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Deadly Clash in Hollywood Between Swedish Rapper and Jazz Performer
After midnight Sunday, John Osnes, a pianist who performed jazz standards and Beatles songs at piano bars in Hollywood, put an empty glass down on the counter of one of his favorite haunts, The Spotlight, and waved goodbye to an employee. “He said, 'Benji, I will see you tomorrow for sure,' “ bartender Benjamin Avery recalled. ...
Nowra Gets into the Jazz Groove with La Fumee
PUT three 18-year-old musicians together and the last thing you’d expect to get is a jazz band. But that is exactly what Le Fumee is – a three-piece jazz ensemble made up of high school friends Tom Sherringham, Tom Wade and Pat Langdon. They have only been performing as an ensemble for a few months but ...
Meet a Singer Who's Right on Song: Christine Tobin
Christine Tobin stops mid-sentence and tells herself to put her shovel away and stop digging. The Dublin-born singer has just been waxing lyrical about the power of sad songs to make both singer and listener feel better when she realises she might be setting herself up for inclusion in the miserable-git school of performer. She's far ...
Paul Desmond's 84th
Yesterday was Paul Desmond's eighty-fourth birthday. Years after Paul's death, his guitar companion Jim Hall said, “He would have been a great old man," The last birthday Desmond celebrated, his fifty-second, fell on Thanksgiving, 1976. He spent it with Jim and his wife Jane at their daughter's tiny apartment in New York City. He had taken a hiatus ...
Umphrey's McGee: 2009 Dates
On Inauguration Day, January 20, 2009, Umphrey's McGee will release Mantis (read up on the release here). Following the release of Mantis, the band will take the new material on the road for a massive tour that goes into April. Of particular interest, the band's April 5 gig at Toad's Place in New Haven, will be ...
Watters Brothers (Ken & Harry Watters) Sign on as Newest Jupiter Artists
AUSTIN, TEXAS October 29, 2008 Musicians and brothers, Harry and Ken Watters, have signed on as artists and clinicians for Jupiter. Playing the trombone and trumpet, respectively, the Watters brothers are key educators who will provide clinics at schools and universities with a portion of their fee paid by Jupiter through the artist program. They are ...
U2, Coldplay, Killers Help Launch (Red)Wire
Some of the biggest names in music are contributing exclusive songs to RED(WIRE), a new digital music magazine launching on World AIDS Day (Dec. 1). U2, Coldplay, the Killers, the Dixie Chicks, John Legend, R.E.M. and Bob Dylan are on board for the initiative, which is an outgrowth of the Bono-reared activist organization (RED). All proceeds ...
2009 Philadelphia "Jazz Bridge" Calendars Are Here!
Orders are now being taken for the 2009 Jazz Bridge Calendar, a beautiful calendar on thick, glossy paper that features jazz and blues musicians from the Greater Philadelphia Metro area, past and present, in classic photographs by some of the world's best photographers. Congratulations to the wonderful artists featured this year: Frank Bey, Bobby Durham, Nina ...
Sarah Vaughan: 1958 and 1964
"The records don't do 'em justice," is a line I hear frequently from musicians today who had the privilege of playing with jazz greats from the 1940s and 1950s. The point being that what you hear on LP and CD is nothing compared to having seen or played with those artists back then. For the longest ...
Jeremy Davenport Signs with Basin Street Records
It was just a couple of days ago that we noted in this space that trumpeter, vocalist and St. Louis native-turned-New Orleans resident Jeremy Davenport seems under-recorded by current music business standards, and now, word comes that he has signed a new deal with Basin Street Records. From the news release:“Mark Samuels, president and founder ...
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