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White House Plans Concert to Honor Stevie Wonder
The White House is planning a concert this month to honor Stevie Wonder, whose music provided part of President Obama's campaign soundtrack. The White House says the president and first lady Michelle Obama will present Wonder with a Library of Congress award on Feb. 25. The concert will be broadcast the next day on PBS as ...
RIP, Gerry Niewood
Saxophonist and flutist Gerry Niewood died in the plane crash in Buffalo last night. He was a wonderful player whose saxophone was heard most famously with Chuck Mangione and on the Concert In Central Park album by Simon & Garfunkel. Niewood was one of the first horn players I ever knew by name because Paul Simon ...
Enter the Palmetto Records "Dr. Lonnie Smith - Rise Up!" Giveaway Contest
All About Jazz members are invited to enter the Palmetto Records “Dr. Lonnie Smith - Rise Up!“ giveaway contest starting today. We'll select FIVE lucky winners at the conclusion of the contest on March 15th. Click here to enter the contest (Following Dr. Lonnie Smith at AAJ automatically enters you in the contest.) Good luck!
Leonard Cohen to Release First Album Since 2004
Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Leonard Cohen will release Live in London, his first new album in five years, on March 31 via Columbia. The set was culled from his July 17, 2008, performance at London's 02 Arena during his world tour last year. The 26-track Live in London, which will be available both as ...
Estelle Bennett Member of the Ronettes Dies
Estelle Bennett, one of the Ronettes, the singing trio whose 1963 hit Be My Baby epitomized the famed “wall of sound" technique of its producer, Phil Spector, has died at her home in Englewood, New Jersey. She was 67. Bennett's brother-in-law, Jonathan Greenfield, said police found her dead in her apartment on Wednesday after relatives had ...
Remixable iPhone Album Points to Future
I've never been more sure of anything as when I predicted last August that iPhone apps would be the next hot way to release music. Luckily for me, developers are living up to that prediction with all sorts of apps for interacting with music in ways that are impossible with a traditional release. The most innovative ...
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss Back in the Studio
After winning five Grammys this past weekend, including Album of the Year for Raising Sand, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss are already back in the studio with T Bone Burnett working on the follow-up to their platinum-selling LP. Thanks to the huge Grammy night, Raising Sand is on pace to top this weeks sales chart, despite ...
Saxophonist Gerry Niewood Dies in Buffalo Plane Crash
Two Mangione musicians die in plane crash Jazz great in shock over the horrible, heartbreaking tragedy Two members of jazz musician Chuck Mangiones band were among those killed on the plane that crashed into a house near Buffalo, N.Y., a publicist said Friday. Publicist Sanford Brokaw identified the band members as Gerry Niewood, 64, of Rochester, ...
Grammy Grumblings, the John Heard Trio and Others
A lot of hoity-toity goings on lately, with invite-only Miles Davis Kind of Blue reissue bashes and all the Grammy stuff. A lot of fancy people in fancy suits drinking fancy free drinks and talking about jazz — Mostly not talking about jazz, which sometimes seemed to be only the background music at these things, so ...
Grammy Week: Magical Music Moments All over Town
Uncontrollable Urge While crack-is-wack-ster Whitney was staging another “comeback” at the Davis affair, we favored Saturday night’s more real-feeling rock- flavored happenings over the R&B/pop-machine-driven mashes. The Rhino/Los Angeles mag event with The New York Dolls saw a spindly and spectacled David Johansen and youthful looking Sylvain Sylvain kiss and hiss onstage for fellow ...
