Saturday, November 29, 2014

Saturday Music News You Can Use

Saturday live Muzit in New Orleans includes Tab Benoit and Sleepy Labeef @ Rock 'n' Bowl

http://www.wwoz.org/new-orleans-community/music-calendar

Happy #30 to Ottawa's Rainbow Bistro

http://metronews.ca/news/ottawa/1225972/ottawas-rainbow-bistro-celebrates-30th-anniversary-with-blues-bash/

Finally, a Janis Joplin film

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et-mn-janis-joplin-movie-amy-adams-terry-vallee-20141128-story.html

Staying on key for a cause

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/community-news/park-cities/headlines/20141128-dallas-jazz-piano-society-stays-on-key-for-a-cause.ece

Putting the Jazz in Jazz Alley

http://blogs.seattletimes.com/soundposts/2014/11/28/roy-hargrove-puts-the-jazz-in-jazz-alley-concert-preview/

Running the London Marathon with an Ookelele?

http://www.eveshamjournal.co.uk/news/11634234.Uke_can_do_it_____Worcester_man_to_run_London_Marathon_carrying_ukulele/

Guitars hand-carved from recycled Detroit wood

http://www.livingstondaily.com/story/news/local/community/livingston-county/2014/11/28/guitars-hand-carved-reclaimed-detroit-wood/19560283/

Tom Petty looks back

http://www.antimusic.com/news/14/November/28Tom_Petty_Looks_Back_At_The_Traveling_Wilburys.shtml

Bra Hugh's cry of heritage

http://www.sundayworld.co.za/news/2014/11/28/bra-hugh-s-cry-of-heritage

And a musical benefit on Kaua'i

http://thegardenisland.com/entertainment/tgif/aha-mele-concert-to-benefit-organ-restoration/article_5d197cb8-76bb-11e4-ba4e-c7c5cabae4e0.html

Sunday, November 23, 2014

Sunday Music News You Can Use

Sunday live Muzit in New Orleans includes Lagniappe Brass Band @ Blue Nile

http://www.wwoz.org/new-orleans-community/music-calendar

While Dave Grohl pops in to NOLA for a visit

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/dave-grohl-sonic-highways-new-orleans-20141122

Time for this year's Reclamation Jazz Fest

http://www.hindustantimes.com/entertainment/music/reclamation-jazz-festival-it-s-all-about-jazz-this-week-in-mumbai/article1-1289030.aspx

The Teardrops keep on keeping on

http://www.kunc.org/post/regardless-leadership-teardrops-keep-keeping

A masked guitar thief gets caught

http://www.presstelegram.com/general-news/20141121/man-in-einstein-mask-held-in-montebello-double-guitar-theft

Chuck Leavell Talks Story

http://www.noise11.com/news/the-chuck-leavell-noise11-com-interview-video-20141122

Portland's Symphony gets ready for Christmas

http://www.sunjournal.com/news/encore/2014/12/04/portland-symphony-orchestra-presents-35th-year-magic-christmas-dec-12-21/1621531

As does St. Louis Cathedral in New Orleans

http://www.nola.com/holidays/index.ssf/2014/11/free_new_orleans_christmas_con.html

Playing without pain

http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/music/2014/11/22/jazz-pianist-kenny-werner-teaches-berklee-students-play-without-pain/aOB0Jq9oFL1Jwl5YAWBYAO/story.html

And R.I.P. to Berklee pianist Ray Santisi

http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/11/23/ray-santisi-berklee-pianist-performed-with-and-taught-jazz-stars/akQ82TVwp8OCAOQFLTTARJ/story.html

Saturday, November 22, 2014

Saturday Music News You Can Use

Saturday live Muzit in New Orleans includes Sunpie Barnes and the Louisiana Sunspots @ Dos Jefes

http://www.wwoz.org/new-orleans-community/music-calendar

Newport Jazz raises some Big Bucks

http://www.providencejournal.com/features/entertainment/music/20141121-newport-jazz-festival-raises-1-million-artistic-programming-fund.ece

Interpol postpones a show at Boston's House of Blues

http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/music/2014/11/21/interpol-postones-house-blues-show/MX9eJuIayj4acwPavxZ47J/story.html

Starkey puts one of his houses on the market

http://variety.com/2014/dirt/real-estalker/ringo-starr-puts-surrey-estate-up-for-grabs-1201362069/

