Results for "Music Industry"

Correspondence: The Spirit of Ben Webster

April 24, 2008

Rifftides reader Nina Ramos listened to Carol Sloane's newest recording, encountered something that disturbed her, and sent this message:   Just finished reading your liner notes and listening to Carol Sloane's Dearest Duke. I liked it very much - except - (and am I the only one to notice?) the extremely loud breathiness in the ...

Ella Fitzgerald's Granddaughter Signs First Recording Contract

April 24, 2008

April 24, 2008 -- Los Angeles: Haylee, grand-daughter of Ella Fitzgerald, signed her first recording contract with SRI Jazz. Her debut will be a duet with dad Ray Brown Jr. singing Ella's first hit, “Tisket-A-Tasket". The song will be featured on “Friends & Family", the all-star project of duets with Ray Brown, Jr, produced by Shelly ...

How Sweet the Sweetwater

April 23, 2008

Fans get 2 Sweetwaters instead of 1 After more than 30 years in Mill Valley, Sweetwater, the rock club that became a Marin County cultural institution, had been told to close by the end of the month. Sweetwater owners Thom and Becky Steere have been given a 30-day notice by their landlord to vacate the landmark ...

Capitol Records Famed Echo Chamber at Risk

April 23, 2008

Capitol says recording quality at its Hollywood building is at risk The music firm says a proposed high-rise next door would damage its unique underground echo chambers. No! No-o-o-o! No-o-o-o-o-o! That plea from Hollywood is reverberating through Los Angeles City Hall as officials try to decide whether a 16-story tower should be built next to the ...

Capitol Says Recording Quality at Its Hollywood Building is at Risk

April 23, 2008

The music firm says a proposed high-rise next door would damage its unique underground echo chambers. No! No-o-o-o! No-o-o-o-o-o! That plea from Hollywood is reverberating through Los Angeles City Hall as officials try to decide whether a 16-story tower should be built next to the landmark Capitol Records building. A Marina del Rey developer hopes to ...

Forthcoming Hatology Reissues

April 22, 2008

Recent CDs: Mann

April 22, 2008

Herbie Mann's Californians, (Fresh Sound). This compilation reissue contains all of the Riverside album called Great Ideas Of Western Mann plus tracks from Riverside's Blues For Tomorrow and Verve's The Golden Flute Of Herbie Mann. In all cases, Jimmy Rowles is on piano, with Buddy Clark on bass and Mel Lewis on drums. For the rhythm ...

Recent CDs: Caliman

April 22, 2008

Hadley Caliman, Gratitude (Origin). I wrote in Jazz Matters about Caliman in a 1979 performance with Freddie Hubbard's band: As the evening progressed, Caliman's playing took on much of the intensity and coloration of John Coltrane's work, but he is a more directly rhythmic player than Coltrane was toward the end of his life ...

Recent CDs: Silver

April 22, 2008

Horace Silver, Live At Newport '58 (Blue Note). It is a treat to hear a newly discovered live performance by the pianist, composer and bandleader whose quintets were among the most interesting and stimulating of the so-called hard bop period. Tenor saxophonist Junior Cook and trumpeter Louis Smith had a good day as soloists. It is ...

Recent CDs: Fresu, Galliano, Lundgren

April 22, 2008

Paolo Fresu, Richard Galliano, Jan Lundgren, Mare Nostrum (ACT). In the hands of three masters, another unusual combination of instruments produces music that can transport listeners into dreaminess unless they are concentrating on the depth of its inventiveness. The Italian trumpeter Fresu, the French accordianist Galliano and the Swedish pianist Lundgren (l. to r.) blend in ...