Results for "Michael Ricci"

Midem Adds Showcase for Digital Music Startups

October 7, 2009

I tipped you off to this several weeks ago, but now its official. Midem has launched its new technology showcase dubbed MidemNet Labs and named the judges who will sift through submissions to find the new best of the best. The 15 most promising companies will be invited to present at MIDEM in January 2010 in ...

Willerm Delisfort Debut Album

October 7, 2009

Willerm Delisfort debut Solo Album, Freedom Riders is now available online. Willerm career extends the continuum of musical styles that ranges from Jazz, Gospel, R&B and many more. Because of this, Willerm's versatility has created a high demand for him with prominent jazz, rap, soul, and fusion artists including 2009 Best World Guitarist Fareed Haque, Grammy ...

Zero 7: 1st U.S. Tour in 3 Years

October 7, 2009

ZERO 7 UNVEILS NORTH AMERICAN TOUR, THEIR FIRST IN MORE THAN THREE YEARS; NEW ALBUM, YEAH GHOST AVAILABLE EVERYWHERE NOW Zero 7 Atlantic recording group Zero 7 has announced details of their upcoming North American tour - their first in more than three years. The trek - which celebrates the British duo's new album, Yeah Ghost ...

The Jazz Session #93: Dave Rivello

October 7, 2009

Composer and bandleader Dave Rivello is a man on a mission. For nearly two decades, Rivello has been writing original music for his large ensemble and performing that music in clubs in and around Rochester, NY, where he teaches at the Eastman School of Music. The result? Facing The Mirror (Allora Records, 2009), a CD of ...

Sale of Radio Station KFUO Finalized

October 7, 2009

According to a story by Sarah Bryan Miller published today by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the sale of radio station KFUO (99.1 FM) by the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod to Gateway Creative Broadcasting will become final in March.Gateway, which currently operates two FM stations on the outskirts of St. Louis that play Christian contemporary music, ...

Raising Roof and Headstone for Pioneering Pianist

October 7, 2009

A definition of righteousness: about 75 people, crammed into the West Village club Smalls, watching a series of pianists play James P. Johnson on a grand piano in a benefit concert to buy a headstone for his grave. Like all the other stride-piano soloists of the teens and 1920s, Johnson has been lodged in a historical ...

Jerry and Marlene Tachoir to Present Clinic and Concert at Indiana University, PA

October 7, 2009

Cynthia Basinet Petitions the United Nations

October 7, 2009

New York - Actress and singer, Cynthia Basinet petitions the United Nations Sixty-fourth General Assembly Fourth Committee on behalf of issues facing the Western Sahara. From the UN official site: CYNTHIA BASINET, singer and actress, said she was “but a small piece” of the larger delegation returning year after year to plead the case that the ...

AT&T Relents, Opens iPhone to Skype, Voip

October 7, 2009

Bowing to openness pressure from the FCC, AT&T renounced on Tuesday its opposition to internet telephone calls that use the iPhones 3G data connection. In short, Skype on the iPhone is now OK by AT&T, the company said in letters to Apple and the FCC. AT&Ts change of heart comes just after the FCC controversially announced ...

Russian Pianist Ivan Farmakovsky Interviewed at AAJ

October 7, 2009

Crisis or no crisis, the 2008-2009 jazz concert season in Russia was far from being eventless. New fruitful collaborations were unveiled, new record labels were launched, old festivals have convincingly confirmed that they were well alive and kicking, and many good Russian jazz albums have hit the stores. Those albums revealed a new trend, that of ...