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Publicist News: Improved news service and more features for your clients!
by Michael Ricci
Dear jazz publicist: All About Jazz is celebrating its 15th year on the web with a relaunch, making significant changes to our appearance and expanding the promotional services we offer to musicians and to publicists. Please read on for the details. Index News Service Upgrade Massive ...
October 2010: Photo Gallery Update
by Michael Ricci
Dear fellow photographer: All About Jazz recently relaunched our website, making significant changes to our appearance and greatly raising the awareness of our photo gallery. Please read on for the details. Index New Photo Editor: Bill King Professional Directory Featured Photographers Photo of the Day / Photos of ...
Janis: Memphis Meltdown
by Bill King
I'd been hustling a meager living in the coffee houses and psychedelic joints of Greenwich Village in lower Manhattan when word spread of Janis Joplin's departure from Big Brother & the Holding Company. I can't say the announcement held the same aura as the Beatles imminent crack-up or Bob Dylan converting electric, but it did reverberate ...
Miles Davis: Unlimited Miles
by Bill King
I can't think of an artist who has had greater influence over jazz the past forty years than Miles Davis. For music, style, language and business, Davis was at the top of the game. One to never step aside and let critics dissuade or impede his aspirations, he constantly retooled his band with the ...
A Camera's Eye View: Festival International de Jazz de Montreal 2009
by Bill King
Festival International de Jazz de Montreal Montreal, Quebec, Canada July 1-12, 2009 There is something truly empowering situated behind the lens of a camera waiting with expectation for the moment when the soul, mind and body of an artist strike bare wires and something electric unexpectedly happens. Privately, ownership ...
2009 Quebec City Summer Festival
by Bill King
Québec City Summer Festival Québec City, Québec, Canada July 9-19, 2009 The 42nd summer edition has been an endurance test of sight, sound and leg work. With three large outdoor venues--the Bell Stage on the Plains of Abraham featuring mainline artists Pink Martini, Sean Paul, Loreena McKennitt, Brian Setzer Orchestra, Styx, French ...
Kenny Garrett Brings Big Thunder to 2005 Barbados Jazz Festival
by Bill King
It's always a joy arriving in Barbados, a place that has become infinitely familiar and whose people welcome us as family. Years past, the view from the side window of the airplane exposed terrain dried from uncompromising sunshine, at other times, as is the case at present, incessant rain. Fortunately, the opening concert at the Sunbury ...
