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Notes from the Net: When Lester Met Fela; Eric Person in Iowa; Boney James Tops Billboard Chart; and More
Here's our weekly compilation of news and links related to jazz, improvisation, and creative music in St. Louis, including news of musicians originally from the Gateway City, recent visitors, and coming attractions, plus assorted other items of interest:* It's something of a tradition here to start this recurring feature with something Miles Davis-related, and ...
Elvis Costello Teams with T Bone Burnett for New Acoustic Record
Elvis Costello's newest album, “Secret, Profane & Sugarcane," sees the prolific singer-songwriter-composer returning to acoustic American roots music for the first time since his 1986 album “King of America." “Sugarcane" will be released June 2 on Hear Music. “Sugarcane" was produced by T Bone Burnett and recorded during a three-day session at Nashville's Sound Emporium Studio. ...
Prosecutor: Spector Played 'Russian Roulette with the Lives of Women'
Urging jurors to convict Phil Spector of murder Monday. Prosecutor said the fatal shooting of an actress was the inevitable result of the legendary music producer’s “history of playing Russian roulette with the lives of women.” Referring to a string of women who testified, Deputy Dist. Atty. Truc Do said Spector had terrorized them with guns ...
George Avakian is 90
George Avakian has produced recordings by Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, Erroll Garner, Sonny Rollins, Dave Brubeck and Paul Desmond, among others. With the 78 rpm albums of Armstrong's Hot Fives and Hot Sevens that he oversaw for Columbia Records in the 1940s, he invented the jazz reissue. George turned 90 this week, and there ...
Phil Spector's Second Murder Trial Winds Down as Jurors Allowed to Consider Lesser Charges
Six years after actress Lana Clarkson died of a gunshot wound at Phil Spector's hilltop mansion, lawyers will once again deliver final arguments to a jury in the legendary music producer's murder trial. The question hanging over these proceedings is whether this jury, unlike the one at Spector's first trial 18 months ago, will be able ...
Jazz Bakery Loses Lease Seeks New Site
May 31 will be the club's last day at Helms Bakery complex. A fall reopening is planned. Wistful notes continue to flow at the Jazz Bakery. But their spontaneous and tuneful cadence will soon be idle as the club, one of L.A.'s most venerable jazz institutions, prepares to close its Culver City location May 31. “The ...
Making Music with Less
LIKE many musicians who play for the handful of small professional orchestras outside of New York City these days, Gabriel Schaff, a violinist, is struggling to cobble together a living. Mr. Schaff, 49, has contracts that guarantee work with four orchestras, including the Stamford Symphony Orchestra and Long Island Philharmonic. He substitutes in others, including the ...
Cheers Bartender Laid Off
Eddie Doyle considered a Boston institution Everyone may know his name but not everyone is willing to pay him. Eddie Doyle, the famous bartender at Boston pub Cheers -- the inspiration behind the hit show -- is losing his post after nearly 35 years due to the economy. According to the Boston Globe, many public figures ...
Seattle Times: For Branford Marsalis, It's All About the Group
from The Seattle Times: Branford Marsalis is one of the biggest names in jazz, a midcareer master who’s maintained an enviable level of visibility for nearly three decades. But the sardonic tenor and soprano saxophonist isn’t much impressed by personal accolades. As a musician, he’s devoted to a group concept that puts a premium on free-flowing ...
Other Matters: Cultural Diplomacy
I have written here from time to time about the harm the United States has done itself by failing in recent years to practice the cultural diplomacy that did it so much good for decades following World War II. After the Berlin Wall fell and European communist totalitarianism followed, the Clinton administration dismantled the United States ...
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