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Hendrix Home Tape for Sale, Shows Softer Side
Recording features 14 tracks, including cover of Dylan song Tears of Rage. A home recording by Jimi Hendrix, which its owners said showed the 1960s rock icons softer side, will be auctioned next month and is expected to fetch between $70,000 and $140,000. According to co-owner Mark Sutherland, the tape was recorded by Hendrix in New ...
Why Music
The text of a remarkable address is making its way around the internet through the part of the world in which music matters, which is everywhere. Karl Paulnack, pianist and director of the Boston Conservatory's music division, greeted the parents of incoming freshman students. He made the speech in the fall of 2004, but it has ...
Ben Webster's Centenary
Since Rifftides began nearly four years ago, I have posted frequently about Ben Webster - but not frequently enough. That would be impossible. Few improvising artists have achieved Webster's level of supremacy at speaking their pieces with eloquence and brevity. I would not suggest that eloquence has fled; it is possible to be eloquent at length. ...
"The Death of the CD-Release Complex"
Kyle Bylin, Associate Editor Introduction In his seminal release Purple Cow, marketer Seth Godin declared, “The Death of the TV-Industrial Complex." Explaining that, over the past fifty years ever-growing companies had built huge economic engines around the idea of a system that's going away, because the symbiotic relationship between consumer demand and TV ...
Musicians Plead for Increased Arts Funding
Musicians Linda Ronstadt, Josh Groban and Wynton Marsalis recall their experiences with music before a House panel in hopes of raising the budget for the National Endowment for the Arts to $200 million. A woman held a BlackBerry over the crowd surrounding Linda Ronstadt to get a shot of the onetime queen of country rock. Someone ...
How Song, Dance and Movies Bailed Us out of the Depression
Popular culture provided the optimism and energy that helped the country get moving. We may need that again. Many were surprised that the final stimulus legislation signed by President Obama preserved a $50-million increase in arts funding that had been the subject of a heated battle in Congress. Though it amounted to only a tiny fraction ...
Jimi Hendrix Childhood Home Torn Down
Despite an eight-year, $100,000-plus effort by a Seattle real-estate investor, the house where Jimi Hendrix lived as a child in Seattle is gone. A home where Jimi Hendrix lived was moved to Hi-Land Mobile Manor in Renton by its owner, Pete Sikov. Sikov complied with an order to tear down the house. It's gone, by order ...
Jazz Planners Find Success in Change
Marty Ashby is guiding MCG Jazz the way smart jazz club owners run their places. Give people good material, and they show up. There. It's easy. His work and that of Janis Burley Wilson at the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust show that route to success is not hard to understand. Ashby, this year, gave the Manchester Craftsmen's ...
Liza Lee Singer and Songwriter Signs with Art of Life Records
Art of Life Records is signing its newest artist, American vocalist and songwriter Liza Lee. Lee has been described as “An important and inimitable voice of the 21st Century.” Art of Life will re-release her sophomore album Anima on the Art of Life Label in 2009. The album combines Lee’s vocals in duo and ensemble settings. ...
Eiffel Tower Gets a Makeover at 120
120th anniversary of the Eiffel Tower The iconic Eiffel Tower celebrated its 120th anniversary Tuesday. It was inaugurated at the World's Fair in Paris in 1889 and, until 1929, was the tallest building in the world. It remains the tallest building in the city. World famous now, the Eiffel Tower was a breath-taking novelty in March ...
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