Well, it finally happened - I have a gig in San Diego!
George Kahn Trio to perform at San Diego IndieFest VI
When: Sat, March 27, 5:00 – 6:00 PM
Where: 2906 University Ave, San Diego, 92104
Description: The George Kahn Trio gets out of the Jazz Ghetto and performs at IndieFest VI at 5:00 PM Saturday evening, on the Craig Yerkes Acoustic Stage -- on Kansas & University (outside Claire de Lune and Sunset Temple, 2906 University Ave., SD 92104) - tickets are $25 per person for the two day event – It is an all-day outdoor event starting at Noon and going until about 10:00 PM, with over 75 bands performing on 5 stages. Headliners include Metric, Nappy Roots and Far. Come join George for his premiere performance in San Diego!
For more information:
http://www.sayitrecords.com/sdimf/sdimf.html
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
George Kahn Music Featured on "Men Of A Certain Age"
Hi!
I had one of my songs featured on cable TV (TNT network) the other week – you can view it here:
SELECT TELEVISION AND FILM
TNT-MEN OF A CERTAIN AGE | GEORGE KAHN SONG FEATURED
TNT | MEN OF A CERTAIN AGE . This wry drama stars Emmy® winner Ray Romano (Everybody Loves Raymond), Golden Globe® winner Scott Bakula (Quantum Leap, Star Trek: Enterprise) and Emmy winner Andre Braugher (Homicide: Life on the Street, TNT’s Salem’s Lot). It marks a return to series television for Romano, who created MEN OF A CERTAIN AGE with Everybody Loves Raymond Emmy winner Mike Royce. The two serve as executive producers, along with Rory Rosegarten and Cary Hoffman. George Kahn ’s composition, “Wes’ Coast” from his Cover Up! recording is featured in this episode during the house-warming party, about 3:30 into this part of the episode. Check it out…
Link: http://www.tnt.tv/dramavision/?oid=55615
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Here is the full press release:
Subject: RE: Weekly ARC News Items
I had one of my songs featured on cable TV (TNT network) the other week – you can view it here:
SELECT TELEVISION AND FILM
TNT-MEN OF A CERTAIN AGE | GEORGE KAHN SONG FEATURED
TNT | MEN OF A CERTAIN AGE . This wry drama stars Emmy® winner Ray Romano (Everybody Loves Raymond), Golden Globe® winner Scott Bakula (Quantum Leap, Star Trek: Enterprise) and Emmy winner Andre Braugher (Homicide: Life on the Street, TNT’s Salem’s Lot). It marks a return to series television for Romano, who created MEN OF A CERTAIN AGE with Everybody Loves Raymond Emmy winner Mike Royce. The two serve as executive producers, along with Rory Rosegarten and Cary Hoffman. George Kahn
Link: http://www.tnt.tv/dramavision/?oid=55615
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Here is the full press release:
Subject: RE: Weekly ARC News Items
Monday, February 1, 2010
New Album News - Off To The Mastering Lab
The New Album Project 2010 is in the works!
The music is off to the mastering lab, and the album title and artwork are in the preparation phase. There are 6 new songs featured on the NEW 2-CD set from George, to be released in June 2010. Four are new originals, plus a new rendition of “Somewhere Over The Rainbow”, and a haunting version of “My Funny Valentine” performed as a duet with George on piano and Andy Suzuki on sax. Some of the new tracks were performed “live in the studio” with a power quartet of Andy Suzuki, George Kahn, Karl Vincent and M. B. Gordy. One song features the wonderful Luba Mason singing an Original Bossa Nova, “Sombras de Noite (Night Shadows)”. The album also features a previously unreleased song with Tierney Sutton on vocals.
The balance of the new album consists of 20 George Kahn originals, culled from the last 10 years of recordings. It will be a feast for the ears, 26 songs, over two and a half hours of music! More news next month...
ALSO: I am please to announce that the song "Wes' Coast" will appear in this week's episode of the new Ray Romano show "Men Of A Certain Age" on TNT - I hope you can check it out!
