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News from Fantasy Records - November 2005 Update
"The Soul Stirrers were very well named," Specialty Records' Art Rupe told Peter Guralnick, whose brand-new biography “Dream Boogie: The Triumph of SAM COOKE" (Little, Brown) offers several meaty, dishy, revelatory chapters' worth of Soul Stirrers and Specialty history. “They tried to get [that] feeling, emphasized and built themselves up on soul-stirring--slower singing, very melismatic. That's ...
Mississippi Coast Jazz Society Hopes to Spread a Little Cheer
By Pete Tattersall Sun Herald Have instrument, will travel. The Mississippi Coast Jazz Society wants to get a message to the public. “We're willing to come perform for the relief workers that are down here and encamped and helping us out," said Louis Zocchi, vice president of the organization. “We'd like to ...
Alfonzo Blackwell Multi Media Mogul
Alfonzo has done it again! After launching his successful record label, Utopia Records, Inc. in the early part of the year; he went onto head the musical direction of a hot internet radio station(SoulfulSmoothJazz.com Radio). Alfonzo's back again heading another internet radio enterprise, SoulfulClassics.com Radio. This new internet station is the fastest growing station of it's ...
Hermosa Beach Honors Legendary Artists of 1940s
Plaques at Pier Plaza harken back to the days that jazz musicians help put the city on the world music map. By Deepa Bharath Daily Breeze You had to strain your ears to listen to that music. You had to focus and hear past the pounding techno beat, the hip-hop, whooping twentysomethings ...
News from Fantasy Records - October 2005 Update
PRESTIGE PROFILES: The first new reissue-series release since the Concord / Fantasy sale / merger late last year will debut on October 25 with 10 specially-priced CDs and 10 bonus disc samplers, all drawing on the deep resources of the Prestige catalog. Generously programmed discs by Miles Davis, Red Garland, Sonny Rollins, Coleman Hawkins, Eric Dolphy, ...
Bart Weisman: A Drummer Rolls In
By Sean Corcoran (for the Cape Cod Times) “This was where I was going to come someday,” he remembers thinking. “It just felt right: the water, the houses, the smells, everything. It was the whole feel, not just of Cape Cod, but of Provincetown. Everything was right.” Twenty-five years later, Weisman and his wife have a ...
Ars Nova Workshop brings the messiahs of Chicago's contemporary avant-garde to Philly
This is big, people. The city is getting slammed with a succession of concerts featuring some of the most innovative jazz composers of our time, thanks to Ars Nova Workshop. Ars Nova is partnering with the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM)-a Chicago-based collective of black musicians created in 1965 that's arguably the most ...
Kansas City Label Seeks Interns
'ASR RECORDS of Kansas City USA is seeking Fans of great music who would also like to gain professional experience, or simply get involved working in the music industry, as an Intern with our record label. These are unpaid positions. The available positions currently provide an opportunity to be an Authorized Fan ...
Amid All That Jazz, Herb Snitzer Took Pictures of Pioneers
Herb Snitzer considers jazz music a metaphor for freedom. His photos show its practitioners in unguarded moments. By JON WILSON, Times Staff Writer Published October 19, 2005 ST. PETERSBURG - Herb Snitzer played ping-pong with jazz piano great Thelonious Monk. He knew Louis Armstrong well enough to know friends didn't call the trumpet star ...
Berkeley Artist Seeks Reconciliation In Story of Jazz Pianist Grandmother
by Richard Brenneman Berkeley Daily Planet Sometimes the greatest mysteries are closest to home. Just ask Kent Brown, a Berkeley man who’s embarking on a quest to learn about his grandmother. And what a grandmother. Beryl Booker was anything but the stereotypical grandma. After all, how many grandmothers played with the 4 ...
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