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Other Places: Bill Holman at Length
In his JazzWax, Marc Myers has a fascinating four-part interview with Bill Holman. I'm no enthusiast of transcribed verbatim interviews, but Myers's introductions, questions and production values make the format work, and in the great arranger he has a subject whose articulateness and wit carry the reader along. Two excerpts: I used to think ...
David Byrne Tour/Free Track
EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENS WILL HAPPEN TODAY SONGS OF DAVID BYRNE AND BRIAN ENO TOUR David Byrne As previously reported, David Byrne and Brian Eno have paired up for their first record together as co-writers since the highly influential and critically acclaimed 1981 release My Life in the Bush of Ghosts. Due out August 18, ...
Morgan Freeman Seriously Hurt in Car Accident
Ground Zero Blues Club owner Morgan Freeman Seriously injured Police say actor's car left Mississippi highway and flipped several times. Academy Award winning actor Morgan Freeman was seriously injured in a car accident in Mississippi on Sunday night according to the Mississippi Highway Patrol. Police report that Freeman, 71, was driving eastbound on Highway 32 near ...
On a Turquoise Cloud: Duke Ellington After the War, 1945-47
At the end of World War II Duke Ellington was coming off one of the most commercially and artistically successful periods of his career--the so-called Blanton-Webster years of the early 1940s. He had managed to keep much of his orchestra intact during the war and had maintained a high public profile with concerts and broadcasts during ...
Renting Frank Sinatra's Palm Springs Home
It was the city where the Rat Pack partied, Elvis honeymooned and Eisenhower swung the only hole in one of his life. Palm Springs, California's fabled desert oasis, has long been a winter playground for the Hollywood set; the city lies just 100 miles (160 km) east of Los Angeles. But it is also home to ...
Paul Lansky Computer-Music Man Unplugs
AFTER 35 years immersed in the world of computer music, the composer Paul Lansky talks with wonder The enormous capacities of primitive objects carved from trees or stamped from metal sheets: violins, cellos, trumpets, pianos. I'm interested in writing for real people at this point. To create the sound of a violin -- wow! ...
Xeric Winner "Jazz: Cool Birth" Based on '50s Album Cover Design
Through study of album covers, television program title artwork, and common illustrations used in everything from health booklets to instruction manuals from the 1950s, author/designer Gary Scott Beatty created recent Xeric Foundation grant winner “Jazz: Cool Birth," a jazz club murder mystery. The comic will appear in September's Previews preorder magazine under Aazurn Publishing. “I hope ...
Dispatches from the End of the Jazz Wars
By Darcy James Argue We've heard it all before: Classical music is dead. Punk is dead. Hip hop is dead. Jazz is dead. Whatever the musical genre, you can be sure that someone somewhere is saying it's dead. Apparently, musical death is, like death in superhero comics, both ubiquitous and impermanent. That's not to say that ...
Jerry Garcia Honored on Sirius
SIRIUS SATELLITE RADIO TO COMMEMORATE JERRY GARCIA'S LIFE AND LEGACY “Jerry Week" beginning with the anniversary of his birth on August 1 Jerry Garcia by Jay Blakesberg WHAT: SIRIUS' Grateful Dead channel to celebrate Jerry Garcia with nine days of special programming devoted to the life of the legendary Grateful Dead frontman. Beginning August ...
Newly Discovered Beatles Tape for Sale
Can Buy Me Laughs! (LONDON) -- A tape recording of The Beatles chatting and breaking into giggles during an early recording session is to be sold next week in England. Cameo Auctioneers said Thursday that the reel-to-reel tape was recorded in 1964 and was recently found by a man in northern England while he was clearing ...
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