Results for "Music Industry"

Record Site Taken Down for Violating Own Copyright

October 22, 2008

A donation-based record label is back online Tuesday after its Web-hosting company took the label's Web site offline for alleged copyright violations. One problem, though. The label – Quote Unquote Records – produces all of its own content, and was perplexed as to how it could have infringed upon itself. “A little over a week ago, ...

Edie Adams and Stan Getz

October 22, 2008

Mingus Awareness Project: A Benefit for ALS Research

October 21, 2008

By Dean ChristesenOne year ago on a sunny Sunday afternoon, the Mingus Awareness Project found its home away from home in Richmond, Virginia. Created and first held in Chicago by Jon Godston in May 2007, M.A.P. was formed to educate people on two topics: jazz bassist Charles Mingus and Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (or ALS), ...

The Baroness of Jazz

October 21, 2008

If the mysterious Baroness Pannonica de Koenigswarter is at all remembered today, it is for her proximity to the deaths of two legendary jazz musicians. In 1955 Charlie Parker died on a sofa in her Fifth Avenue home; 27 years later Thelonious Monk died after secluding himself for years in her New Jersey house. Both deaths ...

Birdland Jazz Club Announces November 2008 Schedule

October 20, 2008

Birdland (315 West 44th Street between 8th & 9th Aves.) is pleased to announce an exciting line-up of extraordinary entertainment for the month of November. A detailed schedule follows: Enrico Pieranunzi Latin Quintet Born in Rome in 1949, Enrico Pieranunzi has long been one of the best-known and appreciated personalities on the European jazz ...

David Sanborn Helps Raise Money for VH1's Save the Music Foundation

October 20, 2008

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 two exclusive auctions to benefit the VH1 Save The Music Foundation, which donates instruments for public school music ...

Texas Gypsies Serve up Vintage Jazz, Hepcat Crooning

October 20, 2008

Sometimes it’s just fate working its magic, or in this case, its gypsy magic. That was the case with the Texas Gypsies, a band that snacks on eclecticism for breakfast, serving up a granola mix of throwback, cool, hepcat ‘30s/’40s jazz smooshed together harmoniously and fortuitously with its sister sound, Western swing. The Dallas-Fort Worth area ...

When Betty Met the Duke: Betty Roche

October 20, 2008

“Betty Roche was an unforgettable singer," Duke Ellington wrote of his former vocalist in 1973. “She never sounded like anybody but Betty Roche." Roche, the so-called “blues specialist" whom some consider to be one of the best vocalists Ellington ever had, replaced the popular Ivie Anderson in Ellington's band in late 1942, just as the American ...

Other Places: More About Nica

October 20, 2008

In The New York Times, Barry Singer has an update to the story of the remarkable Baroness Pannonica de Koenigswarter, friend and supporter of major musicians including Charlie Parker and Thelonious Monk. The Baroness is seen here with Monk in a well-known photograph. She died twenty years ago. Singer writes: A Rothschild heiress, she ...

Cedar Walton Live in Laurel

October 20, 2008

Rifftides Washington, DC, correspondent John Birchard journeyed out of the district last weekend to hear pianist Cedar Walton and his trio. Here is John's review. Smack in the middle of the mainstream - that's where you'll find Cedar Walton, still creative at the age of 74. The pianist brought his current trio to the ...