Results for "Michael Ricci"

Sokoband to Release New Album

February 21, 2010

Sokoband (formerly “Soko"), prog/jazz/jamband ensemble from Charlottesville, VA will release Sokoband on March 9, 2010. The eponymous work is a maximum-capacity CD containing 10 tracks, eight of which are new versions of the songs from Soko's 1997 debut album, In November Sunlight. The other two are previously unreleased; the first is a modern take on an ...

2010 ASCAP Foundation Young Jazz Composer Award Recipients Announced

February 21, 2010

New York, NY: ASCAP Foundation President Paul Williams has announced the recipients of the 2010 ASCAP Foundation Young Jazz Composer Awards. This program, established in 2002, was created to encourage gifted jazz composers from throughout the United States. The recipients, who receive cash awards, range in age from 15 to 29, and are selected through a ...

Kathryn Grayson Sing Star of the Golden Age of Hollywood 1922-2010

February 21, 2010

Kathryn Grayson, the petite singer and actress whose operatic voice and campus-sweetheart beauty embodied the glamour of Hollywood movie musicals in the 1940s and 50s, died Wednesday at her home in Los Angeles. She was 88. Ms. Grayson, a coloratura soprano, was best known for three film roles: the movie hopeful who attracts the attentions of ...

Myron Walden to Perform at Jazz Standard on March 9th

February 21, 2010

Myron Walden In This World will play a release event at New York's Jazz Standard March 9 as the albums 'To Feel' and 'What We Share, ' praised for their “introspective textures" by Down Beat, will be released by Demi Sound Records that day. The band will be: Myron Walden - Soprano/Tenor Saxophones and Bass Clarinet ...

Vote: Should Radio Pay Performace Royalties?

February 21, 2010

Fast Company Names 10 Most Innovative Music Companies of 2010

February 21, 2010

Fast Company business magazine has named its Most Innovative Companies Of 2010 including 10 in music. Spotify - North America is still waiting. Apple Corps - The Beatles, not Steve Jobs. Man Made Music - Joel Beckerman connecting sounds with brands. Vevo - Fast Company says, “Vevo is on its way to becoming the Hulu of ...

Crate Digging: The Jazz Record Store as Endangered Species

February 21, 2010

The demise of four-wall record stores has been painful to many of certain generations, myself included. Leafing through the stacks or crate digging as its popularly referred to these days is the way many of us educated ourselves about various forms of music. There are indeed survivors of this demise, stalwart record dealers who I suspect ...

Interview: John Levy (Part 5)

February 21, 2010

Bassist John Levy spent the first half of his career as a jazz musician. Then, in 1951, he changed jobs and became a personal manager of jazz musicians. He had long yearned to be on the business side, and the surging popularity of the George Shearing Quintet gave him the opportunity. At first John represented only ...

Speaking of New Orleans: Astral Project

February 21, 2010

If it has been a while since you've heard these exemplars of modern New Orleans music, now in their 32nd year, here's your chance. It's Astral Project on the road last fall at the Artists Quarter in St. Paul, Minnesota. The band is Tony Dagradi, tenor (and at the end soprano) saxophone; Steve Masakowski, guitar; James ...

Jazz Northwest: Dawn Clement

February 21, 2010

The Dawn Clement Trio plays an Art of Jazz Concert at The Seattle Art Museum on the next Jazz Northwest at 1 PM PT on Sunday, February 21 on 88.5, KPLU. Dawn Clement is pianist, singer and leader of this trio with Geoff Harper on bass and Jaz Sawyer on drums. Ms.Clement also performs with the ...