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August '58: Great Day in Harlem
In the early 1960s, I grew up in New York's Washington Heights with photographer Art Kane's son Jonathan. I was pretty young then, but I still recall Jonathan's dad as a hip, relaxed guy in a photographer's vest, longish hair and large glasses. Art Kane, of course, took the famous “A Great Day in Harlem" photo ...
The Kitano New York Opens Manhattan’s Newest Supper Club
JAZZ at KITANO Offers a Fresh Take on New York City Jazz Venues NEW YORK, NY: The Kitano New York, Manhattan’s first and only Japanese-owned hotel, will showcase the city’s best jazz with the opening of a new supper club, JAZZ at KITANO. Located in a historic former Rockefeller Family townhouse adjacent to the hotel, JAZZ ...
Gumroad's 19 Year Old Founder Raises $8.1 Million for Music Ecommerce
Gumroad wants to empower musicians, in fact everyone, to “sell" as easily as they “share"; and so far its 19 year old founder has raised $8.1 million to make his goal a reality. After angel funding og $1.1 million in February, Sahil Lavingia - already an ex-member of the Pinterest team - just landed another $7 ...
Jazz Soul Seven: Curtis Mayfield
Singer-songwriter and guitarist Curtis Mayfield (1942-1999) isn't nearly as well known today as he should be. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Mayfield, like Sly Stone, leveraged the assertive music and messages of James Brown—whose Say It Loud (I'm Black and I'm Proud in 1968 launched a socially conscious soul music revolution. After leaving the ...
Lifeforce Jazz to Release James Leary New CD Release
On Tuesday May 8th, 2012 Lifeforce Jazz releases a stellar CD of original compositions and arrangements, Together by James Leary, recorded in two outstanding recording sessions. After years with the Count Basie Orchestra winning two Grammy's along the way, Sammy Davis Jr. Bobby Hutcherson, Max Roach, Randy Weston, and Dizzy Gillespie to name a few James ...
Shapeshifter Lab: A New Music Venue In Brooklyn, NY
SHAPESHIFTER LAB GRAND OPENING CELEBRATION – JUNE 2012 The Art Space that ShapeShifts Music and Creativity Brooklyn, NY: In today’s fast evolving music industry it’s not just the musicians and the marketplace that need to be flexible and adaptable; music venues also need to accommodate every conceivable audio-visual need. Thus ShapeShifter Lab, Brooklyn’s newest ...
Wes Montgomery: Holland, 1965
Touring in the Netherlands in April 1965 with Clark Terry, guitarist Wes Montgomery was captured in a studio warming up Dutch musicians for a radio show recorded later on that day. The tunes they used to limber up were I Love Blues, Nica's Dream and End of a Love Affair. Fortunately, the Dutch cameramen were warming ...
The Blackhawk Gets Its Due
In my notes for the final volume of Shelly Manne & His Men At The Blackhawk, I wrote: During my years of labor at KGO-TV in San Francisco, I never passed the parking lot a block away at Turk and Hyde without regretting the injustice of a world that puts more value on the storage of ...
33 Years of Record-Setting Jazz!
Montreal: The Festival International de Jazz de Montréal, presented by TD in collaboration with Rio Tinto Alcan, is entering its 33rd edition. In other words, for 33 years, the Festival has spun out its annual celebration of musical pleasure, a jazz groove that also crosscuts with musical forebears and relatives, from blues to world music, showcasing ...
John Scofield on Brookmeyer
In 1981, guitarist John Scofield received a phone call at his hotel in the Netherlands while touring with his band. On the other line was a local TV-show producer. He needed a sub to play with valve trombonist Bob Brookmeyer that night on a show. John jumped at the chance. The result of that appearance is ...
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