Jazz News

Dee Alexander MCA Tuesdays on the Terrace

Source: All About Jazz
August 1, 2008

Tuesdays on the Terrace presents another inspiring season of free evening jazz concerts on the MCA's Terrace and Sculpture Garden. Hosted by local radio personalities, visitors are invited to enjoy cocktails, Puck's Express snacks, or a dinner buffet from Puck's Cafe while listening to Chicago's finest jazz musicians. Dinner reservations at Puck's are recommended, call 312.397.4034. In case of rain, the event takes place in Puck's. Tuesdays on the Terrace: Dee Alexander Tuesday, August 19 5:30 ...

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Mark Soskin at the Kitano Hotel

Source: All About Jazz
August 1, 2008

The Mark Soskin Quartet Featuring:

Mark Soskin- Piano Jay Anderson- Bass Victor Lewis- Drums Steve Wilson-Alto Sax

AT THE KITANO HOTEL 66 Park Avenue @38th Street Friday, August 22nd and Saturday, August 23rd 2 SETS 8:00 PM, 10:00 PM $25 cover $15 minimum

CALL 212-885-7119 FOR RESERVATIONS, kitano.com

“Soskin's touch is authoritative, crisp and relentlessly creative" --All About Jazz

New CD One Hopeful Day ...

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Hollywood Shows Musicians the Money

Source: All About Jazz
August 1, 2008

TV, Film offers artists financial refuge

DEVELOPING alternative revenue streams first is no longer a case of putting the cart before the horse for recording artists, especially the independent acts who are finding that placements in television and film provide a bit of financial freedom. Obviously visual media provide immediate paydays, and the return on investment for an artist, especially one working outside the major label system, can easily quantify the impact of a song placement. “Double, triple," guesses Nashville-based ...

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Jazzmen to Congress: Save Net Radio

Source: All About Jazz
August 1, 2008

S.O.J. (Save Our Jazz) Copyright New Royalties Laws Bankrupt Webcasters

It's no secret that internet radio offers a lot more variety than you can find on AM, FM, or even satellite radio, so it should come as no surprise that members of the jazz community eager to see the webcasters who play their stuff thrive have sent a letter asking Congress to support H.R. 2060, the Internet Radio Equality Act, which would vacate the Copyright Royalty Board's new royalty rates ...

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Creativity Explored Mapping Jazz Musicians' Brains

Source: All About Jazz
August 1, 2008

Ever wondered what happens inside jazz musicians' (or any musicians') heads when their eyes get glazed, and they begin to lose themselves in the music they're improvising?

A team of researchers studying the creative process now have a partial answer to that question. Using a group of trained jazz musicians who were also patient enough to agree to practice their art inside an functioning MRI machine, they've watched exactly what happens inside the brain when an artist begins to improvise. ...

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Technologically Promiscuous American Youth Screw Viacom

Source: All About Jazz
August 1, 2008

How American Youth Will Screw Viacom

Here's the thing about the TV business: It's only as profitable or as valuable as the people who watch it. And if the only people who watch it are senior citizens strapped by debt, it's not worth much -- not to advertisers, anyway. When Viacom posted second-quarter results yesterday, the company admitted its TV business hit a snag. Global advertising sales grew just 2 percent, and U.S. ad sales only eked out 1 percent ...

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E-mail Henceforth Know as E-fail

Source: Michael Ricci
August 1, 2008

You've got too much e-mail!

There's a growing backlash against our growing in-boxes. A new crop of entrepreneurs has sprung up with antidotes -- some of which create more e-mail. It happened with cigarettes. It happened with red meat. And carbs. And SUVs.And now it's happening with e-mail. The preferred communication channel of millions of Americans is no longer cool. According to a growing number of academics, “technologists" and psychologists, our dependence on e-mail -- the need to attend to ...

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Instrumental Women Presents "Lady Jazz in the Key of Grand" at the Ford Amphitheatre

Source: All About Jazz
August 1, 2008

Hollywood, CA - The John Anson Ford Amphitheatre and Instrumental Women, La Quetta M. Shamblee, Founder and Executive Director; Phyllis Battle, Artistic Director and Co-Music Director; and Carol Chaikin, Co-Musical Director, present The Ninth Annual Lady Jazz Concert, “LADY JAZZ IN THE KEY OF GRAND," on Sunday, August 31, 2008 at 6:00 p.m. at the Ford Amphitheatre; 2580 Cahuenga Boulevard East; Los Angeles, CA 90068.

This year's honoree, pianist Karen Hernandez, weaves Latin and Blues riffs throughout the evening's jazz ...

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