Jazz News

Why @ Is Held in Such High Design Esteem

Source: Michael Ricci
March 21, 2010

The French and Italians have nicknamed it the snail. The Norwegians have plumped for pigs tail, the Germans monkeys tail, and the Chinese little mouse. The Russians think of it as a dog, and the Finns as a slumbering cat.

It's the @ symbol on the computer keyboard, which is an essential component of every e-mail address. Millions of us type it each day, usually without thinking about it. Yet the Museum of Modern Art in New York has deemed ...

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Texts Without Context

Source: Michael Ricci
March 21, 2010

In his deliberately provocative and deeply nihilistic new book, Reality Hunger, the onetime novelist David Shields asserts that fiction has never seemed less central to the culture's sense of itself.

He says he's bored by out-and-out fabrication, by myself and others; bored by invented plots and invented characters and much more interested in confession and reality-based art. His own book can be taken as Exhibit A in what he calls recombinant or appropriation art. Mr. Shields's book consists of 618 ...

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Playing It Cool with a Jawbone in Your Ear

Source: Michael Ricci
March 21, 2010

The word apps, of course, is short for applications, which means programs. But until 2007, nobody used the term apps except the people who wrote them programmers. It wasnt until the iPhone came along that apps became shorthand used by normal people.

And now theyre everywhere (apps, that is, not normal people). Apps on our phones. Apps on our TV sets. Apps on our Blu-ray players. And now, with the release of the Jawbone Icon ($85), apps on our Bluetooth ...

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Napa Valley Festival Del Sole Announces Fifth Anniversary Season

Source: Michael Ricci
March 21, 2010

Napa Valley's world-class Festival del Sole returns for its fifth anniversary season, July 16-25, 2010. This year's ten-day schedule is packed with events for every taste and budget-from classical music to tango and jazz, from exclusive gourmet meals to free family-friendly concerts, from wellness programs and art exhibitions to wine tastings and after-parties, and a first-ever croquet match between artists and vintners. Among the artists appearing this season are tenor Francesco Demuro, mezzo-soprano Kelley O'Connor, violinist Joshua Bell, pianists Jean-Yves ...

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Michel Legrand's 50th Anniversary Concert Tribute

Source: Michael Ricci
March 21, 2010

MGM Grand, Valencia Entertainment, and City Lights Productions UK announced today that three-time Oscar and five-time Grammy Award-winner Michel Legrand will perform a tribute to his 50 years of music and movies at the MGM Grand Garden Arena Saturday, March 27. Over the course of his 50-year career, Legrand has composed more than 200 film and television scores as well as several musicals. Legrand was only 22 years old when his first album, I Love Paris, became one of the ...

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Papo Vazquez Pirates Troubadours at Brooklyn Public Library

Source: Michael Ricci
March 21, 2010

Jazz trombonist Papo Vazquez's Afro-Caribbean ensemble, Pirates Troubadours, will be hosted by the Brooklyn Public Library at the Dr. S. Stevan Dweck Center for Contemporary Culture on Thursday, April 1 for a free concert from 7 to 8:30 PM. The Dweck Center's entrance is located at the Central Library on Eastern Parkway near Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn. This performance is part of the 11th Annual Central Brooklyn Jazz Festival. Papo Vazquez Pirates Troubadours are Willie Williams (sax), Zaccai Curtis ...

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Listen to Jazz Radio Now on iPhone Apps

Source: All About Jazz
March 21, 2010

Get iPhone Apps and listen to JAZZ.FM91 on your iPhone or iPod Touch with our FREE app! Live and web radio streams, music news, podcasts and much more. Download the app now from the iTunes Store.

Absolutely awesome! Thank you JAZZ.FM91. I am so proud to be a member, and I cant believe the quality and feature set that you have put into this app. Very well done. T.N., Toronto

In Barrie, your broadcast signal becomes a ...

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Fearless to the End: Remembering Margaret Moth

Source: All About Jazz
March 21, 2010

CNN photojournalist Margaret Moth covered conflicts spanning continents, and said she lived her life to the fullest. Her guts, skill and humor made her one to remember, dies of cancer at 59, after surviving wars.

Given her jet-black hair, thick black eyeliner, black clothes and combat boots (which she often slept in while on assignment), people didn't always know what to think upon meeting her. She was quirky, the sort who excused herself from a social gathering by saying she ...

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