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If you’re looking for New York city tours that offer something truly exciting and different, you should try one of the Harlem Jazz Tours. Relive the 1920s by experiencing a fun, high-stepping night out in the Harlem neighbourhood.

Take a tour of the neighbourhood led by an expert on Harlem’s jazz history, explore Harlem’s crucial role in jazz music history and discover where and how New York’s jazz musicians gave the city its musical edge. Of all the New York city tours, a Harlem Jazz tour is definitely one that you shouldn’t miss if you’re a jazz music fan.

If you choose to take part in one of the Harlem Jazz tours, you will see a number of famous Jazz landmarks including:

The Apollo Theater
The Cotton Club
The Savoy Ballrooom
Minton’s Playhouse

The Apollo Theater is one of the most famous music halls in U.S. history and it was the place where Ella Fitzgerald made her singing debut in one of the first amateur show nights held there, at the age of 17. It also later became famous for kickstarting the careers of other famous singers and musicians such as Billie Holiday, James Brown, Sarah Vaughan and many, many more!

The original site of the Cotton Club is also a highlight of the tour. The Cotton Club helped to launch the careers of famous people like Duke Elliington, Fletcher Henderson and Lena Horne who spent hours playing to crowds that came from all around the world. It closed for good back in 1940, but in 1978 a new club was opened in Harlem with the same name.  Read more...

This year at the annual Telluride Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival and The Library of America present a special program in honor of artist and film critic Manny Farber. “The Celebration of Manny Farber” will include an intimate bookstore signing of The Library of America’s September 2009 release Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Farber with editor Robert Polito. Since 1975 the Deauville American Film Festival has been showcasing American cinematographic diversity, hosting Hollywood royalty, as well as discovering new talents, actors, directors. This year more than 100 films will be presented to the public on three sites through September 13 in Deauville, France. International animation show, Fantoche 09, in Baden from September 8-13, offers a film programme in several parts of the use of human beings in animated film, and over several editions of the festival, Fantoche explores the interface between animation film and game design. The Temecula Valley International Film & Music Festival social calendar runs September 9-13 starting with Opening Night Festivities, followed by daily & nightly filmmaker/musician receptions, industry workshops, a Lifetime and Career Achievement Awards Black Tie Gala, a Sunday morning Hot Air Balloon Ride, a Closing Night Wrap party and Best of Fest special screening presentations. A Disney fan experience in which guests will enjoy exhibits, screenings, presentations and interactive experiences from every part of The Walt Disney Company happens in Anaheim, September 10-13. Talent from Walt Disney Pictures films, ABC, Disney Channel, ESPN and more will be on hand for meet-and-greets, and Disney Couture will debut its new line at a fashion show.  Read more...

A studio consists of a recording room where the instruments are played and a control room where the equipments for capturing of music are placed. It is just not the technology but the human expertise, which makes the New York City recording studio the place of choice for all music aspirants.

Technology has certainly opened up a field that was once closed and could be accessed only by a few lucky ones. A few courageous people somehow managed to make their entry into the coveted zone of professional studio. New York city recording studio is famous for their cutting edge technology utilized in recording music. These studios offer best services to the users like vintage gears, consoles, abundant mics and outboard along with on-site maintenance. Recording studio New York City has engineers waiting on the wings, to fix any technical problems that arise. Music artists and the producers always have a wide range of needs depending on their tracks. These solutions, to meet urgent musical and acoustic needs are always ready at hand, courtesy the recording studio New York City.

Another key differentiator, while selecting a recording studio in New York City is availability of vocal production, which will help the audience to identify, the vocal part of the song. To spruce up the skills of the singers, a vocal coach is ready for consultation to help in create all the vocal parts and harmonies. Even the artists recording their songs at some place else, return back to the New York city recording studio for the vocal production, because of the expertise available. Few of the New York City recording studios also offers extra musicians whenever the projects require, at an extra cost.  Read more...

Music Universe, Music Mind: Revisiting the Creative Music Studio, Woodstock, New York

One word describes the CD Back In New York from Scott Hamilton… AWESOME!

Scott Hamilton has been a super star in the Jazz genre for quite a while now and Back In New York is an excellent illustration as to why.

Back In New York is a pleasantly varied, mix of 1 tracks that are very well written songs by this clearly superb artist. With many of the songs displaying a lot of the kind emotion that makes for a really great listen. Seemingly drawing from what I can only imagine are him own real life experiences. At different points touching on the most real emotions like love, and the pain of failed relationships can certainly be heard.

Overall Back In New York is an outstanding release. What I call must have music. I give it two thumbs up and is most definitely a worthy addition to any Jazz collection. Truly an outstanding Jazz CD. One of those that is completely void of any wasted time, as each track is simply superb.

While this entire CD is really very good some of my favorites are track 4 – I’ve Grown Accustomed To Her Face, track 7 – Bouncing With Bud, and track 10 – I’ve Just Seen Her

My Bonus Pick, and the one that got Sore [...as in "Stuck On REpeat"] is track 1 – What Is This Thing Called Love. This is a great track!  Read more...