Results for "Michael Ricci"

Composer Joseph Brooks Faces Trial for 11 Rapes

June 24, 2009

The Oscar-winning composer and director behind “You Light Up My Life" raped 11 women he lured to his apartment with the promise of a starring role in a movie, prosecutors said at his arraignment in New York on Tuesday. Joseph Brooks, 71, pleaded not guilty in Manhattan's state Supreme Court, where he was arraigned on a ...

Phil Spector Will Be Allowed Jam Sessions with Fellow Prisoners

June 24, 2009

Phil Spectors permanent assignment in the state prison system is a massive Central Valley penitentiary with special accommodations for older and disabled inmates. And even behind bars, the man credited with inventing the “Wall of Sound" will still be allowed to create music. The 69-year-old record producer, serving at least 19 years for the murder of ...

35,000-Year-Old Flute is Oldest Known Musical Instrument

June 24, 2009

The discovery, reported in the journal Nature, suggests that the first humans to occupy Europe had a fairly sophisticated culture. The instrument was excavated from a cave in Germany. The wing bone of a griffon vulture with five precisely drilled holes in it is the oldest known musical instrument, a 35,000-year-old relic of an early human ...

Interview: Bob Brookmeyer (Part 2)

June 24, 2009

Bob Brookmeyer's early childhood was bleak--until he discovered music and jazz. Then he threw himself into learning the clarinet and trombone, quickly becoming a whiz sight-reader. By age 14, Bob was already a professional arranger and musician, rushing off after high school to play on local recording sessions. Not a fan of the slide trombone, Bob ...

Harris-Stowe State University Presents "A Night of Jazz Greats"

June 24, 2009

Harris-Stowe State University, home of the Don and Heide Wolff Jazz Institute, will host a benefit concert of jazz greats on Saturday, August 29, 2009, at 7 p.m., in the Dr. Henry Givens Jr. Administration Buildings Main Auditorium. Atty. Don Wolff will serve as the emcee. The concert will feature the sounds of drummer and vibraphone ...

Paying Hommage A Nesuhi

June 24, 2009

Rhino Presents a Digital Boxed Set Honoring The Roster of Iconic Jazz Artists Nesuhi Ertegun Assembled at Atlantic Records Joel Dorn's Final Production Features Music from The Modern Jazz Quartet, John Coltrane, Milt Jackson, Charles Mingus, Ornette Coleman, Eddie Harris and More Available June 23, 2009 LOS ANGELES -- In 1955, Nesuhi ...

The Ed Palermo Big Band Pays Tribute to Music Legend Frank Zappa

June 24, 2009

New York, NY -- Jazz is not dead - at least not when the Ed Palermo Big Band plays it. Part of the Cuneiform 'Contemporary Masters' series, Eddy Loves Frank is the third album to feature the music of Frank Zappa as arranged by Ed Palermo and performed by the Ed Palermo Big Band. A brilliantly ...

New Stefon Harris Album, "Urbanus," to be Released August 25

June 24, 2009

Concord Jazz today announced the release of vibraphonist-composer Stefon Harris's 7th album as a bandleader and Concord debut, Urbanus. The new release picks up where 2004s Evolution left off in that it features Blackout, his scintillating ensemble that's as versed in modern jazz as it is with rhythms, melodies and soundscapes associated with R&B, pop, hip-hop ...

Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival Wraps up Spectacular Record-Setting 8th Edition

June 24, 2009

Mark Your Calendars for the Ninth Edition, June 11-19, 2010 Rochester, NY--The 8th Annual Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival presented by M&T Bank wrapped up a spectacular nine days of music presented by some of the world’s greatest artists. Attendance this year was 133,000 topping last’s year’s record of 125,000 and marking the seventh straight year ...

Faith Gibson's New Release Big Moon Featured on WUCF Orlando June 28

June 24, 2009