Jazz News

Swampdawamp Release 2.0-Another Big Helping of Southern Rock and Blues

Source: All About Jazz
July 8, 2008

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Phil Christie's Rearview Mirror CD Available on Amazon

Source: All About Jazz
July 8, 2008

The last song Phil Christie wrote for his new CD became its title and is the one that most defined it. Rearview Mirror with its images of “looking back and reflecting on love lost, love won, dreams unfulfilled and those dreams that may still yet come true" are a unifying thread throughout the recording's ten tracks. The songs' rich tones and storylines are enhanced by Doug Lancio's (Patty Griffin, Gretchen Peters) atmospheric guitar style, Barry Walsh's (Gretchen Peters) piano work ...

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Apple's 3G iPhone Arrives 8am Friday

Source: All About Jazz
July 8, 2008

3G-Day Friday 8 AM Be There or Be Square!

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Live Nation Signs Nickelback

Source: All About Jazz
July 8, 2008

Nickelback Signs Up With Live Nation

Less than a week after its deal with Shakira was confirmed, the entertainment marketing company Live Nation has signed the Canadian rock band Nickelback to another long-term worldwide contract for recordings, touring, merchandise and other rights, the company announced. Nickelback, whose hits include “How You Remind Me" and “Photograph," has sold more than 26 million albums around the world, and its most recent CD, “All the Right Reasons" (Roadrunner), has been on the Billboard ...

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Google and Youtube Play Name-That-Room Game

Source: Michael Ricci
July 8, 2008

Conference rooms, printers, even bathrooms are given catchy monikers.

A popular pastime in Silicon Valley to show off its collective creativity: companies encouraging employees to name conference rooms, computer gear, even bathrooms. Nowhere is that more prevalent than at Internet giant Google Inc. Its office here pays homage to television shows and movies set in San Francisco, including “Charmed," “Suddenly Susan" and “X-Men." In Washington, Google holds meetings in rooms named after presidential haunts, including “The Situation Room," “The Oval" ...

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Beck's Modern Guilt Released

Source: Michael Ricci
July 8, 2008

Review Beck “Modern Guilt" (DGC Records)

There are many probable reasons Beck made “Modern Guilt," his concise yet deliberately cosmic collaboration with fellow shaggy pop auteur Danger Mouse. He's finishing up a long contract with his record label; he has two small kids and doesn't want to kill himself with a long, eclectic project; he's 38 and can't break dance anymore. But let's consider an artistic one: He and the producer also known as Brian Burton share a ...

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Pete Kameron L.A. Weekly Co-Founder Dies

Source: All About Jazz
July 8, 2008

Pete Kameron Co-founder of LA Weekly

Pete Kameron, 87, who helped found Track Records, the recording label of the British rock group the Who, and later co-founded LA Weekly, died June 29 at his home in Beverly Hills. The cause was cancer, according to Michael Sigman, a friend and former LA Weekly publisher. Kameron was a personal manager for a variety of popular musicians in the 1950s and '60s, including the Modern Jazz Quartet and folk group the Weavers. He ...

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UK Jazz Fans Rush to Pre-Order the Passion Debut Album Before Stocks Run Out

Source: All About Jazz
July 8, 2008

The limited release of the debut album by UK supergroup The Passion has got British jazz fans racing to Amazon to pre-order there copy before they all sell out. The group that comprises Jacqui Dankworth, Liane Carroll and Sara Colman have been together for almost ten years, but announced that with the debut album “One Good Reason" finally getting an official release that the band were breaking up to follow their own solo careers. The album, originally recorded in 2002 ...

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