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Conducting: Next Stop the Jazz Maestro?
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All About Jazz
Duke Ellington and his orchestra... watch out for those subtle finger movements
Celebs may try baton-waving coordination on TV's Maestro, but let's compare how jazz legends conduct themselves and their orchestras...
As the Guardian's media columns reported yesterday, the BBC2 show Maestro (in which eight celebrities, including former Blur star Alex James, DJ/producer Goldie and TV presenters Peter Snow and Katie Derham competed for the chance to conduct the BBC Concert Orchestra on a Prom concert) pulled a 1.7 million ...
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Second Life Bluesman Gets First-Life Recording Contract
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All About Jazz
Nashville bluesman Von Johin learned the art of Mississippi Delta-style blues the old fashioned way: by playing small venues across the country. But despite the traditional nature of his music, Von Johin plays weekly shows in Second Life, as you can see in the video below. His determination has paid off handsomely, with a record deal believed to be the first ever given to a Second Life performer. “Never before has a virtual character been signed to a worldwide recording ...
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Report: Feds Do Little to Fight Spam, Spyware
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PC Magazine
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - While Web users drown in spam and fend off scams aimed at stealing their money, U.S. federal and state law enforcement authorities are doing little to resolve what has become a multi-billion-dollar problem, a think tank said on Monday. In the 20 states that give a number for consumer complaints, there were roughly 20,000 Internet-related complaints in 2007, said the group, which surveyed officials in all 50 states but received widely varying amounts of data. Eight states ...
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Spotlight: Un Systema Para Todo, Tumbao Bravo
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The Latin Jazz Corner by Chip Boaz
Un Systema Para Todo Tumbao Bravo PKO Records Jazz is a collaborative art form, but many modern jazz projects form around an individual rather than a group. The bandleader becomes the primary songwriter, the featured soloist, and the projects public face. The individual musician may have a hired band or even a regular working ensemble, but the bandleader remains the artistic ringleader. Subsequent recordings or performances follow one persons artistic vision with the other musicians providing ...
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Jazz at Lincoln Center Seeks 10 Quartets for International "Rhythm Road" Tours
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Jazz at Lincoln Center is seeking 10 quartets to promote American music in other countries through “The Rhythm Road: American Music Abroad", a partnership between JALC and the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. According to the Rhythm Road Web site, the program “is designed to foster cultural exchange with audiences worldwide through performance and educational outreach. Selected ensembles tour to such regions as Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East for ...
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The French Horn, That Wild Card of the Orchestra
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Michael Ricci
The modern French horn, with its complex tubing and finger keys at the center, has come a long way from its hunting party origins. Orchestral instruments don't come more treacherous than the French horn, either for the musicians who play it, or, when the going gets rough, for the listeners who find themselves within earshot. Sometimes you wonder how the instrument found its way from the hunting lodge to the orchestra. At the Mostly Mozart Festival in recent weeks, the ...
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Branches out to New York
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Michael Ricci
On a blocked-off street in SoHo on Wednesday, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg stood with Billy Joel, the veteran music executive Clive Davis and officials from the hall, to announce that the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, which opened its flagship building in Cleveland in 1995, would open a New York annex in November. “This is where Ed Sullivan met the Beatles, where Lou Reed took a walk on the wild side," the mayor said. Artifacts that will ...
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Jazzman Frishberg Charts Own Tuneful Territory
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All About Jazz
One of the great joys of L.A. jazz, from the mid-1970s to the mid-'80s, was the blossoming of jazz pianist Dave Frishberg into a singer-songwriter of quirky, yet warmly satisfying, material. His tunes navigated a pathway that sidestepped melodramatic cabaret material on one hand and self-absorbed pop music on the other. Frishberg created a growing catalog of songs that took a jaundiced view of the era and had stylistic ties to earlier masters like Hoagy Carmichael and Johnny Mercer. His ...
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