Soul Pitch Hustle (Free subscription) | 02/07/2010
I'm such a fan of reality shows, I mean who isn't right! Fashion is definetely in my forte, so just to know that I'm not the only bi-polar PR In the industry makes me feel so good! I have a new BFF and her name is Kelly !! who would of ever thought I would be watching my erratic ass on TV. I will be glued to the tube every Monday at 10pm est. on BRAVO . more on BRAVO Get a behind the scenes look at...
PopMatters Music (Free subscription) | 01/15/2010
R.I.P. Ed Thigpen Jazz drummer Ed Thigpen died in Copenhagen on Wednesday, January 13. His death at age 79 followed his struggles with Parkinson's disease and a late-2009 hospitalization for other "heart and lung problems". Widely recognized as an exceptionally tasteful and versatile drummer, Thigpen played with Oscar Peterson, Billy Taylor and Ella Fitzgerald, among others. Read his detailed...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 01/15/2010
Ed Thigpen, Chicago-born drummer with the Oscar Peterson Trio during the famed jazz pianist's popular early-'60s period, died on Wednesday, January 13, 2010 at the age of seventy-nine in Kingdom Hospital in Copenhagen after being ill for a long period of time.Besides appearing on dozens of albums with Oscar Peterson, Thigpen recorded and performed with many other jazz greats, such as Ella Fitzgerald,...
The Bluegrass Blog (Free subscription) | 01/14/2010
Darol Anger, who first came to the attention of the bluegrass and acoustic music worlds through his work on fiddle with the original David Grisman Quintet, has been named as an associate professor at the Berklee School of Music. Since his time with Grisman in the late 1970s Anger has continued to blaze trails as an [.....]
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 01/08/2010
Bret Primack, aka the Jazz Video Guy, looks back at the video he produced in 2009. Features: Billy Taylor, Sonny Rollins, Ben Webster, Lester Young, Miles Davis, John Coltrane. Writer/Video Journalist Bret Primack has been at the forefront of new media since he co- founded Jazz Central Station in 1995. In 1997, he was the first Jazz blogger with Bird Lives, where, as the Pariah, his heartfelt diatribes...
Rifftides (Free subscription) | 01/05/2010
On his JazzWax blog, Marc Myers begins a series about pianist Dick Hyman. What a good idea. The first installment of the interview adds a video clip of Hyman and Billy Taylor doing a two-piano duet on "Hot House." If...
Sticks of Fire: a Tampa blog (Free subscription) | 12/24/2009
The Royal Guardsmen are from Ocala, and they got the lyrics to their biggest hit during a concert in Tampa.
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
In the days when commercial television networks in the United States were still working their way toward the shallowness we know and love today and cable networks did not exist, there was an NBC-TV program called The Subject Is Jazz. Its host was the cultural critic Gilbert Seldes. One 1958 installment of the series explored the proposition that a fairly new tributary of the jazz mainstream ran cooler...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Pianist Marian McPartland never assumed a hipster or cool mystique like many of her male jazz peers. Throughout her 70-year career, there was no brooding, no puzzling behavior, and no legendary binges or tantrums. Just a good-girl smile as wide as Piccadilly Circus and knowing eyes that bore a steely determination to stand out with graceful technique and an encyclopedic knowledge of jazz. Like Billy...
NY Daily News (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Before he got to work with Chaka Khan, Prince, Billy Cobham and Stanley Clarke, jazz musician Jerome Najee Rasheed cut his performing chops in city schools and clubs.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
Thursday, November 5, 2009, 7:00 pm and 9:30 pm, Kitano Hotel, 66 Park Avenue at East 38th Street, New York, NY 10016, 212-885-7119 - Please reserve seats early, Jazz@kitano.com, www.kitano.com
PlaybillArts.com (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
The JALC Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis marks the 100th anniversary of Williams' birth with the Mary Lou Williams Centennial Nov. 13-14. A Nov. 7 Jazz For Young People program will introduce audiences to the iconic composer and "leading lady of jazz."
- Are You Riled Up? - (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
and the internet too is my source of inspiration but if you really must know, currently its music! i sometimes sit down with everything around me not knowing how to start, what to do, but once i have my music on, then everything will then flow! the range is from country to rock! french to [...]
Ball State Daily News (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
Promoters of the John R. Wooden Tradition on Wednesday announced that Ball State University will play Purdue University in the Cardinals' first-ever appearance in the annual Conseco Fieldhouse event on Dec. 19. The announcement came coincidentally on the Hall, Ind., native Wooden's 99th birthday.
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 09/09/2009
Pianist, composer, educator, author, broadcaster and Jazz advocate Dr. Billy Taylor announces the release of Jazz Piano, an iPhone App. Billy has always been on the cutting edge of using technology to reach existing and new listeners, first on the radio, then television, on his website; on YouTube; and, now on the iPhone...
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