Jazz News

Gramex Sells Jazz and Classical LPS and CDs

Source: All About Jazz
May 5, 2008

ith the growth of recorded music, in 1906 an enterprising - and by all accounts highly eccentric! - collector and entrepreneur called George Russell opened the Gramophone Record Exchange at the Angel London. Since then the company has been based in New Oxford Street, Shaftesbury Avenue, Wardour Street, York Road and finally at its present home, Lower Marsh behind Waterloo Station. The name Gramex was adopted in 1982, when the shop dealt exclusively in used classical recordings. Today Gramex is ...

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Memorial Service for Legendary Jazz Producer Teo Macero, May 18 at NYU's Loewe Theatre

Source: All About Jazz
May 5, 2008

Teo Macero, the legendary jazz saxophonist, composer, and record producer who died on February 19, will be remembered at a memorial service on Sunday, May 18 at New York University's Frederick Loewe Theatre, 35 West 4th Street, from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. The memorial service is open to the public.

The NYU Jazz Orchestra will perform a selection of Macero's music with special guest soloists. Macero played an important role in helping to develop the NYU Jazz Program over ...

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New Home for Festival de Jazz de Montral

Source: All About Jazz
May 4, 2008

The Festival International de Jazz de Montreal will finally have a home!

The organizers of the Festival International de Jazz de Montreal are very happy to witness the realization of their grandest dream: a Maison du Festival de Jazz, featuring its own concert venue, will finally see the light of day, right in the heart of the Festival site and the new Quartier des spectacles. This project, a dream organizers have worked on for over a decade, promises benefits at ...

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Formula Set for Web Music Royalties

Source: All About Jazz
May 4, 2008

(AP)-A federal court on Wednesday established a formula for determining the Internet royalties owed to thousands of music composers, writers and publishers by three major online services -- Yahoo Inc., AOL and RealNetworks Inc. The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers hailed the decision, estimating the guidelines could yield as much as $100 million in payments covering a seven-year period ending in 2009. The trade group, known as ASCAP, had contended that its 320,000 members weren't being properly compensated ...

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Announcing the 4th Annual New Languages Festival June 12-14

Source: All About Jazz
May 4, 2008

The Fourth Annual New Languages Festival will take place from June 12th to 14th at the Living Theatre on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.

The generation of jazz musicians that grew up in the wake of neoclassicism has come into its own, and extraordinary things are afoot. Their voices are as diverse as the milieu they came up in, but together they confirm that jazz will continue to spawn new musical languages in the 21st century.

For the past ...

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Jojo Styles Renews His Love for Latin Instrumental Jazz on Two Releases

Source: All About Jazz
May 4, 2008

Oakland, CA - JoJo Styles got inspiration from living in the Bay Area during rock music's most pivotal and productive times, the 60s. JoJo had the opportunity to see Hendrix, Santana, Miles Davis, John McLaughlin, Chick Corea and other luminaries of the day at the festivals and concerts going on regularly at venues and parks. It was the most colorful and influential decade of music and anyone that was lucky enough to experience it all can attest to that fact. ...

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Saxophonist Daniel Bennett in Concert with Zyrah's Orange on May 31 in Boston, MA

Source: Bennett Alliance
May 4, 2008

The fifth installment of the Bennett Alliance Concert Series has arrived! On May 31, two well known Boston bands will play a double bill at the restored Cambridge Family YMCA Theatre (820 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA). Zyrah's Orange brings their groove flavored rock, and saxophonist Daniel Bennett will bring his minimalist trance quartet to the stage. The concert starts at 8pm and admission is just $10 ($7 with a student ID). “Avante-Folk" Saxophonist Daniel Bennett is most known for his ...

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Martin Taylor and Stuart Ryan in Bath

Source: All About Jazz
May 4, 2008

On Sunday May 4th Bath based promotion company One Night Only Promotions is hosting a concert with world famous Jazz guitarist Martin Taylor MBE. The event is being held at the prestigious Bath Pavilion and will be supported by award winning guitarist (and also columnist for Guitar Techniques Magazine) Stuart Ryan. This promises to be a fantastic evening of guitar music suitable to lovers of all genres, and by far the year's best opportunity to witness two world-class instrumentalists on ...

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