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Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival Launches New Mobile Site - rochesterjazz.com for Smartphones

Source: Dalmath Associates Inc.
June 9, 2010

Rochester, NY June 9, 2010 The Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival today launched a mobile site so that festival fans can easily get the latest festival information on the go. The latest news, daily schedules, venue information, artist information, jazz links, and the festival's Facebook and Twitter pages and more can now be accessed on Internet- enabled mobile devices including the BlackBerry, IPhone and other smart phones. Just type rochesterjazz.com or m.rochesterjazz.com into your mobile devices browser, immediately connect to ...

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The Chicago Blues: A Living History Band Headlining Day 2 Chicago Blues Fest June 12

Source: Just Roots PR
June 9, 2010

The 2010 Chicago Blues Festival will take place from June 11th to June 13th in Grant Park.

This Festival is scheduled and presented by the Mayor's Office of Special Events. What's amazing about this festival is not only the line-up, which is extraordinary, but the fact that The Chicago Blues: A Living History Band is headlining day 2 of the festival.

Chicago Blues: A LIVING HISTORY is it. They are considered by many ...

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URB Alt Festival 2010 Declares That 5 is the Magic Number During NYC Summer with Muthawit, Faith, Jneiro Jarel, Twin Shadow, Leila Adu and More!

Source: 4961 Polemics
June 9, 2010

Popular URB ALT Festival celebrates 5th Anniversary with a 2001: A Space Odyssey tribute featuring Jneiro Jarel at The Harlem School of the Arts; outdoors in Saint Nicholas Park with Faith, Twin Shadow and others; a Galapagos Artspace Miles Davis “Bitches Brew" tribute featuring URB ALT Orchestra; and a night of movies and music at 92Y Tribeca with Leila Adu and MuthaWit Orchestra

“URB ALT Festival features artists that are exemplars of boundary crossing, synthesis and unification." - The Village ...

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Steve Gadd & Friends Releases New CD "Live at Voce"

Source: Michael Ricci
June 9, 2010

Steve Gadd & Friends Releases New CD, Live at Voce, Featuring Ronnie Cuber, Paul Bollenback and Joey DeFrancesco

LOS ANGELES, CA: 2010 has been a simply stellar year for Steve Gadd. Between tours, recordings and performances with World-renowned artists such as Eric Clapton, James Taylor, Alain Clark and Edie Brickell, he somehow also managed to record and produce three albums himself, the first of these being Steve Gadd & Friends, Live at Voce.

One of the most influential drummers of ...

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21st-Century Technology Has Caught up to '70s-era Quadraphonic Recording

Source: All About Jazz
June 9, 2010

Hear and Now: “Dismal failure" may be the kindest way to describe quad.

To music fans for whom even cassette tapes are a quaint throwback, here's a real obscurity: Quadraphonic sound systems were an experiment launched in 1970. Music came out of four speakers spread around the room--guitars over there, vocals over here, drums all around. In a perfect world, the listener would hear what it was like to be inside the studio as the songs were recorded. But the ...

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Enter Music Publishing Hits a Record During Drummies Voting 2010

Source: JCM Media
June 9, 2010

San Jose, Calif.,--DRUM! Magazine, one of Enter Music Publishings hip, drum/percussion magazines with worldwide distribution, saw record-breaking vote totals in the just-concluded balloting for their annual drumming awards, the Drummies. According to surveymonkey.com, approximately 6500 drummers posted 120,000 votes in the 40 categories that comprise The Drummies. The Drummies, now in its fifteenth year, is the most comprehensive and diverse poll programs in the drum business. The 6500 drummers, who did participate, voted in categories, ranging from Best Drummer, to ...

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Three Chords for Beauty's Sake: The Life of Artie Shaw

Source: Michael Ricci
June 9, 2010

Artie Shaw, the swing eras other great clarinetist, knew just about every romantic self-immolator in the history of jazz.

He roomed with both Bix Beiderbecke and Bunny Berigan, he hired Billie Holiday to sing with his band and at least by his own account he turned down Charlie Parkers bid to join his saxophone section. (I said, Bird, you couldn't play in my band, you're too much of an individualist! ) Superficially, Shaw couldn't have been less like these doom-bound ...

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Jazz Still a Passing Fad

Source: All About Jazz
June 9, 2010

Jazz musicians improvise for a living. In L.A., as in the rest of the country, where fewer and fewer arts patrons seek jazz as a music of first choice, players improvise ways to find work.

Los Angeles has been important to jazz, and vice versa, since the musics beginnings. New Orleans pianist Jelly Roll Morton, who once claimed to have invented jazz, performed on Watts Central Avenue in 1917, and when he died in 1941, he was buried in East ...

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