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Coda is Heard for a Daytime Jazz Club in Harlem
Gordon Polatnick's business plan, he concedes, was heavy on the things that fueled his daydreams and too light on almost everything else. The idea itself was simple. On the blocks in Harlem where Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday and Charlie Parker performed, Mr. Polatnick would open a nightclub. But it would do business during the day, charge ...
A Musical Missionary Returns, Joyful Spirit Intact
At 86 the visionary musical sage Jon Hendricks, who along with Ella Fitzgerald and Eddie Jefferson originated the jazz style called vocalese -- the setting of swing and jazz instrumentals with playful scat lyrics -- is as voluble as ever. Since the late 1950s, when he was a co-founder of the vocal trio Lambert, Hendricks and ...
Herb Alpert and Lani Hall Sign with Ted Kurland
Legendary trumpet player Herb Alpert and his wife, internationally renowned GRAMMY-winning singer Lani Hall, have signed with the Boston, MA-based booking agency Ted Kurland Associates for worldwide representation. TKA will exclusively represent Alpert and Hall both for their performances as a duo. The move to TKA comes after Alpert and Hall's rare tour together this spring, ...
George and Satch
A few years ago, research disclosed that Louis Armstrong was not born on the Fourth of July, 1900, but a little more than a year later. No matter; Armstrong believed that Independence Day was his birthday and identified himself with the United States of America. As his career and popularity developed and the magnitude of his ...
Global Noize:global Noize
DJ Logic and Jason Miles haven't merely epitomized the term “world music" with their brainchild Global Noize (Shanachie), but rather redefined what that vague musical classification can encompass. In creating such a diversified mixture, they've set an entirely new bar of what the genre is capable of implying. Blending flavors of funk, jazz, calypso, Afrobeat, reggae ...
Spotlight: In the Middle, the Craig Russo Latin Jazz Project
The Spotlight Series highlights upcoming Latin Jazz musicians that have yet to reach national recognition. Many of these musicians thrive in local scenes and some tour in support of releases. All these musicians contribute greatly to the overall Latin Jazz scene, and they deserve our “spotlighted" attention. In the Middle The Craig Russo Latin Jazz Project ...
Aid for Ernestine Anderson
It appears that Ernestine Anderson is going to be able to stay in her house--at least for now. News of the seventy-nine-year-old singer's impending eviction traveled quickly around the world last week, and people responded. Help came from fans, old friends--including Quincy Jones--and just plain folks who sympathized. Here are the most recent essential facts from ...
Live Nation Dishes Ticketmaster
Live Nation moved a step closer to becoming its own ticketing entity when their contract ends with Ticketmaster Live Nation at year's end by hiring a chief executive to oversee the ticketing unit. Nathan Hubbard was hired as CEO of the new division after serving in the same position at Musictoday, another ticketing company Live Nation ...
Herbie Hancock | 06.23.08 | New York
Words by: Nick Atlas | Images by: Amanda Ryan Albion Herbie Hancock :: 06.23.08 :: Carnegie Hall :: New York, NY Lionel Loueke New York's Carnegie Hall was buzzing with electricity as a packed house journeyed through previously uncharted symphonic soundscapes with jazz master Herbie Hancock and his latest ensemble. ...
Jazz Museum Trumpets Its Budget Achievement
It's an accomplishment that the head of the American Jazz Museum enjoys talking about. On July 1, Gregory Carroll, executive director of the museum, will have been on the job for exactly one year. At a recent meeting of the museum's board, Carroll provided a bit of positive news. For the fiscal year that just wrapped ...
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