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Second Magic City: Sun Ra in Chicago
Sun Ra, whose real name was Herman or “Sunny" Blount, grew up in Birmingham, Alabama in the 1920s and 30s, living within sight of a huge sign welcoming Birmingham visitors to “the Magic City." It's a prophetic sign in the Sun Ra legend, for Herman Blount--who was named by his mother after the popular vaudeville magician ...
EMI Loses a Bundle
To paraphrase one of its late great former acts, when EMI was 77, it wasnt a very good year. According to new figures just released, the underdog of the four major labels suffered losses of $1.2 billion in the financial year ended March 31, far deeper than the prior years $455 million. Revenue declined to $2.3 ...
For Your Consideration: Grammy Members Can Help Nominate George Kahn and Brian Bromberg
The Grammy Award Nominations have begun, and George Kahn's new album Cover Up! Is on the official entry list for possible nomination for a Grammy in 7 different categories. Please note this is not a nomination--it only allows members to vote for the album to qualify for a nomination. But, official entry does put us in ...
Mingus Awareness Project: A Word from Jon Godston
Mingus Awareness Project co-creator Jon Godston sent the following message after the most recent piece was published: It was an idea that Dan and I talked about after our Mom passed away in May'06. Both of us live in Chicago, and Dan is pretty active on the jazz scene (his non-profit, Borderbend Arts Collective, ...
Compatible Quotes: Harry James
This very thin guy with swept back hair...climbed on the stage. He'd sung only eight bars of “Night and Day" when I felt the hairs on the back of my neck rising.--on first hearing the unknown young singer Frank Sinatra I was the only member in the band to be silly enough to put some of ...
Ticketmaster Gets in the Artist Management Game
The turf war between the world's top ticketing company and the world's top concert promoter just got bloodier. Ticketmaster Inc. announced today that it had acquired a controlling stake in Front Line Management Group Inc., the artist management company that's home to legacy acts like the Eagles and Journey along with divas and divos like Christina ...
Jazz Drummer & Agent Myles Weinstein's Success / Miguel Zenon 2nd MacArthur Award Client
Drummer and percussionist Myles Weinstein has led two very different professional lives, one as a performing artist and the other as a booking agent to many of the best musicians in jazz today. One of those musicians, Miguel Zenon, was the latest to receive the MacArthur Award, often called the “genius” award. Weinstein’s booking agency, Unlimited ...
David Sanborn Save the Music Foundation Auction Update
Maverick saxophonist David Sanborn, who has performed alongside such heavyweights as James Brown, Eric Clapton, Stevie Wonder, Bruce Springsteen, David Bowie, and innumerable others is stepping up in support of young musicians across the country and participating in an exclusive auction to benefit the VH1 Save The Music Foundation, which donates instruments for public school music ...
A Ferment of World Jazz Yields a Trove of Tapes
WOODSTOCK, N.Y. — The Creative Music Studio here remains underdocumented and little understood. But a definitive history of jazz in the 1970s — a book yet to be written — ought to give it central importance. During the dawning years of jazz education the studio, run out of various repurposed settings — a barn, a Lutheran ...
Jazz Society Seeks New Music Venues in Yuma
Nonprofit groups strive to better their community in lots of ways, but one wants to give Yuma the gift of jazz and blues. A local music promoter founded the Yuma Jazz Society in August with the goal of creating more jazz and blues events in Yuma, including an annual festival and smaller events ranging from jams ...
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