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Jazz at Lincoln Center Seeks 10 Quartets for International "Rhythm Road" Tours
Jazz at Lincoln Center is seeking 10 quartets to promote American music in other countries through “The Rhythm Road: American Music Abroad", a partnership between JALC and the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. According to the Rhythm Road Web site, the program “is designed to foster cultural exchange with ...
The French Horn, That Wild Card of the Orchestra
The modern French horn, with its complex tubing and finger keys at the center, has come a long way from its hunting party origins. Orchestral instruments don't come more treacherous than the French horn, either for the musicians who play it, or, when the going gets rough, for the listeners who find themselves within earshot. Sometimes ...
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Branches out to New York
On a blocked-off street in SoHo on Wednesday, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg stood with Billy Joel, the veteran music executive Clive Davis and officials from the hall, to announce that the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, which opened its flagship building in Cleveland in 1995, would open a New York annex in November. ...
Jazzman Frishberg Charts Own Tuneful Territory
One of the great joys of L.A. jazz, from the mid-1970s to the mid-'80s, was the blossoming of jazz pianist Dave Frishberg into a singer-songwriter of quirky, yet warmly satisfying, material. His tunes navigated a pathway that sidestepped melodramatic cabaret material on one hand and self-absorbed pop music on the other. Frishberg created a growing catalog ...
Herb Geller, Activist
At eighty, Herb Geller is playing alto saxophone even better than when he was a key jazz figure in the 1950s and '60s. He is performing not with the gravity of Brahmsian old age but with full vigor. Nor has he lost the force of his convictions, witness this political song for which he wrote words and ...
Stony Plain Records Signs Joe Louis Walker
Stony Plain Records has announced the signing of multi-award winning singer/guitarist Joe Louis Walker and the release of his label debut, Witness to the Blues, on 9/30. Produced by fellow Stony Plain artist and award-winner Duke Robillard, Witness to the Blues features a scintillating duet by Walker and Shemekia Copeland in a reprise of the Peggy ...
Rollins on Rollins
In an interview a few days before the Newport performance, Rollins told Rick Massimo of the Providence Journal why he has kept bassist Bob Cranshaw in his band for more than four decades... ...because he maintained the fixed portion of it, and that would allow me to extemporize freely and the song would still ...
Other Places: A Newport Report
It is now called the JVC Jazz Festival, but it still takes place in Newport, Rhode Island. If the festival no longer has the jazz purity of its beginnings in the 1950s, at least it has survived. It continues to include major jazz artists among the tangential pop figures who attract the big crowds that pay the ...
Bix and Dick
A British company is releasing a two-CD package tracing Bix Beiderbecke's influence on musicians of his era. Proceeds from sale of the set will be devoted to medical care of Dick Sudhalter, a musical descendant of Beiderbecke and his greatest biographer. Sudhalter is in bad health with MSA (muscular system atrophy) and getting worse. He needs ...
When Music Barely Pays the Bills
COLUMN ONE Front page Los Angeles Times Professional musicians need more than gigs to stay afloat. One way they can make a little cash is to teach their future competitors. Tim Eckert's job requires a light touch and a measure of heavy lifting. As a workaday classical musician, he lugs a 40-pound double bass from downtown ...
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