Jazz Music News

The News Review:

- The Blues a Colorful Part of the Cultural Palette
- Madison: Checking in with Lori Mechem
- NMSU-A Jazz Band prepares for Sunday concert at Tays
- Brad Mehldau Trio “Live” Earns Edison Jazz Music Award
- New Orleans jazz singer keeps tempo in Utah County
- See the colour of music at Quay gallery
- John Beasley Buster Williams Bennie Maupin Jeff ‘Tain’ Watts

The Blues a Colorful Part of the Cultural Palette
Washington Post United States 
In "Cadillac Records" money is the essential motivation. Getting paid and getting a new Cadillac — those were the promised rewards for signing with Chess Records. Jazz music was embraced by intellectuals and went international. Novices who go to a jazz performance and dare to mutter a few words while an artist is performing are given a stony-eyed glare from those nearby. Jazz is serious and heady. It is museum-quality music. Even all of the alcoholism and drug addiction that are part of the music’s legacy have been burnished as creative indulgences as tragically romantic as history’s absinthe and opium.
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Madison: Checking in with Lori Mechem
Anderson Herald Bulletin IN 
My life got much busier in college. I was in the Jazz Ensemble University Singers accompanying vocalists musical-directing shows and anything I could get my hands on. When and how did you decide to focus on jazz music?I actually didn’t really know anything else. I can’t remember not listening to jazz. We had a huge collection of jazz records and a basement full of instruments such as an organ piano drumset and vibes. I was like a kid in a candy shop. I was a huge fan of Jimmy Smith Count Basie Oscar Peterson and many many others.

NMSU-A Jazz Band prepares for Sunday concert at Tays
Alamogordo Daily News NM 
Sunday at the Tays Special Events Center is being billed as “Holiday Dessert Theatre. That’s because drinks and food brownies cookies and petits fours or small cakes will be served. “Our guests can enjoy holiday sweets while enjoying Christmas and secular big band and jazz music” said Greg Henderson who is the new director of the three NMSU-A music groups and is a member of the college’s music department. He noted that people who want to attend should call to make a reservation. “We want to make sure we bring enough food” he said during a recent rehearsal. Tickets are $10 for adults $5 for students and seniors and $3 for children 12 and younger. Call the NMSU-A Music Office 439-3816 for reservations.

Brad Mehldau Trio “Live” Earns Edison Jazz Music Award
Nonesuch Records NY 
ArtistsStoreJournalRadioMediaNew ReleasesTour Journal Friday December 05 2008 Friday December 5 2008 Brad Mehldau Trio "Live" Earns Edison Jazz Music Award. Brad picked up the prize in the Jazz International category for his latest Nonesuch release his Trio’s Live recording from New York’s Village Vanguard.

New Orleans jazz singer keeps tempo in Utah County
Mormon Times UT 
Theshow runs every Thursday night and features live jazz music dancingand concessions. The trio consists of Frederick James McCray on pianoWill Lovell on bass and Wayne Koons on drums. (Photo by Jason Olson Deseret News) She’s singing with another star on the local jazz scene — Frederick James McCray a local jazz pianist known for his versatility and comfortable upbeat and unique style. “I don’t use written music” he said. “That’s like trying to kiss a significant other using a map!” He performed for the International Olympic Committee during the 2002 Winter Olympic Games.

See the colour of music at Quay gallery
Suffolk Free Press UK 
“I am as equally enthralled by the colours of the sounds of waves crashing on the beaches or bird song when walking” said Cate of Bury St Edmunds. “My work is in textiles paint and mixed media. The mood is that of intense colour and vibrancy and is based upon the modern jazz music of the live gigs that I regularly attend. “I embellish overlay sheer fabrics to create colour applique quilt and use crochet and knit and weaving techniques often using unusual materials such as audio and video tape. ” The exhibition called Rhythm runs until January 30. l Synaesthesia affects only two per cent of the population. It is a joining together of sensations that are normally experienced separately.

John Beasley Buster Williams Bennie Maupin Jeff ‘Tain’ Watts
Top40-Charts.com NY 
three of the most in-demand players in the last four decades of jazz music. Renowned bassist Buster Williams has played with a plethora of jazz illuminaries including. Bennie Maupin is a fixture in the Los Angeles jazz scene where he now makes his home. His highly personal bass clarinet sound helped define such classic jazz recordings as Miles Davis’ *****es Brew Jack Johnson Big Fun and On the Corner as well as recordings by Herbie Hancock’s Mwandishi band and the Headhunters.