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Yoshi's in S.F. Opens with an Ageless Wonder
DRUMMER HAYNES PERFECT FOR JAZZ CLUB'S GALA NIGHT Whoever came up with the idea of booking Roy Haynes as the opening act for the new Yoshi's Jazz Club in San Francisco deserves one of those genius awards. I mean, this guy is 82, looks 50, still plays the drums like a holy terror - and there ...
World Culture Music News
World Culture Music Founder Kendrick Scott To be Featured on The Monterey Jazz Festival 50th Anniversary Tour MJF/50 All-Star Band Features Terence Blanchard, James Moody, Nnenna Freelon, Benny Green, Derrick Hodge & Kendrick Scott 54-Date Tour Kicks Off January 8th In Washington State, Continues Through 52 Cities In 22 States From January ...
Universal Music Group CEO Says Record Industry is in Deep Trouble
It's Monday afternoon, and Doug Morris, chair and CEO of Universal Music Group, is eating lunch in his private dining room at the company's Manhattan headquarters. Morris hasn't been here much in recent months, though it's hard to imagine he misses the place. For one thing, workers have been renovating the building: To reach his corner ...
Yoshi's Boosts Bay Area Jazz Scene with New Club in S.F.
417-SEAT VENUE OPENS IN FILLMORE The Bay Area jazz landscape will change Wednesday. That's when Yoshi's in San Francisco has its grand opening, hosting two shows per night, seven days a week - the same number of concerts as its already successful Jack London Square location in Oakland. The new venue - anchor of the $72 ...
Sergio Cassiano Has Taken On a Project of Hope and Artistry
An integral member of the Olinda and Recife cultural community for several years, Sergio has taken part in an extraordinarily wide range of projects. He has no decided to share his time between his music performances and as Percussionist Coordinator for a project call Escola Alberta" (Open School). The Open School" project is a comprehensive program ...
US Jazz Great Sonny Rollins Continues to Wow Audiences in Europe
BRUSSELS, Belgium - He did jail time on Rikers Island, played the requisite dances with record labels and pioneered the bass-drum saxophone accompaniment known as strolling. The images of him blowing his tenor saxophone on the lower level of New York's Williamsburg bridge are an indispensable part of jazz culture. Sonny Rollins has been rocking the ...
A Displaced Jazz Musician Rebuilds in New York
The musical Prince of New Orleans has been touring New York in vagabond shoes. I've been walking around at night looking at all the clubs and the restaurants, just trying to figure out a new beginning for myself," said Davell Crawford, 32, sitting on a piano bench recently at Roth's Westside Steakhouse on the Upper West ...
Tony Adamo Reviewed by Amazon.CO.UK
Jazz vocalist Tony Adamo has taken a sideways step with his latest CD, moving into a world of late night New Orleans style funk, rhythm and Blues, despite its origins in the plastic world of Hollywood, California. The first thing that leaps out you is the voice. Imagine, if you can, Lou Rawls fronting Tower of ...
Tierney Sutton Puts Her Stamp on Jazz Standards
The jazz world has artists who love to swim through standards, making listeners as comfortable as they were the last time they heard the song. Not Tierney Sutton. We almost feel like it's our responsibility to do something with it that's really out there," the singer said in a phone interview from her L.A. home. But ...
Breaking Bread Together: The Spirit of Thanksgiving in Song
How do spirituals fit into a life filled with jazz? For a generation of jazzmen, they were their first introduction to a love of music. From childhood days in church to grandparents singing favorites on long-ago Sunday mornings, this sacred music inspired their work as jazzmen. Legends of American music--trumpeters Clark Terry and Sweets" Edison, and ...