Paco de Lucia gets honored at the Latin Grammy Awards

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-2843718/Guitar-great-De-Lucia-honored-political-Latin-Grammys.html

George Harrison music goes hi-tech HD digital

http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/135794/george-harrison-collection-to-make-global-debut-in

Celebrating 50 years of Hula on Kaua'i

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/11/prweb12341741.htm

The Bristol Jazz and Blues Fest revives some Louis Armstrong scores

http://www.classical-music.com/news/louis-armstrong-scores-revived-bristol-jazz-and-blues-festival

Imagine That

http://www.cnbc.com/id/102206719?trknav=homestack:topnews:2

And Foo Fighters meet Big Easy

http://www.nola.com/music/index.ssf/2014/11/new_orleans_episode_of_foo_fig.html

Friday, November 21, 2014

Aloha Friday Music News You Can Use

Friday live Muzit in New Orleans includes The Hot Club of New Orleans @ d.b.a.

http://www.wwoz.org/new-orleans-community/music-calendar

Our weekly music lecture from Professor Al Kooper

http://www.themortonreport.com/entertainment/music/new-music-for-old-people-toni-childs-thank-you-scientist-jukebox-the-ghost-bryan-adams-and-more/

Marcia Ball celebrates 40 years in music

http://www.theoaklandpress.com/arts-and-entertainment/20141120/forty-years-has-been-the-blink-of-an-eye-for-blues-queen-marcia-ball

Paraguayan Harp Passion

http://worldmusiccentral.org/2014/11/20/paraguayan-harp-passion/

Of mice and music

http://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwdance/article/OF-MICE-AND-MUSIC-A-JAZZ-NUTCRACKER-to-Play-Long-Center-20141120

More Doom Music from Cold Specks

http://www.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancisco/more-doom-music-from-cold-specks/Content?oid=2912311

The Beatles like they were meant to be heard

http://www.heraldindependent.com/news/opinion_columns/150567475/The-Beatles-like-they-were-meant-to-be-heard

Toto has been back in the studio

http://somethingelsereviews.com/2014/11/20/steve-lukather-toto-xiv/

An intercontinental guitar summit

http://www.record-eagle.com/news/local_news/guitar-summit-strums-across-continents/article_562f3c39-0aec-550a-8fde-891b03229004.html

And Los Lobos get a Latin Grammy

http://www.hollywood.com/news/brief/58791547/los-lobos-and-valeria-lynch-among-special-latin-grammy-winners

Thursday, November 20, 2014

Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Hump Day Music News You Can Use

Uncle Tom Moffatt Gabs about Herb Alpert, and also remembers this week in 1983

http://www.midweek.com/hawaii-entertainment/uncle-toms-gabbin/herb-alpert-lani-hall-entertainment-news/

Hump Day live Muzit in New Orleans includes Open Mic Night @ The Green Room

http://www.wwoz.org/new-orleans-community/music-calendar

Guitar Jam 2014 sells out

http://www.wlos.com/news/features/top-stories/stories/2014-guitar-jam-sells-out-18550.shtml

Where Jazz meets Classical

http://www.theguardian.com/music/tomserviceblog/2014/nov/18/10-best-jazz-meets-classical-pieces-tom-service

Staten Island's best live music venues

http://www.silive.com/readerschoice/2014/11/staten_islands_live_music_venu.html

Meet the harmonica playing parish priest from Kilkenny

http://www.kilkennypeople.ie/news/kilkenny-news/the-harmonica-playing-parish-priest-in-kilkenny-reaching-out-through-blues-band-1-6426014

Foo Fighters head to New Orleans

http://www.nola.com/music/index.ssf/2014/11/foo_fighters_to_perform_at_the.html

Ritchie Blackmore VS Buckethead

http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/ug_news/ug_showdown_round_1_ritchie_blackmore_vs_buckethead.html?no_takeover

Jake talks Bruce Lee

http://www.honolulumagazine.com/Honolulu-Magazine/November-2014/Ukulele-Virtuoso-Jake-Shimabukuro-Talks-About-Bruce-Lee-TED-Talks-and-the-Future-of-the-Ukulele/

And a Caz Sighting

http://mauinow.com/2014/11/17/robert-cazimero-performs-at-wailea-le%CA%BBa-nov-19/

