Jazz News

Westside Joint Gives Unsigned Bands a Boost Breathes Life into Music

Source: All About Jazz
May 7, 2010

Just west of L.A.'s Miracle Mile, the restaurant/nightclub Life on Wilshire hosts a weekly Monday night showcase of mostly unsigned acts that's been slowly gathering steam over the past year and a half.

Westsiders with a taste for live music who dread penetrating the rock-club bottleneck of the Strip, the alt-pop lounges of Silver Lake and Echo Park, or downtown's urban hipster zone might view this almost forlorn stretch of Wilshire Boulevard as an oasis of easy access and plentiful ...

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San Francisco Jazz Group Plans Its Own Building Dedicated to the Genre

Source: Michael Ricci
May 7, 2010

SFJazz, the San Francisco arts organization, will announce plans on Friday to build its own facility dedicated to jazz: a 35,000-square-foot building in that city's Hayes Valley neighborhood, with two adaptable theater spaces inside.

“The concept of an institution for jazz is a very new thing obviously, Jazz at Lincoln Center made that concept work," said Randall Kline, the groups director. “Its the idea that jazz has earned a right to permanence. And because our view of jazz is wide-angled, ...

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Walter Sear, an Audio Engineer with a Passion for Analog, Dies

Source: Michael Ricci
May 7, 2010

Walter Sear, an audio engineer whose steadfast devotion to pre-digital recording technology led him to maintain a studio with vintage, analog equipment, a risk that paid off in recent years as musicians like Norah Jones, Wilco and Wynton Marsalis flocked there for its rich natural sound.

Sear died on April 29 in Manhattan. He was 80 and lived on the Upper West Side. The cause was complications of a subdural hematoma, or bleeding from the brain, after he injured himself ...

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MOJA Radio/Weekly Features: May 10-16, 2010

Source: Michael Ricci
May 7, 2010

This Monday, May 10th, we'll present another “Happy Birthday" edition of our special feature, MONDAY WITH THE MASTERS on MOJA Radio. This time the focus is on one of the most important drummers in jazz today, BILLY COBHAM, just six days before he celebrates his 66th birthday. You'll hear all about his move from Panama to New York City and his emergence in the fusion era working with Miles Davis and The Mahavishnu Orchestra. You'll hear his great solo work ...

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Judge Forces More Delays in Unsealing of iPhone Raid Documents

Source: Michael Ricci
May 7, 2010

A San Mateo County judge refused to hear arguments from a coalition of media lawyers seeking access to details of a search warrant served by a task force that raided a blogger's home on April 23rd>

The case involving a missing iPhone prototype from Apple Inc -- a move that could delay a hearing on the matter for at least another week.

San Mateo Dist. Atty. Steve Wagstaffe did, however, say that the relevant parts of the search warrant were ...

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The Facebook Privacy War: What is Personal Data?

Source: All About Jazz
May 7, 2010

There is a current campaign on the internet for users to not log into Facebook for a whole day on June 6th, 2010. This comes in response to the recent changes made by Facebook to their privacy settings, especially to the one leaving the default on instead of off.

Basically it became quite apparent that Facebook is in fact, a business, and that your so-called personal data was for sale. To economists and investors, this was no surprise at all. ...

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John King "10 Mysteries" CD Release at Roulette May 15

Source: Peter McDowell Arts Consulting
May 7, 2010

String quartet Crucible (Cornelius Dufallo and Chris Otto, violins; John King, viola; and Alex Waterman, cello) will perform music from composer John King's new CD “10 Mysteries" at NYC's Roulette on Saturday, May 15, 2010 at 8:30 pm.

Roulette is located at 20 Greene Street, NYC, between Canal and Grand. Tickets are $15/$10 and can be reserved at 212.219.8242. Admission is free to Roulette members.

Earlier this year, John King released his second CD, 10 Mysteries on John Zorn's Tzadik ...

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Line Writing Rules by Herb Pomeroy on Blue Music Group

Source: Michael Ricci
May 7, 2010

Herb Pomeroy (1930-2007) is regarded as one of the most influential jazz educators of the 20th century. He is best known for having taught the high-level arranging courses Line Writing, The Music of Duke Ellington and The Jazz Composer's Seminar at Berklee College of Music. Pomeroy also lead two student big bands, which performed at the Berklee Performance Center at the end of each semester. Less known is the Small Ensemble in which he concentrated on each individual student. He ...

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