Results for "Music Industry"

Rising Jazz Stars Foundation Launches Resonance Records and Resonance Heirloom Series

March 10, 2008

With New Releases In March 2008 from Pianist/Producer John Beasley And Legendary Pianist Gene Harris For many professionals in the Jazz business, its current economic climate presents problems of seemingly insurmountable proportions. For George Klabin, the visionary President of the Rising Jazz Stars Foundation, these challenges offer a tremendous opportunity to not only instill a new ...

Kung Fu Jamming: When Cannonball Met Feliciano

March 7, 2008

Once upon a time in the West--yes, Cannonball Adderley and Jose Feliciano guest-starred as two traveling musicians on the 1970s TV show Kung Fu, carrying their respective alto sax and guitar through the dusty milieu of the American frontier (do not ask, grasshopper, if this was a frequent instrumental combination in the Wild West of the ...

Moving Nuevo Tango into the Next Generation - Buenos Aires Report, Pablo Ziegler

March 7, 2008

Buenos Aires Report Pablo Ziegler-Quique Sinesi with Walter Castro Zoho Music When a musician spends an extended period of time performing with a revolutionary artist, they take on a responsibility to carry that artist's vision into the world. Their time as a sideman gives them a deeper understanding of the artist's overall concept and an ability ...

Larry Kart: Jazz's Intrepid Critical Searcher

March 5, 2008

Around this joint we are big fans of the jazz writer Larry Kart and his book, Jazz in Search of Itself. As I've noted in our store section, Kart, who worked at Downbeat and was a longtime reviewer for the Chicago Tribune, “is not just a good critic--he's a very good writer, whether he's discussing Wynton ...

Look What I Got: Betty Carter

March 4, 2008

One of the most expressive and original singers to come out of the post-World War II era, Betty Carter thrilled audiences with her daring vocal improvisations and her no-nonsense jazz attitude. She emerged from the Detroit bebop scene and joined Lionel Hampton's big band in 1948, then went on to record sporadically throughout the 1950s and ...

Paris Noir: African-American Jazz Musicians in France

February 28, 2008

The Jazz Baroness Redux

February 28, 2008

Last week JazzWax blogger Marc Myers mentioned getting an e-mail from Hannah Rothschild, producer of the BBC documentary about jazz patron Pannonica de Koenigswarter, aka Nica, that I recently posted about. Turns out that she's making a television documentary about Pannonica as well--and there's now a website devoted to the Baroness which includes the BBC radio ...

Patois Records: Documenting the Bay Area Latin Jazz Sound

February 28, 2008

Record labels historically intertwine with their local music scenes, bringing the best local talent to a larger world stage. Motown employed Detroit's top jazz musicians to support their artists. Over the course of time, this group of studio musicians became known as The Funk Brothers and changed the shape of modern popular music. Fania Records [...] ...

Cats Who Swing and Sing: Women Singer-Pianists of the 1940s and 50s

February 28, 2008

Nellie Lutcher, a star pianist and singer of the late 1940s who mixed boogie and swing riffs on the keyboards with sly and humorously suggestive lyrics, once remarked that it was 1930s performer Cleo Brown who'd “sort of started a trend for girl piano players and vocalists" with her recording of the song “It's a Heavenly ...

Suezenne Fordham Chamber Jazz la to Audition New Bassists for 07-08 Season

February 28, 2008

Suezenne Fordham, leader and founder of her Chamber Jazz LA Trio announces that the replacement for Contrabassist Noah Garabedian is currently being sought. Noah replaced Roberto Miranda four years ago, and has had a steady gig with the Trio for that time. Garabedian is moving to New Your City to taste the East Coast Jazz Scene ...