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AllAboutJazz-New York March 2009 Issue Now Available
We have a new word to add to our collective lexicon: ‘stimulus package’. The financial service sector got one, then the auto makers. Other industries are lining up for their slice of our pie in a time of almost unprecedented economic turmoil. Well, the next idea is obvious, isn’t it? What needs economic stimulating more than ...
A Strange and Bitter Crop: Billie Holiday's Song of the Century
When Harry Smith, creator of The Anthology of American Folk Music and dean of American bohemians, received a Grammy just a few months before his death in 1991, he said, “I'm glad to say that my dreams came true--that I saw America changed through music." In the book Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday, Cafe Society, and an ...
L.A. Times Unifies Arts and Entertainment Coverage in One Department
The Los Angeles Times today created a new department that will centralize the newspaper's coverage of arts and entertainment and expand its focus on Hollywood news. The move will consolidate into one department more than 50 reporters, editors and Web producers who have been handling arts and entertainment for the paper's Calendar and Business sections and ...
The Evolution of Art
We may be genetically predisposed to appreciate listening to Sinatra or staring at a Seurat. Art suffuses our lives. Whether it's bluegrass, heavy metal, Frank Sinatra or Mozart, music moves us all. On a trip to a foreign city, visiting an art museum is a mandatory exercise. Imaginative writing affects many of us, though—alas—with decreasing frequency. ...
Is Genius Born or Can It Be Learned?
Is it possible to cultivate genius? Could we somehow structure our educational and social life to produce more Einsteins and Mozarts — or, more urgently these days, another Adam Smith or John Maynard Keynes? How to produce genius is a very old question, one that has occupied philosophers since antiquity. In the modern era, Immanuel Kant ...
Bad Times for Bunny: Playboy for Sale
For sale (maybe): Playboy The bottom line for Playboy Enterprises: Business is bad. Business is so bad that the company that gave us the magazine, the interviews, Hugh Hefner, Playboy bunnies past and present (including Gloria Steinem) and, of course, the Playmate of the Month, would consider -- gasp! -- selling itself. Calm down, ...
Drum! Magazine Invites Neil Peart Fans to Sit in for June Issue
San Jose, CA -- Enter Music Publishing, publishers of hip percussion mags worldwide, will feature Neil Peart on the cover of DRUM! Magazine in June. However, instead of having one of its staff writers interview Neil, the company is inviting Neil Peart fans to conduct the interviews via email. In fact, the company has set up ...
New York's Milk Studios Picks Hollywood Backdrop
Milk Studios Gone Hollywood The firm, which is expanding from New York, will spend millions to upgrade a 46,000-square-foot, half-century-old industrial building on Cahuenga Boulevard. Publishers and advertisers can't get enough of Hollywood, the photography studio says. Some of its space may rent for $10,000 a day. One of New York's best-known photo studios ...
Dr. Nick Catalano's "New York Nights" - Covers Jazz and Comedy in New York
New York Nights, by Nicholas Catalano, PhD, professor of literature and music, shares the personal experiences, gossipy anecdotes, and critical commentary of a television and concert producer who was once firmly entrenched in the exciting and unpredictable comedy and jazz scene in a city that never sleeps. Producer Nick Catalano introduced early audiences to the comedy ...
AllAboutJazz-New York February 2009 Issue Now Available!
We hate to be the ones to temper all the post-election enthusiasm for potentially more arts support, but it seems like the financial crisis facing the world has trickled (or deluged) down into jazz. Recent reports indicate that Festival Network, which took over George Wein’s Festival Productions company last year, has laid off most its staff, ...
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