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Announcing the Winners of the "Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Strings - Renegades" Giveaway!
Michael Sutton, Edward Sapiega, Richard Brandt, Robert Bellah and Don Malone, Congratulations! You're the lucky winners of the Delmark Records “Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Strings - Renegades“ giveaway. All About Jazz will contact you about claiming your prize. We'd like to thank everyone who participated in the contest and please visit Delmark Records for more jazz ...
Amanda Carr and Kenny Hadley Big Band Jazz Brunch
The New England Center for the Performing Arts is presenting Amanda Carr and the Kenny Hadley Big Band jazz brunch at Mechanics Hall in Worchester on Sunday, November 15 at noon. The event is being hosted by WBZ radio personality Jordan Rich. The event includes a culinary feast promptly at noon followed by a big ban ...
Live Music: Noah B's "Know Thyself" and Peter E "Trumpeter"
Another exciting weekend of live music coming with 2 of the best events happening around the same time on Friday November 13.Late last year, I picked up a DownBeat magazine and saw a listing of 2008 grants winners. On that list was Noah Baerman, pianist/composer/teacher/author and Middletown resident. He'd received a “New Works" grant ...
What Will Fans Pay For?
This guest post first appeared on Debbie Chachra's blog zed equals zee. Debbie is a Cambridge, MA based academic, music fan, and geek, not always in that order. You can also follow her on Twitter. I know that there is ideology on both sides: people who feel that all music should be free, and people who ...
Bringing Digital Music to the Masses
If digital music is to reach mainstream adoption, the music industry must eliminate the barriers that confuse many non-techie consumers. That's the conclusion of Forrester analyst Mark Mulligan's new report “Taking Digital Music To The Mainstream: The Music Product Features For The Living Room". Easier and cheaper hardware if the key to the conversion according to ...
An Eddie Higgins Jam Session
Because of the high volume of comments Rifftides received following our piece on the death of pianist Eddie Higgins, the staff thought there might be widespread interest in a memorial concert. We bring you the announcement as it arrived by e-mail from Florida. This will give you time to make plans to fly in from, say, ...
Stacy Rowles, 1955-2009
Family members and friends are planning a memorial service for Stacy Rowles. No date has been set. The trumpeter and singer died at home in Burbank, California, on October 27 of injuries from an automobile accident two weeks earlier. She was 54. The daughter of pianist Jimmy Rowles, she studied piano for a time. Despite her ...
Interview: Lennie Niehaus (Part 4)
Lennie Niehaus' arrangements for Stan Kenton's band in the late 1950s and early 1960s are superb. So are his too-brief solos with the band. But if you really want to hear Lennie's musical genius at work, you have to dig his small-group recordings of the mid-1950s. Kenton, like many bandleaders in the LP era, was smart ...
Interview: Lennie Niehaus (Part 3)
Up until now, I've focused this interview series on Lennie Niehaus' biography. Today, I want to turn to the alto saxophonist's work with Stan Kenton's band between 1954 and 1961. Lennie's contribution to Kenton's uptempo and ballad output during this period both as a player and writer cannot be overestimated. In Lennie's hands, you hear the ...
Interview: Lennie Niehaus (Part 2)
Growing up in Los Angeles in the mid-1940s, alto saxophonist Lennie Niehaus found himself rubbing elbows with other hungry young talented jazz musicians. In college in Los Angeles, Lennie studied composition with the West Coast's brightest and most advanced classical teachers and theorists. Everything was falling into place. When Stan Kenton called in late 1951 and ...
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