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Las Vegas Still Dazzling Exhibition Revists 1968 Study Era of Design

Source: Michael Ricci
April 1, 2010

The photographs on display in “Las Vegas Studio: Images From the Archives of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown" have been rescued, in essence, from the cutting-room floor. It just happens to be one of the richest, most revelatory cutting- room floors in architectural history.

The exhibition, at the Museum of Contemporary Art's branch at the Pacific Design Center through June 20, features images drawn from the trip that architects Venturi and Scott Brown took with a dozen or so ...

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Ex-Rat Pack Famous Nevada Casino Closes

Source: All About Jazz
April 1, 2010

Before the Las Vegas Strip ruled the gambling world, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. helped make the Cal Neva Lodge one of Nevada's coolest casinos in the early 1960s. On Wednesday, roulette wheels will stop spinning and blackjack games will cease at Sinatra's old resort that straddles the Nevada-California border on Lake Tahoe's north shore at Crystal Bay. While the resort's current owner hopes to reopen the casino under a new outside contractor by year's end, some ...

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A Shift Has Taken Place

Source: Indaba Music Artist in Residence with Greg Osby
March 30, 2010

I'm noticing that a lot more younger people are attending our shows all of a sudden. A couple of weeks ago week I did the Vanguard in trio format with Paul Motian and Jason Moran. Each night the place was populated by an under 30-ish crowd by at least 50%. Not only was it refreshing to perform for a room of eager and attentive new patrons but it also served as a representative beacon of hope that the music is ...

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Prince Charges Fans for Closed Fan Club

Source: HypeBot
March 30, 2010

From Our Artist/Fan Relationship Dept.

To Prince, His Purple Majesty, His Royal Badness, The Dick Formerly Known As Prince: Today, a year after opening your LotusFlow3r club, you charged fans who had requested to cancel their annual memberships another $77. How do I know? Because I am one of them. Prince, you've gotta cut this shit out. I'm a big fan, I drove 15 hours to see you last year. I ...

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New Profits from Lyrics?

Source: HypeBot
March 30, 2010

Sony/ATV Partners With Zazzle's ArtsProject For Lyric Inspired Merchandise Initiative

Can music publishers find new profits from old song lyrics? On demand merchandise provider Zazzle is partnering with Sony/ATV Music Publishing to find out. Zazzle via its ARTSPROJEKT brand will power a “Lyrical Inspirations Fan Merch" initiative which allows artists and fans to create and customize original works inspired by song titles and lyrics.

With the new deal Sony/ATV joins ...

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French Jazz Pianist, Sbastien Paindestre Joins ARC

Source: Artists Recording Collective + the ARC Record Label
March 30, 2010

Artists Recording Collective (ARC) is pleased to announce that French jazz pianist, Sbastien Paindestre has become a member of their artists roster. He will be releasing a new CD this summer titled, “Live @ Le Duc des Lombards (ARC-2178). Paindestre is a respected pianist, composer, teacher and concert promoter in Malakoff (La Fabrica'son, France, near Paris).He started piano lessons at 15 years-old and graduated to formal classical study in just two short years. Within the next four years of training, ...

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Aren't You Triply Glad You're You?

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
March 28, 2010

Skipping along through 65 years of the history of a superior popular song gives us an idea of its evolution as a subject for jazz improvisation. Indeed, our examples provide an idea how jazz improvisation itself has evolved. The song is Johnny Burke's (words) and Jimmy Van Heusen's (music) “Aren't You Glad You're You?" As Father O'Malley, Bing Crosby introduced it in the 1945 film The Bells of St. Mary's. He had a substantial hit record of it the same ...

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Wife of Grammy-Winning Jazz Star Grazed by Bullet

Source: Seattle Jazz Scene
March 27, 2010

from AP:

An 81-year-old woman has been charged with attempted murder for trying to shoot the wife of jazz pianist Eddie Palmieri near the elevator at their New York condominium, prosecutors said.

Maria Cartagena pleaded not guilty to attempted murder, criminal possession of a weapon and assault Wednesday and was being held on $25,000 bail.

Iraida Palmieri, 73, was inside an elevator at her Forest Hills condo when it stopped at the fourth floor Tuesday evening and the doors opened ...

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