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Yahoo's 'The New Now' Features Young Soul Sensation Eli "Paperboy" Reed.
Brooklyn-based soul singer, Eli “Paperboy" Reed blew out the doors of the Y! Music studios recently with his full scale soul revue. The high-energy performance was captured in three great performances. The full profile can be found here. Look for Reed's Capitol Records debut, Come and Get It on ...
Visualizing Kind of Blue
Visualizing Kind of Blue is a new series of designs depicting jazz music concepts and elements, much like the Periodic Table of Jazz. Visualizing Kind of Blue: Flamenco Sketches attempts to show the improvisational form and harmony used by each soloist on the fifth track of the classic Miles Davis album, Kind of Blue. Currently ...
A Note on Mitch Miller
Jazz fans owe a debt of gratitude to Mitch Miller, who passed away at the age of 99 on July 31. Miller may have been known to many from his shlocky 1960s television show, Sing Along With Mitch, but he played an indirect role in the success of jazz in the 1950s. Miller was an oboist ...
53rd Annual Monterey Jazz Festival Presented By Verizon Coming in September!
500 Legendary Jazz Icons, Classic Collaborations and Multi-Cultural and International Artists on 8 Stages for 3 Days of Nonstop Entertainment, September 17㬏, 2010 Headliners on the Arena/Lyons Stage Include Dianne Reeves, Freedom Band with Chick Corea, Kenny Garrett, Christian McBride and Roy Haynes; Ahmad Jamal, Harry Connick, Jr., Angelique Kidjo, Les Nubians, Roy Hargrove Big Band, ...
San Francisco Bay Blues & Jazz Scene
The Fillmore Jazz Era From the mid-1940s through the late 1950s, The Fillmore was known as the Harlem of the West, a vibrant cultural treasure that was one of the worlds leading centers for jazz music and jazz culture. Jazz was popular in the Fillmore as early as 1930, and as the black population of San ...
San Francisco-Based Jazz Vocalist Natasha Miller to Release New CD on 9/14
Sooner or later, most singers get the urge to make a standards record. “And they always try to make it different," says Natasha Miller, the sterling Bay Area-based jazz singer prized for her rich sound, streamlined phrasing and unforced feeling. “I wanted to make a standards album that was different different." Miller pulls that off brilliantly ...
Miles Davis vs. Don Draper
Definitely worth a read. Good stuff. Yet, for all of its strengths, Mad Men wouldn't be nearly so appealing if not for the fact that it is set during a time when America was neatly divided between the hip and the square. It's important to point out, though, that during the early '60s, the time ...
Carlos Reyes and his Electrick Symphony perform at Yoshi's San Francisco August 25, 2010 8PM
Carlos Reyes and his Electrick Symphony are returning to the Bay Area. He dazzles audiences with his distinct, euphoric style of music and stretches the harp and violin to elicit sounds that inspire and delight. His modern symphonies combine the best rhythms and melodies from Blues, Rock, Jazz, Latin and Classical styles. His music is always ...
Jazz Poetry - "Trane"
"Trane" by Kamau Brathwaite Propped against the crowded barhe pours into the curved and silver hornhis old unhappy longing for a home the dancers twist and turnhe leans and wishes he could burnhis memories to ashes like some old notorious emperorof rome. but no stars blazed across the sky when he was bornno wise ...
L.A.'s Jazz Bakery Still Homeless but Alive This Week at the L.A. Premiere of New Film, "The Anatomy of Vince Guaraldi"
The Jazz Bakery, one of Los Angeles' most revered jazz establishments, is still homeless after closing its doors last spring, but it is still alive and living off the fat of the land. Running a non-profit jazz club that features big national acts and low ticket prices 7 days a week ain't easy. When ...
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