Jazz News

Herb Cohen Label Operator Introduced Mothers of Invention, Tom Waits

Source: All About Jazz
March 18, 2010

Herb Cohen, the tough, litigious manager and label operator who introduced such notables as the Mothers of Invention and Tom Waits during the '60s and '70s, died Tuesday of unknown causes in Napa, Calif. He was 77.

After beginning his professional career as an L.A. club booker and operator, Cohen branched into management in the mid-'60s. His biggest clients were Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention, the outre band that became a top attraction in venues on the Sunset Strip. After ...

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Fess Parker, Who Played Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone Dies

Source: Michael Ricci
March 18, 2010

Fess Parker, whose star-making portrayal of frontiersman Davy Crockett on television in the mid-1950s made him a hero to millions of young baby boomers and spurred a nationwide run on coonskin caps, died Thursday. He was 85. Parker, who played another pioneer American hero on television's “Daniel Boone" in the 1960s before retiring from acting a decade later and becoming a successful Santa Barbara hotel developer and Santa Ynez Valley winery owner, died of complications from old age at his ...

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Why the Internet Should Win the Nobel Peace Prize

Source: All About Jazz
March 18, 2010

This year, a Chinese dissident and a Russian human rights advocate recent nominees for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize are joined by an unlikely, nonhuman contender: the internet. From the Fields is a periodic Wired Science op-ed series presenting leading scientists reflections on their work, society and culture. Jamil Zaki is finishing his PhD in psychology and neuroscience at Columbia University. His research focuses on empathy and altruism, and specifically how we (and our brains) come to understand, care for, ...

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World Music DJ Charlie Gillett Dies

Source: All About Jazz
March 18, 2010

Pioneering DJ Charlie Gillett has died aged 68 after battling a long illness, it emerged today.

Best known as the discoverer of rockers Dire Straits and as a champion of world music, the broadcaster died in a London hospital yesterday, his family said. He contracted a disease of the autoimmune system, and suffered a heart attack last week.

Gillett, who was born in Morecambe, Lancs, stepped down from his regular slot on Radio 3's World on 3 for health reasons ...

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Tomorrow Night! The Ambrose Akinmusire & Yaron Herman Project

Source: Two for the Show Media
March 18, 2010

The National Jazz Museum in Harlem @ The Rubin Museum of Art 150 West 17th Street, New York City All tickets $18 in advance / $20 day of; $7 student standby Fridays at 7:00 p.m. Box Office: 212.620.5000 ext. 344 Online tickets: rmanyc.org/calendar Ambrose Akinmusire & Yaron Herman Project Friday March 19, 2010 @ 7:00 PM Ambrose Akinmusire, trumpet Yaron Hermann, piano Joe Saunders, bass

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SXSW: Jakob Dylan, Neko Case Give the Music Fest an Unofficial Opening

Source: Michael Ricci
March 18, 2010

The music portion of the South by Southwest industry conference and festival officially begins on Wednesday, although that starting date has become blurred in recent years.

The most-in-demand-act (sorry, Motorhead) performing on SXSW Music Eve was Jakob Dylan, as the singer/songwriter debuted his new band with Neko Case and Kelly Hogan, the Three Legs. The seven-piece group was appearing at one of the many corporate-sponsored events that run parallel to SXSW's officially sanctioned showcases.

Jakob, the son of Bob Dylan. ...

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Canon First in Line for Its Own Top-Level Domain, .Canon

Source: All About Jazz
March 18, 2010

Canon announced Wednesday it intends to be the first company to say goodbye to .com and buy its own top-level domain, taking advantage of ICANNs decision to broadly widen the number of top-level names. If or rather when this starts happening, web address conventions may never be the same. If successful, the global electronics giant, perhaps best know for its digital SLR cameras, will open the .canon global Top Level Domain, or TLD, as soon as late 2011. And then ...

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New Michael Jackson Documentary Comming Soon

Source: All About Jazz
March 18, 2010

The author behind “Unmasked: The Final Years of Michael Jackson" is tackling the King of Pop's last days for the bigscreen.

Author/filmmaker Ian Halperin is behind “Gone Too Soon," an 88-minute documentary about Jackson that is culled from 300 hours of footage shot inside the singer's camp. Shine International, which holds international distribution rights to the doc, will unveil “Gone Too Soon" at next month's MIPTV confab in Cannes. Pic is set for a theatrical run in Canada and France, ...

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