Results for "All About Jazz Publicity"

Saxophonist Jaleel Shaw Interviewed at AAJ

April 21, 2008

Barely thirty, alto saxophonist Jaleel Shaw has was won two ASCAP Young Jazz Composer awards, received the Billboard Endowed Scholarship for Outstanding Academic and Musical Achievement (1998), the Outstanding Student Teacher Award, The Boston Jazz Society Award (1999) and he was also a finalist in the Thelonious Monk International Saxophone Competition (2002). Currently Jaleel holds a ...

Clear Channel Digs Tony Adamo

April 20, 2008

Singer/songwriter, Tony Adamo's song, “No Strings" from his STRAIGHT UP DEAL release on UrbanZone Records has recently been added to newclearchannel's music site. Clear Channel Communications is the largest owner of full power AM/FM radio stations in the United States. Clear Channel has made “No Strings," (produced by Jerry Stucker) available to its radio programmers across ...

Going Against the Beat, Jazz Gets a Boost

April 20, 2008

The audience is declining, funding is a struggle, and the station's own staffers are at odds over whether to play more music or focus on news and public affairs. So when Bobby Hill set out to create a new schedule for WPFW (89.3 FM), he knew his every move would be scrutinized. But Hill has managed ...

The IAJE Collapses

April 19, 2008

It turns out that rumors of the imminent death of the IAJE were accurate. Following its financially disastrous 2008 conference in Toronto, the International Association of Jazz Education has canceled its 2009 conference and is about to file for bankruptcy. The huge meeting of musicians, educators, producers, record company executives and others from every precinct of ...

Memories of Carmen McRae

April 19, 2008

Carol Sloane's individualism as a singer grows, in part, out of her adoration of Carmen McRae. In the confusion of the past week, I overlooked Sloane's tribute to McRae on what would have been Carmen's eighty-eighth birthday. Here is some of what she wrote: When she laughed, the room vibrated; when she spewed venom, ...

Whatever Happened to Cultural Diplomacy?

April 19, 2008

In his eighty-eighth year, Dave Brubeck is going to have to add another shelf to his trophy room--or another trophy room. His most recent honor came yesterday from the US State Department. Here's a paragraph from the Reuters report in The New York Times. “As a little girl I grew up on the sounds ...

Frishberg: A Net Gain

April 19, 2008

Have I mentioned that Dave Frishberg has a web site? He has. I am putting a link to it high on the Other Places list in the center column. The site has a discography, lots of photographs and a catalog of the songs he's written, from “Wallflower Lonely, Cornflower Blue" (1963) to “Who Do You Think ...

Cohn with Stewart: Lovely, Lovely

April 19, 2008

After he saw the Al and Zoot post (two exhibits down the page), the fine singer Bob Stewart suggested that we watch another video of Al Cohn performing with him. It captures a moment of spontaneity that creates a surprise and a big smile from Cohn. The rhythm section is Hank Jones, George Mraz and Ronnie Bedford. ...

Compatible Quotes: Billie Holiday

April 19, 2008

Weekend Extra: Zoot 'n Al

April 19, 2008

Paul Desmond was fond of saying that an evening listening to Zoot Sims and Al Cohn at the old Half Note in downtown Manhattan was “like going to get your back scratched." There is a piece of video that helps explain what he meant. It's not from the Half Note, but from a 1968 British television ...