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Dreyfus Jazz (USA) Presents the European Modernists: Jean-Michel Pilc, Aldo Romano, Rosario Giuliani and Philip Catherine
Jazz, once a singularly American invention and one of the United States' greatest exports, has become a truly international phenomenon, with important players from all over the world making valuable contributions to the music's evolution. Europe, previously home to many of the most devoted connoisseurs of the art form, is now also the producer of some ...
Redeye Distribution Adds Marsalis and Welch Labels
Redeye Distribution has added to artist lead indie labels to its roster: Gillian Welch & Dave Rawlings' record label Acony Records and Branford Marsalis' label Marsalis Music. Both artists have been released via major and larger independent labels in the past. Acony Records and Marsalis Music join such indie labels as Barsuk, Yep Roc, Kill Rock ...
2010 JJA Awards Kudos
Congratulations to all of this year's winners at the 14th annual Jazz Journalists Association's Jazz Awards, which many consider the jazz industry's version of the Grammys, Oscars and Tonys.It is a wonderful jazz hang as well as a tribute. Sadly, this is one of those years when the day job kept me from attending ...
East Coast Jazz Joints
Herbie Hancock (Thursday) His 70th-birthday CareFusion concert at Carnegie Hall is of that type, but it can't be too bad: He'll be playing with Wayne Shorter, Joe Lovano and Terence Blanchard. Later that night and into the morning at City Winery, the drummer Jeff (Tain) Watts leads a jam session trail ...
Lennon Lyrics Fetch $1.2m at NYC Auction
John Lennon's handwritten lyrics to the final song on the classic Beatles album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band were purchased by an American collector on Friday for $1.2 million. The winning bid for “A Day in the Life" was placed by phone at Sotheby's auction house, which declined to identify the collector further. The ...
Tunesmiths Celebrate Their Craft
Starry, starry night: The honorees at this year's Songwriters Hall of Fame Awards Gala Thursday night at the New York Marriott Marquis Hotel included noted tunesmiths/performers ranging from veterans Paul Simon, Leonard Cohen and Earth Wind & Fire to 20-year-old Taylor Swift. Inspired: On the red carpet, Judy Collins recalled that she wasn't yet ...
Baseball's Giants of Jazz
We cherish Ernie Harwell and other masters of improvisation because we may not hear a sound like theirs again Tributes poured in from all over the nation as a city that is falling apart united in its heartache. Seventeen hours after the Tigers opened Comerica Park to the public last Thursday, there was a line around ...
Queen of Soul Brings Down the House
Aretha Franklin and Michael Jackson honored at Apollo. Franklin and Tucker share a laugh at Harlem's Apollo Theater spring benefit. Emcee Jaime Foxx urges everyone to cut loose at the famous theater. The Queen of Soul had the joint jumping. Leslie Uggams channeled Lena Horne to deliver a rousing “Stormy Weather." And emcee Jamie Foxx never ...
Hancock Can 'Imagine' More Jazz
The music world is not unaware that Herbie Hancock turned a youthful 70 on April 12. To mark the occasion, there will be a concert in New York's Carnegie Hall on June 24, two days after the release of his latest album, “The Imagine Project," and the Hollywood Bowl will host a star-packed concert Sept. 1 ...
Musical Mad Scientist Concocts Bizarre Instruments, Strange Sounds
Diego Stocco forged a niche for himself in the music world by creating sounds using custom-made instruments and unusual sources. His sonic palette includes sounds culled from sources as simple as sand and as drastic as a burning piano. The hybrid instruments Stocco concocts, like the Experibass, generally involve sawing common musical instruments in half and ...
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