Jazz News

Why We Are Obsessed with the iPad

Source: All About Jazz
April 2, 2010

Yes, the iPad has fewer features than a comparably priced netbook. Yes, its tied to an app store controlled by a single company that has proven to be both capricious and prudish in the kinds of content it approves. And yes, it wont run Adobe Flash, instantly crippling many websites. Instead of living inside a box, content takes over the device. There's almost no noticeable interface.But the iPad is an important device just the same, because its simple and its ...

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Google: Online Attacks Aimed at Vietnam's Critics

Source: Michael Ricci
April 2, 2010

HANOI, Vietnam -- Google Inc. accused Vietnam on Wednesday of stifling political dissent with cyberattacks, the latest complaint by the Internet giant against a communist regime following a public dispute with China over online censorship. Like China, Vietnam tightly controls the flow of information and has said it reserves the right to take “appropriate action" against Web sites it deems harmful to national security. The cyberattacks targeted “potentially tens of thousands," a posting on Google's online security blog said. It ...

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Google Fires at Apple, Integrates Flash into Chrome Browser

Source: All About Jazz
April 2, 2010

Google continues to stake out its territory online. The search-and-advertising giant announced Tuesday that it will bundle Adobe's Flash player with downloads of the Chrome browser, putting Google in sharper opposition to Apple -- and giving Adobe a powerful ally. Google's decision to throw its weight behind Flash is an attempt to protect its turf -- the internet -- and strengthen its Android and Chrome operating systems for mobile phones, tablets and notebooks. By contrast, Apple's iPhone and upcoming iPad ...

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Music Group EMI in Dire Straits

Source: All About Jazz
April 2, 2010

Struggling music group EMI faces being taken over by its bankers after failing to clinch a deal to sell the North American distribution rights for its artists to Universal Music Group or Sony Music.

EMI, which has the Beatles, Coldplay, Lily Allen and Pink Floyd on its books, had hoped to raise around 200 million pounds ($304 million) by offering its rivals a five- year licensing contract. A source close to both sets of talks, who requested anonymity because the ...

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"Blue Lou" Marini and Misha Segal Release New CD

Source: Michael Ricci
April 2, 2010

On March 23, 2010, “The Blue Lou and Misha Project - Highly Classified" was released by saxophonist Lou Marini and pianist / composer Misha Segal. The CD was recorded in Los Angeles, California and in New York City. This CD is the first collaborative recording by Marini and Segal. Lou Marini is best known as a member of several noted bands, including Blood, Sweat and Tears, Steely Dan, the Woody Herman Orchestra, the Buddy Rich Band, The Maureen McGovern Band, ...

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Leila Adu Does It Again with the Don'ts (John Edwards & Steve Noble) in UK Video Premiere Show with Steve Beresford and de Santis

Source: 4961 Polemics
April 2, 2010

"Leila Adu is a rebel-inspirer. And not in the way that calls for the raising of fists, or the hurling of sharp word-blades. Her defiance is decided...Anger isn't its mother. Wonder may be." -- Purple Magazine London - Leila Adu, the London born songwriter/free improv singing sensation, comes home to the UK's cutting-edge hot spot, Vortex Jazz Bar. She will be working with her trio Leila Adu & the Don'ts on August, 3rd at 8pm in a special performance to ...

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Steve Cropper & Felix Cavaliere Reunite for Second CD 'Midnight Flyer'

Source: conqueroo
April 2, 2010

LOS ANGELES, CA - Steve Cropper, guitarist for Booker T. and the MGs and one of the primary architects of the unmistakable Stax sound of the 1960s, and vocalist/keyboardist Felix Cavaliere, the voice of the Rascals and the pivotal figure in the blue-eyed soul movement of that same era, have reconvened for their second collaborative recording. Sparks fly at the crossroads of Memphis soul and East Coast R&B when Stax Records releases Midnight Flyer on June 15, 2010.

Midnight Flyer, ...

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Human-Machine Improvisations (Cork, 2010)

Source: Michael Ricci
April 2, 2010

real-time, musical interactions between human and technological performers

io 0.0.1 beta++ with Han-earl Park, Bruce Coates and Franziska Schroeder plus iWife with John Godfrey and Francis Heery

A unique and exciting on-stage meeting between human and machine improvisers takes place on 26 May 2010 at Blackrock Castle Observatory (Cork, Ireland). This event will mark the debut of two extraordinary machine musicians, io 0.0.1 beta++ and iWife constructed by Han-earl Park and John Godfrey respectively. Featuring Park and Godfrey ...

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