Results for "Michael Ricci"

Yusuf (Cat Stevens): Tour

September 24, 2009

FIRST LIVE SHOWS IN OVER THREE DECADES new album Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens) has announced an innovative four-date tour around the U.K. and Ireland after 33 years away from the stage. The shows will incorporate Yusuf's hits alongside music from his highly acclaimed new albums, An Other Cup and Roadsinger (JamBase review). To make it even ...

String Cheese: Trick or Treat

September 24, 2009

HULAWEEN SHOWS GET OFFICIAL RELEASE Michael Kang - SCI - by Dave Vann Fans of The String Cheese Incident will get a chance to relive the group's legendary “Hulaween" shows on the forthcoming live release, Trick or Treat. The two-disc release - set to hit on October 27, 2009 on CD, vinyl, and digitally - is ...

Syncopated Taint Horn Quartet with Pearl Jam at Key Arena

September 24, 2009

Who Says CD Sales Are Dead? Remastered Beatles Sell 2.25 Million in 2 Weeks

September 24, 2009

Without the help of a single digital download, The Beatles have broken multiple chart records around the world following the 9-9-09 CD release of their digitally re-mastered catalog. In the major music markets of North America, Japan and the UK, consumers purchased more than 2.25 million copies of The Beatles' re-mastered albums during the first five ...

RIAA Chief Says the Music Industry Has 5 Reasons for Optimism

September 24, 2009

Now that the RIAA is tiring of suing individual filesharers, its head Mitch Bainwol needs a new soapbox to stand on. Apparently he's decided that what's needed is a record label cheerleader to cut through all the doom and gloom indicated by the sales numbers. To kick off his campaign, he released an essay “5 Reasons ...

The Music Industry Pays the Price of Negativity

September 24, 2009

It's Time For A New Conversation New calls for three strikes laws and P2P taxes in the UK have spawned strong reactions from high profile artists including Lily Allen, James Blunt, Muse and Elton John. Their calls to end piracy seem strange this many years after Napster changed the face of the music industry and only ...

Guitar Center Searches for Next Great Blues Musician

September 24, 2009

Guitar Center Searches For The Nation's Greatest Unsigned Blues Guitar Player Joe Bonamassa Has the recession left you with too much free time on your hands this summer? Looking for a creative outlet for your energies and possibly a new career path? If you consider yourself a pretty great guitar player (or serious blues guitar fan) ...

Interview: Don Friedman (Part 2)

September 24, 2009

Don Friedman was born and raised on the West Coast but in the late 1950s he became one of a handful of California jazz musicians who relocated to the East Coast. When he arrived in New York in 1957, Don found an apartment and roomed with bassist Scott LaFaro, whom he already had known from the ...

Regina Carter Comes to FSU's CES Jazz Club

September 24, 2009

The Frostburg State University Cultural Event Series Jazz Club welcomes Regina Carter, jazz violinist, who will perform with her quintet on Thursday, Oct. 1, in the Alice R. Manicur Assembly Hall in the Lane University Center at 7:30 p.m. as part of her “Reverse Thread" tour. “Regina Carter creates music that is wonderfully listenable, probingly intelligent ...

Jazz This Week: Mulgrew Miller, Rasul Siddik, Tortoise, Dave Black, and More

September 24, 2009

Though this week's schedule of jazz and creative music in St. Louis isn't quite as jam-packed as last week's, there are still a number of notable performances happening over the next few days that are worthy of your attention. Let's go to the highlights:Tonight, the very fine pianist Mulgrew Miller opens a four-night run ...