Jazz News

Valamar Jazz Festival in Porec (Croatia)

Source: Michael Ricci
June 12, 2010

Soak up the sounds of summer at Istria's first international jazz festival this July. Famed artists such as Dianna Reeves and Dave Holland will perform under the stars in a series of open-air concerts on the beautiful island of St. Nikola, followed by a lavish party at the elegant Villa Polesini. Main program: Island Sveti Nikola, Pore Friday, July 9, 2010 20,30 Claudia Acuna 22,00 Dave Holland & Pepe Habicuela Flamenco Quintet featuring Josemi Carmona Saturday, July 10, ...

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Fredrik Kronkvist Quartet Releases "Constant Continuum"

Source: Michael Ricci
June 12, 2010

Fredrik Kronkvist from Sweden is considered as one of the finest contemporary alto saxophonists on the international jazz scene of today. He's known for his vigorous, virtuoso style with a never-ending flow of ideas. On his sparkling new album Constant Continuum he displays his versatile skills as a composer and an improviser. Fredrik and his band, which consists of some of Scandinavia's most excellent musicians, takes the audience to a unique personal musical landscape that touches both intellect and soul. ...

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Sten Hostfalt 3 or 4 at Nublu NYC Feat. Ole Mathisen & Marko Djordjevic

Source: Michael Ricci
June 12, 2010

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Announcing the Winners of the "Erik Telford - Kinetic" Contest

Source: All About Jazz
June 12, 2010

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Some Enchanting Evening

Source: Michael Ricci
June 12, 2010

South Pacific has a way of making grown men cry. Kenneth Tynan started his 1951 review of the musicals London premiere with the confession, I wept, and there is nothing in criticism harder than to convey ones gratitude for that.

The tears shed for the beautifully sung Lincoln Center Theater production, which opened Wednesday at the Ahmanson, were mainly for the miraculous score by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. This expertly assembled hit parade of tunes from 1949 reveals ...

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Lawyers, Nations Clamor for Google Wi-Fi Data

Source: All About Jazz
June 12, 2010

A hard drive with perhaps several hundred gigabytes of internet surfers private data resides under lock and key in a Portland, Oregon, federal courthouse.

Regulators and private lawyers across Europe and the United States are demanding, and in some cases obtaining, access to data that Google sniffed for the past three years from unsecured Wi-Fi hot spots across the globe. The requests are coming in some of the eight proposed class actions targeting Google that have cropped up across the ...

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What is That Weird Hum During World Cup Games?

Source: All About Jazz
June 12, 2010

Is there something wrong with your television set, or has a swarm of angry bees invaded the World Cup pitch?

Neither the strange noise you're hearing during today's World Cup games (and for the rest of the tournament, presumably) is the sound of thousands of vuvuzelas. But what, pray tell, is a vuvuzela? A vuvuzela is a long plastic horn popular with South African soccer fans, who blow them en masse during games. Played by producing a raspberry sound with ...

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With 'Mojo,' Tom Petty Happily Sings the Blues

Source: All About Jazz
June 12, 2010

Tom Petty's plunge into the blues left him ecstatic. “We finally made a record worthy of the band, one that makes use of the musicianship," he says.

“Every rehearsal for years started with blues. It's how we sound after hours. I thought, 'we should stay where we naturally play.' I'm more excited than I've been in a long time."

Mojo, out Tuesday (June 29 on audio Blu-ray and vinyl), is Petty's first album since 2006 solo disc Highway Companion and ...

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