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New Oslo Opera House is Really a Stealth Skate Park
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All About Jazz
Tricked Out The new Oslo Opera House is much more than a temple to the vocal arts. It's a palace of thrash, with as many gnarly facets as the best skate parks.
For years, architects have gone to great lengths to protect their buildings from marauding skaters. But as aesthetic trends move toward folded planes that transition seamlessly from wall to ceiling and back to wall, designers have been looking to their former adversaries for a lesson in ...
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Oakland's Fox Theater
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JamBase
Oakland To Open New Fox Theater
Fox Theater - Oakland, CA After closing its doors forty-three years ago, the Fox Theater is scheduled to reopen in February, 2009 with a run of performances from entertainment's top acts. The $75mm multi-use renovation project will feature a state-of-the-art theater with flexible capacity from 1,500 to 2,800.
The theater's wrap around building will be the permanent home for the Oakland School for the Arts, a tuition-free charter school dedicated to artistic and academic ...
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Bill Nershi: Salmon and Cheese, Unplugged
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JamBase
The String Cheese Incident did as much as any band out there to break fiddle and mandolin into the jam band scene, but as their following grew, the desire to break new musical ground led them toward an increasingly electrified sound. When the band dissolved last year, guitarist-singer Bill Nershi initiated the breakup, citing concerns about the move toward electronica that the music was taking. He's said that he often felt unsure about his role when a song moved toward ...
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Viva the Band at the Paradise Room, the Mecca for Jazz Entertainment on the Gold Coast QLD
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All About Jazz
The Gold Coast is Australia’s premier tourist destination with miles of white sandy surf beaches, lush green hinterland rainforests, world-class golfing greens and famous theme parks. With a diverse range of accommodation from exclusive 5-star hotels to sunny beachside apartments and backpacker hostels.
The Gold Coast has a Council that is pro active in the development of the arts locally, one of the Council’s objectives is to assist young and emerging musicians and music industry workers to develop their skills ...
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Music Industry in Five Years
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All About Jazz
What will the music industry look like in five years? In a new study by Forrester Research, U.S. Music Forecast 2008 to 2013, industry analysts attempt to cook up some numbers.
No huge surprises here: The U.S. music market is expected to shrink over the next five years from $10.2 billion to $9.8 billion. Digital music sales are expected to grow from 18 percent to 41 percent of the total (as physical product shrinks from 64 percent to ...
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Suspect in Hollywood Road Rage Death Devastated
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Michael Ricci
David Jassy, Swedish hip-hop artist accused of murdering a jazz pianist in an episode of road rage “is devastated by these events," his attorney said today.
The lawyer for David Jassy, 34, said the fact that the deceased, 55-year-old John Osnes, was “a fellow musician makes it all the sadder." Jassy appeared briefly in Superior Court this morning. His arraignment was postponed to Dec. 17 to allow his attorney, Donald Etra, more time to read up on the case.
Jassy ...
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Rvajazz 2008 Year in Review
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RVAjazz
Today marks RVAjazz's first birthday! It's been a great year full of amazing music, and it's been an honor to try and cover everything that's been going on in our city. The year in review is a collection of RVAjazz articles from the past year; some are favorites of mine, and some just mark important events that took place. Follow the links to the original posts. Thanks for reading, and as always, support live music.December 2007Fight the ...
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The Al Cohn Collection
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
The Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania in the northeast United States are home to musicians who like peace and quiet but must be near New York City and Philadelphia, where the work is. The Delaware Water Gap area of the Poconos has become famous in jazz circles for residents including Phil Woods, Bob Dorough, David Liebman, John Coates, Jr., Bill Goodwin, Steve Gilmore and Hal Galper, and for the Deer Head Inn, the region's jazz headquarters. It was at the Deer ...
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