Jazz Music News

The News Review:

- This year’s festival is ‘more substantial settled than last…
- Kathy Troccoli 04/07 – Interviews – Christian Music Today
- Jazz jazz everywhere … but not on television

This year’s festival is ‘more substantial settled than last…
USA Today – Apr 30, 2007
They also hope to broaden their audience “big time” fiddler Cedric Watson said. “Jazz Fest allows people to experience a real mix of music and it keeps the music scene open-minded. That’s good for us. “•Uphill climb. Smooth jazz electric violinist Michael Ward made his 22nd appearance with mixed emotions. Displaced by Katrina he moved back from Houston three weeks ago and acknowledged: “I hesitated.

Kathy Troccoli 04/07 – Interviews – Christian Music Today
ChristianityToday.com – Apr 30, 2007
That wasn’t my story. I kinda had to grow into who I am because you had the added extra of wanting to represent the gospel. So you’re saying that the gospel and jazz music can’t coexist?Troccoli: I can explain it like this: If. MercyMe in a club and MercyMe in a church are the same thing. If I wanted to do the music that I was doing in the clubs that wouldn’t be what I sang at First Baptist Church in Atlanta in the early ’80s. I never felt led to do that jazz and big-band kind of music in the church… MercyMe in a club and MercyMe in a church are the same thing. If I wanted to do the music that I was doing in the clubs that wouldn’t be what I sang at First Baptist Church in Atlanta in the early ’80s. I never felt led to do that jazz and big-band kind of music in the church. It didn’t feel right to me. It’s more romantic the phrasing is different. It’s almost too Vegas to do in the church. So when you say “Can they coexist?” I believe now they can.

Jazz jazz everywhere … but not on television
Independent – Apr 30, 2007
” Although it is often used as a soundtrack for adverts and films when jazz is presented in its own right as on Parkinson it is of a particularly comfortable variety deriving from the old dance bands. This ignores its links with other newer music forms and misrepresents jazz as an art consisting of songs written 80 years ago. “Jazz is not and has never been an ‘old people’s music’ and shouldn’t be treated as such” says Newey. “Wherever rock hip-hop or soul goes jazz has been there first and continues more than ever to set the pace. “The audience figures for theJazz won’t be out until the summer. When they are perhaps the heads of terrestrial television should ask themselves this question: if GCap Media theJazz’s owner can identify an audience large enough for it to make commercial sense for it to set up a new radio station might that not suggest an appetite for jazz on television too? If one channel dared to stop chasing the lowest common denominator it might be surprised by the viewing figures a jazz series could garner.