Jazz News

Cable Company Makes a Move on Internet Video

Source: All About Jazz
May 16, 2010

Four hundred eighty channels and nothing to watch on TV? Liberty Global, one of the largest cable service providers in Europe, is adding a few more options for its customers.

The company will soon introduce a set-top box that will marry traditional cable content with apps, widgets and access to web-based video, Wired has learned. “It's a set-top box on steroids," Balan Nair, chief technology officer for Liberty Global, told Wired.com. “The interface will be very intuitive and advanced and ...

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Summer Stages: Pop and Jazz

Source: Michael Ricci
May 16, 2010

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HOLLYWOOD BOWL June 12-Oct. 8. It's become somewhat de rigueur to pair a pop act with an orchestra (one gets a little extra bombast, the other a little extra edge), and each summer, the Hollywood Bowl plays matchmaker. On June 15 Sting will perform with the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra; on July 2-4 Vince Gill will team up with the Los Angeles Philharmonic; on Aug. 13-14 Harry Connick Jr. and his Big Band will do the same; ...

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Rosa Rio, Organist from Silent Films to Soap Operas, Dies at 107

Source: Michael Ricci
May 16, 2010

On Oct. 6, 1927, the day “The Jazz Singer" splashed noisily across American movie screens, Rosa Rio broke down and wept. Al Jolson was talking, and the very sound of him, she knew, would put her out of business.

But Miss Rio's fears went unrealized, and for the next eight decades--until her final performance, last year -- she built a career as one of the country's premier theater organists. Miss Rio was undoubtedly among the very last to have played ...

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Google Data Admission Angers European Officials

Source: Michael Ricci
May 16, 2010

European privacy regulators and advocates reacted angrily Saturday to the disclosure by Google, the world's largest search engine, that it had systematically collected private data since 2006 while compiling its Street View photo archive.

After being pressed by European officials about the kind of data the company compiled in creating the archive -- and what it did with that information -- Google acknowledged on Friday that it had collected snippets of private data around the world. In a blog post ...

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Scorsese is 'Living in the Material World'

Source: All About Jazz
May 16, 2010

Martin Scorsese revealed Thursday that he has finished shooting documentary “Living in the Material World: George Harrison," working in tandem with Olivia Harrison, the musician's widow. Producers are Scorsese, Harrison and Exclusive Media co-chair/CEO Nigel Sinclair. A 2011 release date is being eyed. Exclusive, which holds worldwide rights, is shopping the project at Cannes, where Scorsese and Harrison are promoting the doc. There's no domestic distributor yet. “Living in the Material World" is a production of Scorsese's Sikelia Prods., Olivia ...

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Re-Issue of Stones Album Spawns Cannes Documentary

Source: All About Jazz
May 16, 2010

The intoxicating blend of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll never spoils, particularly if it's of an early '70s vintage. And it never hurts to use film and TV to sell it, particularly if the film makes its debut at Cannes.

“Exile on Main Street," the Rolling Stones' down-and-dirty double album that was reviled upon its 1972 release -- then later hailed as a masterpiece -- appears to grow ever more complex with age. Event-scaled activity is swirling around the ...

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

Source: The Cinarae Group
May 16, 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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Announcing the Winners of the Motema "Rufus Reid - Out Front" Giveaway

Source: All About Jazz
May 15, 2010

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