Jazz News

Cuneiform Artists on Tour - August, 2008

Source: All About Jazz
August 1, 2008

Considering the summer is traditionally NOT a good time to be touring/playing out, except for major artists hitting the 'sheds, we've got a lot of bands out there bringing the music to the people. And you can see who some of our new artists who will be releasing albums in 2009 will be! AHLEUCHATISTAS September 9 - The Grey Eagle - Asheville, North Carolina September 13 - Black Cat - Boone, North Carolina November 14 - Sinister Noise ...

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August Jazz at Charlie O'S

Source: All About Jazz
August 1, 2008

Celebrating Eight Years of Presenting Live Jazz

This August is Charlie O's eighth anniversary of presenting the best in live straight ahead jazz in the Los Angeles area and we want to thank all of you - musicians and fans alike - who make this all possible! Our thanks go to our wonderful staff as well. We'll be celebrating all month long with great guest artists, outstanding big bands, hot Latin jazz, a CD Release Party and two birthday parties. ...

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Dispatches from the End of the Jazz Wars

Source: All About Jazz
August 1, 2008

By Darcy James Argue We've heard it all before: Classical music is dead. Punk is dead. Hip hop is dead. Jazz is dead. Whatever the musical genre, you can be sure that someone somewhere is saying it's dead. Apparently, musical death is, like death in superhero comics, both ubiquitous and impermanent. That's not to say that a marginal art form like jazz doesn't face special challenges in this brave new post-music-industry era. Online sales of classical music have been surprisingly ...

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210 New Additions to AAJ Upcoming Jazz Release Center

Source: All About Jazz
August 1, 2008

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Seattle Earshot Festival Announces 20th Anniversary Lineup

Source: All About Jazz
August 1, 2008

Seattle's 20th annual Earshot Jazz Festival will present more than 50 events in concert halls, clubs and community centers throughout the city beginning Oct. 17 and continuing through Nov. 8.

The Earshot Festival brings artists from around the world into creative collaboration with area audiences and Seattle's finest jazz musicians to celebrate Seattle's place in the jazz world. Featured events include James Moody and the Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra in a 4-day residency of oral history interviews, educational programs and ...

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Hank Jones and Gerald Wilson at the Hollywood Bowl

Source: Michael Ricci
August 1, 2008

At the Bowl, these greats, each reaching the 90-year mark, show how it's done.

Jazz pianist Hank Jones and composer-arranger Gerald Wilson will celebrate their 90th birthdays over the next two months, but their performance at the Hollywood Bowl Wednesday night was full of youthful vibrancy, the pair demonstrating the skillful mastery that comes from seven decades spent perfecting their art. The most compelling aspects of the evening were the ways in which the music reflected their individual personas. Jones ...

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Head of Hollywood Crews Union is Expected to Resign

Source: Michael Ricci
August 1, 2008

Thomas Short was credited with building up the IATSE, but some called him too cozy with the studios.

Thomas C. Short, the controversial head of the union representing Hollywood's film and TV crews who unified the industry's blue-collar workforce but was sharply criticized by some for being too friendly with the studios, is expected to resign as early as today. The son of a Cleveland union leader, Short has served as president of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees ...

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Concert-Tour Data Finds a Home Online

Source: All About Jazz
August 1, 2008

Tour Tracker taking on Pollstar's dominance

Online concert databases, once the singular domain of trade publication Pollstar, are getting some competition as AOL starts tracking tours and Live Nation ramps up its Web- based information efforts. AOL Music unveiled Tour Tracker on July 24, a free Web service that lists acts, venues and concert dates. While Pollstar offers global listings and Live Nation is assembling a similar database as it goes into the ticketing business next year, AOL is positioning ...

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