Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Got Candy?


Halloween Music News You Can Use

Boo!

Uncle Tom goes to the beach and spots Kim Basinger (and her daughter)

http://www.midweek.com/ireland-baldwin-jessica-pare-and-jon-hamm-and-more-celebrity-news/

What can a CEO learn from a Jazz Director?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/vivekranadive/2012/10/30/what-can-a-ceo-learn-from-a-jazz-director/

Somewhere in the Night...

http://blogcritics.org/music/article/music-review-bobby-hutcherson-somewhere-in/

The 6 strangest crossover attempts by Jazz musicians

http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/rftmusic/2012/10/jazz_crossover_songs_list.php

Yet another World's Largest Ookelele Orchestra

http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/eastern-courier/7882043/Kids-join-biggest-ukulele-orchestra

First listen to the new Neil Young release

http://www.kansascity.com/2012/10/30/3892730/cd-reviews-neil-young-leads-the.html

Another one of those Desert Island Discs lists

http://somethingelsereviews.com/2012/10/30/desert-island-discs-guitar-record-edition/

Getting ready for All Saints Day in New Orleans

http://www.nola.com/arts/index.ssf/2012/10/carlos_miguel_prieto_leads_his.html

A final wrapup of Voodoo 2012

http://consequenceofsound.net/2012/10/festival-review-voodoo-experience-2012/

And Sir Paul says it wasn't Yoko's fault

http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2012/10/30/paul-mccartney-yoko-ono-didnt-break-up-the-beatles/1668499/

Monday, October 29, 2012

Hurricane Sandy Music News You Can Use

Day 1

R.I.P. to folk guitarist Terry Callier

http://www.tinymixtapes.com/news/rip-terry-callier-folksouljazz-guitarist

Carmel's longtime jazz station KRML changes its format

http://www.montereyherald.com/news/ci_21879006/carmels-venerable-jazz-station-krml-changes-format-rock

"The Genius of Coltrane" opens in NYC

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/29/arts/music/the-genius-of-coltrane-at-the-rose-theater.html

Exposing aboriginal kids to Jazz

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/columnists/guitarist-eager-to-expose-aboriginal-kids-to-jazz-176212231.html

Kaua'i's instrument maker of the forest

http://thegardenisland.com/entertainment/night-life/the-instrument-maker-of-the-forest/article_f51bd132-208c-11e2-bd7e-001a4bcf887a.html?comment_form=true

A visit to Graph Tech Guitar Labs

http://www.theprovince.com/business/smallbusiness/Delta+Graph+Tech+Guitar+Labs+creating+niche+among/7455935/story.html

May his guitar never sleep!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/indiahome/indianews/article-2224492/May-guitar-sleep-Carlos-Santana-thrills-Delhi-energy-packed-performance.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

A review of Day 2 of Voodoo

http://www.lsureveille.com/entertainment/music/article_c80b2bca-2136-11e2-b786-0019bb30f31a.html

London in Beatlemaniac Bond-age

http://www.philstar.com/funfare/article.aspx?articleid=864393&publicationsubcategoryid=70

And ZZ Top goes back to the Futura

http://www.geeksofdoom.com/2012/10/28/music-review-zz-top-la-futura/

Friday, October 26, 2012

TGIF Music News You Can Use

Some Lagniappe today!

Native Healers on the Big Island get ready for their annual convention

http://www.bigislandvideonews.com/2012/10/25/lapakahi-to-close-for-gathering-of-traditional-native-hawaiian-healers/

Celebrating Billy Strayhorn in Chicago

http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/ct-ott-1026-jazz-scene-20121025,0,3592956.column

The Soka International Jazz Festival begins today

http://www.examiner.com/article/soka-international-jazz-festival

Jazz is Dead (Again)

http://blogs.artinfo.com/blunotes/2012/10/jazz-is-dead-again/

A prolific author of Ookelele Books

http://lubbockonline.com/education/2012-10-25/south-plains-college-professor-authors-four-ukulele-books#.UIqXZmf4WSo

Pentagram is in the market for a new guitarist

http://www.metalunderground.com/news/details.cfm?newsid=85783

Dylan's Opening Act finally sits in with him

http://www.examiner.com/article/guess-who-finally-played-guitar-during-bob-dylan-s-set-san-diego

This year's Voodoo Fest will add Tent Camping

http://www.bradenton.com/2012/10/25/4253029/voodoo-adds-tent-camping-to-festival.html

