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News: Music Industry

Sleepy Jazz Scene Shows Signs of Awakening

May 16, 2010

A recent Sunday afternoon jazz matinee at Cafe Royale was a sleepy affair. About 15 people, most of them middle-aged, sat around this ramshackle downtown San Francisco bar sipping tea and wine while a saxophone, drum and bass trio played a mellow mixture of mostly standards. The noise of rustling bags of pistachios and yogurt-covered pretzels, ...

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News: TV / Film

Old Music, Via New Technology

May 16, 2010

The Sag Harbor-based filmmaker Joe Lauro knows there is no shortage of time-tested music to be heard, and seen, on TV. As the president of Historic Films Archive, a stock-footage film library specializing in music from 1922 to 2000, Mr. Lauro has even packaged and rebroadcast some of it; his film “The Howlin' Wolf Story" appeared ...

News: TV / Film

Jazz as a Global Language, Captured on Film

May 16, 2010

JAZZ is an improvisatory art, evanescent at its core, and films that capture its spirit can be difficult to find. But the Jacob Burns Film Center in Pleasantville is presenting a series of four films that, coupled with some distinguished live commentary, musical and spoken, promise to do just that. The series, “Jazz Sessions: The Greats ...

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News: Festival

Joshua Tree Music Festival

May 16, 2010

When it comes to desert music festivals, Coachella isn't the only game in town. The eighth annual Joshua Tree Music Festival offers three days of eclectic live music under the expansive sky of the Mojave. Scheduled performers include the cross-cultural electronica act Mexican Institute of Sound, the Afrobeat artist Wunmi and the Bulgarian-born singer-songwriter Geri X. ...

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News: Obituary

Rob McConnell Dies at 75; Valve Trombonist Who Led the Boss Brass

May 16, 2010

He led one of Canada's best-known big bands and won three Grammys, one as an artist for the album 'All in Good Time,' was known as one of the few modern masters of the valve trombone. Rob McConnell, a celebrated composer, arranger and valve trombonist who led the Boss Brass, one of Canada's best and best-known ...

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News: Obituary

Francisco Aguabella, Percussionist Who Crossed Genres, Dies at 84

May 15, 2010

Francisco Aguabella, a Cuban-born master percussionist whose impeccable rhythmic sense and drive enriched the recordings and live performances of jazz, salsa and pop artists for five decades, died on May 7 at his home in Los Angeles. He was 84. The cause was cancer, said his daughter Menina Givens. Mr. Aguabella's main instrument was the conga ...

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News: Festival

31st Annual Detroit Jazz Festival

May 16, 2010

Subtitled “Flame Keepers: Carrying the Torch for Modern Jazz," the 31st annual Detroit Jazz Fest will pay homage to six trailblazers of modern jazz: Art Blakey, Ray Brown, Miles Davis, Horace Silver, Betty Carter, and Gil Evans. The talents of these geniuses burned brightly not only through the movements they created, but also through their investment ...

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News: Festival

Montreal Jazz Festival Announces Full Indoor Lineup

May 16, 2010

Herbie Hancock performs June 27 at Montreal's Theatre Maisonneuve of Place des Arts. Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette will perform July 3, organizers for the Montreal International Jazz Festival revealed Tuesday while announcing the festival's final group of ticketed indoor shows. The three musicians last appeared together at the festival three years ago. DeJohnette's ...

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News: Festival

53rd Monterey Jazz Festival

May 16, 2010

Welcome to the Monterey Jazz Festival 3-Day Celebration of the Best in Jazz, with over 500 artist appearing on 8 stages on 20 acres in the heart of Monterey, California! Monterey Jazz Festival Artist Highlights September 17-19 2010 * The return of jazz legends Chick Corea, Dianne Reeves, Roy Hargrove, Chris Potter, Christian McBride, ...

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News: Education

Core Music Bundle Offers New Method for Jazz Education

May 16, 2010

Fifty years ago, learning jazz was based on apprenticeship on the bandstand, preceded by lessons with a classical teacher and a lot of hanging at the clubs. Possibly the latter was substituted by the new Long Play stereo records. Since then, jazz has become an institutionalized art form with prescribed course material. The books have often ...