Jazz News

Eagles Long Road Out of Eden Tour

Source: All About Jazz
May 13, 2008

Eagles Long Road Out of Eden Tour

Rock and Roll Hall of Famers, the Eagles, will return this summer for their “Long Road Out of Eden" World Tour. With five number one singles and four number one albums, the Eagles were among the most successful recording artists of the 1970s; at the end of the 20th century, two of those albums, Their Greatest Hits (1971-1975) and Hotel California, ranked among the ten best-selling albums ever, according to the ...

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Wynton Marsalis Plays the Hollywood Bowl

Source: All About Jazz
May 13, 2008

Jazz AT The Bowl (JZ1)

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchastra with Wynton Marsalis and Special Guest Natalie Cole. Hollywood Bowl July 9th.

The New Orleans trumpet king and his ultra-swinging jazz orchestra will delight with foot stompin' standards, Ellington-inspired arrangements and rousing improvisations. It's jazz at its finest. Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra

The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (JLCO), comprising 15 of the finest jazz soloists and ensemble players today, has been the Jazz at Lincoln Center resident orchestra ...

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Julio Santillan Trio at Babouche - May 25

Source: All About Jazz
May 13, 2008

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DeeAnne Gorman Jazz Duo Appears in Peter Chelnik's "East Coast Jazz Poetry Explosion"

Source: All About Jazz
May 13, 2008

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David Sanchez "Cultural Survival" Released Next Week

Source: On Target Media Group
May 13, 2008

The new culturally inspired album from from 4-time Grammy Award winning Jazz sax master David Sanchez is now in stores.

Released next week (5.20.08) on Concord Picante, the album draws heavily on classic Jazz influences such as Miles Davis & John Coltrane, while fused with David's own distinct variety of Afro-Caribbean and Latin influences.

Cultural Survival features 8 straight ahead jazz tracks that showcase a new direction for Sanchez as he debuts a piano-less quartet on all but three of ...

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Jazz Animation

Source: All About Jazz
May 13, 2008

Early Pixar

I caught a presentation by Pixar director Gary Rydstrom at the Chicago Film Festival. Rydstrom was giving the first public screening of his new short Lifted, and he opened the show with 4 early Pixar shorts: Luxo Jr., Red's Dream, Knick Knack and Tin Toy (all of which were sound designed by Rydstrom). These films were all new to me, and I was surprised to discover that the first two films, Luxo Jr. and Red's Dream, feature jazz ...

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Bebop's Effect on Graphic Arts

Source: All About Jazz
May 13, 2008

UPA, Bebop, and other Degradations

I read on Cartoon Brew today that a debate of sorts has erupted online about the artistic merits of the animation studio UPA and the studio's contribution to the art form. Blogs point to where many reveal a misunderstanding of innovation and tradition in the arts in general. In particular, I was amused by a comment by animation theorist: I blame bebop which exerted a bad influence even on graphic art on and which wasn't ...

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Trailblazers Selling a Romantic Kind of Love

Source: Michael Ricci
May 13, 2008

Has any pop song evoked a generation's romantic self-infatuation more hauntingly than Joni Mitchell's “Woodstock"?

Sheila Weller, in her book Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon -- and the Journey of a Generation (Atria Books), which weaves the biographies of these singer-songwriters into a post-feminist history, writes: “It was the first line of the chorus -- 'We are stardust, we are golden' “ -- that “conveyed the impression of hundreds of thousands of people speaking as one." ...

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