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Senate Passes Controversial 'Copyright Czar' Bill
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PC Magazine
On Friday, the U.S. Senate passed the controversial Pro-IP Bill, which would effectively create a “copyright czar" answering to the President. On Wednesday, Sen. Ron Wyden asked and was granted a request to remove a provision that would have required the Department of Justice to enforce copyright provisions, after the DOJ had objected. However, the bill, as passed, does create an Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator that will serve within the Office of the President. The bill now moves to the ...
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Oharas Jazz & Blues Cafe on Las Olas in Fort Lauderdale to Close and Relocate
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All About Jazz
The legendary OHara's Jazz & Blues Cafe also known earlier on as OHara's Pub will be moving from their present location on Las Olas Boulevard due to the renovation and expansion of the Riverside Hotel. OHara's, a local favorite known worldwide for its quality live entertainment, after almost 20 years will have its last hurrah on Las Olas Boulevard this weekend Friday September 26, through Sunday September 28, 2008. OHara's has been the mainstay of local musicians and occasionally national ...
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Miles Davis Estate Makes Donation to East St. Louis Arts Programs
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
A story in the Belleville News-Democrat says that the estate of trumpeter Miles Davis is making a donation to arts programs in East St. Louis. According to the story, Davis' nephew, Vincent Wilburn Jr., and Miles Davis Properties LLC General Manager Darryl Porter were scheduled to be at the East St. Louis municipal building yesterday to present a check to the city of East St. Louis and the East St. Louis-St. Clair County Arts Council. “The city and ...
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Winstone Alert
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
I know, I know; Doug's Picks is overdue for new entries. They'll be coming along, but the Rifftides staff is engaged in a number of projects, including preparation of a reading from Poodie James, with strings. More about that later. Among other things, I'm writing the notes for a forthcoming CD co-led by Charlie Shoemake and Terry Trotter. It is a delight. I'm not at liberty to tell you about it except to say that its title is Inside and the music, ...
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Charlie Haden: All That Political Jazz
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All About Jazz
Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra leans left, but carries a message of patriotism and hope. Despite its seemingly combative title, “Not in Our Name," by jazz bassist Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra, is a surprisingly gentle and hopeful musical document. There are occasional dissonant undercurrents and dense, sophisticated interplay among the 12 orchestra members. But the dominant attitude on this program of all-American music -- which ranges from a section of Dvorak's “New World Symphony" and a reggae treatment of ...
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Why We Should Be Clear About What Trad Jazz Means
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All About Jazz
Sorry to return to the Mercury prize for a second week, but this is only a passing spin-off from that much-discussed event. Observer music critic Kitty Empire, one of the Mercury judges, described the shortlisting process in a recent article and included among the difficulties the challenge of comparing “the merits of Empirical's trad jazz against Benga's dubstep". The collective snort of derision about this in the jazz world has made a trombone section sound like a solo flute, and ...
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Former Councilman Was Shot in Apparent Robbery at Jazz Club
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All About Jazz
Harris' killing stuns residents, colleagues By Gus G. Sentementes In his eight years on the City Council, Kenneth N. Harris Sr. worked diligently to make parts of North and Northeast Baltimore safer from crime, including the Northwood Plaza, an aging strip mall that some say had its heyday in the 1960s. But Harris, who lost his bid for City Council president last year and left public life, died after falling victim to crime at that shopping center early yesterday. Harris, ...
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