Results for "Michael Ricci"

Orrin Evans - Captain's Prelude/Easy Now

May 7, 2010

Recent Listening: Trios. Part 1, Hal Galper

May 7, 2010

Hal Galper, E Pluribus Unum (Origin). You won't be hearing Galper on your favorite easy listening station. The past few years, the pianist has used sonic density, astringent harmonies, massive technique and powerful swing to build intricate edifices. Galper's music is demanding beyond even the muscular bebop he played when he was the pianist in Phil ...

FCC to Reassert Network Neutrality Rules

May 7, 2010

Regulators, whose authority over broadband was put in doubt by a recent court ruling, will announce on Thursday that it will reassert its powers but will refrain from imposing strict burdens on broadband providers like Verizon, AT&T and Comcast. The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Julius Genachowski, is seeking to walk a line between moving ...

Tribute to Don Capone - May 12 @ Lenny's Latin Cafe

May 7, 2010

Here's the word from trumpeter Dwayne White: Calling All Jazz Musicians Wednesday, May 12 @ 7pm we will convene at Lenny's Latin Cafe, 10918 N 56th St Tampa, to pay tribute to the late Don Capone. Please join us for a great evening of celebration doing what we as musicians do best. Playing music!  There will ...

Ticketmaster-Live Nation Merger Cleared

May 7, 2010

England's Competition Commission again cleared the Ticketmaster-Live Nation merger on Friday, formally sealing the creation of Live Nation Entertainment. The overseas regulatory body had originally approved the splicing in December, but agreed to reconsider and make a new decision following a challenge to the Competition Appeal Tribunal by German ticketing firm CTS Eventim. The CC again ...

Westside Joint Gives Unsigned Bands a Boost Breathes Life into Music

May 7, 2010

Just west of L.A.'s Miracle Mile, the restaurant/nightclub Life on Wilshire hosts a weekly Monday night showcase of mostly unsigned acts that's been slowly gathering steam over the past year and a half. Westsiders with a taste for live music who dread penetrating the rock-club bottleneck of the Strip, the alt-pop lounges of Silver Lake and ...

San Francisco Jazz Group Plans Its Own Building Dedicated to the Genre

May 7, 2010

SFJazz, the San Francisco arts organization, will announce plans on Friday to build its own facility dedicated to jazz: a 35,000-square-foot building in that city's Hayes Valley neighborhood, with two adaptable theater spaces inside. “The concept of an institution for jazz is a very new thing obviously, Jazz at Lincoln Center made that concept work," said ...

Gipsy Kings at Place Des Arts!-

May 7, 2010

The organizers of the 31st Festival International de Jazz de Montreal wish to inform festival fans that the An Evening with the Gipsy Kings concert that was originally going to be staged at the Bell Centre on Sunday, July 4, has been moved to Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier at Place des Arts, on the same date and still ...

Mary Lou, We Hardly Know Ya ...

May 7, 2010

The Princeton University Concert Jazz Ensemble will be paying tribute Saturday to Mary Lou Williams, possibly jazz's most overlooked genius, on the centennial of her birth.Maybe it was her gender, maybe it was the company she kept (she worked for Dorsey, Goodman, Ellington ... you name it, anyone with a decent band in the ...

Yo la Tengo: From Monk to the Mets

May 7, 2010

By: Ron Hart Yo La Tengo Yo La Tengo of Hoboken, NJ, formed 25 years ago when New York Rocker scribe and local soundman Ira Kaplan met artist Georgia Hubley, daughter of legendary Disney animator John Hubley, and the two bonded over records and the New York Mets. Since then, alongside longtime bassist James McNew, the ...