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Guitar Center Searches for Next Great Blues Musician
Guitar Center Searches For The Nation's Greatest Unsigned Blues Guitar Player Joe Bonamassa Has the recession left you with too much free time on your hands this summer? Looking for a creative outlet for your energies and possibly a new career path? If you consider yourself a pretty great guitar player (or serious blues guitar fan) ...
Leading Questions: Cuong Vu
Photo and Interview by Steve Korn Someone once told me that “there’s no money in music!” That’s it. No follow-up to this “heaviness.” What a dumb-ass. If I could do it all over again, I’d be more fearless in pursuing whatever I wanted. The first reason is that I’ve finally learned that the things I fear ...
Leonard Cohen Collapses Onstage
The singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen is recovering after collapsing onstage in Spain. Mr. Cohen fainted during a performance of his song Bird on the Wire in Valencia on Friday night, The Times of London reported. The concert was stopped, and Mr. Cohen, who turns 75 on Monday, was taken to a hospital. He was released early on ...
Good Business to Take Care Of
The jazz community has learned how to take care of its makers--past, present--and way in the past. The greatest examples come out of the the Jazz Foundation of America's Jazz Musicians Emergency Fund, which is run out of New York by a jazz angel named Wendy Oxenhorn. She and the JMEF step in when they hear ...
The Rebirth, and the Beat, Goes On
At times, central Harlem seems to be an urban scene straight out of central casting: Step off the No. 2 or 3 train at the 116th Street stop one evening, and the air is filled with the snap-snap of double Dutch jump ropes hitting the pavement and girls tensely debating just whose turn it is. Old ...
A Microcosm of Cutting-Edge Music
At a time when most longstanding jazz festivals are struggling, a relative newcomer, the New Languages Festival, is thriving. New Languages was founded by two saxophonists, Jackson Moore, 32 years old, and Aaron Ali Shaikh, 27. “We began with the intention of shining light on jazz musicians who were of the generation that grew up with ...
Kanye West Makes a Fool of Himself Interrupting MTV Awards
At least the shocker this year was related to music. The MTV Video Music Awards are always willfully chaotic, keeping alive the myth of pop as the provenance of rebels by placing a bunch of moderately edgy celebrities within a festive environment and fueling the mood with sexy performances, off-color jokes and “incidents" that are often ...
Jay Leno: Television is Dying
Jay Leno's new show is surrounded by drama TV insiders hope NBC's cut-rate alternative to scripted content fails. When “The Jay Leno Show" premieres tonight in its 10 p.m. weeknight slot, a fair number of industry insiders -- and not just rival executives -- will be rooting for it to flop. Jay Leno knows how to ...
Terry Clarke Signs with Blue Music Group
Grammy nominated and Juno Award winning drummer Terry Clarke signed with Blue Music Group for his release It's About Time featuring Joe Lovano, Jim Hall, Greg Osby, Phil Dwyer and Don Thompson. Terry Clarke was born on August 20, 1944 in Vancouver, British Columbia. His natural rhythmic aptitude was obvious from an early age, and at ...
Jazz Orchestra Cuts Back, but Not on Its Ambitions
FEW show business ventures have more risks attached than the modern big band. And the Westchester Jazz Orchestra is hardly immune. With 17 in-demand musicians to pay, and the economy depressed, the orchestra is cutting costs by shortening the coming season to four concerts, from five last year. But the orchestra means to maintain the artistic ...
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