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Why the Kennedy Center Hates Jazz
It seems the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has made another honest mistake. I say “honest," because I assume the folks down in Washington, D.C., who head up the Kennedy Center are well educated and cultured. How else can one explain the decision by an organization of this national standing to repeatedly ignore jazz and ...
Biography: Iranian-American Jazz Singer Rana Farhan
Jazz siren Rana Farhan proclaims on her web site: “Jazz is peace." She's not just borrowing 60s flower child rhetoric. She knows firsthand. Born in Iran, Rana grew up listening to any albums she could get her hands on, fostering a love for American blues artists like Brownie McGhee, Leadbelly, and Johnny Winter; while rockin' to ...
Farewell Service for McKenna
In the Boston Globe, Matt Negrin reports on yesterday's memorial service for pianist Dave McKenna. He includes what one of McKenna's favorite singers said about working with him. It was like partially singing with an orchestra and floating on air at the same time, because he was buoyant," said Daryl Sherman, who had sung with the ...
Obama: We'll Have Jazz at the White House
President-elect Barack Obama appeared on NBC's weekly Sunday-morning program Meet the Press yesterday and gave indication that we'll be seeing more jazz performances at the White House after he takes office: The president-elect said his administration is interested in “elevating science once again, and having lectures in the White House where people are talking about traveling ...
Happy Birthday Gregg Allman!
THE BEAUTIFULLY GRIZZLED SOUL OF THE BROTHERS TURNS 61 TOMORROW Gregg Allman has always sounded older than the hills. His voice is caked in river silt and bathtub whiskey, sleepless nights and even rougher dawns. It's a sound that goes way beyond workingman's friendly, taking us down into the valley of true bluesmen and ...
Correspondence: When Mike and Joe Dug Herb
In response to last month's post Herb Geller At 80, Rifftides reader Mike Baughan sent the following account of hearing Geller under fortuitous circumstances. On a 'post-divorce-find myself-solo vacation' to Norway in 2002, I was fortunate enough to attend some events of the Oslo Jazz Festival. Saw the Swedish guitarist Ulf Wakenius perform a ...
Joe Satriani Sues Coldplay for Plagiarism
Rock guitarist Joe Satriani has sued British band Coldplay, accusing the Grammy-nominated stars of plagiarizing one of his songs. Satriani's copyright infringement suit, filed yesterday (Dec. 4) in Los Angeles federal court, claims the Coldplay song “Viva La Vida" incorporates “substantial original portions" of his 2004 instrumental “If I Could Fly." The 52-year-old guitar virtuoso is ...
Other Places: Blumenfeld on Shorter
Wayne Shorter turned seventy-five in August and played a delayed celebratory concert this week in Carnegie Hall. He was with his working rhythm section of pianist Danilo Perez, bassist John Patitucci and drummer Brian Blade. The remarkable Imani Winds also played a set with Shorter. I wasn't there, worse luck, but fellow artsjournal.com blogger Larry Blumenfeld was. ...
O.J. Simpson Sentenced to 16 Years in Prison
Despite a tearful plea for leniency from O.J. Simpson, a Las Vegas judge today sentenced him to 16 years in prison for the kidnapping and robbery of two sports memorabilia dealers. Simpson would be eligible for parole in nine years under the sentence handed down by Clark County District Court Judge Jackie Glass. His sentence came ...
Split Lip Rayfield: Fast, Rough and Loud
By: Sarah Hagerman Split Lip Rayfield by Ryan Hendrix It's one of those November nights in Austin where the chill catches you off guard, but inside the Continental Club the heat has forced us to stuff our jackets into all available nooks and crannies. It's a dense crowd to tussle through ...
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