Jazz News

Self-Absorption Making a Nation of Artists

Source: Michael Ricci
June 14, 2008

My Morning Jacket, Martha Wainwright benefit from oversharing Well-wrought self-absorption could be making us a nation of artists. Oversharing is the latest indulgence embraced by one generation and worrying another. Teens and twentysomethings raised by the Internet have no locks on their hearts and bedrooms. This drives baby boomers, who'd previously owned the market on narcissism, into a fitful frenzy. Kids dropping their own names instead of dropping acid? How wrong. One aspect of our national character might, ...

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Art Tatum Re-Performance at the Apollo Theater

Source: All About Jazz
June 14, 2008

Zenph Studios, a software company specializing in the re-creation of musical recordings using a proprietary blend of computerized and human analysis, announces a revolutionary new show featuring the artistry of legendary jazz pianist Art Tatum. Through Zenph's unique process, one of the jazz legend's most famous albums will be re-performed live onstage using high-resolution “SE" reproducing piano technology supplied by Live Performance, Inc. of Reno, Nevada. Premiering at the world-famous Apollo Theater on June 19, 20, and 22, this dramatic ...

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Bob Weinberg Joins Hot House Florida

Source: All About Jazz
June 14, 2008

Bob Weinberg is a veteran jazz and blues writer living in South Florida. For more than a dozen years, he was employed by the alternative weekly City Link, where he penned a jazz and blues column and other features. In addition to writing the Traditions column for Jazziz magazine and freelance arts pieces for the Sun-Sentinel, and contributing reviews and interviews to the Miami NPR affiliate WLRN-91.3 FM, Weinberg currently contributes artist previews and CD reviews to the Hot House ...

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Tim Russert Lion of Washington Press Corps

Source: Michael Ricci
June 14, 2008

Tim Russert, the longest-serving moderator of NBC's “Meet the Press" and the lion of the Washington press corps, died of a sudden heart attack Friday.

NBC's Tim Russert dies at 58, had an Irish gusto for politics leavened with civility. Russert had returned early from a family trip to Italy and was working at NBC's Washington bureau, recording voice-overs for Sunday's show, when he collapsed Friday afternoon. His wife, Maureen Orth, a writer for Vanity Fair, and their son, Luke, ...

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Danny Davis Founder of the Nashville Brass Dies

Source: All About Jazz
June 14, 2008

Founder of the Nashville Brass Danny Davis, 83, a bandleader and record producer who founded the Nashville Brass, died Thursday at a Nashville hospital after suffering a heart attack.

A resident of Nashville, Davis began his music career as a trumpeter, playing in the brass sections of bands led by Les Brown, Gene Krupa and others in the 1940s. Davis became a record producer for MGM in New York City, where he produced a number of hit singles ...

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Cape Verde's Tcheka to Play UC Davis Quad

Source: All About Jazz
June 14, 2008

The exotic musical legacy of Cape Verde will come to the UC Davis Quad in a free concert featuring Tcheka, the 23-year-old singer and guitarist who is bringing the batuque rhythm of his island home to the world by blending it with jazz, folk, funk, and more. The concert will be the first event of SummerMusic 2008, a series of free concerts on the Quad presented by the Robert and Margrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts and sponsored by ...

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Kate Schutt New Canadian Gig Dates!

Source: All About Jazz
June 14, 2008

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New York's JVC Jazz Fest Ready to Evolve

Source: Michael Ricci
June 14, 2008

A Venerable Jazz Festival Seems Ready to Evolve

The summer jazz festival season is upon us, and as usual, the JVC Jazz Festival New York will be the most visible. Under new management this year, the festival will feature concerts in new theaters and clubs and some curious and challenging double bills, like the pairing of Cecil Taylor and George Cables, pianists representing very different parts of the jazz spectrum. These are potentially exciting developments for a festival that has ...

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