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Interview

Mose Allison's New Album "The Way of the World" Just Released - Celebrated Artist Featured on NPR's All Things Considered

Source: Michael Ricci
March 24, 2010

The incomparable Mose Allison has just released his new album The Way Of The World, his first studio album in twelve years. Allison is one of the true originals, an essential element in the evolution of contemporary music. Sighted by The Kinks' Ray Davies as the “missing link between jazz and blues," Allison has returned in peak form. Guided by Grammy winning producer Joe Henry, The Way of the World has all the acerbic subversive wit and effortless blues infused ...

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Performance / Tour

Azar Lawrence New York Dates: Smoke, Kumble Theatre and Tribeca Performing Arts Center

Source: Zarmedia
March 24, 2010

Playing to audiences small and large over the past three years and back recording regularly, master of the saxophone, Azar Lawrence is establishing himself again in Jazz land. Azar had been advised by longtime friends and mentors to return to New York, where Elvin Jones in 1971 brought him to join his group when Azar was 19. Friends who he played with as a teen and young adult, like McCoy Tyner, (whose band Azar was a member during the 'Enlightenment" ...

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Event

Taylor Haskins' Recombination & Erik Deutsch @ Loove at Coco 66 on March 29th

Source: Michael Ricci
March 24, 2010

Monday, March 29th The LOOVE at Coco 66 presents: Taylor Haskins' Recombination - 8pm Taylor Haskins [trumpet, fx & keys] Jonathan Goldberger [guitar] Henry Hey [keys] Todd Sickafoose [bass] Nate Smith [drums] With the intention of creating music with a unique set of DNA, Taylor Haskins & 'Recombination' ride soaring melodies atop lush, hypnotic grooves to reach new worlds of musical expression. They seek nothing less than the total integration ...

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Interview

Guitarist Massimo Sammi Interviewed at AAJ

Source: All About Jazz
March 24, 2010

Massimo Sammi has lived a diverse life, to say the least. Growing up in Italy, Sammi began playing the piano at an early age, before quitting his lessons because of his cigar-smoking instructor. After graduating high school, Sammi studied law, graduating in 1997, then served in the Italian military, where he played trumpet in the army brass band. Admitted to the bar in 2000, Sammi quickly realized that his spare time was focusing more and more on his love for ...

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Recording

Bay Area Bassist Aaron Germain to Release Debut CD "Before You Go" 4/27 & Perform at Coda SF 5/13

Source: Terri Hinte Publicity
March 24, 2010

After ten years of working as a first-call sideman with some of the Bay Area's finest practitioners of styles ranging from jazz to salsa to Brazilian forro, bassist Aaron Germain has finally carved out some time for his own music. He's preparing to release his debut CD, Before You Go, on April 27, and plans to showcase the new music at a special CD release event at Coda in San Francisco on Thursday, May 13. The strikingly varied new CD, ...

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Technology

Steve Jobs Terse Replies to Fan Mail

Source: All About Jazz
March 24, 2010

Normally as quiet and retiring as a geek at the Homecoming dance, Apple CEO Steve Jobs has been on an unusual e-mail spree in the weeks leading up to the iPad launch, according to multiple reports. By our count, Jobs has sent at least four e-mails to eager Apple nerds asking about issues such as iPad tethering, future MacBook upgrades, open e-books and Picasa photo syncing. On Tuesday morning, Cult of Mac posted an e-mail exchange between Jobs and an ...

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Technology

Bill Gates Criticizes China for Not Guarding Intellectual Property

Source: All About Jazz
March 23, 2010

Microsoft chairman and founder Bill Gates on Wednesday criticized China for doing too little to protect intellectual property. Microsoft has lost hundreds of millions of dollars in China because of lax protections for copyrights and patents, straining its relationship with the emerging economic superpower. “They have work to do in terms of obeying copyright laws," Gates told The Hill during a visit to Capitol Hill. “They themselves are creating copyrights and patents and things like that and they have artists, ...

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Technology

Climate Hackers Want to Write Their Own Rules

Source: All About Jazz
March 24, 2010

This week, 200 scientists will gather in an attempt to determine how research into the possibilities of geoengineering the planet to combat climate change should proceed. They say it's necessary because of the riskiness and scale of the experiments that could be undertaken -- and the moral implications of their work to intentionally alter the Earth's climate. The group is meeting at the Asilomar resort in California, a dreamy enclave a few hours south of San Francisco. The gathering intentionally ...

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