Results for "Music Industry"

Ezra Weiss - Young and Talented

March 16, 2008

Christian McBride: Not Just All That Jazz

March 15, 2008

Bassist and booker Christian McBride is a rare jazzman with an approving ear for hip-hop. Christian McBride, the wunderkind bassist, is finally having a middle-aged thought. The leading jazz bassist of his generation wishes he weren't on the road so much. Speaking by phone the other day after a snowstorm in Santa Fe, N.M., McBride said ...

Alma Smith: The Countess of Swing

March 14, 2008

Alma Smith has been a professional musician for more than fifty years. The youngest of nine children, Alma was born in Montgomery, Alabama and raised in the North End area of Detroit. Alma's fascination with music started early. Her mother had played piano as a youngster and she encouraged Alma to continue. “My brother played very ...

War Against Web Tops Music Biz "Screw-Ups" List

March 13, 2008

The talent scout who turned down the Beatles has long been credited with committing the music industry's biggest gaffe. But Dick Rowe's billion-dollar boo-boo has been beaten to the top spot on Blender magazine's list of the “20 biggest record company screw-ups of all time" by the failure of record companies to capitalize on the Internet. ...

Revisiting Latin Jazz Classics: Afro-Jaws, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis

March 13, 2008

The Revisiting series features albums from the past that played a significant role in Latin Jazz history. The purpose of this series is to introduce new Latin Jazz listeners to important albums and look back at these albums in historical perspective. Each entry will jump to a different point in Latin Jazz history - this [...] ...

Study: Creativity Jazzes Your Brain

March 12, 2008

WASHINGTON (AP) - Scientists inspired by the legendary improv of Miles Davis and John Coltrane are peering inside the brains of today's jazz musicians to learn where creativity comes from. Think dreaming. This isn't just a curiosity for jazz fans but a bold experiment in the neuroscience of music, a field that's booming as researchers realize ...

Metro Times Article Talks About JazzStage Productions

March 12, 2008

It's one of those deep-of-winter snowstorms. There may be a chill in the air, but Longview Sound studio in Rochester Hills -- where three-quarters of the team behind the Internet show called Detroit Jazz Stage are working -- proves to be an extremely warm and welcoming environment. The studio is owned and operated by Mark Byerly, ...

Jazz Flower Power: The Charles Lloyd Quartet

March 12, 2008

In the mid-1960s, as rock music continued its powerful ascent while jazz seemed to split into two camps of what one journalist tagged “heard-it-all-before or never-want-to-hear-it-again," tenor saxophonist and flutist Charles Lloyd formed a quartet that found enthusiastic favor with young rock audiences and gave partial inspiration for the jazz fusion styles that Miles Davis and ...

Don't Miss Verve at SXSW! | News

March 12, 2008

If you're headed down to Austin for the South By Southwest festival, be sure to check out the Verve artists who are performing! Wednesday: The Bridges - 6:00PM - Purevolume Ranch (323 E 2nd) Kate Walsh - 8:00PM - The Compound Jessie Baylin - ...

Bix Beiderbecke: Never the Same Way Twice

March 11, 2008

“Bix is jazz's Number One Saint," critic Benny Green once wrote of cornet player Bix Beiderbecke (1903-1931). In 2003 I produced a one-hour WFIU centennial tribute to the man who, in the span of six years and more than 200 recordings, left a legacy that still echoes through jazz today, as well as a troubled personal ...