Jazz News

Free Touring Seminar by Jason Parker

Source: Michael Ricci
May 25, 2010

Jason Parker will be giving a FREE touring seminar on Ustream on Wednesday, June 2nd at 6:00pm Pacific Time!

Jason Parker just returned from a two-week West Coast tour with his band, The Jason Parker Quartet. The tour was a huge success on all fronts, and Parker learned a ton acting as booking agent, PR firm, marketing director, tour manager, driver, band leader and trumpet player!

Wearing all those different hats really showed him what it takes to launch a ...

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George Washington's Library Book Returned, 221 Years Later

Source: All About Jazz
May 26, 2010

It was over two centuries late, but a copy of a library book George Washington borrowed was returned yesterday to a New York library.

The former president borrowed “The Law of Nations" by Emer de Vattel on 5 October 1789, according to the records of the New York Society Library. Staff discovered it was missing when they conducted an inventory of books in the library's 1789-1792 ledger earlier this year. Washington had never returned the book an essay on international ...

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Limewire Begs Music Industry for Second Chance

Source: All About Jazz
May 26, 2010

Shattered by a piracy lawsuit that may leave it insolvent, the company behind the file sharing software LimeWire is hoping to strike a deal with the music industry in which it would aggressively filter out pirated content, and be permitted to live on as a for-pay music download service, a company executive said Monday.

The biggest challenge right now is changing the behavior of a generation of internet users to get them to pay for music, said Zeeshan Zaidi, LimeWires ...

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Jazz Life

Source: All About Jazz
May 26, 2010

In 1959 and 1960, photographer William Claxton and noted German musicologist Joachim Berendt traveled the United States hot on the trail of jazz music.

The result of their collaboration was an amazing collection of photographs and recordings of legendary artists as well as unknown street musicians.

The book Jazzlife, the original fruit of their labors, has become a collectors item that is highly treasured among jazz and photography fans.

In 2003, TASCHEN began reassembling this important collection of material - ...

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Nothing But the Blues

Source: All About Jazz
May 26, 2010

“Nothing But the Blues : The Music and the Musicians." In this extensively illustrated, comprehensive volume, Grammy-winning CD producer Lawrence Cohn provides an elegant pictoral and intellectual history.

This compilation of 11 articles examines the beginnings and progress of the blues. The book starts with a penetrating essay by noted blues writer Samuel Chaters, who investigates the origins of the blues.

It follows with chapters that clearly, extensively, and intelligently describe early blues in the Deep South and Texas, women ...

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Project Mastering Master Class

Source: All About Jazz
May 26, 2010

Without blowing our horn like, y'know, too much, we really have been on top of the project mastering trend for some time.

So for this roundup, well assume you have the basics figured out (you can master at home, but you better know what you're doing), and concentrate on specific techniques that relate to mastering.

Some of these relate to tracking and mixing, too. Also, rather than having our usual review format, well instead pick some cool features from various ...

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String of Suicides Continues at Electronics Supplier in China

Source: Michael Ricci
May 26, 2010

A 19-year-old employee was found dead Tuesday morning in what appears to have been the ninth suicide this year at a factory in southern China operated by Foxconn Technology, one of the world's largest contract electronics manufacturers, according to China's state-run news media.

Foxconn, which produces electronics and computer components for Apple, Dell, Hewlett- Packard and other global companies, has been struggling this year to explain a string of suicides among young workers at its huge complexes in the ...

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Communications Law to be Reviewed

Source: Michael Ricci
May 26, 2010

Two top Democratic legislators said Monday that they would begin a process to modernize telecommunications laws that were last overhauled in 1996 but barely mention the Internet.

Senator John D. Rockefeller IV of West Virginia, chairman of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, and Representative Henry A. Waxman of California, chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, said in a joint statement that they would hold meetings in June to examine how the Communications Act meets ...

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