Results for "All About Jazz Publicity"

Jazzmobile Vocal Competition 2008; Queen Esther Takes the Night!

June 22, 2008

2008 Jazzmobile Vocal Competition Harlem's River Room was packed with onlookers, excited to see the results of the final round of the 2008 Jazzmobile Vocal Competition. Every seat was reserved, the bar was full and even outside, many fans had taken a drink and accented to watching the performances through the large open windows. The prestigious ...

Boz Scaggs Tackling Standards on New Album

June 22, 2008

Boz Scaggs is staying on the standards path for his next album. Scaggs -- who's currently finalizing a label deal for the planned September release of Speak Low the follow-up to 2003's But Beautiful is “a sort of progressive, experimental effort ... along the lines of some of the ideas that Gil Evans explored." Scaggs says ...

The Battle for Facebook

June 22, 2008

Mark Zuckerberg launched an online empire from his dorm room at Harvard. Now four fellow students say he stole their idea It's a sunny afternoon in downtown Palo Alto, California, and inside the graffiti-covered walls of the Facebook headquarters, workmen are hanging lights and arranging tables for champagne glasses. Tomorrow night, there will be a party ...

Bruce Springsteen Limited Edition Book

June 22, 2008

Through the years, I've read almost every book written about Springsteen. Some are great and many are not. Over time, I've even become cynical when I hear about new books. In the last few years, there have been a plethora of coffee table book releases in the Springsteen world. Each one in itself is a gorgeous ...

Sten Hostfalt & Blaise Siwula at Yippie Cafe

June 22, 2008

Oscar's Change Original Song Rules

June 21, 2008

The Academy Awards Alters Requirements for the Original Song Category. In an effort to prevent a single musical from monopolizing the Original Song field at the Oscars, the Academy has changed the rules of the category. While movies can submit any number of songs they want, starting with the 2009 Oscars, only two songs can be ...

Live Nation Rocks the Music Industry

June 21, 2008

Michael Rapino, CEO of the Clear Channel spinoff, may just have this whole file-sharing, iTunes-listening, MySpace-Internet-era music thing all figured out. The music business may be in turmoil, but Rapino couldn't be happier. He is the CEO of Live Nation, a two-year-old spinoff of Clear Channel that generated $4.4 billion in revenue in the past 12 ...

Hollywood's Professional Drum Shop

June 21, 2008

The Professional Drum Shop was founded in 1959 by Bob Yeager with Chuck Molinari in an effort to provide the professional drummer with a place to get needed equipment repairs and shopping convenience. Yeager had been repairing fellow drummers equipment on the road for years. With their encouragement and financial support, he decided the time was ...

The Free and Easy Side of the Vancouver Jazz Fest

June 21, 2008

It would be hard to find a more devoted convert to the TD Canada Trust Vancouver International Jazz Festival than Ramona Boos, or anyone who goes to it for a better reason: she's into it because it's all about social music. Boos, 33, is an administrator for a condominium presale company and works downtown, so she ...

Brian Blade and Esperanza Spaulding Featured on Jazzism (a Katzpheno Mix) !

June 21, 2008

The weekly 60 minute music podcast - “Jazzism (a katzpheno mix)" (hosted by Brian Phoenix) will take you on a musical journey from the continent of Africa to the Isle of Puerto Rico, on to the US Virgin Islands, over to Brasil and back to New Orleans. Featuring the music of Pharoah Sanders, David Sanchez, Esperanza ...