More on that new Ernie K-Doe book

http://theadvocate.com/features/people/4234449-123/rb-singer-subject-of-new

Backstage at JazzFest

http://www.nola.com/music/index.ssf/2012/10/zack_smiths_new_photo_collecti.html

And a sad end for the 27 year old Monterey Bay Blues Fest

http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/blog/2012/10/monterey-bay-blues-festival-files-for.html

Monday, October 22, 2012

Monday Music News You Can Use

SXSW is in search of more Hawaiian Musicians

http://www.staradvertiser.com/s?action=login&f=y&id=175120721

Meet the winner of the first-ever Sarah Vaughn International Jazz Competition

http://www.nj.com/entertainment/music/index.ssf/2012/10/cyrille_aimee_wins_the_first_s.html

The Chicago Jazz Philharmonic kicks off its new season

http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/ct-ent-1022-jazz-philharmonic-20121022,0,4790954.column

The Moody Jazz Fest honors Miles Davis and Gil Evans

http://www.nj.com/entertainment/music/index.ssf/2012/10/classic_jazz_in_spotlight_as_m.html

D.M.C. wishes Chuck Berry a Happy Birthday

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/queens/rapper-m-pays-tribute-chuch-berry-article-1.1187869?localLinksEnabled=false

Steve Hackett has a new Genesis project

http://somethingelsereviews.com/2012/10/21/there-are-many-things-that-i-can-do-now-new-genesis-project-lets-steve-hackett-show-off-new-skills/

Return of the Woodstock International Luthiers Festival

http://www.woodstockx.com/2012/10/21/woodstock-invitational-luthiers-show-returns/

Dr. John needs a physician?

http://journalstar.com/blogs/ground-zero/dr-john-cancels-bourbon-theatre-performance-then-turns-up-to/article_010fab1f-2572-567d-94c3-b681789a0bee.html

An all-star Cream Tribute

http://www.jambands.com/news/2012/10/21/dhani-harrison-bob-weir-and-a-jane-s-addiction-duo-pay-tribute-to-cream

And the first class of the Memphis Hall of Fame is announced

http://www.theday.com/article/20121021/ENT10/310219971/-1/ENT

Saturday, October 20, 2012

Saturday Music News You Can Use

R.I.P. to jazz sax man David Ware

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/posts/la-et-ms-saxophonist-david-s-ware-dead-at-62-20121019,0,3872677.story

"A Love Supreme" goes to church

http://www.kentucky.com/2012/10/19/2377673/rich-copley-jazz-group-brings.html

Love, Lust, and Albanian Folk Songs

http://www.npr.org/2012/10/19/163242023/elina-duni-love-lust-and-albanian-folk-songs

Electric Guitars: Capitalism Built That

http://dailycaller.com/2012/10/19/electric-guitars-capitalism-built-that/

Mick Jagger drops a hint about more Stones dates

http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/upcoming_tours/mick_jagger_hints_at_more_stones_dates.html

MOOG makes an acoustic guitar?

http://gizmodo.com/5953181/moog-lev+96-forget-synths-moog-is-making-a-batshit-acoustic-guitar

Mind Control by Rhythmic Sound

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2012/10/19/the-power-of-music-mind-control-by-rhythmic-sound/

Checking out this year's NOLA East Festival

http://noladefender.com/content/new-orle34ans-east-salutes-moto76wn-annual-fest

Bangladesh to honor George Harrison and Bob Dylan

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/bangladesh/9620324/Bangladesh-to-honour-Bob-Dylan-and-George-Harrison.html

And R.I.P. to Texas Blues guitarist Nick Curran, who was only 35

http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/nick-curran-texas-based-guitarist-dies-at-35/2012/10/19/0221b26a-1247-11e2-be82-c3411b7680a9_story.html

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Wednesday Music News You Can Use

Finally made it thru interspace!

Uncle Tom Moffatt is apparently off this week, so no Gabby

The 2013 Portland Jazz Fest lineup is announced

http://www.oregonlive.com/music/index.ssf/2012/10/2013_portland_jazz_festival_fe.html

A blind Jazz prodigy takes Bolivia by storm

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/9612810/Blind-jazz-prodigy-takes-Bolivias-music-scene-by-storm.html

American Splendors

http://blogs.voanews.com/music/2012/10/16/american-splendors-coltrane-and-pekar/

Sam Brown sighted

http://www.islingtongazette.co.uk/news/1980s_pop_star_helps_finsbury_pupils_hit_the_right_note_with_ukulele_band_1_1658766

A roundup of new releases

http://www.jsonline.com/entertainment/musicandnightlife/cd-reviews-c274kan-174472701.html

A new guitar exhibit at the Science Museum of Virginia

http://www.sacbee.com/2012/10/16/4915691/guitar-opens-at-the-science-museum.html

A look ahead to ACL 2013

http://blogs.houstonpress.com/rocks/2012/10/acl_2013_what_next.php

R.I.P. to Arlo Guthrie's wife Jackie

http://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/Music/2012/10/16/Arlo-Guthries-wife-dead-at-68/UPI-76841350406041/

2 tasty new N'Orleans reissues

http://www.nola.com/music/index.ssf/2012/10/professor_longhair_and_louis_a.html

And celebrating 20 years of The House of Blues

http://www.sacbee.com/2012/10/16/4914997/legendary-house-of-blues-20th.html

Wednesday Music Non-News You Can't Use!

