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Away from the Spaceways: John Gilmore
Tenor saxophonist John Gilmore, who influenced John Coltrane and helped to pioneer the challenging techniques of 1960s avant-garde saxophone, spent most of his career with Sun Ra and his Arkestra, recording outside of Sun Ras band on only a handful of occasions. His powerful, edgy style combined aspects of hardbop and outside playing; well hear examples ...
About The Corey Cook Ensemble
Corey Cook & his associates represent a diverse range of New York City's most promising artists & music business impresarios, from graduates of prominent conservatories such as The Julliard School, New Jersey City University, and The Manhattan School of Music to seasoned veterans of the music industry who've toured the United States and abroad. Among Mr. ...
Kenton's Big Sound Getting a Revival
Was there ever a big band with a more colossal sound than Stan Kenton's? The pianist piled on mountains of brass and woodwinds that devastated appreciative listeners, and many of those fans who were of college age when his orchestra ruled campuses in the '50s remain in awe of the group's prowess nearly three decades after ...
Major Breakthrough: Music's 'DNA' Decoded
Peter Neubcker, the German music software engineer responsible for the popular pitch correction Melodyne, has created a program called Direct Note Access (DNA) that can dissect a chord into individual notes so that the chord can be re-formed into something new. For music producers who use computers -- which is just about all of them -- ...
Warner Music Narrows Loss on Brisk Digital Sales
The company's fiscal third-quarter loss falls to $9 million from $17 million a year earlier. Digital revenue jumps 39%. Strong international sales and higher digital music revenue narrowed losses for Warner Music Group Corp. in the fiscal third quarter, surpassing analyst expectations in the face of the industry's rocky transition to digital distribution. The music company ...
Correspondence: About Wellstood
The Frishberg, Sullivan, Wellstood item in the next exhibit brought quick responses from two men who knew Wellstood well. The first was Ted O'Reilly, the Toronto broadcaster who produced a few Wellstood recordings. Wellstood was one of the brightest men I ever met, never mind how great a pianist he was. And great he ...
Frishberg, Wellstood and Sullivan
Dick Wellstood has been on my mind. Maybe it's because I heard Dave Frishberg play the piano the other night at The Seasons. Frishberg was in concert singing his inimitable songs and accompanying himself, but he opened up plenty of space for piano solos. Before he became famous for performing his songs, Frishberg worked with Zoot ...
New Orleans Photographer Skip Bolen Launches New Website of Jazz Photos
NEW ORLEANS, LA. -- The new Skip Bolen Photography website has been officially launched this week. The website features an eclectic mix of both black + white and color photographs primarily of musicians in New Orleans; downtown street scenes of New Orleans, Los Angeles and New York City; rural water towers from Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas; ...
Play It in the Closet: The Return Farewell of J.D. Salinger
43 years ago J.D. Salinger, the reclusive writer who rose to cult status in the 1950s and early 1960s on the strength of his novel The Catcher in the Rye and his stories about the talented but troubled Glass family, bade farewell to the published literary life with a long piece of fiction titled Hapworth 16, ...
Beatles Reel-to-Reel Tape Sells For $23k
A newly discovered tape of the Beatles laughing and chatting during an early recording session has sold for about $23,000. Cameo Auctioneers said the reel-to-reel tape was recorded in 1964 and had recently been discovered by a man in northern England while he was clearing out his father's attic. The half-hour tape sold to an Internet ...


