No big sellers in sight to save troubled Chrysler Nov 2, 2008
"The truth is Daimler did them no favors," said Jim Hall, managing director of 2953 Analytics of Birmingham, Mich. "They approved products that previous Chrysler management wouldn't have approved if they were completely drunk and beaten crazy.". (Sioux City Journal, IO)
What's on your ipod? Oct 24, 2008
"Ballad Z," Jim Hall and Pat Metheny. 5. (Boston Globe)
This Week: Arts and entertainment picks Oct 6, 2008
The pairing was originally slated to be Bill Frisell and Jim Hall, which would have been a nice disciple-master matchup because Hall was one of Frisell's teachers. But Hall, 78, has taken ill, and another straight-ahead guitar master, Russell Malone, is stepping up to the plate. (San Francisco Chronicle)
OUR VIEW: Time to have serious discussion about drinking age Aug 29, 2008
Early Bird wrote on Aug 28, 2008 5:32 AM:" State Age-21 laws are one of the most effective public policies ever implemented in the Nation...I am chagrined to report that some supposedly responsible officials would like to repeal them. Jim Hall, ChairmanNational Transportation Safety Board ". Techno-less wrote on Aug 28, 2008 9:55 AM:" May I interrupt this gab-fest to wish everyone a fun holiday weekend.And for the public service part of the announcement.....Don't forget to ICE your cell... (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
Sparks fly following N.Y. dud Jul 4, 2008
There was no Ronan Tynan clogging things up in the seventh inning, no live appearance by Bob Sheppard impersonating the voice of God from the public address booth (the venerable Sheppard is in poor health and has at least temporarily yielded the mike to Jim Hall). We didn't even get a good Steinbrenner sound bite. (Boston Globe)
Eliason service Jul 3, 2008
Casket bearers included Jason Eliason, Corey Eliason, Jim Hall, Richard Hall, Dennis Eliason and Joseph Eliason. Pederson-Volker Funeral Chapel in Chippewa Falls assisted the family. (Chippewa Falls Chippewa Herald, WI)
Best Cars For Recent Graduates May 25, 2008
Unlike their parents or grandparents, younger car buyers don't carry any strong brand loyalties, especially not with American-made cars, says Jim Hall, managing director of 2953 Analytics, an automotive analysis firm. Behind The Numbers To make our list of the best cars for teens and graduates, all vehicles had to score the Insurance Institute crash test ratings score of triple "good" or a minimum of four out of five stars in the National Highway Transportation and Safety Administration's... (Forbes)
Obituary: Jimmy Giuffre, jazz clarinetist and composer, dies at 86 May 2, 2008
The late-50s versions of the Jimmy Giuffre Three with the guitarist Jim Hall and the bassist Ralph Pea, then Hall and the trombonist Bob Brookmeyer gained him some commercial renown. (The Giuffre-Hall-Brookmeyer trio is immortalized in the opening sequence of the film "Jazz on a Summer's Day," playing its best-known tune, "The Train and the River."). (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Harvie S is still making a name for his creative musical style Mar 28, 2008
Back when S carried a full complement of letters, his last name (which he has since legally changed to S) didn't interfere with him becoming one of jazz's standout accompanists, a virtuoso sought out by the music's elite, such as Stan Getz, Dexter Gordon, Jim Hall, Tommy Flanagan, and Yusef Lateef. But people couldn't seem to resist adding two extra consonants to Swartz, which meant that messages intended for him ended up on some guy named Harvie Schwartz's answering machine. (Boston Globe)
Independent-minded tinkerer takes on GM's vital Volt Mar 4, 2008
"It's a program where the key technology is beyond GM's control, and the deadline they're talking about is really tough to make," said Jim Hall, managing director of 2953 Analytics, a forecasting and consulting firm. But the payoff could be huge, Hall added: "E-Flex could be a powertrain breakthrough that's as significant as the hybrid.". (USA Today -- Autos)
Chevy’s electric future? Mar 3, 2008
It s a program where the key technology is beyond GM s control and the deadline they re talking about is really tough to make, said Jim Hall, managing director of 2953 Analytics, a forecasting and consulting firm based in Birmingham, Mich. But the payoff could be huge, he added: E-Flex could be a powertrain breakthrough that s as significant as the hybrid. (Corvallis Gazette Times, OR)
Hummer's feeling a little misunderstood Feb 21, 2008
Marketing the trucks as tough and for rugged activities is a good idea, says Jim Hall, managing director of auto consultancy 2953 Analytics. Hummer has become too polarizing and needs to regain cachet. (USA Today -- Autos)
Changes brewing at coffee, tea shop Feb 5, 2008