This morning's post has been lost in cyberspace. Hopefully it will show up later.

Monday, October 15, 2012

Stormy Monday Music News You Can Use

25 years of keeping jazz alive on Staten Island

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music-arts/25-years-keeping-jazz-alive-staten-island-article-1.1181806?localLinksEnabled=false

Gateway to the Arts

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443675404578056770326351136.html

Clapton plays the art market

http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/guitar-god-clapton-plays-the-art-market-20121014-27koe.html

A cool new double-neck 8 string

http://bloody-disgusting.com/news/3197663/random-cool-check-out-this-amazing-double-neck-8-string-billy-the-puppet-saw-guitar/

A report from the 2012 ACL Fest in Austin

http://austin.culturemap.com/newsdetail/10-14-12-10-32-acl-in-review-steve-earle/

The guitar king who said it all through his music

http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/books/the-guitar-king-who-said-it-all-through-his-music-3257905.html

An honor for New Orleans opera great Norman Treigle

http://www.nola.com/arts/index.ssf/2012/10/theaters_plaza_is_renamed_to_h.html

AKA Doc Pomus

http://noladefender.com/content/new-orleans-film-fest67ival-first-look-aka-doc-pomus-and-2-shorts

The National Park Service releases a new Kid's CD

http://www.nationalparkstraveler.com/2012/10/national-park-service-releases-new-children%E2%80%99s-music-cd10672

And R.I.P. to South Carolina Radio Pioneer Wally Mullinax

 http://www.wyff4.com/news/local-news/greenville-news/Upstate-radio-pioneer-dies/-/9654794/16984156/-/6l0x2r/-/index.html

Sunday, October 14, 2012

Saturday, October 13, 2012

Frosty Saturday Music News You Can Use

Got Poi?

A new encyclopedia of Hawaiian Music

http://www.honolulumagazine.com/Honolulu-Magazine/October-2012/Books-Hawaiian-Music-and-Musicians-An-Encyclopedic-History/

Around the Jazz Internet

http://www.npr.org/blogs/ablogsupreme/2012/10/12/162810811/around-the-jazz-internet-oct-12-2012

Time for the St. George Jazz Fest

http://broadwayworld.com/article/ST-GEORGE-JAZZ-FESTIVAL-Starring-David-Sanborn-Coming-to-St-George-Theatre-1013-1014-20121012

A Monk exhibit in NYC

http://www.amsterdamnews.com/opinion/columnists/jazz_notes/the-jass-syncopators-monk-exhibition/article_f30d5c46-1491-11e2-b24c-0019bb2963f4.html

A new Adirondack Guitar

http://www.acousticguitar.com/article/Default.aspx?ArticleID=28253

How to play Fingerstyle duets

http://www.acousticguitar.com/article/Default.aspx?ArticleID=26794

R.I.P. to D.C. guitar player Tom Guernsey

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2012/10/12/tom-guernsey-hangmen-guitarist-who-had-a-no-1-d-c-hit-in-1966-has-died/

Metallica replaces Green Day at VoodooFest

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/travel/metallica-added-to-voodoo-music-festival-lineup-in-place-of-green-day/2012/10/12/9865ce5c-14ac-11e2-9a39-1f5a7f6fe945_story.html

R.P.P. to R & B singer Deborah Chessler

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music-arts/deborah-chessler-rhythm-amp-blues-pionner-dead-89-article-1.1182043

And hottest rock star wives, the Barbara Bach Edition

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/barbara-bach-hottest-rockstar-wives/

Thursday, October 4, 2012

No Music News For You!

Back on Friday!