Sunday, November 16, 2014

Sunday Music News You Can Use

Sunday live Muzit in New Orleans includes Hot Toddy and His Fully Dressed Po 'Boys @AllWays

http://www.wwoz.org/new-orleans-community/music-calendar

Keeping Jazz in the present tense

http://www.southbendtribune.com/entertainment/inthebend/eventnews/guitarist-keeps-jazz-in-the-present-tense/article_3a3e8520-6f31-5cea-9d21-4ef53bb0e470.html

Shreveport knows Blues

http://www.thetowntalk.com/story/life/2014/11/15/decades-blues-musicians-find-inspiration-shreveport/19100737/

Gibson is making Slide Guitar easy

http://www2.gibson.com/News-Lifestyle/Features/en-us/Easy-Slide-Guitar-with-Gibson-2015-Models.aspx

Leon Rhodes surfacing

http://popcultureblog.dallasnews.com/2014/11/listen-up-a-very-rare-1952-krld-radio-show-featuring-country-music-guitar-hero-leon-rhodes-when-he-was-a-kid.html/

Reviewing some new Classical releases

http://audaud.com/2014/11/tuur-symphony-no-5-for-big-band-electric-guitar-and-sym-orch-prophecy-for-accordion-and-orch-helsinki-philharmonic-orch-umo-jazz-orch-nguyen-le-elec-guitarmika-vayrynen-accordio/

8 albums that ended with jam sessions

http://www.musictimes.com/articles/15815/20141114/8-albums-that-end-with-jam-sessions-nirvana-george-harrison-and-more.htm

Jimmy Page writes a book

https://www.bostonherald.com/entertainment/books/2014/11/led_zeppelins_jimmy_page_celebrates_book_with_ringo_starr_joe_walsh_joe

A band with deep roots

http://www.pressdemocrat.com/entertainment/music/2999615-181/preservation-hall-jazz-band-deeply

And get ready for the Hawai'i Honey Festival

http://www.pr.com/press-release/592192

Saturday, November 15, 2014

Saturday Music News You Can Use

Saturday live Muzit in New Orleans includes Gomela @ Congo Square

http://www.wwoz.org/new-orleans-community/music-calendar#

"Country music helped sustain morale"

http://lubbockonline.com/filed-online/2014-11-14/letter-day-country-music-helped-sustain-morale#.VGd3OmegV30

Giants of Jazz get ready to honor McCoy Tyner

http://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwmusic/article/McCoy-Tyner-to-be-Honored-at-Giants-of-Jazz-Concert-1129-20141114

WC Clark Birthday Blues

http://www.austinchronicle.com/calendar/music/w-c-clark-birthday-blues-1585099/

Time for the 12th Waimea Ookelele Fest

http://westhawaiitoday.com/news/local-features/festival-brings-music-classes-keiki-activities-kahilu

Seinfeld gets Jiggy with Stella

http://www.showbiz411.com/2014/11/14/jerry-seinfeld-tells-vegetarian-stella-mccartney-i-eat-only-leather-and-fur

"Guitar Center Sessions" starts a new season

http://kroq.cbslocal.com/2014/11/13/season-9-of-guitar-center-sessions-features-the-gaslight-anthem-cold-war-kids-linkin-park-neon-trees-aloe-blacc-and-more/

Slidell gets ready to auction a piano

http://www.nola.com/community/st-tammany/index.ssf/2014/11/beatles_paul_mccartney_and_rin.html

R.I.P. to Memphis Jazz man Jeff Huddleston

http://www.memphisrap.com/2014/11/14/memphis-music-community-mourns-loss-of-jazz-director-jeff-huddleston-dead-at-52/

And meeting the man who made the modern music industry

http://online.wsj.com/articles/book-review-ralph-peer-and-the-making-of-popular-roots-music-by-barry-mazor-1416003709

Friday, November 14, 2014

Aloha Friday Music News You Can Use

Snow!