The Pierces purchased the shop from original owners, Laurie and Jim Hall, who moved to Orlando to pursue other work opportunities. During the day, Richard Jr., 27, manages the operation, while his parents focus on business administration and whatever needs tending to. (Florida Today)
Bye, bye American Pie | Around Sandy Springs Dec 11, 2007
Jim Hall s Gulf Station at the corner of Roswell and Hammond. Nobody messed with Tall Hall. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Living)
Church columnists: Oct. 24, 2007 Oct 25, 2007
The members who have passed on are Mrs. Lillie Belle Armstrong, Mrs. Donnie Mullis and Mr. Jim Hall. Following the service everyone enjoyed lunch in the family center. (Catoosa County News, GA)
Hospital passes surprise survey Mary Washington Hospital has been accredited after its first unannounced Joint Commission inspection Oct 25, 2007
Jim Hall: 540/374-5433Email. While they were in Fredericksburg this summer, Joint Commission inspectors generally praised Mary Washington Hospital. (Fredericksburg.com, VA)
Disfarmer lives on in ‘musical portraits’ Oct 25, 2007
Influenced by Wes Montgomery, Jim Hall, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, Miles Davis and Dale Bruning, Frisell has collaborated with the likes of Paul Motian, John Zorn, Elivs Costello, Ginger Baker, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, The Frankfur Ballet, Gus Van Sant, Petra Haden and Bono. Throughout his career, Frisell has collaborated on dozens of remarkable albums including East/West, The Willies, Petra Haden and Bill Frisell, Blues Dream, and Nashville. (Heber Springs Sun-Times, AR)
MWH surgeon offers new approach Now at Mary Washington Hospital: lung surgery through small incisions Sep 30, 2007
com - Surgeon offers new approach. Surgeon offers new approach. (Fredericksburg.com, VA)
More than 40,000 party at Monterey Jazz Festival's 50th birthday Sep 26, 2007
On Friday night, the great guitarist Jim Hall, a melodist who says more with a few notes than others can with a thousand, improvised beautiful duets with pianist Geoff Keezer in the Nightclub. Across the way at Dizzy's Den, the New Orleans band Bonerama - four trombones, sousaphone, guitar and drums - cooked up a rich, swinging brew. (San Francisco Chronicle)
50 Years Of Jazz Sep 16, 2007
Rollins' group will share the Sunday night arena bill with Brubeck's quartet joined by Jim Hall, the brilliant guitarist who played the first festival and will also perform this year on one of seven other stages spread across the grounds. Comedian Mort Sahl, who shared the emcee duties in 1958 with Gillespie - the trumpeter blasted a solo "Star-Spangled Banner" to set off the proceedings - will host Sunday night's celebration. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Tanglewood tunes up for season Jul 7, 2007
Jim Hall, July 15: Hall is one of jazz guitar's master craftsmen. During a career that has spanned nearly 50 years, he's played with a laundry list of jazz greats. (Boston Globe)
Children's reading program Wednesday Jun 11, 2007
Professional offices that contributed include Dr. Jared McCune, chiropractor Jim Hall, Dr. Weinstock and the Drs. Heath. (Lompoc Record, CA)
At Healdsburg Jazz Festival, the tradition is untraditional Jun 6, 2007
The festival's marquee gig on Saturday is a duet of guitarist Jim Hall and bassist Dave Holland -- two giants of jazz by anyone's standard ... 7:30 p.m.: Jim Hall-Dave Holland Duo, with Taylor Eigsti-Julian Lage Duo. (San Francisco Chronicle)
The Long Hot Summer May 27, 2007
HOT TICKET: 50th Monterey Jazz Festival, with Sonny Rollins, Dave Brubeck with Jim Hall, John McLaughlin, Diana Krall, Los Lobos, James Hunter and Ornette Coleman. Sept. 21-23. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Full Story » May 24, 2007
Faces of Jazz - (clockwise from upper right) Jim Hall, Delfeayo Marsalis, David Weiss, Patricia Barber, Taylor Eigsti, Julian Lage, George Cables, Rhiannon, Roberta Gamberini, Gary Bartz. When you think of jazz music Meccas, Healdsburg may not first come to mind. (Sebastopol Sonoma West Publishing, CA)
Who, what, when at Tanglewood May 20, 2007
7/15: Andre Previn, piano; Jim Hall, guitar; David Finck, bass. Jazz program. (Boston Globe)
Tal Wilkenfeld, The Basement, May 13 May 16, 2007
Now she was leading a trio completed by the virtuoso drummer Vinnie Colaiuta, who a fortnight ago was here with Herbie Hancock, and the keyboards player Geoff Keezer, whose credits include the Ray Brown Trio and playing with Art Farmer and Jim Hall. Many musicians have made a splash by Wilkenfeld's age, but surely few have been playing their instrument for such a short time. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Hentoff: Learn about life from the circus Apr 24, 2007
World-class American jazz guitarist Jim Hall tells me, "I play in many countries with musicians whose spoken language I can't speak, but we communicate with deep satisfaction and respect.". Since 2001, in St. Louis, the nonprofit Circus Day Foundation - now internationally renowned - is based on the same values as the Galilee Circus. (The Delaware County Times, PA)
