Jazz News

New All About Jazz Featured Stories Box

Source: Michael Ricci
May 21, 2010

We converted the home page Featured Stories box from Flash to jQuery, because Flash was obstructing our new dropdown menus in Internet Explorer and we wanted a functional slideshow to appear on an iPhone.

We increased the number of featured stories from five to six, and you must now click either on the article title or the larger photo to view the article. Clicking a thumbnail allows you to navigate within the box, but it will not hotlink to the ...

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Ola Onabule Will Be Performing in Canada with His Six Piece Band on 26th June, 2nd July and 3rd July

Source: Michael Ricci
May 21, 2010

Ola Onabule will be performing this summer in Canada at EDMONTON, VANCOUVER and VICTORIA JAZZ FESTIVAL. July 2009 saw Ola perform on the main stage of the Festival de Jazz de Montreal for their 30th anniversary festival and also Vancouver Jazz Festival last Summer. Ola possesses a stunning voice of enormous range and emotional clout. His voice is beautifully clear and appealingly textured, almost classical. During his shows there are moments when he lets fly with a kind of yodelling ...

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Hank Jones and More This Sunday on Freedom Jazz Dance

Source: Michael Ricci
May 21, 2010

Sunday from 5 PM 7 PM EST 90.1 FM WDCE Richmond Listen online via live webcast at wdce.org Archived shows uploaded at freedomjazzdance.net two days after each live broadcast. Tune in to the sound of freedom in the groove this Sunday on Freedom Jazz Dance from 5-7 PM. This week Ill be devoting a good portion of the show to the recently departed jazz legend Hank Jones, plucking some choice jazz gems from his very lengthy catalog of songs. Ill ...

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'Otis Redding: Live on the Sunset Strip'

Source: Michael Ricci
May 21, 2010

Soul great Otis Redding's 1966 performances at the Whisky a Go Go in Hollywood were a revelation in many respects for Southland music fans who caught those shows, which are the focal point of “Otis Redding Live on the Sunset Strip" double CD released this week.

The set expands on a 10-song single LP originally released two years after Redding's performances, and about a year after his death in 1967 at age 26 in a plane crash. The new CDs ...

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One Day Your Pants May Power up Your iPod

Source: Michael Ricci
May 21, 2010

UC Berkeley researchers are perfecting microscopic fibers that can make electricity from simple body motions. The nanofibers may soon be woven into clothing, creating the ultimate portable generator.

Need juice for a dying iPod? You may soon be able to plug the gadget into a shirt, dance the electric slide and be good to go.

Researchers at UC Berkeley are perfecting microscopic fibers that can produce electricity from simple body motions such as bending, stretching and twisting. The filaments, which ...

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Paintings by Picasso, Matisse Stolen in Paris

Source: Michael Ricci
May 21, 2010

A lone thief stole five paintings possibly worth hundreds of millions of euros, including major works by Picasso and Matisse, in a brazen overnight heist at a Paris modern art museum, police and prosecutors said Thursday.

The paintings disappeared early Thursday from the Paris Museum of Modern Art, across the Seine River from the Eiffel Tower. Investigators have cordoned off the museum, in one of the French capital's most tourist-frequented neighborhoods. The museum's security system was disabled, and a single ...

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What Does Google TV Do for Sony?

Source: Michael Ricci
May 21, 2010

Quick, which company is bigger: Google or Sony?

If you answered Google, you'd be wrong -- at least when it comes to sales. Google pulled in $23.7 billion in revenue last year compared with Sony's $77.6 billion. But if one judges it by the amount of press generated by Thursday's announcement that Sony would be the first to come out with a television set incorporating the Google TV platform, the reverse is true. News hits generated by a (Google) search ...

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Manhattan Jazz Venues

Source: All About Jazz
May 21, 2010

REZ ABBASI'S ACOUSTIC QUARTET (Friday) group featuring the vibraphonist Bill Ware, the bassist Stephan Crump and the drummer Eric McPherson. At 9 and 10:30 p.m. Cornelia Street Cafe 29 Cornelia Street, West Village (212) 989-9319 corneliastreetcafe.com

MARCO BENEVENTO TRIO (Saturday) This casually jazz-literate jam band, led by the keyboardist Marco Benevento with Reed Mathis on bass and Andrew Barr on drums.

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