By All About Jazz News on September 30, 2010
Jazz Musician/Yamaha Artiste/ KoolKat Productions Pres. Boy Katindig, recently received the Lifetime Achievement Award (Dangal ng Musikang Pilipino Award) from the 23rd Awit Awards. The youngest recipient of the award, Mr. Katindig was recognized for his exemplary and outstanding achievement as one of the pioneering artists in the propagation of original Filipino music and as an award winning songwriter and producer by the Philippine Record Industry (PARI). “It came quite early cause I’m not done yet” quoted the jazz artist in his acceptance speech…
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By Jazz News on September 30, 2010
Hot Club of Cowtown Hot Club of Detroit . Hot Club of Las Vegas Hot Club of Norway Hot Club of New Orleans Hot Club of San Diego Hot Club of San Francisco Back when their Hot Club of France quintet was cooking in Parisian bistros in the 1930s, could guitarist Django Reinhardt and violinist Stephane Grappelli have envisioned that their humble combo …
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By Jazz News on September 30, 2010
Clubs & Organizations Submitted by Lynn Gelormino, Warner Theatre, on 2010-09-29.   Pat Metheny is one of the most successful and critically acclaimed jazz and New Age musicians to come to prominence in the 70’s and 80’s. Winner of 17 Grammy Awards, Pat Metheny returns to the Warner Theatre with his Orchestrion Tour on Oct 23.
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By Jazz News on September 30, 2010
West Virginia Wesleyan College’s big band will perform at 8 p.m. today in Wesley Chapel in an Evening of Jazz.
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By All About Jazz News on September 30, 2010
Seattle jazz musicians have a new outlet for their music, and jazz fans around the world have a way to hear all of the amazing jazz that’s coming out of Seattle, WA. “Jazz Now! Seattle” is a new podcast that makes its debut Friday, October 1, 2010.
“Jazz Now! Seattle” is hosted by m: Jason Parker and m: David Marriott, Jr., both working jazz musicians in Seattle. Because they are both active on the scene they will bring listeners an insider’s perspective on the music they feature, and their unprecedented access to the music and musicians will ensure that the show covers the widest spectrum of music as possible…
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By All About Jazz News on September 30, 2010
Come hear m: Jim Holton, Cindy Leblanc and friends!
Authentic New Orleans dinner prepared by All About Jazz’s gumbo central gourmand c: Wade Luquet.
Chestnut Hill United Church (Directly across from Chestnut Hill Hospital) Sunday, October 17, 5pm-8pm
$20 includes food and music. Musicians eat free! For more information: 215-242-9321 All are welcome…
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By All About Jazz News on September 30, 2010
Christmas Comes Early For Bing Crosby Fans Bing Crosby Archive Opens Up Vault Once Again
New Bing Crosby CD and DVD Releases Set For November 9th From Collectors’ Choice Music and Infinity Entertainment Group
The Crosby Christmas Sessions (CD) and Bing Sings the Great American Songbook (CD)
The Television Specials: Volume 2—The Christmas Specials (DVD)…
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By MilesDavis.com News on September 30, 2010
In a new interview with Rolling Stone Obama was asked, for the hundredth time, what is on his iPod. He started off with his regular list of music’s icons.
“I am probably still more heavily weighted toward the music of my childhood than I am the new stuff,” he said. “There’s still a lot of Stevie Wonder, a lot of Bob Dylan, a lot of Rolling Stones, a lot of R&B, a lot of Miles Davis and John Coltrane. Those are the old standards.”
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By All About Jazz News on September 30, 2010
Matthew Montfort, guitarist and bandleader of the pioneering world fusion music group Ancient Future, was interviewed and performed on the Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC on Friday, September 24th, 2010.
Kent Jones, the Rachel Maddow Show’s pop-culturist, was in San Francisco September 23rd and 24th to cover the opening of the Music for People and Thingamajigs Festival. Matthew Montfort kicked off the festival by showcasing his unusual guitars: the Godin Glissentar, an 11 string fretless guitar, and the scalloped fretboard guitar, a special modified instrument able to produce ornaments characteristic of the sitar…
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By All About Jazz News on September 30, 2010
Fourteen years after Pete Townshend dismissed the very idea of growing up when he wrote “Hope I die before I get old,” a 40-year-old John Lennon sang a very different tune.
“I can hardly wait to see you come of age,” he sang in 1980 to his then-5-year-old son, Sean, unabashedly anticipating the future. And to his wife, Yoko Ono, he borrowed a sentiment from poet Robert Browning and crooned “Grow old with me / The best is yet to be … whatever fate decrees, we will see it through…
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