Favorite Websites for February
ART: My son Benji turned me on to this amazing artist that works only with Lego blocks:
http://www.seankenney.com/
MUSIC: Here is a blast from the past, and a proof of the danger of the Internet – I played in a punk/new wave band with Richard Haxton in the 70’s called “FUN WITH ANIMALS”. Weird Al Yanovic just chose their song “The Test of Love and Sex” as “The #1 Most Underrated Funny Song Ever!” about 200,000 people have checked it out now – join the FUN:
http://www.cracked.com/article/203_the-9-most-underrated-funny-songs-according-to-weird-al/
HUMOR: My other son, Evan, inherited my love of the absurd and he turned me on to a bizarre youtube video where an artist named Day Job Orchestra has dubbed strange words into the mouth of Star Trek characters – you have to see this to believe it, and be sitting down or you will fall over
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=414TmP12WAU
The music is off to the mastering lab, and the album title and artwork are in the preparation phase. There are 6 new songs featured on the NEW 2-CD set from George, to be released in June 2010. Four are new originals, plus a new rendition of “Somewhere Over The Rainbow”, and a haunting version of “My Funny Valentine” performed as a duet with George on piano and Andy Suzuki on sax. Some of the new tracks were performed “live in the studio” with a power quartet of Andy Suzuki, George Kahn, Karl Vincent and M. B. Gordy. One song features the wonderful Luba Mason singing an Original Bossa Nova, “Sombras de Noite (Night Shadows)”. The album also features a previously unreleased song with Tierney Sutton on vocals.
The balance of the new album consists of 20 George Kahn originals, culled from the last 10 years of recordings. It will be a feast for the ears, 26 songs, over two and a half hours of music! More news next month...
ALSO: I am please to announce that the song "Wes' Coast" will appear in this week's episode of the new Ray Romano show "Men Of A Certain Age" on TNT - I hope you can check it out!
Favorite Websites for February
ART: My son Benji turned me on to this amazing artist that works only with Lego blocks:
http://www.seankenney.com/
MUSIC: Here is a blast from the past, and a proof of the danger of the Internet – I played in a punk/new wave band with Richard Haxton in the 70’s called “FUN WITH ANIMALS”. Weird Al Yanovic just chose their song “The Test of Love and Sex” as “The #1 Most Underrated Funny Song Ever!” about 200,000 people have checked it out now – join the FUN:
http://www.cracked.com/article/203_the-9-most-underrated-funny-songs-according-to-weird-al/
HUMOR: My other son, Evan, inherited my love of the absurd and he turned me on to a bizarre youtube video where an artist named Day Job Orchestra has dubbed strange words into the mouth of Star Trek characters – you have to see this to believe it, and be sitting down or you will fall over
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=414TmP12WAU
Friday, January 15, 2010
More Grim News From the People that Brought You Pop Music
Here are some figures from Mina Kines at Fortune Magazine, in an article titled "The Plan To Save The Music Biz"
There were 106,000 new releases in 2008, compared with 44,000 in 2003, according to Nielsen SoundScan. (That is 290 releases a DAY, including Sunday!)
Of the 63 new releases that sold more than 250,000 copies last year, 61 were issued by major music companies.
In 2008, just 35% of album sales came from new releases, the lowest percentage since Nielsen began tracking the data in 1991. Instead of breaking new acts, major labels are increasingly relying on legacy artists and their catalogues.
Case in point: EMI with the Beatles. "EMI is run on catalogues," says Steve Knopper, author of Appetite for Self-Destruction, an account of the record industry's demise. "It prevents them from ever being completely destitute."
The record companies have become hung up on getting the "one hit", as opposed to developing the artist.
Jools Holland, a legendary British musician and television host, recently told British music magazine Uncut that classic albums from artists like Stevie Wonder would probably not exist today. "If downloading had been around in the mid-'70s, I'm sure there [would have] been no Songs in the Key of Life -- just 'Song in the Key of Life.'"
As my friend John Clayton says, "In the old days, 10 people a year would sell a million records. Now, a million people sell 10 records!"
No firm statistics have been released for 2009 yet, but expect there to once again be double-digit decreases in CD sales and revenue.
There were 106,000 new releases in 2008, compared with 44,000 in 2003, according to Nielsen SoundScan. (That is 290 releases a DAY, including Sunday!)
Of the 63 new releases that sold more than 250,000 copies last year, 61 were issued by major music companies.
In 2008, just 35% of album sales came from new releases, the lowest percentage since Nielsen began tracking the data in 1991. Instead of breaking new acts, major labels are increasingly relying on legacy artists and their catalogues.
Case in point: EMI with the Beatles. "EMI is run on catalogues," says Steve Knopper, author of Appetite for Self-Destruction, an account of the record industry's demise. "It prevents them from ever being completely destitute."
