In 1981, m: Benny Goodman appeared at the Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen. It was billed as his last performance, but it wasn't. His final concert was held at the State University of New York in Purchase, N.Y. in January 1986. Goodman was joined at the Tivoli by Sven Osmussen, Chaly Antolini, Don Hass, Jimmy Maxwell, Harry Pepe and Peter Witte. [Photo of Benny Goodman above in 1981 by Ebet Roberts/Redferns......
Clarinetist Allan VachA(C)'s mainstream jazz quintet closed out the Charlotte County Jazz Society's 2013-14 concert series Monday night at the Charlotte County Cultural Center with a swinging evening of Tin Pan Alley and jazz standards. The repertoire ranged from Cole Porter, Duke Ellington and Bob Haggart to the Benny Goodman songbook, with one brief foray to Brazil for Antonio Carlos Jobim's lovely...
Brian Buchanan of Enter The Haggis recently shared his thoughts on crowdfunding via Bandzoogle's blog. He gives a lot of solid crowdfunding advice while taking a look at their differing experiences using Kickstarter, PledgeMusic and Bandzoogle (to run a DIY crowdfunding campaign). I was surprised to find more evidence of Kickstarter losing its leading position but, overall, your choice of platform...
First they told you to build your fanbase on Facebook. A Then Facebook changed its timeline rules. A Next they told you to engage on Twitter. But its hard to get noticed in a stream of continuous updates and their user growth is slowing. A While social media is still essential, it turns out that good old fashioned email may still be the best way to engage a fanbase......
I'm a huge fan of Marcos Valle's music. Who isn't? If you love Samba de VerA oa€'known in the U.S. as Summer Samba (So Nice)a€'then you know what I'm talking about. As soon as I heard Marcos was going to be making a rare New York appearance at Birdland May 27-31 with the legendary Roberto Menescal, I just had to chat with him for The Wall Street Journal. In today's paper, I interview...
A variety of jazz-related artwork collected by Richard "Rich" McDonnell, the late founder and owner of MAXJAZZ records, will be available for viewing and purchase in a special event from noon to 5:00 p.m. Saturday, June 14 at the MAXJAZZ offices, 115 Lockwood Ave in Webster Groves. Jeff Appel, a photography dealer and friend of the McDonnell family who's managing the sale, says the collection encompasses...
All About Jazz is celebrating Woody Herman's birthday today! After early experience in Chicago with the bands led by Tom Gerun and Harry Sosnik, Woody Herman toured with Gus Arnheim. In 1934, he joined Isham Jones, and when Jones\'s group disbanded in 1936 Herman used its leading sidemen as the nucleus for his own orchestra. This band went through a number of changes of personnel, such as the inclusion...
All About Jazz is celebrating Bessie Smith's birthday today! a€oeEmpress of the Bluesa€ She embodied the meaning of the blues, living the life she sang about. Bessie Smith set the standard for blues singers on how it should be done. Bessie Smith, born on Apr. 15, 1894, in Chattanooga, Tennessee, was one of ten children. Her parents died by her eighth birthday, and she was raised by...
Cambridge, MA: Cambridge's jazz hotspota€'the Regattabara€'will present An Evening with A Superband: Mike Pope and the House of Cardinals featuring acoustic and electric bassist and composer Mike Pope, pianist m: Eldar Djangirov , vibraphonist m: Joe Locke , saxophonist m: Bob Franceschini and drummer m: Mauricio Zottarelli on Tuesday, June 10, 2014, 7:30 PM. The Regattabar is located...
A weekly radio series featuring Eastman School of Music jazz performances through the years premieres at 9 p.m. Wednesday, June 4, on Jazz90.1 WGMC. Titled Jazz@Eastman: Past, Present, and Future, the programs will feature performances as well as works by Eastman faculty, students, and alumni. The series is a collaboration between Eastman and Jazz 90.1 and is underwritten in part by RG&E......
Shazam has landed investments from the world's 3 largest label groups, A Universal Music, Sony Music and Warner Music have each invested $3 million in the music and audio identification app. A Shazam is currently valued at $500 million, making their collective stake less than 2%. Music tech investments by the big three music groups, who are hoping to both diversify their portfolios and have more control...
Earlier in the week I was doing some research and stumbled on what has to be the oddest version of m: Quincy Jones 's Stockholm Sweetnin'. It features two singers, Kersti Johanson and Marje Aarea€'and that's about all I know, except in the video clip they appear to be at the museum at night, almost in a dream sequence, winding up in front of a kitsch portrait that doesn't seem to belong......
This week's menu of jazz and creative music offerings in St. Louis includes a number of special events, most notably the annual Miles Davis Jazz Festival in Alton, plus the long-awaited return of one of the more popular female vocalists in jazz. That would be singer Jane Monheit, who's back in St. Louis to perform in a four-night engagement beginning this evening and continuing through Saturday at...
Serbian pianist and composer m: Dimitrije Vasiljevic held a solo piano concert on May 12, 2014 at the the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. This event was part of a series of concerts held at the Millennium stage in celebration of the "European Month of Culture" in which artists from many European countries participated......
Columbus, OH - The Jazz Arts Group of Columbus (JAG) has announced its winner of the 2014 Hank Marr High School Jazz Award. This award demonstrates excellence in musicianship and performance amongst Ohioa€(TM)s young students of jazz. Eight extremely talented high school students auditioned for the $500 cash award and the chance to perform with the Columbus Jazz Orchestra and Artistic Director...
Israeli-Born, NYC-Based Guitarist Earning Wide Praise As a€oeA True Artista€ Barcelona, Spain, May 13, 2014 a€' Fresh Sound Records, a Spanish record label specializing in American jazz, announces the September 2 release of For Emotional Use Only, a new album by New York City based jazz guitarist Rotem Sivan......
All About Jazz is celebrating John Ellis' birthday today! "It\'s hard to say those two words next to each other and not smile," says John Ellis about Puppet Mischief, the title of the saxophonist\'s latest album with his band Double-Wide, to be released Feb. 23rd on ObliqSound. That statement -- and the images conveyed by the album\'s intriguing title -- applies equally to the music within. Puppet...
ARTISTSHARE RELEASES SAX SUMMITa€(TM)S FAN-FUNDED VISITATION CD a€' FEATURING JAZZ SAXOPHONE GIANTS m: JOE LOVANO , m: DAVE LIEBMAN , AND m: RAVI COLTRANE . SAXOPHONE SUMMIT RETURNS FOR THEIR THIRD RECORDING AS LIEBMAN, LOVANO, AND COLTRANE EXPLORE NEW CONCEPTUAL REALMS IN THEIR LATEST FAN-FUNDED ALBUM, VISITATION......
Sylvia Telles is my favorite female bossa nova vocalist. In 1961 she was the first Brazilian bossa nova artist to record songs in both English and Portuguese, setting a high bar for bossa nova singers who followed. Telles was on the rise when she was killed in an auto accident in Brazil in December 1966. Signed to Kapp Records that year, she had released The Face I Love in October and was about to...
Joe Wilder, admired for his trumpet tone, range, stylistic flexibility and for his elegance as a musician and person, is gone. Wilder died at the age of 92 last Friday in New York. Despite his modesty and disinclination to assert himself, his skill put him in demand by big band leaders including Lionel Hampton, Count Basie, and Benny Goodman, as well as a wide range of Broadway and television producers....