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Jake Shimabukuro | California | Review | Photos

February 22, 2012

By L. Paul Mann Jake Shimabukuro :: 02.13.12 :: Carpinteria Plaza Playhouse Theater :: Carpinteria, CA The non-profit Carpinteria Plaza Playhouse Theater is the Santa Barbara area's newest live music venue. The 83-year-old little movie house has recently been remodeled as a community playhouse and concert hall. The theater sits in the center of downtown, in ...

Topspsin CEO Ian Rogers: "Direct to Fan is Not a Rich Band's Game"

February 22, 2012

Guest post by Ian Rogers of Topspin. On a panel at SF MusicTech on last week, I made reference to a fact we first published back in 2010: while the split between digital and physical sold on Topspin by number of units is 50/50, it's 75/25 physical/digital by total dollars. This demonstrates a lesson I first ...

Jazz Drummer Ralph Peterson Performs at Bond Lounge at Boston's Langham Hotel on February 22

February 22, 2012

Respected jazz drummer, band leader and composer Ralph Peterson is performing at the BOND Lounge | Restaurant at the Boston Langham Hotel on Wednesday, February 22, 2012, from 7:00 to 10:00 p.m. The show is part of the BOND Jazz Experiment, which runs from each Wednesday evening and highlights emerging artists and accomplished performers covering the ...

Edmar Castaneda with Gonzalo Rubalcaba and Miguel Zenon CD Release Performance at the Blue Note NYC - 3/6-7/12.

February 21, 2012

Grammy-nominated harpist Edmar Castaneda will celebrate his sophomore release Double Portion (Arpa Y Vaz, 2012) at the Blue Note on March 6 and 7. The record's title refers to Castaneda's attempt at fusing the music of his native Columbia with the sounds of New York, as well as his use of both the Colombian folk arpa ...

Drummer/Composer Andrew Swift Releases Debut Recording Titled "Swift Kick" on D Clef Records.

February 21, 2012

There are countless releases in this new age of jazz music. So why take a certain recording and put it on the top of your pile? Well, you can ask if there is a story, you can ask if there is that angle, but over all it is (or at least should be) about the music. ...

Arson Charges Filed Against Owner of Halls Ferry Inn Jazz Cafe

February 21, 2012

In the latest development in a story that's attracted a lot of interest over the past two days, STLtoday.com and the Post-Dispatch are reporting that Florissant police have charged Halls Ferry Inn Jazz Cafe owner Lozell Stiles, 40, with second-degree arson in connection with the fire that destroyed the club early Sunday morning. “Sgt. Kyle Lewis ...

Jazz's First Record Turns 95

February 21, 2012

New Orleans may be where jazz was born, but New York's Garment District is where jazz spoke its first words. As I write in today's Wall Street Journal (go here), the very first jazz record was made 95 years ago this coming Sunday on West. 38th St. between Fifth and Sixth avenues [pictured]. Back then—on February ...

Author and Trombonist Samuel Jay Keyser at Scullers Jazz Club on Wednesday, February 22 with Aardvark Jazz Orchestra

February 21, 2012

Jazz trombonist Samuel Jay Keyser is signing copies of his new book, I Married a Travel Junkie, at the Aardvark Jazz Orchestra concert taking place at Scullers Jazz Club on Wednesday, February 2012, at 8:00 p.m. Keyser is a member of the Aardvark Jazz Orchestra, Professor Emeritus and Special Assistant to the Chancellor at MIT, and ...

Coca-Cola and Music: Ian Rogers Interviews Artist/Producer Mark Roger and Coke's Wendy Clark

February 20, 2012

Fire Destroys Halls Ferry Inn Jazz Cafe

February 20, 2012

STLtoday and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch are reporting that a fire early on Sunday morning has destroyed the Halls Ferry Inn Jazz Cafe. “No one was injured in the fire, which started in the Halls Ferry Inn Jazz Cafe, 3425 North Highway 67, about 1:30 a.m.," the story said. Known for years as simply the Halls ...