Jazz News

The iPad May Change Computing, Just Not Your Life

Source: Michael Ricci
March 22, 2010

The first time you walk into an Apple Store and pick up an iPad, you'll understand the hype: Apple has managed to create a beautiful, thoughtfully designed, compelling product in a space where mediocrity was, until now, status quo. But odds are you probably won't buy one at least not yet. And that's OK.

For despite the high level of anticipation for and proclamations associated with the launch of the Apple device, the fact remains that outside of a few ...

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L.A. Band Tries to Cash in with Free Monthly Album

Source: All About Jazz
March 22, 2010

In an instrument-filled garage almost every day for the past year, musician John Wood has tried to find a new way to make a living.

Wood and a bunch of other artists use the soundproofed space with an extra-high ceiling to create a new album every month. It's a staggering feat when you consider it means recording a new song every three days. And then they essentially give it away for free. Wood is at the vanguard of how musicians ...

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David Haney: Two New CDs and June Tour

Source: Michael Ricci
March 22, 2010

Live from Yoshi's David Collective Cadence Jazz Records featuring John Tchicai, Duck Baker, Mat Marucci, Adam Lane, and Rob Scheps.

Blue Flint Girl David Haney Trio C.I.M.P. Records featuring Michael Biseo and Adam Lane.

David Haney grew up in Calgary, Canada and has come onto the scene in the past few years with a prolific, well received series of recordings for Cadence Jazz and CIMP. He is in ...

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Demise of Coral, Salamander Shows Impact of Internet

Source: All About Jazz
March 22, 2010

The Internet has emerged as one of the greatest threats to rare species, fueling the illegal wildlife trade and making it easier to buy everything from live baby lions to wine made from tiger bones, conservationists and law enforcement officers said Sunday.

The Web's impact was made clear at the meeting of the 175-nation Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, or CITES. Delegates voted overwhelmingly Sunday to ban the trade of the Kaiser's spotted newt, which the World ...

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Saxophonist Craig Handy Interviewed at AAJ

Source: All About Jazz
March 22, 2010

Saxophonist Craig Handy is a musician's musician. Those “in the know" know about him, which is why he's been a first call player in New York for over two decades. He is a careful, thoughtful improviser--expansive and precise. His solos build on a rich knowledge of the tradition at the same time as they often set out for the edge, walk it, but never fall off. While he derives portions of his vocabulary from the'Trane/Shorter axis, there is a shrewd ...

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'Mother' Tops Asian Film Awards

Source: All About Jazz
March 22, 2010

HONG KONG -- The spotlight shone bright on South Korea at the fourth Asian Film Awards in Hong Kong on Monday night, when director Bong Joon-ho led his countrymen in six wins with the best film award for his thriller “Mother."

The story of a mother who struggles to save her son from a murder accusation, also garnered Kim Hye-ja the award for best actress, and Bong and Park Eun-kyo the award for best screenwriter. The star-studded event saw 14 ...

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Michael Jackson's Revived Captain EO is Still Wired, Slightly Tired

Source: All About Jazz
March 22, 2010

ANAHEIM, California Michael Jackson's 3-D short film Captain EO is playing again at Disneyland, and the 24-year-old space opera still holds up. Mostly. Representing the height of 1986 movie technology, Captain EO was a lavish collaboration between Disney and George Lucas Industrial Light & Magic studio. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Jackson at the zenith of his career, the 17-minute film was shown only in custom-built theaters in Disney parks from 1986 to 1994. Following Jackson's death in ...

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The Jazz Celebration Big Band with Special Guest Larry McKenna in Newtown, PA on April 29th

Source: All About Jazz
March 21, 2010

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