Jazz News

NY Times Praises 'In the Heights' and 'Passing Strange' OCRs: "Wildly Exhilarating"

Source: Seth Cohen PR
June 30, 2008

"A Surge of Oxygen" - NY TIMES Praises OCRs for 'In The Heights' and 'Passing Strange' - “Wildly Exhilarating" “A surge of oxygen pours through the original cast albums of “In the Heights" and “Passing Strange," two musicals that have shown Broadway how to revitalize a somnolent form this season" Ghostlight Records continues to garner significant coverage for its trailblazing Original Cast Recordings for 'In The Heights' and 'Passing Strange'. In a cover story in Friday's Weekend Arts section of ...

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Classical Music Online: Salonen, Sellars and Mozart

Source: Michael Ricci
June 30, 2008

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Esa-Pekka Salonen turns 50 today, and the Swedes stepped in with a wacky birthday tribute.

A concert honoring the L.A. Philharmonic music director and a shocking interpretation of 'Zaide' show the Internet's potential as a window to a wider world.

I do not unconditionally celebrate the Internet, particularly its intrusion into classical music. As replacements for the record store, Amazon and iTunes have become necessary evils. Typical commercial downloads are sonic shadows of the superior sound of CDs. ...

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The Marimba Makes Itself Heard

Source: Michael Ricci
June 30, 2008

The Marimba, Rich and Warm, Makes Itself Heard

Nancy Zeltsman, who has been playing the marimba since the 1970s and in 2001 founded the Zeltsman Marimba Festival.

“THE marimba is coming of age right now, and you can't throw a dead cat without hitting a marimba concert.They are now beautiful-sounding, resonant, warm, rich things, There was a time 25 years ago when the marimba and the xylophone were different but not that different. Both had a kind of brittle sound. ...

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Red Online Tunes Service Africa

Source: Michael Ricci
June 30, 2008

The Still Unnamed Online Tunes will Give Service to Africa

The music business is known for supporting causes with events like the Live Aid and Live Earth concerts, which generate lots of money and publicity for a relatively short time. But on Monday (RED), a nonprofit organization that arranges for companies to contribute a share of profits on certain products to fight AIDS in Africa, is starting a digital music service for that purpose, and it plans to operate for ...

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Vocalizing Wall-E to R2-D2.....Too!

Source: Michael Ricci
June 30, 2008

Ben Burtt: The man behind R2-D2 and Wall-E's beeps

AUDIO PUPPETEER: We wanted to have this illusion that the voices for Wall-E and Eve and the other characters are part of their function, (sound designer Ben Burtt says of Pixar's Wall-E.)

Burtt speaks the characters' language. In fact, he's created a galaxy of unusual noises in his 30-year career: the crack of Indy's whip, Chewbacca's yowl, the lightsaber hum. IT'S A RISKY MOVE by anyone's standards. Pixar's delightfully ...

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Caramoor - Jazz Festival

Source: Cohn Dutcher Associates
June 30, 2008

The 2008 Caramoor International Music Festival, hailed by The New York Times as “... the loveliest Festival of them all," presents a weekend of jazz on August 1, 2 and 3. The legendary pianist Ahmad Jamal and his Trio were chosen by Jim Luce, Caramoor's jazz producer, to open Caramoor's fifteenth annual Jazz Festival. Other highlights include performances by Festival headliner Wynton Marsalis, Mulgrew Miller's Wingspan, Jimmy Heath Big Band, and pianists Aaron Diehl and Adam Birnbaum. The Festival's emphasis ...

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Jazz Museum Trumpets Its Budget Achievement

Source: All About Jazz
June 30, 2008

It's an accomplishment that the head of the American Jazz Museum enjoys talking about. On July 1, Gregory Carroll, executive director of the museum, will have been on the job for exactly one year. At a recent meeting of the museum's board, Carroll provided a bit of positive news. For the fiscal year that just wrapped up, the museum, which receives a subsidy from the city, actually made a small profit. And that's amazing, considering the economy. Shortly after Carroll ...

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Tiedye Black's "Thursdays at TDK's" World-Class SF Bay Area Musicians

Source: Creativity in Music
June 30, 2008

Release Dynamic Acoustic Jazz and Jam Band CD From a circle of his San Francisco Bay Area friends, TIEDYE KEITH RECORDS is excited to announce their latest CD; TIEDYE BLACK's Thursdays at TDK's - a co-production between TIEDYE Keith and Vernon Ice BLACK - a collection of toe tappers and finger snappers in a traditional jazz quartet style that will also appeal to jam band and jazz fusion enthusiasts. The CD is slated for a July 1st, 2008 release with ...

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