Jazz News

Oscar Treadwell: Hot Tapes Help Cool Jazz Live On

Source: All About Jazz
June 8, 2008

If it weren't for Bruce Ellis' half-baked idea, legendary jazz DJ Oscar Treadwell's radio show wouldn't be heard on WVXU-FM (91.7) two years after his death. Ellis, Cincinnati Public Radio production director, has saved the audio from Treadwell's crumbling 1970s and '80s reel-to-reel tape recordings by baking them in his Fort Thomas oven. “When audiotape gets old, the oxide coating - which holds the recording - literally shreds off the tape," says Ellis, 52, at WGUC-FM for 26 years. “I ...

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22nd Annual Hot Atlantic Jazz: July 11-19

Source: All About Jazz
June 8, 2008

22nd festival features our own Holly Cole and sounds from around the globe from July 11-19 ROM COOL JAZZ vocalists like Holly Cole and bebop legend Sheila Jordan to hot Arabic sounds from across the globe, the 2008 Atlantic Jazz Festival has a varied, international lineup for its 22nd year in Halifax, July 11 to 19. Festival organizers officially announced this year's schedule at a media conference on Friday morning in the Halifax Holiday Inn Select's Commons Room, one of ...

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Book Now for Global Music Foundation and Cegin Productions Summer 2008 Jazz Series, Pizza on the Park London

Source: All About Jazz
June 8, 2008

There's still time to book seats for our Summer Jazz Series at Pizza on the Park, London (14, 21 and 28 June). Please come along and get the word out to all those who might be interested. Global Music Foundation and Cegin Productions present Summer Jazz Series 2008 Pizza on the Park London Three great double bills on Saturday nights in June featuring some of Europe's finest Jazz and World Music singers & instrumentalists. June 14 ...

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Spenard Fest Tests Jazz Traditions

Source: All About Jazz
June 8, 2008

INAUGURAL: Day of adventurous music will highlight local talents. Forget Monterey's famous jazz festival by the sea. Next weekend, Spenard will lay claim to its own full day of jazz with homegrown tunes by seven bands over eight hours in a cozy little organic joint just blocks from the bike trail and not so far from the sea. With good luck and good vibes, Saturday's incipient Spenard Jazz Fest might hold the promise of many festivals to come. “This was ...

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The Police Announce Final Concert of Their Reunion Tour

Source: All About Jazz
June 8, 2008

The Police, in conjunction with New York public television stations Thirteen/WNET and WLIW21, have announced that after fourteen months of a record-breaking tour, their much anticipated final concert, will take place on Thursday, August 7, 2008, at Madison Square Garden, featuring special guests the B-52's. In a groundbreaking partnership, tickets to the concert will only be available through a pledge to Thirteen/WNET and/or WLIW21. The concert is expected to be the largest single fundraising event in the history of public ...

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'Wonderful Life' Boy Actor Dies at 75

Source: All About Jazz
June 8, 2008

Bob Anderson, who played the young George Bailey in the Christmas classic “It's a Wonderful Life," has died. He was 75. Anderson died Friday of cancer at his home in Palm Springs. Robert J. Anderson grew up in a Hollywood family. His father, Gene, was an assistant director and later a production manager. His uncles were directors William Beaudine and James Flood, and his brothers and cousins were editors and production managers. Anderson was introduced to films when ...

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Remembering Master Drummer Max Roach

Source: Michael Ricci
June 8, 2008

When Max Roach died last August at 83, he was remembered for a number of things: his stature as a patriarch of bebop; his role in quickening the pulse of jazz drumming; his intelligent ambitions as a conceptualist and composer; his commitment to social justice and equality. What was sometimes buried in the mix was Mr. Roach's track record as a bandleader, which began in earnest in the 1950s. But this weekend at Iridium, a handful of Mr. Roach's former ...

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Bill Finegan, Arranger and Big-Band Leader, Dies

Source: Michael Ricci
June 7, 2008

Bill Finegan, who arranged hits for Glenn Miller and Tommy Dorsey and then formed a big band with Eddie Sauter, another legendary arranger, that was famed for skill, daring and very, very odd instruments, died on Wednesday in Bridgeport, Conn. He was 91.

The cause was pneumonia, said his son, James.

Arrangers, the largely behind-the-scenes masterminds of the big-band era, took compositions by bandleaders and others and refashioned them. Mr. Finegan heavily arranged Miller's first big hit, “Little Brown Jug," ...

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