Jazz News by News Feeds
Through the use of my RSS reader, you will get always updated news from different Jazz News Feeds listed below.
Latest information from BERKLEE.EDU NEWS SECTION.
- Berklee Parties at SXSW, March 18 and 19 - Up-and-coming alumni and student bands represent at one of the music industry's largest festivals.
- Music for Film Networking Event and Contest, April 10 - Berklee will give budding filmmakers the chance to shine in the fifth annual Music for Film networking even and contest.
- PODCAST: Livingston Taylor - Livingston Taylor is one of several artists performing during Berklee's Concert for Haiti in February 2010—the show will range from reggae to old school soul to folk-rock.
updated: 01 Jan 1970 01:00am CET
Current All About Jazz random content feeds CD Reviews
- Motorpsycho: Heavy Metal Fruit - Together for two decades, indie/prog rock trio Motorpsycho has gradually built an audience outside its native Norway, though the group remains a better draw in Europe than in North America. That's a situation that, by all rights, should change with Heavy Metal Fruit, a combination of metal-tinged prog, space-rock jams, and passages of reckless abandon, all delivered through epic writing, thunderous grooves, and layered guitars...
- Ralph Lalama: The Audience - A few choice items from the American Popular Songbook, tunes by Wayne Shorter, Duke Pearson, and Stevie Wonder, plus three brief duo improvisations, all rendered in a recognizable mainstream style by a band that includes two primary soloists and a bass and drums team. On the face of it, Ralph Lalama's second Mighty Quinn release appears rather modest relative to the ever expanding, unceasing advance of jazz and improvised music in the 21st Century. Nevertheless, throughout the ten tracks of The Audience the group delivers something as substantial as their forward leaning colleagues. Lalama and his cohorts, who occasionally play gigs in venues outside of New York City, possess the requisite skill and inspiration to pull off a clean, uncluttered, and coherent group sound that is rooted in bebop but indebted to no one...
- Ralph Towner / Paolo Fresu: Chiaroscuro - After Enrico Rava, the most important trumpet player in Italy is Paolo Fresu. The fact that he is not well known in the United States may be about to change, because he is now an ECM recording artist. The label has placed him with major people: Carla Bley on The Lost Chords Find Paolo Fresu in 2007 and now guitarist Ralph Towner on Chiaroscuro...
updated: 10 Mar 2010 02:15pm CET
Current All About Jazz content feeds Interviews, Profiles, Festival Reviews, etc
- Christian Scott: Breaking Boundaries, Crossing Lines - Christian Scott is lounging on a black leather couch, easy and relaxed before taking to the stage at a Moscow jazz club. The cold, gloomy Russian capital hosted the New Orleans trumpeter's quintet for a trio of gigs in February 2009--including a show at the US ambassador's cushy residence, in front of an elite audience of officials and dignitaries...
- Stan Kenton Alumni Band: Have Band, Will Travel (Live) - Stan Kenton Alumni Band Have Band, Will Travel (Live) Summit Records 2010 For over two decades, trumpeter Mike Vax, a veteran of the 1970-72 Stan Kenton Orchestra, has been a tireless crusader maintaining the legacy of his erstwhile boss, who died at age 67 in 1979. Have Band, Will Travel (Live) is the Stan Kenton Alumni Band's fourth recording for the Summit label. It maintains the ensemble's commitment to Kenton not only through music performed by the original band, but also through modern compositions and arrangements which fit comfortably with the Kenton aesthetic. Audio engineer Tom Johnson has brilliantly captured the sound and spirit of this ensemble in his location recordings...
- Wayne Shorter -- Live In Montreux 1996 - Wayne Shorter Live at Montreux 1996 Eagle Eye Media 2009 Wayne Shorter may look 20 years younger than 76, but he is quite simply one of the last giants, every bit as influential and artistically significant as Sonny Rollins, perhaps second only to John Coltrane when one considers his compositions and just how many of them have become jazz standards...
updated: 10 Mar 2010 02:15pm CET
Universal Music Classics and Jazz - Jazz News from Germany
updated: 01 Jan 1970 01:00am CET
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Sueddeutsche Zeitung - News from Munich
- Kritik an "Precious": Schwarze Stars, weiße Retter -
Die Mutter auf Crack, der Vater ein Sexmonster: Der mit zwei Oscars prämierte Film Precious zementiere rassistische Ressentiments. Nun wird Kritik laut.
- Mikrokosmos Internat: Drill hinter dicken Mauern -
Zahlreiche Missbrauchsfälle an Eliteschulen schrecken Eltern auf. Sind Internate der perfekte Tatort? Eine Institution steht auf dem Prüfstand.
- TV-Kritik: "Unser Star für Oslo": Alles superduper -
Bei Unser Star für Oslo geht es gesittet und langweilig zu. Und auch die Entscheidung über die Finalisten war nicht wirklich überraschend. Immerhin hat sich Raab die Ohren gewaschen.
updated: 01 Jan 1970 01:00am CET
