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Willie Oteri's WD-41 Project
Improviser/Guitarist/Producer Willie Oteri has teamed with Austin Trumpeter Dave Laczko for an improvisational duo using loops and dueling delays to create aural landscapes and improvisational outings and recordings, which will soon be available as mp3 downloads complete with very special guests. Dave Laczko is a veteran of the Austin Jazz scene from a longtime run with ...
Sour Note for Jazz Fans
JAZZ music fans were left high and dry on Saturday as the much- publicised Stay Alive Jazz Festival was a no-show. According to placards posted around East London the festival, which was sponsored by Amathole District Municipality, Buffalo City Municipality and the Eastern Cape provincial government, was scheduled to start at noon at East London’s Jan ...
Theater, Jazz Venues Officially Historic
A theater on Baronne Street, an eight-story former telephone company building on Poydras Street and a group of small commercial buildings on South Rampart Street -- structures without a lot in common except that they are New Orleans' newest officially designated landmarks. The Central Business District panel of the Historic District Landmarks Commission voted recently to ...
Trioisms Reviewed by minor7th.com Jan/Feb 2009
Dan Arcamone, “Trioisms," 2008 There have been some exceptional trios fronted by jazz guitarists which have eluded the radar of even diehard jazz fans -- Bill Connors' fusion trio on Pathfinder Records in the 1980s, Pat Metheny's trio of 1999/2000 and more recently, Tim Miller (see Minor 7th's review of Tim Miller's “Trio"). The trio format ...
Victorville Scholar Brings Order to Dyslexia
When Eric Atkinson was growing up in Victorville, some of his teachers told him he was stupid. “You get told something so many times in so many ways and it starts to get to you," he said. “I almost didn't graduate from high school because of this, my low self-esteem." He is not stupid. Far from ...
Jazz Trumpeter Freddie Hubbard Dies
Jazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard, who played with legends such as John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, McCoy Tyner, Art Blakey and Herbie Hancock, died today (Dec. 29) in Sherman Oaks, Calif. Hubbard, who had suffered a heart attack on Nov. 26, was 70. Born in Indianapolis, the artist moved to New York in 1958 and quickly began playing ...
Jazz Great Freddie Hubbard Dead at 70
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Grammy-winning jazz musician Freddie Hubbard, whose style influenced a generation of trumpet players, has died at age 70. Hubbard's manager, David Weiss, says the musician died Monday at Sherman Oaks Hospital in Los Angeles. He had been hospitalized since suffering a heart attack last month. Although he had been in declining health ...
Freddie Hubbard: A Jazz Icon Remembered
Jazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard died Dec. 29, 2008, at the age of 70. In this story from 2001, he talks about attempting a comeback after a series of personal setbacks. Freddie Hubbard is a legendary name in jazz. In the 1960s, he was a popular and critically acclaimed trumpeter and bandleader. But by the 1980s, he ...
The Good Times Stop Rolling: Vegas Meets the Recession
With Las Vegas in the grips of its worst economy since the early 1980s, the snowstorm that dumped four inches on top of the desert metropolis in mid-December felt like piling on. The city's cocksure swagger is gone. Gaming revenue in Clark County, which includes downtown Las Vegas and the Strip, is down 8.5% for the ...
How Youtube Changes the Way We Think
Two years ago, a YouTube member named MadV—who silently performs magic tricks while wearing a Guy Fawkes mask—put up a short, cryptic video. He held his hand up to the camera, showing what he'd written on his palm: “One World." Then he urged viewers to respond. The video was just 41 seconds long, but it caught ...
