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Notable New Artists: Estelle and Katy Perry
Grammys Midway: Estelle, Katy Perry and an early look at 2008's notable new artists The year may be at its midpoint, but when it comes to the Grammys, that mark has long since passed. With the eligibility period for next year's awards ending on Sept. 30, there's little more than three months left in the world ...
All That Chinese Jazz
Beijing - It's hot in the small auditorium at Beijing's Contemporary Music Academy, and the hundred or so students gathered for the master class shift uneasily in their seats, trying to concentrate. A young tenor player is blowing over a blues progression, earnestly reworking licks he's memorized from Charlie Parker and John Coltrane albums. His face ...
Comparisons Are Not Necessarily Odorous
From time to time, Rifftides readers have suggested that in evaluations of music I should pay more attention to sound quality. Like many musicians and critics, although certainly not all, I concentrate more on the notes than the reproduction. Once when Paul Desmond and I were listening to an ancient LP, I apologized for the scratches. ...
Live Music Thrives as CDs Fade
THE MEDIA EQUATION A little over a week ago, Patterson Hood, a guitarist and singer in the Drive-By Truckers, stood in front of a sleepy but amped noon crowd at Bonnaroo, the music festival in Manchester, Tenn., explaining profanely that it was time to, um, wake up. As he kicked into “The Righteous Path," a song ...
Jazz Goes Folk
In the late 1950s and early 1960s the folk-music movement in America hit a commercial zenith with artists such as the Kingston Trio, Joan Baez, and Peter, Paul and Mary enjoying great success--particularly on college campuses, competing with jazz as the countercultural music of choice. Several jazz artists responded to the movement with albums based around ...
ESP-Disk Returns to the Forefront of Modern Music
ESP-DISK, the premiere American avant garde record label of the sixties--one of the most turbulently creative periods in music history-has returned to reclaim its rich legacy with a series of releases that include reissues of groundbreaking out of print albums from its extensive catalogue, exciting previously unreleased live sessions from its vaults and new recordings that ...
Live Nation Rocks the Music Industry
Michael Rapino, CEO of the Clear Channel spinoff, may just have this whole file-sharing, iTunes-listening, MySpace-Internet-era music thing all figured out. The music business may be in turmoil, but Rapino couldn't be happier. He is the CEO of Live Nation, a two-year-old spinoff of Clear Channel that generated $4.4 billion in revenue in the past 12 ...
Hollywood's Professional Drum Shop
The Professional Drum Shop was founded in 1959 by Bob Yeager with Chuck Molinari in an effort to provide the professional drummer with a place to get needed equipment repairs and shopping convenience. Yeager had been repairing fellow drummers equipment on the road for years. With their encouragement and financial support, he decided the time was ...
Is It Tatum Or...?
In the 1970s, Red Garland told me about the pianists who influenced him when he was learning. He mentioned Nat Cole, James P. Johnson, Luckey Roberts, Teddy Wilson and Bud Powell. Then he said, Tatum, of course was the master. He was Mr. Piano. The first time I heard a Tatum record--I think it ...
Clear Channel Spins off into Live Nation
Live Nation Takes Over Clear Channel's Concerts Lawrence Lepore, executive director of the Dunkin' Donuts Center in Providence, first heard that the sale of Clear Channel's concert division had gone through when he called the company's New England headquarters. The receptionist told him he had reached a company called Live Nation. Lepore, whose venue booked 15 ...
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