TVShowsOnDVD.com News (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
By David Lambert - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE OSCAR?-WINNING ACTOR LEE MARVIN STARS AS LT. FRANK BALLINGER IN THE LANDMARK CLASSIC 1950s TV CRIME DRAMA NEW ON DVD FROM TIMELESS MEDIA M SQUAD: THE... (more)
Rifftides (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
Despite his ability early in his career to approximate Charlie Parker, throughout Arne Domnérus's life, Benny Carter remained a primary inspiration. In this 2000 performance in Paris with pianist Claes Crona, Domnérus thoroughly explores Carter's "When Lights Are Low."...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 09/01/2008
A flexible and expressive soloist, Gerry Wiggins probably had more work than any other jazz pianist. He seemed never to stop and no doubt developed the habit when he was a boy, when he went to school during the day and then played at New York's Monroe's Uptown House from midnight until dawn.
LA Times (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008
Lee Young, a jazz drummer who served as Nat King Cole's musical director for nearly a decade and broke barriers as the first African American hired for a staff position with a Hollywood studio orchestra, has died. He was 94.
BrothersJudd Blog (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiBqSOQFOZY Posted by Orrin Judd (August 8, 2008 3:59 PM)
PR-Inside.com Entertainment News (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
Jazz pianist GERALD WIGGINS has died in hospital after a long battle with illness. The 86 year old, who performed alongside Louis Armstrong, Benny Carter and Roy Eldridge, among others, and became Marilyn Monroe’s vocal coach died on Sunday (13Jul08). Monroe once gave him a photo autographed with, "For Gerry. I can’t make a sound without you. [...]
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
Gerald Wiggins, a jazz pianist whose long career embraced numerous recordings with his trio, performances with Louis Armstrong, Benny Carter, Roy Eldridge, Zoot Sims, accompaniment for Lena Horne and Nat "King" Cole, and vocal coaching for Marilyn Monroe, has died. He was 86. Wiggins died Sunday morning at Encino-Tarzana Medical Center, where he had spent the last six weeks. According to his wife,...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 06/25/2008
For almost three decades, Nick's Steakhouse was revered as "the place" in Greenwich Village to hear classic, hot, improvised jazz. Music stands and orchestrations were banned from the stage. Muggsy Spanier led his group there, as did Bud Freeman and Eddie Condon. Booked for a one-nighter, Benny Carter stayed for five weeks. Fats Waller would drop by to play 'for fun,' and so did Jack Teagarden...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 06/13/2008
The international Aurora Awards, which recognizes excellence in the film and video industries, has honored Jazzed Media with a 2008 gold award for the documentary film Bud Shank Against the Tide. The documentary film was produced and directed by multi-Grammy nominated and award winning filmmaker Graham Carter, founder of Jazzed Media. Jazzed Media produces jazz CDs and documentary jazz films...
Soulbounce.com (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Ahmad Jamal It's MagicAretha Franklin Aretha ArrivesAretha Franklin Let Me in Your LifeBob Baldwin Brazil ChillBrothers Unlimited Who's for the YoungCapelton Bun FriendCassandra Wilson LoverlyCount Basie and Benny Carter Legendary Radio BroadcastsDesmond Dekker King of Ska: Greatest HitsElla Fitzgerald and...
http://www.CelebrityVideoTube.com (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008
Business Journal With the help of great arrangers like Neal Hefti, Ernie Wilkins, Benny Carter and Quincy Jones, bandleader Count Basie relaunched his career after the prime era of big bands had already passed. Read the full article here
Michael Sporn Animation - Splog (Free subscription) | 05/31/2008
- On Monday, the Museum of Modern Art will continue its series of Jazz on Film (Jazz Score)with their first all animation program. This is a program of classic Hubley shorts. which feature jazz by such classic composers/musicians as Dizzy Gillespie, Quincy Jones, Benny Carter and others. The program will be presented by Emily Hubley, [...]
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 05/27/2008
Benny Carter Symphony in Riffs Rhapsody Films 2008 Benny Carter was a man of many parts. He played the trumpet and saxophone, he scored music for films and television, he was an educator, and he was an arranger in a class of his own. Carter was born in 1907, and in commemoration of his 100th birth anniversary, Rhapsody Films has re-released Symphony in Riffs. Though the original was released in 1989,...
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 05/19/2008
Two high school jazz bands from Seattle took top honors in Jazz at Lincoln Center's 13th annual Essentially Ellington competition at Avery Fisher Hall.
Darcy James Argue's Secret Society (Free subscription) | 04/29/2008
Jimmy Giuffre (1921-2008) In 1994, I had only just begun to buy jazz on CD (having finally upgraded from Walkman to Discman). So the prospect of obtaining four (four!) CDs for the price of one seemed a lot more exciting to me back when I only owned about a dozen CDs, total, than it probably seems to anyone today. But nonetheless, I assure you that I snapped up The Verve Story: 1944-1994 with considerable...
