Jazz News

Vijay Iyer Quartet Four Nights at the Jazz Standard

Source: All About Jazz
July 12, 2008

Vijay Iyer Quartet to perform for four nights at The Jazz Standard, July 31-August 3 Celebrating the release of Tragicomic on Sunnyside Records Award-winning pianist-composer Vijay Iyer brings his group to New York's premiere jazz club, The Jazz Standard, for four nights this summer: Thursday, July 31 through Sunday, August 3. These performances celebrate his widely praised new CD Tragicomic, released in April on Sunnyside Records.

He is joined by his longstanding trio/quartet, featured on “Tragicomic" and on 2005's remarkably ...

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Lennon 'Peace' Lyrics Sell For Nice Piece of Change

Source: All About Jazz
July 11, 2008

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An American Pastime: Smoking Pot

Source: All About Jazz
July 11, 2008

And You Thought It Was Baseball!

It's a matter of culture: the U.S. is home to a huge baby boomer population that came of age when experimenting with drugs was a part of the social fabric.

The Netherlands, with its permissive marijuana laws, may be known as the cannabis capital of the world. But a survey published this month in PLoS Medicine, a journal of the Public Library of Science, suggests that the Dutch don't actually experiment with pot as ...

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Customers Line up to Buy the New iPhone 3G

Source: Michael Ricci
July 11, 2008

iPhone You Phone Spencer Duclos, 16, a tourist from Reno: The iPhone is the end all and be all of all phones. You don't need anything else.

Many people with old iPhones who tried to download the new software have run into problems. The download is taking a long time, and then some are experiencing the phone freezing, allowing just emergency calls. This comes on the heels of a change inside the stores selling iPhones - people are ...

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UK Computer Chaos Hits iPhone Launch

Source: All About Jazz
July 11, 2008

Don't worry if you aren't getting an O2 iPhone - nobody else is either. Especially if they haven't sent their passport.

Well, the day dawns for the launch in the UK of the 3G iPhone, and the people who decided not to queue are getting about as many iPhones as the ones who did. A quick sample from the Twitterverse: Rory Cellan-Jones, the BBC's ubiquitous technology/industrial correspondent, decided at about 9.50 am that “Can't believe queues at o2 and cpw ...

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Cecil Taylor Jazz Advance CD Release

Source: All About Jazz
July 11, 2008

Review Cecil Taylor Jazz Advance

Today, most listeners think of Cecil Taylor as an awesome enigma. After all, it was more than 40 years ago that the American pianist started playing music in which it was tough to discern a tune unless you had a brain that could slow down a red-hot rush of notes to a stroll. But Taylor was a postbopper, and a fan of Thelonius Monk, Bud Powell and Duke Ellington once - and, on ...

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NY Times Reviews Recent Jazz Concerts

Source: Michael Ricci
July 11, 2008

Full reviews of recent jazz concerts BILLY BANG SEXTET (Sunday) As a violinist and composer, Mr. Bang favors astringency and formal tension, qualities that come naturally to the musicians in this sextet. For an outdoor concert organized by Jazz at Lincoln Center at the Museum of Modern Art, however, Mr. Bang and his ensemble will perform the premiere of a reflective composition called “Prayer for Peace"; it is part of Summergarden 2008: New Music for New York. At 8 p.m., ...

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Serendipitous: Willie Nelson Performs with Wynton Marsalis

Source: Michael Ricci
July 11, 2008

JAZZ REVIEW Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra at the Hollywood Bowl

The performers, with guest Willie Nelson, displayed their versatility with a show that covered the range of American music.

Wynton Marsalis describes the big jazz band as “the American orchestra." It's an intriguing and, in many ways, definitive identification of the instrumental collective that has been a foundation ensemble of American jazz and popular music for more than 80 years. Like the classical orchestra, ...

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