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News: Interview

Interview with Peter Gotcher, Executive Chairman of Dolby Laboratories and Chairman of Topspin Media

April 2, 2013

By Emilie Bogrand from the Berklee College of Music's Music Business Journal. Peter Gotcher is Executive Chairman of Dolby Laboratories and Chairman of Topspin Media, Inc. He founded Digidesign Inc. in 1984 and served as its President, CEO and Chairman. He won a Grammy (2000) and an Oscar (2004): both were for Technical Achievement and honored ...

News: Recording

Hal and Sammy: After Dark

April 1, 2013

After doing some research last week, I unearthed two more Playboy After Dark episodes. One is from May 1970 and features singer Hal Frazier with Buddy Rich, a pianist and a possibly a soundtrack—since we never see the band. The other is from November 1960 and features Sammy Davis Jr. with some sort of Music Minus ...

Article: Meet the Staff

Meet Dom Minasi

by AAJ Staff
March 15, 2013

I currently live in: New York, NY I joined All About Jazz in: 2012 What made you decide to contribute to All About Jazz? All About Jazz is the first thing I read in the morning, there is a wealth of information and I thought as a working musician I could offer ...

News: Video / DVD

STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: "Seeing Sound" with New Music Circle

March 31, 2013

Next Friday, April 5, New Music Circle will present a program in conjunction with the Webster University Film Series called “Seeing Sound: Visual Music Films." Curated by Cindy Keefer of the Center for Visual Music in Los Angeles, the event will feature 15 short abstract and experimental films that blend audio and visual elements in a ...

Article: Meet the Staff

Meet Bruce Lindsay

by AAJ Staff
March 30, 2013

I currently live in: Norwich, Norfolk UK. I joined All About Jazz in: 2008 What made you decide to contribute to All About Jazz? I thought it might be a good way to blag the occasional free album. Once I started to contribute I realised that it could be much more, that ...

Article: Meet the Staff

Meet C. Michael Bailey

by AAJ Staff
April 30, 2013

I currently live in: Bryant, AR I joined All About Jazz in: 1997 What made you decide to contribute to All About Jazz? In 1997, the Internet was such a new place. I saw a fledgling request from one Michael Ricci asking for jazz articles for his new website, All About Jazz. ...

News: Recording

Available Now: Composer/Saxophonist Joshua Kwassman Spins the Tale of Friendship on "Songs of the Brother Spirit" - His Debut Album of All Original Extended Compositions on Truth Revolution Records

March 29, 2013

Featuring Guitarist Gilad HekselmanThe journey from adolescence to adulthood can be a harrowing one. For composer and saxophonist Joshua Kwassman, that was true in a very literal sense, as a three-day bike trip, in August 2010, with an idolized childhood friend collapsed into chaos and shattered his youthful illusions. While that trek itself found Kwassman growing ...

News: Recording

Michel Camilo to Release Adventurous Solo Piano Album, "What's Up?", Available May 14 on Okeh

March 29, 2013

11-Track Project Spotlights a Collection of Originals, Latin and Jazz Standards OKeh will release GRAMMY, Emmy, and Latin GRAMMY® Award winning pianist and composer Michel Camilo‘s new album, What’s Up?, on May 14, 2013. The project is the Dominican Republic-born musician’s debut for the label and is OKeh‘s second overall release as part of the new ...

News: Recording

Pianist Marc Cary Releases "For the Love of Abbey", June 11 on Motema Music

March 29, 2013

A STERLING SOLO PIANO TRIBUTE TO CARY’S MENTOR AND LONGTIME EMPLOYER, THE LATE ABBEY LINCOLN View video footage of Marc Cary performing live with Abbey Lincoln Marc Cary has gained a reputation as one of the most creative pianists of our time, a bandleader with musical interests that encompass jazz, go-go, hip-hop, electronic music, Indian classical ...

News: Recording

Freedonia Music Releases Four New CDs

March 29, 2013

Freedonia Music, the St. Louis-based independent label run by multi-instrumentalist Jay Zelenka, has released four new CDs from local/regional jazz and creative music performers: Ghost Machines (pictured) is a sampler album showcasing the label's various recordings of “avant-garde, free jazz & free improv artists from St. Louis USA," including the Human Arts Ensemble, EXILES, The Free ...