Jazz News

Tribute for Percussionist Francisco Aguabella

Source: All About Jazz
May 17, 2010

A concert Saturday in New York was dedicated to the memory of Afro-Cuban percussionist Francisco Aguabella, who died earlier this month in Los Angeles.

“They need him Up There to keep the rumba going," Papo Pepn told the New York Daily News in advance of Saturday's “The Conga Kings" concert at New York University's Skirball Center for the Performing Arts.

Aguabella played with a variety of artists including Tito Puente, Peggy Lee and Dizzy Gillespie, and was a sacred drummer ...

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YouTube at 5

Source: Michael Ricci
May 17, 2010

In just five years, YouTube became the go-to video site

YouTube had an extra-special Valentine's Day this year. Chad Hurley, YouTube co-founder and current CEO, announced that on Sunday, the site officially turned 5 years old. “When we registered the YouTube domain on February 14, 2005, we set out to create a place where anyone with a video camera and an Internet connection could share a story with the world," Hurley wrote on the company's blog. “Five years into it, ...

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YouTube Overtakes Networks' Primetime Viewership

Source: All About Jazz
May 17, 2010

Americas Funniest Home Videos may have pioneered the YouTube concept, but as the site reaches the five-year mark, its audience size is no laughing matter.

YouTube's viewership now exceeds that of all three networks combined during their primetime evening time slot, with over two billion views per day, Google announced on Sunday. Granted, YouTubes numbers come from worldwide views, while ABC, CBS and NBC broadcast their primetime channels within the United States. But this is a significant milestone nonetheless, and ...

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Remembering Hank Jones

Source: Michael Ricci
May 17, 2010

Hank Jones Biography Henry “Hank" Jones (born July 31, 1918; died May 16, 2010) was an American jazz pianist, bandleader, and composer. Critics and musicians have described Jones as eloquent, lyrical, and impeccable. In 1989, The National Endowment for the Arts honored Hank Jones with its highest honor in jazz, the NEA Jazz Masters Award. He was also honored in 2003 with the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) Jazz Living Legend Award. In 2008, he was awarded ...

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New School John Coltrane Repertory Ensemble (Directed by Reggie Workman) @ The New School Performance Space on May 17th

Source: Michael Ricci
May 17, 2010

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Bay Area Jazz-Funk Quartet Times 4 to Release "Eclipse" June 1

Source: Terri Hinte Publicity
May 17, 2010

Over the last seven years, Times 4 has established itself as one of the most exciting live attractions on the San Francisco Bay Area music scene. Whether playing major venues under their own name or opening for national touring acts on festival stages, Times 4 has made a solid impression. Their tight grooves and improvisational prowess have also translated well to disc. Times 4's third CD Eclipse, due out June 1 from their Groove Tonic Media label, finds the group ...

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Lisle Atkinson's Neo Bass Ensemble "A Bass Extravaganza," All-Star Bass Line-up @ Symphony Space on June 11th

Source: The Cinarae Group
May 17, 2010

In it's fifth consecutive year at Symphony Space, Karlisle Pro 1 presents Lisle Atkinson's NEO BASS Ensemble, a unique multi-bass ensemble that features the bass as “lead" instrument, putting the full range of the double bass on display: from lead instrument, harmonic front line, solo and rhythm section for a concert that's history in the making! Witness a reunion of former members of the famous New York Bass Violin Choir (Lisle Atkinson, Ron Carter, Richard Davis, Michael Max Fleming) as ...

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Worlds Largest Social Network: The Open Web

Source: Michael Ricci
May 17, 2010

ON its Web site, Facebook says its giving people the power to share and make the world more open and connected.

But the online world outside of Facebook is already a very open and connected place, thank you very much. Densely interlinked Web pages, blogs, news articles and Tweets are all visible to anyone and everyone. Instead of contributing to this interconnected, open Web world, the growing popularity of Facebook is draining it of attention, energy and posts that are ...

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