Friday live Muzit in New Orleans includes Lena Prima

http://www.wwoz.org/new-orleans-community/music-calendar

Our weekly music lecture from Professor Al Kooper!

http://www.themortonreport.com/entertainment/music/new-music-for-old-people-pork-tornado-swag-weezer-marianne-faithfull-and-more/

Patrick Landenza sighting

http://www.santaclaraweekly.com/2014/Issue-46/award_winning_slack_key_guitarists_music_and_aloha_message_strike_a_chord_with_mission_college_students.html

Latest from Bra Hugh

http://www.thenewage.co.za/143256-1008-53-Bra_Hugh_plans_to_create_a_rainbow_vibeSoweto

George Harrison: A life remembered

http://lacrossetribune.com/houstonconews/news/opinion/george-harrison-a-life-remembered/article_b491e47f-ecfb-58f3-97ed-04d4a28797f4.html

Yet another Viral Guitar Video

http://entertainment.ie/wtf/Watch-Adorable-puppy-confused-by-guitar-music/314438.htm

Latest Beatles news from Marinucci

http://www.examiner.com/article/liverpool-beatles-museum-opens-new-exhibit-on-the-60s-british-invasion

Jake heads to Ann Arbor

http://www.toledofreepress.com/2014/11/13/ukulele-powerhouse-to-play-ann-arbor/

New Orleans loses its Navy Band after 43 years

http://www.nola.com/military/index.ssf/2014/11/navy_band_new_orleans_sails_aw.html

And a new Swiss Army Knife for guitars

http://www.phoenixvillenews.com/business/20141113/spring-city-entrepreneur-creates-guit-stix-the-swiss-army-knife-for-guitars

Sunday, November 9, 2014

Bye Day!

Me and the New England Patriots are taking the day off! Back Monday...

Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Hump Day Music News You Can Use

K-POI Boy Uncle Tom Moffatt is Gabbing about this week in 1988, when Rod Stewart came to Honalula

http://www.midweek.com/hawaii-entertainment/uncle-toms-gabbin/wendy-williams-darren-lee-entertainment-news/

Midweek live Muzit in New Orleans includes New Orleans Swinging Gypsies @ Apple Barrel

http://www.wwoz.org/new-orleans-community/music-calendar#

More info on the new home of the R & B Music Hall of Fame

http://wreg.com/2014/11/04/clarksdale-beats-memphis-and-detroit-for-rb-music-hall-of-fame-museum/

Straddling Indian classical music alongside jazz

http://indianexpress.com/article/cities/delhi/lets-talk-about-sax/

Santana Talks Story

http://www.mprnews.org/story/2014/11/04/npr-rock-guitar-icon-carlos-santana

Martin Short Sighting
http://www.kspr.com/entertainment/martin-short-stays-sunnyside-up/21052204_29531206

Mick and George were not impressed!

http://www.antimusic.com/news/14/November/04Led_Zeppelin_Debut_Did_Not_Impress_Mick_Jagger_and_George_Harrison.shtml

Kiwi Classics get turned into an album

http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/music/62924036/ukulele-orchestra-turns-kiwi-classics-into-album.html

Los Lobos wrap up their latest tour

http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/20141104_Los_Lobos_are_an_exquisite_marvel_at_the_Kimmel.html

And Foo Fighters meet Trombone Shorty @ VoodooFest

http://www.musictimes.com/articles/14465/20141104/trombone-shorty-joins-foo-fighters-onstage-new-orleans-call-watch.htm

Monday, November 3, 2014

Monday Music News You Can Use

Growing season officially ended here this morning at 12:13 AM EST...Latest first frost in 26 years!

Monday's live Muzit in New Orleans includes Uncle Mem Shannon @ Bamboula

http://www.wwoz.org/new-orleans-community/music-calendar

Leo Kottke reveals his range

http://www.noozhawk.com/article/jeff_moehlis_leo_kottke_santa_barbara_20141101

40 years ago this week...

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/george-harrison-1974-tour/

Sweet, funky sounds from 4 strings

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=11352006

A report from New Orleans' VoodooFest

http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2014/11/02/3237259_lauryn-hill-45-minutes-late-twice.html?sp=/99/1191/&rh=1

"A 3 Hour Tour"

http://7online.com/news/emergency-crews-removing-passengers-from-disabled-boat-/376878/

Checking out this year's Otis Taylor Blues Fest

http://secondstorygarage.com/otis-taylors-trance-festival-blues-jam/

Edward Scissorhands picks up a guitar

http://music-mix.ew.com/2014/11/02/johnny-depp-marilyn-manson/

Music videos for change

http://magazine.good.is/articles/hurray-for-riff-raff-videos

And a visit to Bentley's Bandstand

http://www.themortonreport.com/entertainment/music/bentley/

Saturday, November 1, 2014

Gone Trick and/or Treating

Back Sunday!