Jazz News

Jamie Foxx Brings Kids $500k of Donated Instruments

Source: All About Jazz
February 9, 2010

Actor Jamie Foxx's love for music is inspiring the Oscar winning actor to give back to his community.

The actor, who is also a Grammy winner, says music got him where he is today and he wants young people to enjoy the benefits of the arts.

Foxx encouraged the next generation of musicians to pursue their passion at Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles, where he helped present $500,000 in new violins, flutes, French horns, trumpets and drums ...

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How Google Buzz is Disruptive: Open Data Standards

Source: Michael Ricci
February 9, 2010

Google rolled out a social stream service today called Buzz.

It looks on the surface like Facebook, FriendFeed and other stream reading and writing services. It will compete with Facebook and Twitter. Under the covers, though, this major product was built by a team of people taking a radical new approach to online publishing: Buzz is all about open, standardized user data.

Google Buzz data can be syndicated out to other services using the standard data formats called ...

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Google Making Gmail into a Communications Hub

Source: All About Jazz
February 9, 2010

Gmail users will soon have more ways to keep up with their friends via a widget that shows quick status updates like Facebook and Twitter do, The Wall Street Journal reports. The move would further turn Gmail, which revolutionized online e-mail, into a comprehensive communications hub. The intent is to keep peoples attention centered on Google, by making Gmail, not Facebook, peoples first stop online and their default place to send and receive messages. Gmail users can already chat via ...

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Leno to Letterman: Thanks

Source: All About Jazz
February 9, 2010

Jay Leno to David Letterman: Thanks for Super Bowl ad invite

Leno said that “whatever happened in the last 18 years disappeared" when the two comics got together to film their surprise Super Bowl ad last week. “He was very gracious," Leno said Monday on his prime-time show, which ends Tuesday. “We talked about the old days. We told some jokes. It was really good to see him." Letterman's bitterness at losing the “Tonight" show job to Leno nearly two ...

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Lil Wayne Sentencing Postponed in NYC Gun-Possession Case Because Rapper Needs Dental Surgery

Source: Michael Ricci
February 9, 2010

The Grammy Award-winning rapper's sentencing in a New York City gun case was postponed Tuesday, because he needs to finish a string of recent surgeries before he goes to jail. Lil Wayne, one of music's biggest sellers and rap's hottest stars, is poised to spend as much as a year in jail under a plea deal, though good behavior could shave that to as little as eight months. Sentencing now is scheduled for March 2. Manhattan state Supreme Court Justice ...

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Driver's Licenses for the Internet

Source: All About Jazz
February 9, 2010

The conversation about where to draw the line between privacy and security is as old as society itself.

I didn't mean to so forcefully insert myself into the middle of that debate when I wrote about a Microsoft executive ruminating on the possibility of driver's licenses for the Internet. Alas, here I am.

That original blog post is already one of the 15 most-read of all time on the Curious Capitalist (it warms my heart that the top post remains ...

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Michael Jackson's Autopsy Report Released

Source: All About Jazz
February 9, 2010

Now that Conrad Murray has been charged with involuntary manslaughter, Michael Jackson's autopsy report has been released.

Listing acute propofol intoxication administered by another person as the cause of death, according to the report via the LA Times. The amount of propofol used was equivalent to a major surgery, it said.

“There are NO reports of [propofol's] use for insomnia relief, to my knowledge, an anesthesiology consultant wrote in the report. “The only reports of its use in homes are ...

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Sinatra and Dino Get Las Vegas Stars

Source: All About Jazz
February 9, 2010

Sinatra, Martin to receive stars in Las Vegas

Sin City is paying homage to iconic singers Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin by giving them each a place on the Las Vegas Walk of Stars. Las Vegas Walk of Stars spokesman Pablo Castro Zavala said stars for the crooners would be unveiled Feb. 22 in a ceremony at the Flamingo Las Vegas casino-resort. The stars will be then be placed in the sidewalk outside the Flamingo on the Las Vegas Strip. ...

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