Jazz News

Rare Images Mean Big Money for Labels

Source: All About Jazz
August 2, 2008

As CD sales sink, Sony BMG and Warner open their art archives

Amid drastic drop-offs in CD sales, the major labels have discovered new sources of revenue -- by looking in their basements. Sony BMG recently launched Icon Collectibles, a line of rare photos from the label's archives, with candid, unpublished shots of artists from Miles Davis to Bob Dylan, and Warner label Rhino Entertainment just started selling reproductions of concert posters for bands like the Grateful Dead and Jefferson ...

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Harth-Bedoya Makes the Night Dance at the Hollywood Bowl

Source: Michael Ricci
August 2, 2008

Miguel Harth-Bedoya led the Los Angeles Philharmonic in a likable and satisfying performance of Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony at the Hollywood Bowl on Tuesday night.

What made it likable was the rhythmic lilt. But what made it satisfying was more important. Fate, for once, was no big deal. Tchaikovsky's turbulent tale has been often told. He began the symphony in 1876 shortly after meeting a generous patron, Nadezhda von Meck, a widow who supported him and served as a confidante. The ...

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Jann Klose at Bethlehem Musikfest

Source: Anne Leighton
August 2, 2008

JANN KLOSE AT BETHLEHEM MUSIKFEST, AUGUST 10 (Pop singer-songwriter also to perform Sept. 20 at Sellersville Theater with artist and classical rocker Annie Haslam) If you're attending the Bethlehem Musikfest on August 10, please stop by the Lyric Platz stage at 5 PM for Jann Klose's set. Jann, who has scheduled a full show at the Sellersville Theater this September, is a local favorite and was asked by the Philadelphia Songwriter's Project to be part of its program at Musikfest. ...

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Saxophonist Daniel Bennett Releases Second "Bear Installment"

Source: Bennett Alliance
August 2, 2008

"For some reason, Bennett has a thing for bears: he's following up last year's A Nation of Bears on his own Bennett Alliance label with the July release of The Legend of Bear Thompson- both of them part of a projected 'Bear Trilogy.'" Jon Garelick (Boston Phoenix) Boston Saxophonist Daniel Bennett has been busy these days. His quartet has been traveling all year, performing with Charlie Hunter, Bill Martin (MMW), Jerry Bergonzi, and David Fiuczynski (to name a few). Somewhere ...

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Ogogo/Linden CD is in Stores

Source: All About Jazz
August 2, 2008

Album of the music by Igor based on the paintings of Ron Linden.

Igor is one of the most diverse musician/composer in modern music.

Looking at the interrelationship of Classical Avant-Garde and Jazz, or Experimental Rock music, or improvising live with Japanese Sitar(!) player Riko Tanaka, Igor methodically explored borders of musical styles and interconnections of various art forms.

In OGOGO-Linden album, Igor creates musical impressions of Ron Linden's paintings preserving the original titles of the works(Mussorgsky's Pictures At The ...

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Final e.s.t. Album "Leucocyte" in Shops September 1

Source: All About Jazz
August 1, 2008

Right after the untimely passing of Esbjörn Svensson his band colleagues Magnus Öström and Dan Berglund had decided to stop the release of the already finished album Leucocyte.

Now this final e.s.t. album will get released worldwide on September 01, 2008 in its original and unchanged version - as it has been previously approved by the band and delivered to the record companies before Esbjörn Svenssons passing. It will now become the legacy of Esbjörn Svensson and shows the band ...

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David Archuleta's First Single, Crush!

Source: Michael Ricci
August 1, 2008

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Xeric Winner "Jazz: Cool Birth" Based on '50s Album Cover Design

Source: All About Jazz
August 1, 2008

Through study of album covers, television program title artwork, and common illustrations used in everything from health booklets to instruction manuals from the 1950s, author/designer Gary Scott Beatty created recent Xeric Foundation grant winner “Jazz: Cool Birth," a jazz club murder mystery. The comic will appear in September's Previews preorder magazine under Aazurn Publishing. “I hope to pull readers into the late night clubs of 1957, feeling the music through the visuals," Beatty explained. Ignoring paint and ink magazine illustration, ...

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