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Source: Michael Ricci
April 5, 2010

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5 Secrets of Youtube's Success

Source: All About Jazz
April 5, 2010

As the video giant celebrates its fifth anniversary, Wired goes behind the scenes of the site that launched a million memes.

The Content It elevated the absurd. These early YouTube hits turned unknowns into Internet sensations. We tracked down five surprise superstars to see how they've capitalized on their fame.

“Evolution of Dance"

Date uploaded 2006 Views to date 137 million Motivational speaker Judson Laipply first performed his pop-dance montage as the ...

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Doors Documentary Won't Light Your Fire

Source: All About Jazz
April 5, 2010

Tom DiCillo's “When You're Strange: A Film About The Doors" means to answer the more loony flights of fancy taken by Oliver Stone in his 1991 Doors biopic, but, in the process, creates a formal exercise in redundancy, offering no new insights into the much mythologized rock band. The documentary does boast unseen archival footage of Doors band members Jim Morrison, Robbie Krieger, Ray Manzarek and John Densmore rehearsing, performing, hanging out backstage and, in the case of singer Morrison, ...

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Brazilian Pianist/Composer Antonio Adolfo & Vocalist Carol Saboya to Release New CD, "La e Ca," on April 20

Source: Terri Hinte Publicity
April 5, 2010

Jazz and samba have shared a rich interactive history for the last half-century. In Rio de Janeiro, musicians took note of Chet Baker, Bill Evans, and composers like Cole Porter while jazz musicians in Los Angeles and New York absorbed the music of Black Orpheus and bossa nova innovators Antonio Carlos Jobim and Joao Gilberto. Pianist/composer Antonio Adolfo was one of those young Rio players in the 1960s who found himself captivated by these new sounds, both at home and ...

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Marc Wagnon's CD Release "Earth is a Cruel Master" on Buckyball Music

Source: Michael Ricci
April 5, 2010

Marc returns to his own musical vision, combining great jazz-rock with thought-provoking themes such as recent scientific discoveries, climate change and the human condition. Marc takes on the lion's share of the instrumentation, returning to his first love: the drum set- and is joined by long-time collaborators Van Manakas and Leo Traversa.

In the early 90's Marc founded the group Tunnels with world renowned bassist Percy Jones, releasing a critically acclaimed CD in 1994, followed by Painted Rock in 1999. ...

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Montclair Women's Big Band to Appear at Freight & Salvage, Berkeley, on Fri. 5/7 in the Band's First Public Appearance of the Year

Source: Terri Hinte Publicity
April 5, 2010

The Montclair Women's Big Band, led by veteran trumpeter Ellen Seeling (and assistant director, saxophonist Jean Fineberg), will fill the stage at Berkeley's Freight & Salvage on Friday, May 7, in the band's first public concert of 2010. For the first time in its 12-year existence, MWBB will perform without a vocalist. Instead, the group will showcase its formidable ensemble work, outstanding soloists, and--as always--its audacious sense of swing. Personnel for the Freight show will be Mad Duran, Amelia Catalano, ...

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Apps for iPad from Some TV Networks, Not All

Source: Michael Ricci
April 5, 2010

Television networks are taking sharply different approaches to the iPad. One network, ABC, has readied a fully functional app for the eagerly awaited Apple tablet. Another, NBC, has ditched its plans to stream full television episodes onto the device. From MSNBC.com to People.com, buyers of the iPad will be able to watch plenty of ad-supported video despite Apple's decision to ban Flash, the dominant software for online video viewing, from the device. Many Web sites have raced to convert their ...

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Hands-on with Apple's iPad

Source: All About Jazz
April 5, 2010

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