the invitation of Prada, using footage ...

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National Guitar Workshop Community Network

Source: All About Jazz
October 22, 2008

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No More Payment Headaches as Gigpay Launches

Source: All About Jazz
October 22, 2008

GigPay Ltd has launched what it believes is the first payment processing service for the event industry. The company aims to handle payments between live performers and event promoters, by using a combination of credit card processing, email billing and escrow. The service, operated from gigpay.com involves helping live performers like musicians, DJs, bands, comedians or even models, to collect payment for their services by means other than cash or cheque. A performer can request a payment for a gig ...

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A Ferment of World Jazz Yields a Trove of Tapes

Source: Michael Ricci
October 22, 2008

WOODSTOCK, N.Y. — The Creative Music Studio here remains underdocumented and little understood. But a definitive history of jazz in the 1970s — a book yet to be written — ought to give it central importance. During the dawning years of jazz education the studio, run out of various repurposed settings — a barn, a Lutheran youth camp, a motel — was the unmusic school, roughly analogous to Black Mountain College, the progressive school in North Carolina that brought together ...

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Daniel Ray - "Big Black" Comes Back: Jazz Giant Teaches Drumming Classes

Source: All About Jazz
October 22, 2008

Drummer Daniel Ray left Beaufort at age 16 to pursue his dream of playing music, and in many ways he has returned as a man on a mission. “I came back after 54 years, and the same thing that I left is still here," said Ray, who goes by the nickname Big Black, adding sadly that three girls in his neighborhood, one of them only 12, have had babies. “I see a lot of the things happening then still happening ...

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Jazz Society Seeks New Music Venues in Yuma

Source: All About Jazz
October 22, 2008

Nonprofit groups strive to better their community in lots of ways, but one wants to give Yuma the gift of jazz and blues. A local music promoter founded the Yuma Jazz Society in August with the goal of creating more jazz and blues events in Yuma, including an annual festival and smaller events ranging from jams to jazz camps. “The society will be organizing events and promoting jazz to the community," said founder and director Richard Bridgeforth. “We just want ...

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