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Lady Gaga crashes Fred Durst’s Hollywood jazz night to perform Frank Sinatra hits

sudshr47 March 17, 2019

Lady Gaga took her Hollywood golden age persona to a new level Thursday when she surprised a crowd at a Hollywood music venue to perform some jazzy standards.

Gaga appeared at the Black Rabbit Rose venue Thursday night where — get ready — LimpBizkit frontman Fred Durst organizes a weekly live jazz night. (Who knew?!?)

Gaga floated onto the stage wearing a ’50s-style halter dress, a large fur-looking stole, a beehive-esque bun, and some wicked cat eye. After greeting the band members with cheek kisses, she took the microphone and said “I’m here to ruin the party.” The crowed whooped. Read more…

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The New York jazz band bringing back cartoon music

sudshr47 February 28, 2019

The day Joel Pierson, also known as the ‘piano doctor,’ moved to New York in 2014 was the day his wife told him she was pregnant (Yipe!). Pierson, a jazz musician, who was out of work and out of the music scene, resorted to a list of “harebrained ideas” he had been carefully compiling, for a fresh musical start. It was that or a different career altogether.

“As I was running through the list, I was like, ‘a jazz band playing cartoon music, who’s done that,’” Pierson told me as we sat around a secluded (vewy, vewy quiet) table at the New York Hilton Midtown, where his band, The Queen’s Cartoonists, were about to showcase some of their repertoire – ranging from renditions of early Popeye and Looney Tunes to cult classics like Bambi Meets Godzilla – at an Association of Performing Arts Professionals (APAP) conference. Read more…

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Catherine Zeta-Jones and Stephen Colbert practise their ‘jazz face’

sudshr47 December 5, 2018

Your hands are not the only part of your body that can “jazz.” Well, that’s according to Catherine Zeta-Jones.

On The Late Show, the actor — who’s currently starring in Queen America on Facebook Watch —introduced Stephen Colbert to “jazz face,” something she mastered on the set of Chicago.

“You don’t know what jazz face is?” Zeta Jones asked before giving a pretty convincing demonstration.

Colbert’s attempt at jazz face was… less convincing. Read more…

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Jazz, uh, finds a way thanks to Jeff Goldblum’s surprise train station gig

sudshr47 September 6, 2018

Jeff Goldblum loves a spontaneous stunt, and if it involves surprise jazz, we’re all for it.
The professional purrer and beloved actor is about to release his first jazz album, The Capitol Studios Sessions, so he sprang a surprise set on commuters at…

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There is a new instrument in town and it’s a saxophone/harmonica hybrid

sudshr47 April 4, 2018

You know those days where you just want to play your saxophone during every free moment but it’s too dang big to lug around?

OK, so that may be a really random, specific problem that no one has. But wanting to learn music, play music, or join a band is common — and so is not wanting to invest in a giant instrument that you’ll play on one occasion. But like, who wants to say that the instrument they play is something tiny like the triangle? (No offense to triangle players!)

The thing is, a ton of people are genuinely interested in playing music (past learning to play the recorder in fourth grade) but it’s hard to justify spending that much if you can’t devote your entire life to expensive music lessons and carrying around a sax case. Read more…

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Quincy Jones is about to launch the ‘Netflix of jazz’

sudshr47 December 7, 2017

Now here’s a strong niche.

Legendary producer Quincy Jones has jumped into the streaming pool with a new video platform for hardcore jazz lovers.

Dubbed the “Netflix of jazz” by Kevin Le Gendre of BBC Radio 3, Qwest TV is apparently the world’s first subscription video-on-demand platform dedicated to jazz.

Set to launch on Dec. 15, Qwest is a curated online library of documentaries, concerts, interviews and short features, most of which are not available on other streaming sites like Netflix and Hulu, or even YouTube. Plus content will come with liner notes penned by journalists and jazz experts. Read more…

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