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Recording

Swiss Prog Ensemble Zenit Release Highly Anticipated Third Album "The Chandrasekhar Limit"

Source: Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
February 21, 2013

Switzerland - One of the most respected progressive rock bands ever to emerge from Switzerland, Zenit, have released their third album 'The Chandrasekhar Limit' on Galileo Records on January 28, 2013. Possibly the most ambitious release of 2013, right from the beginning of Zenit's new 69-minute masterpiece, Andy Thommen (formerly Clepsydra), affixes a seal with his distinctive bass playing on the first song (“Awaken”). Later, with the start of the guitar, you will somewhat be reminded of the Clepsydra sound: ...

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Music Industry

ShowGo.tv Launches at SFMusic Tech Summit

Source: All About Jazz
February 21, 2013

SFMusic Tech Fund, Media Execs Lead Investment Advisory Board Includes XM Founder/CEO Hugh Panero, Former Napster COO Milt Olin, Legendary Artist Manager Ron Stone San Francisco, CA: ShowGo.tv, the leader in delivering live music experiences from clubs around the world, today launches its global concert streaming service. Founded by a group of cable, music and streaming media veterans, the pioneering live streaming concert service provides a turnkey, production and distribution solution to iconic clubs around the world. “We spent 2012 ...

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Radio

The Memories Of Danny Barker This Week On Riverwalk Jazz

Source: Don Mopsick
February 21, 2013

This week's Riverwalk Jazz features interviews with New Orleans jazz pioneer Danny Barker. The Smithsonian Institution opened the vaults of the Archives Center at the National Museum of American History so that we could present Danny Barker’s authentic New Orleans vernacular as he recollects life in the Crescent City in the early 1900s. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM satellite radio and can be streamed on-demand from the Riverwalk Jazz website. You can ...

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Recording

All-Star Session By Bassist/Composer Robert Hurst, "BoB: A Palindrome," Due For March 12 Release

Source: Terri Hinte Publicity
February 21, 2013

Bassist Robert Hurst is an M.V.P.—a long-standing member of Diana Krall’s and Chris Botti’s touring bands, an esteemed colleague of jazz stars like Branford Marsalis and Robert Glasper, and most recently a key player on Sir Paul McCartney’s Grammy-winning Kisses on the Bottom. But Hurst’s own recordings, with his compositions and his bands front and center, are especially welcome events in the jazz world. On March 12, BoB: A Palindrome, an all-star Hurst date and the fourth release on his ...

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Education

Jazz Guitarist Matt Warnock Joins University Of Chester Staff

Source: Matthew Warnock
February 21, 2013

A globally recognized jazz guitarist, who has taught and played throughout the US, UK, Canada and Brazil, has joined the University of Chester’s Performing Arts Department. Dr Matt Warnock, who is known to hundreds of thousands of guitarists via his teaching website mattwarnockguitar.com, has been appointed as a Lecturer in Popular Music Studies at the University of Chester. He will be teaching in the various modules of the undergraduate degree, working particularly with ensembles and guitar students. Dr Warnock said: ...

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Recording

Albert King's Late '60s "Born Under A Bad Sign" To Be Reissued On Stax Records

Source: conqueroo
February 21, 2013

Release teems with King’s best-known songs: “Born Under a Bad Sign,” “Crosscut Saw,” “Oh, Pretty Woman” and “Laundromat Blues.” Steve Cropper, Booker T. & the MGs, the Memphis Horns and Stax’s songwriters help make it an all-time blues classic. LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Any list of seminal 1960s electric blues albums is incomplete without Albert King’s Born Under a Bad Sign positioned near the top. The Indianola, Mississippi-born “King of the Blues Guitar,” who cut his professional teeth as a ...

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Recording

Jaga Jazzist to Release "Jaga Jazzist Live With the Britten Sinfonia" on May 6

Source: All About Jazz
February 21, 2013

Those unlucky enough to miss Jaga Jazzist in performance with the UK's Britten Sinfonia in either London, at The Barbican, last summer or Oslo, at Rockefeller, last fall—the final show of Conexions,a series curated by Fiona Talkington, host of the terrific BBC Radio 3 show Late Junction, amongst many other things, and reviewed at All About Jazz here—will be happy to hear that the progressive Norwegian group will be releasing the Oslo show on May 6, 2013 as Jaga Jazzist ...

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Festival

Bassist Marcus Miller Joins August 3 Line-up At 2013 Newport Jazz Festival

Source: Carolyn McClair Public Relations
February 21, 2013

BASSIST MARCUS MILLER JOINS AUGUST 3 LINE-UP AT 2013 NEWPORT JAZZ FESTIVAL NEWPORT, RI: Marcus Miller, the stellar composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist best known as a bassist, has been added to the Saturday, August 3, line-up of the Newport Jazz Festival® presented by Natixis Global Asset Management, which takes place August 2 - 4 at the International Tennis Hall of Fame and Fort Adams State Park. Miller, who by the age of 15 was already playing bass and writing songs ...

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