Jazz News

Recording Studio in a Pocket: Tascam Dr-08 Digital Linear PCM Recorder

Source: All About Jazz
May 3, 2010

Audio Recorder Flexes Dual Mics for Strong Fidelity Recording different types of audio is tricky.

One recorder might be great at soaking up a quiet conversation, but take it to a rock concert and your audio will sound like a coffee grinder crammed with ball bearings. That's not the case with Tascam's DR-08. This linear (meaning it doesn't compress sound files) voice recorder, dressed in black and dreamy tangerine, uses tiltable twin microphones to compensate for a wide range of ...

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Pearl Jam Jolt New Orleans Jazz Fest with Powerhouse Set

Source: All About Jazz
May 3, 2010

" I'd like to make a toast to the fine folks at BP," Eddie Vedder said, raising a bottle of wine at last night's show in New Orleans. “Send your sons and daughters to clean up your fucking mess." While Pearl Jam rocked the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico crept closer to the Louisiana coast. Even Vedder's wardrobe spoke to the environmental crisis: he wore a Mr. Bill Show T-shirt the ...

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Recording: Crafting the Magic of the Beach Boys

Source: All About Jazz
May 3, 2010

Ive been lucky to be included in the Beach Boys inner circle since the late 70's and I've worked on many of their records but nothing quite prepared me for being given carte blanche to arrange, record, and produce background vocals for a founding member of one of the greatest vocal bands of all time.

The legendary Al Jardine asked me to help complete a song he had been working on sporadically for 15 years, and when the audio files ...

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4 Ways to Survive a Jazz Double Bass Session

Source: All About Jazz
May 3, 2010

Many home engineers might cringe in fear at the thought of a double-bass player walking in to record a jazz session. The instrument itself is large, has strings made from sheep's intestines, and isn't likely to show up in your usual rock and roll scene. Not to mention that jazz players aint impressed with hammer-ons, sweep picking, or bitchin' tats, and they play in keys most rock musicians have never even considered. Jazz is its own world with its own ...

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Is Anytime Access Worth It? The iPad 3G Review

Source: All About Jazz
May 3, 2010

iPad Wi-Fi + 3G In the five weeks or so that I've been spending time with an iPad, little has made me back off my initial review that while not for everybody, Apple's freshly conceived tablet is indeed a game-changer, a stunner of a machine that promises a profound long-term effect on media, mobile entertainment and publishing. But the Wi-Fi-only iPad model I've been using during this spell has at least one consequential drawback: for all the places that have ...

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Net Neut: Webs Users Against Its Gatekeepers

Source: Michael Ricci
May 3, 2010

With the majority of Internet traffic expected to shift to congestion-prone mobile networks, there is growing debate on both sides of the Atlantic about whether operators of the networks should be allowed to treat Web users differently, based on the users consumption. Proponents of the current system called network neutrality see that principle as a kind of civil rights declaration of the digital age, one that requires the gatekeepers of the global Internet to treat all users equally, regardless of ...

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West Coast Cool: The Jazz Sound of '50s California

Source: All About Jazz
May 3, 2010

When someone talks about “West Coast jazz" or “cool jazz," they're almost invariably referring to a style performed by jazz musicians in California (and primarily in Los Angeles) in the '50s and early '60s.

As opposed to the hard-bop sound dominant on the East Coast during that time, the West Coast sound was a bit mellower and more lyrical, with blended harmonies and broadly speaking more interest in composition and arrangement than improvisation. West Coast players also tended to experiment ...

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BT3 Returns with Hard Jazz/Funk Grooves & Guitar Pyrotechnics to Fat Baby -- Wednesday, May 19th @ 8PM

Source: Michael Ricci
May 3, 2010

From a lifetime of breaking boundaries, leading an award-winning, DC-based hip-hop/fusion band, Miscellaneous Flux, and collaborating with numerous musical pioneers (Vernon Reid, Burnt Sugar: The Arkestra Chamber, and DJ Logic), guitarist Ben Tyree, pushes forward with his own ground-breaking, improvisational, sci-fi/jazz/funk trio project, BT3. On Wednesday, May 19th at 8pm, Tyree will present BT3 at Fat Baby (Frnt 1, 112 Rivington Street - New York, NY). Incorporating Coltrane-esque melodic sheets of sound, funk-derived and classical finger-style rhythm playing as well ...

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