Results for "Music Industry"

Lionel Loueke on Yahoo! Music Live Set w/ Herbie Hancock

April 3, 2008

Click here now to check out Lionel Loueke on Yahoo! Music Live Set with Herbie Hancock! Louekes story begins in Benin, a small country in West Africa, where he was born to parents that he describes as intellectual, adding that music was part of everyday life, but not in the family. Fortunately an older brother played guitar ...

Essential Cachao Recordings: Part 3, Cachao's Early Miami Years

April 2, 2008

Cachao's New York tenure lasted into the 1970s, resulting in a variety of fantastic recordings. Producer and historian Rene Lopez brought Cachao into descarga settings and full charanga groups, hoping to recapture the magic of his 1950s recordings. Cachao accompanied diverse artists, including Hubert Laws, Eddie Palmieri, Dave Pike, and Louis Bellson. In addition to [...] ...

Ultimate Jazz? Why Not!

April 1, 2008

Jazz has a new friend. And this unlikely pairing might just be what finally catapults jazz into the cultural mainstream. What is it that finally might just give America's indigenous music its long-over-due notoriety? Believe it or not it's Ultimate Fighting (aka Mixed Martial Arts). More and more jazz festivals are not only headlining their events ...

Exalt Entertainment Group to Launch iGenJazz.com

April 1, 2008

Detroit, Michigan -- Exalt Entertainment Group premiering jazz and spoken word artists nationally. Today announced to hold an online dance contest on YouTube which they are revealing is the ultimate dance contest for iGeneration contestants. The dance contest will be launched in May of 2008 via their website iGenJazz.com and is targeted for contestants 9 - ...

LJC Community Conversation: Valuing Our Latin Jazz Mentors

April 1, 2008

LJC Community Conversations are designed to explore major ideas in the Latin Jazz world together as a community and inspire conversation through comments. My main motivator here is my belief that LJC readers hold a great deal of knowledge and passion around Latin Jazz, and I think that we can learn something from everyone. Whether [...] ...

Shout! Factory Acquires Hightone Records Catalog

March 31, 2008

Catalog Titles To Be Incorporated Into Shout! Factory's Expansive Library Artists Include Buddy and Julie Miller, Tom Russell, Robert Cray, Dale Watson, Dave Alvin, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, and More Los Angeles, CA - Shout! Factory, a leading multi-platform audio and video entertainment company devoted to revitalizing the very best of pop culture, is proud to announce ...

Too Little, Too Soon: Booker Little

March 31, 2008

Trumpeter Booker Little would have turned 70 this Wednesday if he were still alive. Little was born in Memphis on April 2, 1938; he died in October of 1961 at the age of 23, leaving behind a small but significant body of recorded work that continues to influence modern-day jazz artists such as trumpeter Dave Douglas, ...

Essential Cachao Recordings: Part 2, Cachao in New York

March 28, 2008

Steve Poltz Notches 12 SXSW Shows and Reaps Critical Praise

March 27, 2008

Album title Traveling tells no lie: Poltz began tour in January with dates continuing into July. SAN DIEGO, Calif. -- Steve Poltz considers himself more at home in a hotel room than at his beach-accessible San Diego home. Many artists say they tour year-around, but Poltz truly does. Often when he plays a city, he comes ...

Cachao Bass Solo on Descarga Cubana

March 27, 2008