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The Doors Are Closing, but the Jazz Bakery is Still in Play
The lauded music venue may be closing its doors this weekend, but owner Ruth Price is working on plans to keep the music going. The Jazz Bakery, a staple of the L.A. music community, will close its doors Sunday after losing its lease, but owner Ruth Price insists it's too early to write a eulogy for ...
Band Rewards Fans for Burning Their CD and Giving It Away
It's no secret that there is promotional power in giving away music, but just slapping a FREE banner on a web site doesn't cut it anymore. Free is everywhere. But what if the free music was on a CD given fan to fan with no strings attached? That could get pretty expensive...unless the fans do it ...
Nigerian Authorities Shut Down Femi Kuti's Club the Shrine
Nigerian Authorities Shut Down Femi Kuti's Club The Shrine Femi Kuti On the eve of Femi Kuti's tour, which begins in NYC next week, Nigerian authorities have just shut down his Africa Shrine club, much as they often did to Femi's father Fela. The Kutis say the shut-down is retaliation for the criticism Femi has launched, ...
Bill Mays and Red Mitchell
Bill Mays and Red Mitchell constituted one of the great piano-bass duos of the 1980s. Musicians and dedicated listeners still talk about their gigs at Bradley's in New York's Greenwich Village. Their album Two of a Mind has been out of print for years, although it shows up from time to time on web sites including ...
Phil Spector Sentenced 19 Years to Life for Murder
In a quiet end to the six-year-old case, the legendary music producer is told that he will not be eligible for parole until 2028, when he would be 88. Phil Spector stared straight ahead. It was the appointed hour for the legendary music producer's six-year murder case to come to a close and the courtroom was ...
Late Ellington
There is little question that the 1940-41 edition of the Duke Ellington orchestra, the so-called Blanton-Webster band, was Ellington's finest. Legions of Ellington lovers have listened to it so often that they can sing along with its arrangements and the solos by Webster, Ray Nance, Johnny Hodges, Ellington and the other members. Still, I've always had ...
Jazz This Week: "Jazz Cavalcade" with Kirk Whalum, Chicago Afrobeat Project, Javier Mendoza, Cornet Chop Suey, and More
From African and Latin rhythms to traditional jazz and swing to a free concert featuring a well-known smooth jazz saxophonist, here's a look at what's going on over the next few days with jazz and creative music in St. Louis.The polyrhythmic portion of the weekend gets underway on Friday night, when the Chicago Afrobeat ...
Indie Labels Experience a Major Renaissance Amidst the Upheaval
With upheaval comes opportunity; and ongoing problems within the recorded music industry has also led to a revival within independent label sector. While not without their own challenges, indie record labels appear to be experiencing a renaissance, thanks in part to new technologies and media that did not exist 5 years ago. Their nimbleness ...
Happy Birthday Miles and Dylan
TWO BIGGIES WITH BIRTHS WORTH CELEBRATING Bob Dylan turned 68 yesterday, and if he were still with us Miles Davis would be 83-years-old tomorrow. In many, many respects this pair represents two archetypal trajectories for musicians, their work offering myriad, ever-shifting lessons about life and how to shape it into notes. As such, we wanted to ...
Sly Stone Interviewed on KCRW Morning Becomes Eclectic
Sly Stone Interviewed on KCRW: Discusses Doris Day, Terry Melcher, Charles Manson and “Que Sera Sera." Sly Stone was interviewed by Chris Douridas on Morning Becomes Eclectic this morning, and though there were a few missed opportunities -- we want to know about his archives and unreleased stuff, and didn't think it necessary to dwell so ...
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