Results for "Music Industry"

Music for Lifetime Achievement Seeks Donations of Musical Instruments

October 2, 2008

As they do every October, the not-for-profit organization Music for Lifetime Achievement (MFLA) and the Sheldon Concert Hall are conducting their annual collection drive to gather used and new musical instruments for underprivileged students at St. Louis area schools. Over the past four years, the MFLA instrument drives have collected almost 500 instruments, which have been ...

Jazz Legends Return to Forever Auctioning Autographed Collectibles to Benefit VH1 Save the Music Foundation

October 1, 2008

Fresh from their impressive US and European summer reunion tour, the influential jazz fusion/rock foursome Return to Forever has teamed up with Paid, Inc. to auction autographed collectors items online to benefit the VH1 Save The Music Foundation. The auction is live now on www.Return2Forever.com and will conclude on October 6 2008. Return to Forever, a ...

Return to Forever and Paid, Inc. Auctioning Autographed Collectibles

September 30, 2008

Fresh from their impressive U.S. and European summer reunion tour, the influential jazz fusion/rock foursome Return To Forever has teamed up with the experts at Paid, Inc. to auction autographed collectors items online to benefit the VH1 Save The Music Foundation. The auction is live now on Return2Forever.comand will conclude on October 6, 2008. Return to ...

Blind Boys and Prez Hall Jazz Band | 09.16 | CO

September 30, 2008

Words by: Joe Schicke Blind Boys of Alabama & Preservation Hall Jazz Band 09.16.08 :: Lincoln Center :: Fort Collins, CO Preservation Hall Jazz Band Some say you can never have too much of a good thing, and if that's true, then the Down by the Riverside Tour ...

Jack Bradley's Satchmo

September 30, 2008

It was nearly dawn after a round -- several rounds -- of music and conviviality during the 1969 New Orleans Jazz Festival. A few of us were sitting on the balcony of Bobby Hackett's hotel room on Bourbon Street swapping stories and thinking it might be about time to call it a night. Hackett's guests, in ...

The Triple Door, Seattle's Swanky Supper Club, Celebrates Its 5th Anniversary

September 29, 2008

The Bay Area has Yoshi's. In Portland, it's Jimmy Mak's. Seattle's upscale, sit-down, dine-in concert venue is the Triple Door, and it's not bragging to say it's the best of the bunch, and this week marks its fifth anniversary. Historically speaking, swanky supper clubs are a remnant of America's Jazz Age in the 1920s. Today's versions ...

Eri Yamamoto Finds the Keys to the City

September 29, 2008

Manhattan's landscape can change in a flash, yet even near the busiest thoroughfares, a half-forgotten pocket exists where time stands still and only the escalating beer prices alert a patron to the approximate decade. Straddle a barstool inside the musty, West Village cocoon that is Arthur's Tavern and marvel. Balloons dangle from the ceiling, slowly deflating, ...

Collector Shares Mementos and Memories of Jazz Legend

September 29, 2008

Jack Bradley was only 15 when he first heard Louis Armstrong on a 78-r.p.m. record in his family’s living room, an ordinary introduction to a man who would end up having a profound influence on Mr. Bradley’s life. “I never heard anything like that before,” said Mr. Bradley, who is now 74 and lives in this ...

Remembering Miles Davis

September 29, 2008

HE LEFT US 17 YEARS AGO TODAY While Miles Davis may be buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, his spirit and inspiration live on lustily and powerfully in the massive catalog he left behind. Few artists will ever leave as large or enduring a footprint on their craft as Davis. When he passed away on ...

Weekend Extra: Ernestine Anderson, Milt Jackson

September 28, 2008