Jazz News

Facebook's Gone Rogue; Its Time for an Open Alternative

Source: All About Jazz
May 8, 2010

Facebook has gone rogue, drunk on founder Mark Zuckerberg's dreams of world domination. It's time the rest of the web ecosystem recognizes this and works to replace it with something open and distributed. Facebook used to be a place to share photos and thoughts with friends and family and maybe play a few stupid games that let you pretend you were a mafia don or a homesteader. It became a very useful way to connect with your friends, long-lost friends ...

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Avant-Jazzsters Claudia Quintet's Album Whimsically Extols the Wonders of Toast

Source: All About Jazz @ Spinner
May 8, 2010

Over the years, various musicians have gone out of their way to prove that jazz can have a sense of humor. The most obvious example is Horace Silver's 'Jazz Has a Sense of Humor.' And, of course, there was Slim and Slam with their playful mugging back in the old days when jazz was popular music. More recently, there's been folks like Matt Wilson, whose been known to don a costume for a mid-set heavy metal tribute. While his large ...

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Herbie Hancock and Dee Dee Bridgewater Join Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz on U.S. Department of State Cultural and Education Tour of China, May 7 - 16, 2010

Source: Michael Ricci
May 7, 2010

Highlights include performances at the Forbidden City Concert Hall and the Entertainment Hall of the Shanghai 2010 Expo

Washington, D.C.--The Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz will continue its longstanding partnership with the U.S. Department of State by presenting a 10-day jazz education and performance tour of China. This tour will mark the Institute's first visit to China and will introduce tens of thousands of young people and adults in China to jazz, America's greatest musical contribution to the world.

Internationally ...

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Judge Orders 'Crude' Filmmaker to Turn over Footage

Source: All About Jazz
May 7, 2010

A federal judge ordered a documentary filmmaker Thursday to turn over about 600 hours of raw footage from a film about a court fight over whether Chevron Corp. owes billions of dollars in damages for oil contamination in Ecuador.

U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan said filmmaker Joseph Berlinger must turn over the outtakes from the film Crude, which was released last year, to lawyers for Chevron. Kaplan said Berlinger could not use the First Amendment to shield himself from ...

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Music Videos Make a Comeback -- And Los Angeles Directors Are at the Forefront

Source: All About Jazz
May 7, 2010

As proven on this blog and many others last week, music videos like M.I.A.'s violent tale of ginger genocide are one of the few elements of the music business that still has the power to stir conversation.

In an article this week, New York Magazine tracks how the medium recovered from its early aughts slump. We'll give you a little hint: Something called YouTube is largely responsible. That, and OK Go. It's been a long time since MTV lived up ...

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Drummer Chico Hamilton Performs in Baltimore on May 15

Source: AMT Public Relations
May 7, 2010

NEA Jazz Master Chico Hamilton Continues His Twelve Tones of Love Album Tour in Baltimore Saluted by the Kennedy Center as “a living jazz legend", and appointed to the National Council on the Arts, world renowned jazz artist and composer Chico Hamilton will be performing with the highly regarded Euphoria, bringing “traditional jazz with a great connection to the past but performed with the tonal colors of the present." 88-year old Chico celebrates his latest album Twelve Tones of Love. ...

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2010 Stanford Jazz Festival

Source: Michael Ricci
May 7, 2010

Stanford Jazz Workshop is excited to announce the 2010 Stanford Jazz Festival! Kicking off on June 25th with a Night of Brazilian Jazz featuring Luciana Souza with Romero Lubambo, the Stanford Jazz Festival runs all summer long and features artists such as Randy Weston, Taylor Eigsti, Freddy Cole, Mose Allison, Joshua Redman, George Cables, Dave Douglas and many more. Known for its intimate venues and accessible performances, the Stanford Jazz Festival offers jazz fans the perfect opportunity to get close ...

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Ticketmaster-Live Nation Merger Cleared

Source: All About Jazz
May 7, 2010

England's Competition Commission again cleared the Ticketmaster-Live Nation merger on Friday, formally sealing the creation of Live Nation Entertainment. The overseas regulatory body had originally approved the splicing in December, but agreed to reconsider and make a new decision following a challenge to the Competition Appeal Tribunal by German ticketing firm CTS Eventim. The CC again concluded that the merger would not result in a substantial lessening of competition in the ticketing arena or any other U.K. music market. The ...

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