Jazz News

Live Music Thrives as CDs Fade

Source: Michael Ricci
June 25, 2008

THE MEDIA EQUATION

A little over a week ago, Patterson Hood, a guitarist and singer in the Drive-By Truckers, stood in front of a sleepy but amped noon crowd at Bonnaroo, the music festival in Manchester, Tenn., explaining profanely that it was time to, um, wake up. As he kicked into “The Righteous Path," a song from the group's new-ish record “Brighter Than Creation's Dark," it was if the space in front of him was filled with sunburned bobble- heads, ...

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For One Night a Feeling of Caramoor on the Seine

Source: Michael Ricci
June 25, 2008

George Gershwin, of course, celebrated the allure of Paris.

KATONAH, N.Y. -- Almost as soon as American music was weaned of its early dependency on German models it developed an adolescent crush on France. The relationship was consummated by the influential pedagogue Nadia Boulanger and her distinguished line of American students, chief among them Aaron Copland. Alisa Weilerstein performed with the Orchestra of St. Luke's at the Caramoor International Music Festival in Katonah, N.Y. Ms. Weilerstein had been in Caramoor's ...

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Six Concerts from 2007 Rochester International Jazz Festival to Air This Summer on PBS Stations Nationwide

Source: Dalmath Associates Inc.
June 25, 2008

See and hear more exciting scenes and sounds from the Rochester International Jazz Festival on PBS stations around the nation. WXXI Public Broadcasting (wxxi.org) in Rochester, NY will present season two of the Festival capturing the essence of the 2007 nine-day music festival with spectacular performances by some of today's hottest musicians and legendary names in jazz. The entire series will air on PBS HD across the country (including WXXI-HD DT21.1/cable 1011) in July and run through August. Shot in ...

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Carlin a Fine Troublemaker

Source: Michael Ricci
June 24, 2008

George Carlin Tested Limits of Speech and Society.

The comedian liked to cause a fuss with his observations -- and we liked him for it.

It was always comforting to know that George Carlin was out there making trouble. Like Richard Pryor, he straddled the great cultural divide that was the 1960s, coming in as a lamb and going out as a lion. I remember him first as another of that age's suit-and-tie comics, putting on funny characters: the Hippy-Dippy ...

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Listen Here to Hucknall "Tribute to Bobby" (Blue Bland)

Source: 1888 Media
June 24, 2008

Early press raves are in for Mick Hucknall's TRIBUTE TO BOBBY: “Hucknall's covers have a fabulously fresh perspective." --Seattle PI “In 'Tribute to Bobby,' Bland's music blooms fresh in Hucknall's knowing hands." --SF Chronicle “Tribute to Bobby" isn't some clich blues or soul salute, but instead a modern pop album that draws effortlessly from all those sources." --NY Daily News

One of the most distinctive vocalists in Britain tips his hat to one of the greatest from the American South ...

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Jeff Coffin & Charlie Peacock: Arc of the Circle (Runway Records)

Source: Powderfinger Promotions
June 24, 2008

The most impressive part about this album is that it was recorded all in one sitting at Charlie's house in Nashville (a church built in 1912.) Oh yeah, and it was the first time that Charlie Peacock and Jeff Coffin had ever played together. The entire recording was improvised and the orchestrations and other players were added after they recorded their session together. It pretty much goes without saying, but when music greats such as Jeff Coffin and Charlie Peacock ...

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Marc Rossi Releases New Album: Hidden Mandala (Gravity Records)

Source: Powderfinger Promotions
June 24, 2008

"Marc Rossi is one of the dynamic few whose musical and cultural awareness travels exponentially in many different directions, expanding his personal universe." -- Fred Bouchard, DownBeat “Rossi has never been someone of one-dimensional interests. The list of both jazz and classical compositions he has written is long and impressive." -- David Wildman, Boston Globe Marc Rossi Group's latest release, Hidden Mandala, treats listeners to a hybrid of the South Indian and Jazz genres that is both refreshing and intriguing. ...

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Rochester International Jazz Festival Wraps up Seventh Edition with Nine Magnificent Days of Music!

Source: Dalmath Associates Inc.
June 24, 2008

The Rochester International Jazz Festival's (RIJF) 7th edition delivered another spectacular lineup of music, and set another attendance record drawing more than 125,000 music lovers to downtown Rochester's Jazz Street to hear some of the finest musicians from all over the world to perform. “What was happening here for nine days was pure magic," said John Nugent, Producer and Artistic Director. “I looked around and saw how happy people were, how much they loved the music and how happy the ...

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