Monthly Archives: January 2011
PERFORMANCE/TOUR: Charles Lloyd New Quartet at the Rose Theater
Charles Lloyd’s name alone might sell tickets as a symbol of integrity and spiritual health and every-man-has-his-season. A saxophonist and bandleader, he was a friendly and popular face of post-Coltrane jazz in the 1960s. Then he retreated for much of … Continue reading
TECHNOLOGY: Egypt May Have Turned Off the Internet One Phone Call at a Time
Egypt’s shutdown of the Internet within its borders is an action unlike any other in the history of the World Wide Web and it might have only taken a few phone calls to do it. "It’s something I’ve never seen; … Continue reading
TV/FILM: A New Model for Film Music
"The King’s Speech" collected an impressive 12 Oscar nominations last week. It might have stopped short of a dozen without help from a British entrepreneur who has planted his business at the tricky intersection of film and music. In an … Continue reading
PERFORMANCE/TOUR: Todd Clouser Announces Us Tour: "A Love Electric" out February 15 on Ropeadope
m: TODD CLOUSER Announces Midwest Tour As Momentum Builds For New Record, A LOVE ELECTRIC out February 15 on ROPEADOPE Listen to Todd Clouser’s rendition of Harry Nilsson’s “One” Listen to Todd Clouser’s original “Autumn City Portrait” featuring Steven Bernstein … Continue reading
EVENT: A Star-Studded Opening for the Valley Performing Arts Center
Among the performers at the gala on the Cal State Northridge campus: Calista Flockhart, Cheech Marin and Cuban jazz musician Arturo Sandoval. Ten years and 5 million in the making, the Valley Performing Arts Center officially became a reality Saturday … Continue reading
PERFORMANCE/TOUR: Raul Malo to Perform in Philadelphia March 2
Austin, TX: Self-produced in his home studio, Sinners and Saints is the most intimate, honest and complex album Raul Malo has made in an already distinguished career. One hears in it a lifetime’s journey, from the singer-songwriter’s youth in Cuban … Continue reading
CD/DOWNLOAD/ALBUM: Mystery Street Records Set to Release "Nine Lives"
New Orleans — Mystery Street Records is proud to present Nine Lives, A Musical Adaptation (Volume 1) by Colman deKay and Paul Sanchez, a two CD collection of 24 original songs, set for release March 1, 2011. Over one hundred … Continue reading
INTERVIEW/PROFILE/TRIBUTE: Jazz Musician of the Day: Bobby Hackett
All About Jazz is celebrating Bobby Hackett’s birthday today! Bobby HackettBobby Hackett, one of nine children, was born and raised in Providence, Rhode Island. At an early age he played the ukulele and by the time he was twelve played … Continue reading
Dizzy Gillespie: Four Classic Albums
Trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie was one of the few jazz musicians equally adept (and influential) in small groups and fronting big bands. After the bebop heyday, he spent the fifties equally divided between smaller groups and a larger orchestra. His days … Continue reading
Jacques Coursil: Trails of Tears
Trumpeter, Jacques Coursil’s Trails of Tears is quite simply, a monumental undertaking and a major work that ought to bring to light some of the earlier work that comments on colonialism in America, such as the equally important Gorée (schemp, … Continue reading