BET Networks Celebrates Black History Month With an Entertaining Lineup of Music Specials, Blackbuster Movie Premieres, and Ground-Breaking Documentaries Jan 24, 2008
The Story of Jazz showcases the great jazz artists: Dizzy Gillespie, Joe Williams, Buck Clayton, Illinois Jacquet, Tony Bennett, Lester Bowie, Zilner Randolph, Bud Freeman, Randy Weston, Carmen McRae, Billy Taylor, Jay McShann, Roy Haynes, and Wynton Marsalis among others and provides up-close interviews and classic archival performance footage. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Jazz saxophonist patterned himself after Charlie Parker Dec 23, 2007
When Morgan was 7, his father took him to hear Parker play with the Jay McShann Orchestra and introduced him. It changed the boy's life. (Los Angeles Times)
Airport Check-in: Snow wouldn't stand a chance at Denver Aug 13, 2007
The Terminal B exhibit celebrates the city's jazz musicians, including Charlie Parker, Count Basie and Jay McShann. The Terminal C exhibit highlights Kansas City's role in the birth of aviation, radio and auto dealerships. (USA Today -- Money)
Spiffy Kansas City has more than meets the ear Jul 29, 2007
The American Jazz Museum on 18th and Vine streets marks the heart of the jazz scene of the 1920s and '30s (think Basie, Lester Young, Mary Lou Williams, Jay McShann, Hot Lips Page, among many others). Fans can pay homage to a sax owned by Charlie Parker, view exhibits, and listen to recorded performances by past greats. (Boston Globe)
Rhody royalty kicks off blues series Jul 6, 2007
Robillard has also played or recorded with Bob Dylan, Jay McShann, John Hammond, the late Jimmy Witherspoon, Dr. John and Maria Muldaur. B.B. King has called him "one of the great players," and a "New York Times" critic termed Robillard "a soloist of stunning force and originality." No surprise to his fans in L il Rhody to them, he s always lived up to the royalty of his nickname. (Westerly Sun, RI)
Fall of the Bird Feb 18, 2007
Instead, his appetite for musical growth was insatiable and he fed it when in 1937 he joined a big band led by pianist Jay McShann. This enabled him to travel to big US cities like Chicago and New York which were nurturing the development of blues and jazz respectively. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
Booze ban threatens famous Kansas City jazz hall Feb 15, 2007
He later directed a documentary, "Last of the Blue Devils," that focused on a reunion of Basie, Jay McShann and others from the era's heyday. Now a New York filmmaker, Ricker called the city's newfound booze-law enforcement after years of looking the other way misguided. (USA Today -- Travel)
Rock out at local shows Jan 12, 2007
Liner Notes: Weekend picks Archives. your source for music news, gossip 11 on last night's show. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
New York's big jazz education confab is planned in ... Kansas Jan 9, 2007
Betton ran summer jazz camps for Stan Kenton; he hired singers of the caliber of Marilyn Maye; he crossed paths with the likes of Jay McShann, Lester Young and Clark Terry; and he and his wife, Betty, ran the music store in Manhattan and spawned a family of musicians. In 1968 Betton mailed a one-sheet newsletter to the fledgling organisation's 100 members. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
Making it takes back seat to distributing it in music business Jan 1, 2007
Other music-related losses include soul singer Wilson Pickett, country pioneer Buck Owens, early rocker Gene Pitney, keyboardist and ``fifth Beatle'' Billy Preston, enigmatic Pink Floyd founder Syd Barrett, Arthur Lee, blues singer Ruth Brown and several jazz greats -- saxophonist Jackie McClean, percussionist Ray Baretto, singer Anita O'Day, trumpeter Maynard Ferguson and pianist Jay McShann. The industry also said farewell to Ahmet Ertegun, who founded Atlantic Records and was an early... (Akron Beacon Journal, OH -- Entertainment)
Legends, leaders, and legacies: The year in farewells Jan 1, 2007
Among jazz artists who died were Anita O'Day, Jay McShann , Ray Barretto, John Hicks, Don Alias, Hilton Ruiz, Moacir Santos, Dewey Redman, and Walter Booker. Blues legends Sam Myers, Jessie Mae Hemphill, Johnny Jenkins, Willie Kent, Floyd Dixon, Bennie Smith, Robert "H-Bomb" Ferguson, and Etta Baker were memorialized, too, along with drummer Paul Caruso, bandleader Ted Herbert, keyboardist Vince Welnick, and bass player Allen Paulino. (Boston Globe -- Nation)