The record companies have become hung up on getting the "one hit", as opposed to developing the artist.
Jools Holland, a legendary British musician and television host, recently told British music magazine Uncut that classic albums from artists like Stevie Wonder would probably not exist today. "If downloading had been around in the mid-'70s, I'm sure there [would have] been no Songs in the Key of Life -- just 'Song in the Key of Life.'"
As my friend John Clayton says, "In the old days, 10 people a year would sell a million records. Now, a million people sell 10 records!"
No firm statistics have been released for 2009 yet, but expect there to once again be double-digit decreases in CD sales and revenue.
Monday, January 4, 2010
REFLECTIONS ON A DECADE
We got faster
Things got cheaper
Living became more expensive
We got connected (internet access more than doubled in the US)
We became less personal (electronic "friends" become normal)
We stopped writing
We started emailing (daily emails worldwide increased from 6 billion a day to 40 billion a day)
We stopped watching network TV
We started making our own videos (one third of all homes in the US now have digital video recorders)
We used to watch "ER" (the top TV show in 1999)
Now we watch "American Idol" (the top TWO TV shows in 2009)
TV became "Reality"
Music became "Free"
Movies became three-dimensional
Life became two-dimensional
The idea of "unplugging" became old-fashioned
Cellphone reception became a God-given right
Britney Spears did NOT go away.
We stopped following trends
We became our own trend
We became more "secure"
We became more nervous
Capitalism won the war
Capitalism lost its way
We made more children
We made less jobs
We became more unified
We became more divided
We elected a man who gave us Hope
We continue to Hope
I continue to Hope
(statistics c/o "The Decade" - Wall Street Journal 12/21/2009)
Things got cheaper
Living became more expensive
We got connected (internet access more than doubled in the US)
We became less personal (electronic "friends" become normal)
We stopped writing
We started emailing (daily emails worldwide increased from 6 billion a day to 40 billion a day)
We stopped watching network TV
We started making our own videos (one third of all homes in the US now have digital video recorders)
We used to watch "ER" (the top TV show in 1999)
Now we watch "American Idol" (the top TWO TV shows in 2009)
TV became "Reality"
Music became "Free"
Movies became three-dimensional
Life became two-dimensional
The idea of "unplugging" became old-fashioned
Cellphone reception became a God-given right
Britney Spears did NOT go away.
We stopped following trends
We became our own trend
We became more "secure"
We became more nervous
Capitalism won the war
Capitalism lost its way
We made more children
We made less jobs
We became more unified
We became more divided
We elected a man who gave us Hope
We continue to Hope
I continue to Hope
(statistics c/o "The Decade" - Wall Street Journal 12/21/2009)
Saturday, January 2, 2010
Join the California Jazz Foundation
'I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.'
- Groucho Marx
This may be true for Groucho, but I have finally found a home on the Board of the Califonia Jazz Foundation.
The California Jazz Foundation is a nonprofit charitable organization formed to provide services and support to jazz musicians and others who have made substantial contributions to the art form.
To start the New Year right, the CJF is having a Membership Party at Vitello's in Studio City on December 10, 1 - 5 PM.
Your ticket to the show includes a one year membership to the CJF, and is fully tax deductible! Tickets are $50 - $100 per person, or just $25 for students and musicians. (You don't need to bring your axe to prove you are a musician, just show up and pay the $25.)
Besides becoming a member, you get 4 jazz bands, and lunch, to boot! WOW, WHAT A DEAL!
You can click here for more information
I hope to see you there - I will be at the table in front, welcoming people.
- Groucho Marx
This may be true for Groucho, but I have finally found a home on the Board of the Califonia Jazz Foundation.
The California Jazz Foundation is a nonprofit charitable organization formed to provide services and support to jazz musicians and others who have made substantial contributions to the art form.
To start the New Year right, the CJF is having a Membership Party at Vitello's in Studio City on December 10, 1 - 5 PM.
Your ticket to the show includes a one year membership to the CJF, and is fully tax deductible! Tickets are $50 - $100 per person, or just $25 for students and musicians. (You don't need to bring your axe to prove you are a musician, just show up and pay the $25.)
Besides becoming a member, you get 4 jazz bands, and lunch, to boot! WOW, WHAT A DEAL!
You can click here for more information
I hope to see you there - I will be at the table in front, welcoming people.
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