Jazz News

Biomechanical Mike Stand Gets a Gleaming Grip

Source: All About Jazz
April 28, 2010

A biomechanical arm built out of found objects and stainless steel rods served as inspiration for one of the world's weirdest microphone stands. Artist Chris Conte created the gleaming, sci-fi-looking mike holder for Adam Gontier, lead singer of Three Days Grace. Gontier found photos of Conte's original artwork online and inquired about a custom piece of gear based on the arm. “When he asked me over the phone if it can be done, I was like, 'Hell yeah, it can ...

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Italian Screenwriter Furio Scarpelli, Co-Wrote 'The Good, the Bad and the Ugly' and 'The Postman,'

Source: Michael Ricci
April 28, 2010

Oscar-nominated screenwriter Furio Scarpelli, who co-wrote some of the best Italian comedies of the postwar period and who ventured into the spaghetti- western genre with the “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly," had died, his family said Wednesday. He was 90. Scarpelli died at his home in Rome shortly after midnight, his son, Matteo Scarpelli, told the Associated Press. He had long suffered from heart problems. During a decades-long, prolific partnership with Agenore Incrocci, who went by the name ...

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What if You Had Bought Apple Stock Instead of That iPod?

Source: Michael Ricci
April 28, 2010

Sometimes, especially when we're down on our luck and looking at all the money we've wasted on frivolous gadgets, we might ask what would have happened if we had invested. Web developer Kyle Conroy provides an easy-to-read spreadsheet to illustrate how shortsighted we all were. It's called What If I Had Bought Apple Stock Instead? There's probably no better company to play this game with because, as The Times pointed out last week, “There's no stopping Apple -- or its ...

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Marilyn Monroe in Her Own Words

Source: Michael Ricci
April 28, 2010

On Tuesday, publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux announced that it would be publishing Marilyn Monroe's writings in a new book, “Fragments," this fall. “She was a great reader and someone with real writing flair," editor Courtney Hodell told the Associated Press. “There are fragments of poetry that are really quite beautiful, lines that stop you in your tracks." Monroe was married three times: to James Dougherty, four years her senior when she was just 16; later, to baseball great Joe ...

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The Lost iPhone Close Ethical Call

Source: Michael Ricci
April 28, 2010

An Apple engineer loses a top-secret prototype and a tech blogger ends up purchasing it from the finder. Who deserves our support?

So an Apple engineer walks into a beer garden....

A story that begins like that should have at least a little potential.

Especially when you learn that, in said beer garden, the young software engineer loses a top-secret prototype of a next-generation iPhone. A stranger finds the phone. The stranger sells the phone to a tech blogger for ...

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Monterey Jazz Festival Announces 2010 Next Generation Jazz Festival Results

Source: All About Jazz
April 28, 2010

The Monterey Jazz Festival is proud to announce the results of the 6th Annual Next Generation Jazz Festival, incorporating MJF's 40th Annual National High School Jazz Competition. Over 63 Big Bands, Combos, Vocal Ensembles, and Special Guests from 14 States Performed throughout Weekend of April 9 - 11, 2010 Top 10 Groups Will Appear At 53rd Monterey Jazz Festival Presented by Verizon, September 17 - 19, 2010

Top High School Big Band Los Angeles County High School for ...

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Custom-Made Headphones: Listen up Before It's Too Late

Source: All About Jazz
April 28, 2010

JH Audio JH5 Pro Their custom fit and complex circuits mean that music never sounded so good. Seriously. Price: $400 There was a time not too long ago when you could walk down the street without seeing white, brightly colored or bedazzled earbuds jammed into everyone's ears. Just as the iPod has revolutionized the way we buy music, the small, disk-shaped earbuds that come bundled with it have changed the way we listen to music. But not in a good ...

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Pianist Jacky Terrasson to Releases Concord Jazz Debut, "Push"

Source: Universal Music Enterprises
April 28, 2010

Concord Jazz proudly announces the release of pianist Jacky Terrasson's new album Push, available April 27, 2010. The album features a new working trio that includes recent Thelonious Monk Competition winner Ben Williams on bass, Jamire Williams on drums and a handful of special guests. Push, Terrasson's 11th overall album and Concord Jazz debut, moves forward with a program of invigorating new repertoire and standards that infuse the familiar with the unlikely, including nods to Michael Jackson. Ever since pianist ...

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