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News: Trends

10 Things Bands Can Do to Book More Live Shows

October 21, 2010

Looking to play more live shows? On our Music Think Tank blog, Chris Bracco gives 10 things you can do to get more gigs. Things such as creating a YouTube channel, making business cards, networking, and getting creative can help get your music out to the masses. A great way to get more gigs is to ...

News: Video / DVD

Video: The Making of Matt Jorgensen's "Tattooed by Passion"

October 21, 2010

Musicians Matt Jorgensen and Thomas Marriott and Denver art critic Michael Paglia talk about the making of Tattooed by Passion: music inspired by the paintings of Dale Chisman. Matt Jorgensen's group will perform at The Triple Door next Tuesday, October 26 at 7:30pm as part of the Earshot Jazz Festival. The group features Thomas Marriott (trumpet), ...

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News: Education

Concert Review - Pat Metheny at Binghamton University (2010)

October 21, 2010

By Mark Saleski Oh dear, I was this close to feeling disappointed. I loved the Orchestrion concept and music so much that tickets were procured and a trip was planned (across southern New Hampshire, Vermont, and all the way out past Albany to Binghamton, NY) to see what Pat Metheny would do with his creation in ...

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News: Recording

Sameer Gupta - Namaskar (2010)

October 21, 2010

By Pico One of the bigger regrets I've had with this site was missing the opportunity to review Rudresh Mahanthappa's Kinsmen when it was released two years ago, because this saxman of Indian descent did such a brilliant job in combining traditional Indian music with traditional jazz. Last week, the debut album by another Indian-American, the ...

News: Opinion

"Ellington on Art and Craft"

October 21, 2010

By Steve Provizer Duke Ellington said: “The wise players are those that play what they can master." Indeed, a highly controversial thing to say, especially in light of the radical shifts jazz has undergone in the last 60 or so years. Let's say it values the “craft" in jazz more heavily than the “art." Art versus ...

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News: Music Industry

CMJ 2010: The Straight Dope from Wednesday's Panels

October 21, 2010

It can sometimes be difficult to get good, concrete information at a conference. Most panelists, after all, have an interest in presenting themselves (and the companies they work for) a certain way, and CMJ is no exception; Gina Esposito, the director of music and talent at MTV, is happy to tell you that digital technology has ...

News: Book / Magazine

Book Review: Djibouti by Elmore Leonard

October 21, 2010

Djibouti by Elmore Leonard My rating: 4 of 5 stars Dara is a documentary film-maker based in New Orleans, after doing films on Hurricane Katrina and the war in Bosnia. When she turns her attention to the pirates hijacking ships off the coast of Africa she finds more than she bargained for. She and her partner ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Fifty-Second Street West (Cafe Borrone, Oct. 15, 2010)

October 20, 2010

Because of the wonderful photographs that Charles Peterson and others took, some of my readers will be able to visualize the bandstand at Jimmy Ryan's sixty-five years ago—crowded with hot musicians jamming on, say, BUGLE CALL RAG, with every luminary in New York City eagerly improvising at the peak of their powers. Now imagine that scene ...

News: Opinion

Correspondence, Illustrated: "Isfahan"

October 20, 2010

Rifftides reader Mike Paulson writes:Looked up this clip on YouTube after watching Scott Robinson play “Isfahan" with Martin Wind at The Seasons the other evening. I am amazed at how timeless this arrangement is. Hard to improve on perfection. Not sure why Duke had to hold the sheet music ...

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News: Obituary

Marion Brown

October 20, 2010

Alto saxophonist Marion Brown, who came to prominence in the 1960s and '70s, died yesterday at age 79. He had been in an assisted living home in Hollywood, Florida, since 2005. Although some references list his birth year as 1935, he was born on September 8, 1931, in Atlanta, Georgia. Brown's career got a boost when ...