Jazz News

Bruce Springsteen Limited Edition Book

Source: All About Jazz
June 22, 2008

Through the years, I've read almost every book written about Springsteen. Some are great and many are not. Over time, I've even become cynical when I hear about new books. In the last few years, there have been a plethora of coffee table book releases in the Springsteen world. Each one in itself is a gorgeous work of art that will glisten on your polished coffee table. However, chances are you are still missing the ultimate Bruce Springsteen keepsake; For ...

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Sten Hostfalt & Blaise Siwula at Yippie Cafe

Source: All About Jazz
June 22, 2008

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Oscar's Change Original Song Rules

Source: All About Jazz
June 21, 2008

The Academy Awards Alters Requirements for the Original Song Category.

In an effort to prevent a single musical from monopolizing the Original Song field at the Oscars, the Academy has changed the rules of the category. While movies can submit any number of songs they want, starting with the 2009 Oscars, only two songs can be nominated per film. The move comes after two consecutive years in which a musical received nods for three songs in the category, Enchanted in ...

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Lizz Wright and Raul Midon Double Billed at JVC

Source: Michael Ricci
June 21, 2008

Faith From the South, and a One-Man Band The New York Society for Ethical Culture

If I had to choose a single word to describe the mystique of the singer Lizz Wright, it would be steadfast.

Ms. Wright, who headlined a double bill with the equally talented singer-songwriter Raul Midon at the concert hall of the New York Society for Ethical Culture on Thursday evening, is a minister's daughter from a small town in rural Georgia. Her recent ...

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Karlheinz Stockhausen Memorial Concert at Holland Festival

Source: Michael Ricci
June 21, 2008

Karlheinz Stockhausen the late German visionary composer is given a rousing tribute.

AMSTERDAM -- The Holland Festival -- a complex array of music, opera and theater along with unclassifiable ultra-hip events that began May 31 and runs through Sunday -- has had several interlocking themes this year. One has been the music of the German visionary composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, who had a long association with Dutch music and this 61-year-old event. As part of celebrations planned for Stockhausen's 80th birthday ...

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Live Nation Rocks the Music Industry

Source: All About Jazz
June 21, 2008

Michael Rapino, CEO of the Clear Channel spinoff, may just have this whole file-sharing, iTunes-listening, MySpace-Internet-era music thing all figured out.

The music business may be in turmoil, but Rapino couldn't be happier. He is the CEO of Live Nation, a two-year-old spinoff of Clear Channel that generated $4.4 billion in revenue in the past 12 months by running concert tours - more than any other outfit in the world - and owns venues large and small, like the House ...

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Hollywood's Professional Drum Shop

Source: All About Jazz
June 21, 2008

The Professional Drum Shop was founded in 1959 by Bob Yeager with Chuck Molinari in an effort to provide the professional drummer with a place to get needed equipment repairs and shopping convenience.

Yeager had been repairing fellow drummers equipment on the road for years. With their encouragement and financial support, he decided the time was right to get off the road and open the “Shop".

Drawing on his years of playing experience with more than 200 different bands, and ...

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The Free and Easy Side of the Vancouver Jazz Fest

Source: All About Jazz
June 21, 2008

It would be hard to find a more devoted convert to the TD Canada Trust Vancouver International Jazz Festival than Ramona Boos, or anyone who goes to it for a better reason: she's into it because it's all about social music. Boos, 33, is an administrator for a condominium presale company and works downtown, so she would have been right in the middle of the jazz festival from the very beginning. She first went six years ago and immediately wondered, ...

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