Results for "Music Industry"

Memorial Service for Legendary Jazz Producer Teo Macero, May 18 at NYU's Loewe Theatre

May 5, 2008

Teo Macero, the legendary jazz saxophonist, composer, and record producer who died on February 19, will be remembered at a memorial service on Sunday, May 18 at New York University's Frederick Loewe Theatre, 35 West 4th Street, from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. The memorial service is open to the public. The NYU Jazz Orchestra will ...

The Carla Bley Songbook

May 5, 2008

Carla Bley is renowned today for her big-band writing and its wide-ranging use of musical and emotional elements, but it was small-group recordings of her work in the 1960s by musicians such as Jimmy Giuffre, Gary Burton, George Russell, and her husband Paul Bley that introduced her to the jazz world. In her teens Bley abandoned ...

Jason Stein and Ombak at the Camel, 5/6/08

May 5, 2008

"It just kind of felt like home, it was more natural than straight ahead music. Free jazz was very modern, everything else was a throw back," said bass clarinetist Jason Stein.On Tuesday, free jazz forces from Richmond and Chicago will be joining up at The Camel at 9pm for what promises to be a ...

Kenny Barron in Concert

May 5, 2008

While the staff at Rifftides world headquarters labors over outside writing obligations, Washington, DC correspondent John Birchard fills the gap with his impressions of a concert by a major pianist and his new trio. KENNY BARRON TRIO AT THE KENNEDY CENTER May 3, 2008 Review by John Birchard Any lingering suspicion that jazz is a purely ...

Wayne Shorter - Blakey, ESP and Nefertiti

May 5, 2008

JazzCorner.com's Jazz Perspectives producer Reese Erlich sat down for an intimate conversation with saxophonist Wayne Shorter. In this special podcast, Shorter talks about his early years with Art Blakey and Miles Davis. He also reveals what inspired him to write his original compositions, including “ESP" and “Nefertiti." Wayne Shorter will be adjudicating and performing at the ...

Sherman's Forced March

May 5, 2008

One of the pleasures of my trips to New York has been to drop in to the Waldorf-Astoria during the cocktail hour to hear Daryl Sherman. She has perfect taste in songs, seems to know every good one ever written, plays the piano with a repertoire of satisfying and often surprising chord changes, and sings like ...

Musicians for Harmony Names New Artistic Directors

May 2, 2008

MFH Spring Benefit to Showcase Flutist Eugenia Zukerman Innovative 'Mentorship Program' Teaches Iraqi Music Students Via Webcam Musicians For Harmony is pleased to announce violinist and composer Colin Jacobsen and his brother, cellist and conductor Eric Jacobsen, as the new co-Artistic Directors of the respected organization. Both have performed at Musicians For Harmony concerts for the ...

Focusing the Spotlight: Brian Andres and the New Wave of Bay Area Latin Jazz Drummers

May 2, 2008

The Getaway

May 2, 2008

Mrs. Rifftides and I spent her birthday far from the madding crowd--and from blogging. We arrived at the Sleeping Lady Mountain Retreat just after a hundred or so conferees had checked out. The sixty-seven enchanted acres on Icicle Creek in the foothills of the Cascades were almost exclusively ours for a day and night. Winter--several feet ...

Nu Jazz Entertainment Announces the Launch of the World's First Jazz Record Label with Audio & Video Content Exclusively for Digital Download

May 1, 2008

(New York, NY) - Nu Jazz Entertainment--a long time producer of high quality audio and video content in the genre of jazz--announced the launch of two new labels, dedicated to the production and distribution of audio & video recordings--exclusively for digital download. Nu Jazz Entertainment founder Jerald Miller, has announced the formation ...