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Cabaret: Precarious but Resilient
Stability is a word not often used to describe New York City's fragile cabaret world, where only a few can make a full-time living, and the clubs themselves ride an economic seesaw from week to week. But because Manhattan's three major supper clubs -- the Caf Carlyle, the Oak Room and Feinstein's at Loews Regency -- ...
Biggest Tech Industry Apologies of 2010 (So Far)
While apologies from BP to the world regarding its environmental disaster and even from a U.S. Congressman to BP have stolen headlines of late, the tech industry has not been without its fair share of apologies during the first half of 2010 either. Google: Sorry about Buzz, Street View Privacy Issues Google acknowledged in ...
ASCAP Honors for Film, TV- Broughton, McCarthy Draw Awards at Ceremony
Composers Bruce Broughton and Dennis McCarthy received special honors from ASCAP at the performance rights group's Film and Television Awards ceremony Thursday at the BevHilton. The evening recognized composers for the top-grossing films and writers of the most-performed TV music of 2009. Broughton, who scored such pics as “Tombstone" and “Silverado" and wrote for series like ...
The Making of America: Thomas Edison
We're surrounded by the fruits of his genius, from electric light to recorded sound, while the example of his “invention factory" at Menlo Park lives on in Silicon Valley. So who was this tireless man, and what are his lessons for us today? Movies Lights, Camera ... Edison! Though Edison didn't invent the Vitascope, ...
Grammy Award-Winning a Cappella Ensemble Sweet Honey in the Rock Release, "Are We a Nation?" - A Response to Arizona's Immigration Law SB-1070 Through Song
GRAMMY AWARD-WINNING AND INTERNATIONALLY RENOWNED A CAPPELLA ENSEMBLE SWEET HONEY IN THE ROCK TO RELEASE, “ARE WE A NATION?" A RESPONSE TO ARIZONA'S IMMIGRATION LAW SB-1070 THROUGH SONG “...I have always believed art is the conscience of the human soul and that artists have the responsibility not only to show life as it is but to ...
Pianist Fred Hersch Survives Coma to Write a New Chapter to His Jazz Career
Even though it was Sunday, the Village Vanguard was packed to catch the last night of pianist Fred Hersch's weeklong run. Hersch had played the legendary club in New York's West Village before, even releasing a live album recorded there, and the room had the energy of an artist restaking his claim as one of current ...
Francis Dreyfus: 1940 - 2010
Music publisher and record producer Francis Dreyfus died Thursday, June 24, 2010, at the age of 70. Through his labels Disques Motors and Dreyfus Records, Francis Dreyfus launched the careers of prominent artists, including Christophe and Jean Michel Jarre. His love of jazz led to the creation of the Dreyfus Jazz label which brought together such ...
28th San Francisco Jazz Festival Lineup Announced
Randall Kline, the Executive Artistic Director of SFJAZZ--the leading non-profit jazz organization on the West Coast--today announced the complete artist line-up for the 28th Annual San Francisco Jazz Festival. The Festival will begin on September 14 with a celebration of the jazz bass with SFJAZZ Collective member Matt Penman. Events continue through November 20, presenting some ...
Trombone Shorty's "Hurricane Season" Chosen as MTV's Real World New Orleans Theme Song - Backatown Still #1 Contemporary Jazz CD for 9th Straight Week
Trombone Shorty's “Hurricane Season" from his major label debut Backatown (Verve/Forecast) has been chosen as the theme song for MTV's Real World New Orleans. The show premieres June 30, 2010 and runs for 13 episodes. Backatown is #1 on the Billboard Contemporary Jazz Album Chart for the 9th straight week since it's release! Thank you for ...
Fred Anderson, 1929-2010
By PicoFred Anderson, a forward thinking tenor saxophonist for more than six decades and a major force in Chicago's vital jazz scene, died Thursday following a heart attack. He was 81 years old. What I've found so remarkable about Anderson isn't so much that he lived so long, but that he lived ...
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