Jazz News

Folk Music Singer and Actress Susan Reed Dubbed 'America's Concert Favorite'

Source: All About Jazz
May 2, 2010

Folk music thrush and actress Susan Reed died April 25 of natural causes in Greenport, N.Y. She was 84.

Reed was introduced to folk music by members of Ireland's Abbey Players, who would spend time with her family during visits to the United States. She went on to star at Cafe Society in Gotham for two years and was a regular at Carnegie Hall, Town Hall and Los Angeles' Wilshire Ebell Theater. Life magazine saluted Reed in a 1955 cover ...

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3-D Revolution: From Nitrate to Digital

Source: Michael Ricci
May 2, 2010

The film landscape is changing so quickly these days with lively debates over whether to shoot in 3-D or 2-D or use digital or traditional film cameras. But a new UCLA Film and Television Archive series, “From Nitrate to Digital: New Technologies and the Art of Cinema," illustrates that technological change is the norm in Hollywood. The program, which opens Saturday at the Billy Wilder Theater, “is about reminding people that the industry has been through these changes before and ...

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Dorothy Provine Singer, Actress Star of "The Roaring Twenties" Dies

Source: Michael Ricci
May 2, 2010

Dorothy Provine, who played the singing, high-kicking flapper in the early-1960s TV series “The Roaring Twenties" and appeared in the all-star movie comedy “It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World," has died. She was 75. Provine, a longtime resident of Bainbridge Island, Wash., died of emphysema Sunday at Hospice of Kitsap County in Bremerton, said her husband, Robert Day. A former University of Washington drama major, Provine landed the title role in the low-budget 1958 gangster film “The Bonnie Parker ...

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Handwritten Lennon Lyrics to be Auctioned

Source: All About Jazz
May 2, 2010

One side of a handwritten, autographed manuscript by the late John Lennon is shown. The document, with the lyrics to “A Day in the Life," will be offered at auction by Sotheby's in New York on Friday, June 18. For the right price, some lucky Beatlemaniac will be able to own the lyrics to the final song on the classic Beatles album “Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band." John Lennon's handwritten lyrics to the Beatles classic “A Day in the ...

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Apple iAd Platforms Entry Fee Reported to be $1 Million

Source: All About Jazz
May 2, 2010

Apples iAd platform holds lots of promise for advertisers, considering how much people use their iPads, iPhones and iPods. But buying into this game wont be cheap. The company plans to charge each advertiser a minimum of $1 million when the platform rolls out in the next few month between five and 10 times what competing ad networks charge, according to the Wall Street Journal. And if they want to be included when iAd launches, they'll need to spend nearly ...

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Aretha Franklin Cancels Jazz Fest Appearance

Source: All About Jazz
May 2, 2010

Soul legend Aretha Franklin has canceled her appearance at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, but organizers and fans got lucky with a replacement. Earth, Wind & Fire happens to be in the area and offered to play on the popular music festival's largest stage on Friday night. Festival spokesman Louis Edwards says the “Queen of Soul" told organizers on Thursday that she wouldn't be able to perform. Edwards said she apologized to fans but wouldn't give a reason ...

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3G-Enabled iPads on Sale

Source: All About Jazz
May 2, 2010

5 p.m. a couple hundred people lined up at the the Fifth Avenue Apple store in Manhattan to pick up a 3G-enabled iPad. First in line: Justin Sher, 31, a molecular biologist from Brooklyn, who'd been waiting since about noon. Sher said he'd seen the Wi-Fi iPad and was “totally stoked" about buying the 3G version. He'll use it for work, he says. He expects to draw with it, type in numerical data and be able to plug it into ...

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Dead Zone Doldrums Test Skills of iPhone Customers

Source: Michael Ricci
May 2, 2010

Owners of iPhones know that their love for Steve Jobs's touch-screen marvel comes at a price. The iPhone's cellular coverage, provided exclusively by AT&T Wireless, is notoriously spotty. In some parts of New York and San Francisco, it's impossible to connect. If you go for a dim sum lunch at Yank Sing restaurant on the edge of the financial district in San Francisco, you are likely to miss calls from the office. Some owners can't use their iPhones in their ...

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