Jazz News

Gone with the Ages the Coconut Grove

Source: Michael Ricci
October 13, 2008

The Ambassador Hotel lesson Demolishing such iconic buildings not only destroys history, it wastes resources. By Diane Keaton

Last week, I drove past the 22-acre vacant lot once known as the Ambassador Hotel. As I looked at the rubble of our lost cause, I pulled over, sat back and gave in to a feeling I can only describe as guilt. I thought about my connection to the once-iconic hotel, about why places like it are so ...

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Jazz Lives Here: Bringing Jazz Back to the Home: Hour 20 & Hour 21

Source: All About Jazz
October 12, 2008

Hour 20 By Sunday afternoon, the previous night’s revelers may be taking it easy, but many jazz musicians are bringing jams into their own homes. In Park Slope, Brooklyn, latin jazz great Arturo O'Farrill is leading a jam session with his two sons and their schoolmate. O’Farrill’s children originally did not want to be musicians, but can now improvise and hold their own. “I think I chose the drums because I figured it would be the most annoying, but I ...

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Jazz Pianist Camilo Loves Living His Music

Source: All About Jazz
October 12, 2008

Pianist Michel Camilo doesn't just play jazz, he lives it. He takes his musical style and passion and incorporates it into his daily life. He even likes to travel. “I enjoy it; that is why I do it. The last 20 years or so I have managed to have friends all over the world," Camilo said during a phone call from New York. Camilo is in the late stages of a two-year world tour supporting his latest album, “Spirit of ...

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Jazz Lives Here: How Jazz Nourishes the City's Soul: Hour 16 & Hour 19

Source: All About Jazz
October 12, 2008

Hour 16 At 8 a.m. Sunday, jazz great Wynton Marsalis is in his apartment, saying it’s not so bad having the sleepy time blues. “It's early in the morning, it's still kind of dark. Well, not now, it's 8 o'clock, but I'm imagining it,” says Marsalis, before breaking into a piano improvisation. “It's just the blues.” Marsalis offers the visiting television crew some coffee and an extra cup of encouragement. “It's good that you’re staying up, because that's the real ...

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YMCA Program Teaches Students About Music, Life

Source: All About Jazz
October 12, 2008

The music is opening up doors for other stuff Fourteen-year-old Tommy Fleming didn’t know playing rock ‘n’ roll could be so good. That was before he learned to play jazz. He didn’t know jazz could be so good, either. That was until he joined the YMCA Center for the Creative Arts, an after-school program of the YMCA of the Greater Tri-Valley. The program is dedicated to creating music opportunities for school-aged children. Since 2003, the program has allowed students such ...

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Rhino's Ry Cooder Anthology

Source: All About Jazz
October 12, 2008

RY COODER'S MUSICAL JOURNEY

Rhino's Double-CD The UFO Has Landed: The Ry Cooder Anthology Includes 34 Songs From The Virtuoso Guitarist's Eclectic Career

Available October 28 From Rhino Records

LOS ANGELES - Rhino takes a joy ride through Ry Cooder's prolific career with a two-CD collection of his work as a solo artist and soundtrack composer. On October 28, THE UFO HAS LANDED: THE RY COODER ANTHOLOGY will be available at all retail outlets, including rhino.com, for a suggested list ...

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Bill Silva Presents and Rum & Humble Announce Pact with Long Beach Blues Festival

Source: conqueroo
October 12, 2008

LOS ANGELES, Calif. Southern Californiabased concert production companies Bill Silva resents and Rum & Humble have announced a multi-year pact with radio station KJAZZ to produce the annual Long Beach Blues Festival. Labor Day weekend 2009 will mark the 30th anniversary of the West Coasts largest and longest-running blues event.

The 2008 edition of the festival the first produced by Bill Silva Presents and Rum & Humble featured Chuck Berry, Taj Mahal, John Mayall and many others at a new ...

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Hitmaking Producer/Saxophonist Darren Rahn Joins De'Nate'

Source: Cheryl Hughey Promotions
October 12, 2008

Saxophonist/producer Darren Rahn recently announced that he has joined De'Nate', the nuGroove band created by industry veteran David Chackler. “The chemistry between Rahn, Connors and Harasim is remarkable. In many ways, it reminds me of the magic that happened when Keith Olsen and I introduced Stevie Nicks and Lindsay Buckingham to Mick Fleetwood of Fleetwood Mac. It's an indescribable energy that you can see feel and hear," said David Chackler, President of nuGroove.

Rahn, who has been responsible for several ...

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