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Sweet Rhythm Quietly Ends Run as Village Jazz Stage
The 7th Ave. home in the '80s and early '90s of Gil Evans' last orchestra, David Murray's octets, Abdullah Ibrahim's bands, Lester Bowie's Brass Fantasy and other avant-gutsy acts closed last night (Oct. 24) without notice or fanfare. Sweet Rhythm nee Sweet Basil was one of the coolest spots to listen, drink and hang out in ...
Tina Marsh, Austin's Avant-Jazz Leader, Gravely Ill
The founder of the Creative Opportunity Orchestra, a musicans' cooperative of composer-improvisers on the model of Chicago's AACM, is suffering late stage breast cancer. Beautiful Tina Marsh, age 55, whose disease was successfully treated in the '90s but recurred in 2008, is resting in a private home, with friends close by. A pure-voiced vocalist who ...
Jazztimes "Temporarily Suspended," Staff "Furloughed"
JazzTimes confirms rumors first reported here the 38-year-old monthly magazine's deep financial distress requires it to stop publishing. Its management hopes for a brand-sale and re-emergence. But in a longer email to freelance contributors, those same managers adopt a can't-help-you-pal shrug toward the brand's freelance contributors. “The brand and operation will undergo reorganization and restructuring in ...
Jazz Times Crisis Confirmed
An associate editor of JazzTimes “until a couple of weeks ago when I was laid off" has confirmed that the magazine is in deep trouble. “There was some hope of a new buyer coming to the rescue," he writes, “but as of my last contact with the guys it wasn't looking good." I'd heard previously that ...
Losing a Jazz Mag?
Rumors abound that JazzTimes magazine is folding -- it's laid off employees, notified writers of waits for May payments, not shipped its June issue to the printers and failed to sell itself to a new publisher. A senior contributor says he was told not to write his next column until asked for it. These are rumors, ...
Cecil and Miles in NYC (and India)
Taylor, the pianist beyond genre (age: 80) and still-groundbreaking music of Davis, the trumpeter/conceptualist (dead 18 years) are at major Manhattan venues this week, continuing to provoke and gratify. Cecil Taylor performs at the Blue Note tonight (Thursday, May 28) while “Miles From India," mixing veterans of Davis' electric bands with South Asian improvisers, has a ...
On the Corner Program Notes, Merkin Hall Concert 5/25/09
Miles Davis intended On The Corner to be a personal statement, an esthetic breakthrough and a social provocation upon its release in fall of 1972. He could hardly have been more successful: the album was all that, though it has taken decades for its full impact to be understood. On The Corner was also a ...
JVC Jazz Fest-NY Cancellation Reported
No major, mainstream, corporate-supported jazz fest will occur in New York City this summer, according to today's New York Times report confirming my posting of April 15. Festival Network principal Chris Shields, purchaser in 2007 of the production company headed by George Wein which staged June jazz concerts at major mid-town Manhattan venues for 37 years, ...
Announcing 13th Annual JJA Jazz Awards Nominees and Gala
The Jazz Journalists Association -- of which I'm president--has announced finalist nominees in 42 categories of excellence in jazz music, recording, presenting and journalism at a new website, JazzJournalists.org--which also details who's playing at the Jazz Standard (NYC) cocktail barbeque where winners will be announced on June 16, 3-6 pm. and lets you buy tickets to ...
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