Jazz News

EMI in New Hands

Source: Michael Ricci
June 16, 2008

EMI's New Boss Sees Cracks in Music World

Guy Hands, the chief of the private equity firm Terra Firma is seeking to make a success of the British recording company EMI, which has distributed the work of artists like the Beatles.

One evening last autumn a group of about 10 artist managers, including representatives for the pop stars Kylie Minogue and Robbie Williams as well as an executive who oversees the Beatles catalog, clustered around a table in an executive ...

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The Famous Paulie Performs Yesterday

Source: Michael Ricci
June 16, 2008

Paul McCartney Former Wings Former Beatle Back In The Former U.S.S.R. Formerlly Performing Yesterday Yesterday

FATHERS DAY Hey Daddy! Are you Paul McCartney? His young inquizitive daughter was known to ask. KIEV, Ukraine -- Tens of thousands of people braved heavy rain and thunder Saturday night to see Paul McCartney perform a charity concert on Kiev's central Independence Square. The outdoor show, the first in Ukraine for the ex-Beatle, was billed as the biggest concert ever ...

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Vibist Ed Saindon at the Berklee Percussion Festival

Source: World Improvised Music
June 16, 2008

Ed Saindon will be teaching at the Berklee Percussion Festival in Boston, Massachusetts from June 23rd to the 27th. The curriculum will include clinics, concerts, classes and ensembles for mallet players, drummers and percussionists. As part of Percussion Week, Saindon will be performing music from his latest recording Depth of Emotion along with Matt Marvuglio-flute, Bruno Raberg-bass, and Mark Walker-drums on Tuesday, June 24th on the Berklee campus in the David Friend Recital Hall from 7-8. Video clips of a ...

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Preservation Hall's Ben Jaffe "Jolts Jazz Tradition"

Source: All About Jazz
June 16, 2008

Preservation Hall creative director Ben Jaffe is praised in the June issue of SPIN Magazine for breathing new life into the New Orleans institution. The son of Pres Hall founders Allan and Sandra Jaffe is “No fusty embalmer," says SPIN, adding “the younger Jaffe jolts jazz tradition by inviting unlikely musicians such as Sun Ra sideman Carl LeBlanc and spiky-haired punk crooner Clint Maedgen to play." Need further proof? Jaffe recently curated the 5th annual “Midnight Preserves" concert series which ...

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Humphrey Lyttelton - They called him Humph

Source: All About Jazz
June 16, 2008

This weekend saw a BBC tribute to Humphrey Lyttelton, jazz trumpeter, band-leader and much-loved Radio 4 presenter who died in April. Pat Parker was privileged to conduct one of his final interviews, in which he spoke candidly about his life IT WAS just before Christmas last year that I interviewed the great Humphrey Lyttelton. He hadn't been terribly well but was as genial, gentlemanly and generous as always. The previous year, 2006, had brought sadness. His wife, Jill, whom he ...

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Drummer George Schuller Interviewed at AAJ

Source: All About Jazz
June 16, 2008

Throughout musical history, the influences of substantial artists, recorded works, or certain epochal periods, have their effect on contemporaries and ensuing generations.

For those that make music, it shows up in their playing or composing. Tracking those influences, whether well-known sources or those under the radar, is not as important as the end result of an individual's statement.

Forward-thinking artists can find inventive ways of incorporating influences into personal statements. That's what Brooklyn-based drummer George Schuller has done in his ...

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Black Earth Ensemble New Sci-Fi Inspired CD

Source: All About Jazz
June 16, 2008

Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Ensemble celebrates Sci-fi Inspired CD

New CD release, Xenogenesis Suite: A Tribute to Octavia Butler is followed with a Multi-Arts Performance and Exhibition. Featuring Margaret Morris (solo dance), Krista Franklin (visual art) and Floyd Webb (experimental video).

On Thursday, June 19 at 7:30pm at Columbia College's Music Hall (1014 S. Michigan), Nicole Mitchell and her Black Earth Ensemble will converge with like-minded artists Margaret Morris (choreographer/solo dance), Krista Franklin (visual art) and Floyd Webb (experimental video) ...

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Ray Vega Latin Jazz Quintet Perform at Louis Armstrong House Museum

Source: All About Jazz
June 16, 2008

Ray Vega Latin Jazz Quintet to Perform July 8 at Free Jazzmobile Concert at Louis Armstrong House Museum

Louis Armstrong was famous for practicing trumpet on his balcony to the delight of his neighbors in the decidedly working-class neighborhood of Corona, Queens. Continuing the tradition, the Louis Armstrong House Museum is pleased to present Ray Vega and his Latin Jazz Quintet on Tuesday, July 8 for the seventh edition of Jazzmobile at LAHM. Organized for the benefit of our neighbors ...

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