Jazz Music News

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- Tonight’s best bet: Jazz at Notes
- Weather again disrupts Jazz Festival
- Musicians push for better sound online and on disc
- Music Review | The Knights and Christina Courtin
- Bo Diddley had fame but deserved more fortune
- Jimmy McGriff; jazz blues organist; 72

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24-7PressRelease.com – 24-7PressRelease.com (press release) – Jun 2, 2008
-based label Three Keys Music in 2002 with Robert Johnson the founder of Black Entertainment Television (BET) and owner of the NBA’s Charlotte Bobcats. Marimelj includes the Three Keys Music label and 8121 recording studios which produces distributes and promotes adult urban contemporary and jazz music. Studio 8121 has hosted sessions for various national acts and labels as well as local musicians and is a favorite for voiceover talent and producers audio post-production sweetening and editing clients. Three Keys Music has established two music publishing companies Marimelj Music Publishing and Three Keys Music Publishing.

Tonight’s best bet: Jazz at Notes
Staten Island Advance – SILive.com – Jun 2, 2008
Tonight’s is 7-11 p. and fans of jazz music may dig it. Wednesday blues jam sessions at Adobe Blues Thursday jazz performances at Cargo and the regular live music at venues like Karl’s Klipper all keep good sounds happening during the week and weekends but It’s good to hear news of even more swingin’ music gracing the North Shore and it sounds like Piazza has the goods to serve up some cookin’ performances.

Weather again disrupts Jazz Festival
St. Louis Post-Dispatch – Jun 2, 2008
It was a disappointing end to a day that began promisingly with strong sets by Two Times True and Teddy Presberg. Two Times True — featuring pianist Carolbeth True backed by son David on drums Larry Johnson on sax and Glen Smith on bass — turned in a solid satisfying set. Guitarist Presberg bassist Shlomo Ogadya and drummer Derek Molley played music that successfully blended jazz sensibility with jam band and world music influences. But like many smooth jazz artists the ensemble tended to repeat those grooves ad infinitum.

Musicians push for better sound online and on disc
USA Today – Jun 2, 2008
“Let’s say a classical violinist spends $3 million on a Stradivarius. When you play that back you want to preserve every ounce of that tonality. But you destroy it with (MP3s)” says Chesky a composer and jazz pianist. “We have the technology to deliver really superior quality. We need to develop a consumer base. Burnett says “We work for months to get an album to sound a certain way and the thought that somebody disconnected from the process in the studio would have so much power over it was no longer acceptable. ” He believes the music industry’s decline has left an opening for artists to influence quality standards.

Music Review | The Knights and Christina Courtin
New York Times – Jun 2, 2008
(Yes she played in the Beethoven. Courtin’s music and her unaffected vocal style call to mind the soulful atmospheric sound of the late 1960s: early.

Bo Diddley had fame but deserved more fortune
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (subscription… – Jun 2, 2008
But that first hit “Bo Diddley” from back in 1955 was destined to be one of the most influential tunes in rock history. It shows up in early jazz tunes such as “Black Bottom Stomp” but in the talented hands of Diddley it became first a personal signature and eventually a rock ‘n’ roll institution. Milwaukee native and roots-rocker Jon Paris worked with Diddley starting in the 1980s touring with him and backing Diddley when he played the New York area. “He was a great guy” Paris said Monday. “A guy that vital that powerful you thought he was always going to be around an important guy in rock and roll. “It really hasn’t hit me yet.

Jimmy McGriff; jazz blues organist; 72
San Diego Union Tribune – Jun 2, 2008
CONTENT>Jimmy McGriff a jazz and blues organist who helped popularize the funky soul-jazz sound of the 1960s died May 24 at Voorhees Center Genesis a nursing facility in Voorhees N. He had multiple sclerosis. From the early 1960s when he scored his first hit with an instrumental version of Ray Charles' “I've Got a Woman” Mr… McGriff was a conservatory-trained musician who never lost the common touch. As he peered through his glasses at the audience he would smile and turn up the heat of his bluesy music. “I learned something a long time ago” he said in a short film directed by Daniel Peacock. “When you go into a club to work look for the guy or the woman that's not smiling then play to that person. Once you've got that person you've got the whole club.