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Midweek Music News You Can Use

Uncle Tom Time! In this week's exciting adventure, Tom appears in a SOJA video...

http://www.midweek.com/bruno-mars-paris-hilton-and-more-celebrity-news/

The Pat Metheny Group will reunite in 2013

http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2012/10/02/pat-metheny-group-to-reunite/1607357/

All That Jazz

http://www.iol.co.za/tonight/music/all-that-jazz-october-3-2012-1.1395124

Ookeleles at Aldershot

http://www.gethampshire.co.uk/entertainment/music/s/2121507_ukeleles_out_in_force_at_aldershot

Speaking of Dancing Fleas, Jake releases his new album

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/jake-shimabukuro-the-jimi-hendrix-of-the-ukulele/

Saturday in the Park with Neil Young

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2012/10/saturday-in-the-park-with-neil.html

Slash has "Nothing to Fear"

http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/upcoming_releases/slash_working_on_nothing_to_fear_score.html?no_takeover

Catherine O'Hara and Martin Short get back together again

http://www.toromagazine.com/features/talking-to/5cdb9cec-c982-b2a4-b59e-a83cb98df3e6/Martin-Short--Catherine-OHara/

A Blog Supreme dissects Sunday's "Treme" episode #23

http://www.npr.org/blogs/ablogsupreme/2012/10/02/162157333/treme-ep-23-long-black-lines

And get ready for yet another Beatles Documentary

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/posts/la-et-ms-beatles-stories-documentary-seth-swirsky-screening-hollywood-dvd-20121002,0,5827533.story

Tuesday, October 2, 2012

It's Leon's Birthday!

Happy #85 to Texas Playboys singer LEON RAUSCH

Tuesday Music News You Can Use

A preview of this weekend's GretnaFest, just across the Miss River Bridges from N'Orleans

http://www.gretnafest.com/music.php

The Nash Jazz Center opens in Phoenix

http://www.azcentral.com/thingstodo/music/articles/20120921the-nash-phoenix-grand-opening-jazz.html?nclick_check=1

Ramsey Lewis sighting

http://blogs.voanews.com/jazz-beat/2012/10/01/ramsey-lewis-taking-another-look/

Bringing Jazz music to the classroom in St. Louis

http://www.ksdk.com/news/article/341215/3/Positively-St-Louis-Jazz-education-brings-music-to-the-classroom-

Checking out this year's Savannah Jazz Festival

http://www.scaddistrict.com/blog/2012/10/01/notes-from-the-savannah-jazz-festival/

New Arabic music from...Vancouver?

http://www.vancouversun.com/entertainment/reviews+Vancouver+Gordon+Grdina+explores+Arabic+music+territory+with+streamlined+jazz+groove/7326419/story.html

A new highly strung British band

http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/highly-strung-band-really-jolly-good-fun/story-17014098-detail/story.html

Guitar Center searches once again for The Next Great singer-songwriter

http://www.heraldonline.com/2012/10/01/4304084/guitar-center-launches-second.html

More info on the new B.B. King license plate

http://blog.gulflive.com/mississippi-press-news/2012/10/biloxi_lighthouse_replaced_by.html

And Rock n' Bowl offers Slow Food, Fast Music

http://noladefender.com/content/slow-food-and-fast-music-su6pper-bo7wl-ev8ent-rock-n-bowl

Monday, October 1, 2012

First Day of October Music News You Can Use

11 Items for the price of 10 today!

Checking out this year's Windward Hoolaulea

http://www.staradvertiser.com/s?action=login&f=y&id=171968991&id=171968991

Hyde Park Jazz Festival time

http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/ct-ent-1001-hyde-park-festival-20121001,0,7813609.column

Octoberfest at The Dakota

http://www.jazzpolice.com/content/view/10364/115/

R.I.P. to jazz trombone player Eddie Bert

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/01/arts/music/eddie-bert-trombonist-and-jazzman-dies-at-90.html

Bruce Sklar is spreading the gospel of music

http://vtdigger.org/2012/09/30/in-this-state-spreading-the-gospel-of-music-one-jazz-standard-at-a-time/

Get ready for Festival Miami

http://www.themiamihurricane.com/2012/09/30/gear-up-for-a-month-of-music-opportunity-at-festival-miami/

Jack White Takes a Hike

http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/sns-rt-us-jackwhitebre88t0ml-20120930,0,2019054.story

How The Edge created a classic guitar sound

http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/how_the_edge_created_a_classic_guitar_sound.html?no_takeover

Who's the greatest Metal guitarist?

http://www.tgdaily.com/entertainment/66520-whos-the-greatest-metal-guitarist

A Fedora hat, a guitar, and good vibes

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Culture/Performance/2012/Oct-01/189689-a-fedora-hat-a-guitar-and-good-vibes.ashx#axzz283QG83sH

And Bonnie Raitt does Dallas

http://www.dallasnews.com/entertainment/music/headlines/20120930-how-bonnie-raitt-showed-gal-pal-on-an-easy-chair-persona-in-dallas-area-concert.ece