NAT HENTOFF: 'Every day is a circus day' Apr 23, 2007
World-class American jazz guitarist Jim Hall tells me, "I play in many countries with musicians whose spoken language I can't speak, but we communicate with deep satisfaction and respect." Since 2001 in St. Louis, the nonprofit Circus Day Foundation, now internationally renowned, has been based on the same values as the Galilee Circus. Its artistic and executive director, Jessica Hentoff, my daughter, is an experienced performer, along with her three children, who are in the circus. (Washington Times)
Metheny and Mehldau: Two stars collide, connect Apr 16, 2007
Then Metheny and Mehldau entered for a series of duets, beginning with Mehldau's melancholy nocturne "Unrequited." Before long, the pianist and guitarist were in full flight, their contrapuntal conversation bringing to mind the classic duet recordings of Bill Evans and Jim Hall. The next two duets, though satisfying, never quite touched the same musical heights. (Boston Globe)
Metheny ill at ease in back seat Apr 11, 2007
Guitar and piano pairings have been standard in rock since Chuck Berry met Johnnie Johnson, but in jazz, there have been relatively few great guitar and piano teams: Freddie Green and Count Basie, Wes Montgomery and Wynton Kelly, and Jim Hall and Bill Evans. Whether or not Pat Metheny and Brad Mehldau get added to that pantheon remains to be seen, but judging from their performance Monday at Toronto's Hummingbird Centre, their inclusion is hardly the given their fans might suppose. (Globe and Mail)
Outdoor report Apr 5, 2007
Upcoming events: 25th Annual Jim Hall Memorial May Trout Classic set for May 19 and 20. Information: Big Bear Marina 909-866-3218, Big Bear Sporting Goods 909-866-3222. (North County Times)
No Boundaries Mar 14, 2007
His poetic, uncluttered playing merges the harmonic richness and grace of jazz master Jim Hall with the wired-up effects of Jimi Hendrix ... One of them is "My Man's Gone Now,'' the Gershwin piece from "Porgy and Bess'' that Davis recorded on his classic 1958 orchestral album and which Frisell included on his 2005 live "East/West'' disc (the track was performed at New York's Village Vanguard with drummer Kenny Wollesen and bassist Tony Scheer). He first heard the tune in high school, on the... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Whatcha thinkin' there, Sonny? Feb 19, 2007
"We had been playing with Jim Hall, and somebody wanted us to recreate something that we'd done way back in the sixties." Cranshaw got out his acoustic for the gig, and, Rollins says, "I didn't like it as much as I did the electric bass." Why. "The decay time is different. I think I prefer the sustained attack.". (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
On this night, I talked while Bill Evans listened Feb 11, 2007
On the night when I lost my virginity, for example, I made sure my girlfriend first listened to " Undercurrent, " the brooding but lyrical album of piano and guitar duets Evans made with Jim Hall. Two years later, at a turning point in my relations with the new love of my life, Phoebe, we went to Evans's 1966 Town Hall concert in New York (from which an album was eventually made). (Boston Globe)
Few musicians have won a wider audience for jazz Feb 6, 2007
" That show is syndicated nationally (and to London) and reaches five million listeners, according to Lewis, though he's heard estimates of up to eight million. On his "Legends of Jazz with Ramsey Lewis" television show on PBS, performers appear in twos and threes. One show, for instance, teamed the understated elegance of veteran guitarist Jim Hall with guitarist Pat Metheny, who combines jazz, rock, folk and electronic sounds. The show is renewed for 2007 and will go from a half-hour to an... (The Star Online, Malaysia)
He nurtures players as well as he plays Feb 3, 2007
His 2000 album "The Invisible Hand" with pianist Andrew Hill and guitarist Jim Hall is a complex, understated masterpiece. Osby thanks some of these predecessors for helping him find his bearings when he came to New York in the early 1980s, fresh from -- as it happens -- the Berklee College of Music. (Boston Globe)
Sonny Rollins’s sabbatical Feb 3, 2007
My new group will have Jim Hall on guitar. I want to do more things with harmony, and he ll give me the framework. (New Yorker)
ATM use drops, but don't expect them to go away Jan 25, 2007
That increase in debit card usage is tied to demographics, according to Jim Hall of the ABA. "Young people today don't think twice about buying a $2.50 cup of coffee with a debit card. Our parents would have never dreamed of using plastic for a purchase that small.". Declining interest. (San Antonio Business Journal, TX)
