Jazz News

Senator al Franken Comes Out Swinging Against Comcast - NBC Deal

Source: Michael Ricci
February 4, 2010

Doesn't look like comedian-turned-senator Al Franken is planning a return to NBC's “Saturday Night Live" anytime soon.

In his opening remarks about the proposed Comcast - NBC deal at a hearing held by the Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights, Franken (D-Minn.) ripped into the deal and the risks it could present to not only consumers but media competition as well.

Franken, who was a regular on NBC's “Saturday Night Live" for years and also had a ...

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AT&T Gives Green Light to Sling TV over 3G

Source: Michael Ricci
February 4, 2010

Remember the Great Sling Spat?

A year ago, Sling Media, a subsidiary of EchoStar, introduced a nifty application for the Apple iPhone that allowed users with a Slingbox at home to watch and control their home television signal from their handsets. The only problem: AT&T said that such a bandwidth-intensive video service would overwhelm its network, so it limited the application to work only over an iPhones Wi-Fi connection. TV lovers and techies worldwide cried out in anguish. But all ...

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Will iPad Actually Chill Development of Mobile Web Pages?

Source: All About Jazz
February 4, 2010

The iPhone is the face that launched a thousand mobile websites-actually, more like 326,600, according to a recent study by Taptu, a mobile search engine. That number is growing by leaps and bounds in various areas of the web, such as shopping and services, the survey concludes.

By the end of 2010, we forecast that the mobile touch web will have grown to more than 500,00 and to one million sites by the end of 2011. Steve Ives, ...

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Who Really Benefits from Intellectual Property Law? And Who Should?

Source: Michael Ricci
February 4, 2010

Economic policy bloggers, Matt Yglesias, started a kerfuffle the other day with a frighteningly commonplace point about the vain fight of creative producers against free content online, especially vis-a-vis music file-trading. In short, he proposed that in a perfect marketplace for music.

The price of a song ought to be equal to the marginal cost of distributing a new copy of a song. Which is to say that the marginal cost ought to be $0.

In a followup post on ...

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Live Concert Business is a Broken Model

Source: Michael Ricci
February 4, 2010

It's hard to think of Tim Leiweke, chief executive of AEG, which owns the L.A. Kings hockey team, as an underdog.

He's orchestrated concerts for the likes of Bon Jovi, Black Eyed Peas and Celine Dion. His company, Anschutz Entertainment Group, owns some of the world's biggest venues, including Staples Center, Target Center and The O2, a 20,000 seat arena in London, just to name a few. Leiweke also pulled the strings to develop the new $2.5 billion L.A. Live ...

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Best New Gear for Musicians, Fans

Source: All About Jazz
February 4, 2010

If youre a musician, walking the floor of the NAMM Show is like taking a trip to Candy Mountain.

All the latest music gear gets trotted out at the massive industry expo in Anaheim, California. Were talking five or six football fields worth of the newest guitars, amps, basses, drums, mikes, keyboards, sousaphones, electric oboes think Guitar Center cranked up to 11. Its pretty intense. What follows is a list of the coolest, most creative stuff we saw at this ...

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Barry Harris Trio Opening Tonight for Four Nights at the Iridium, Sets at 8:30 & 10:30PM

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
February 4, 2010

THIS WEEK AT IRIDIUM FEB. 4-7 BARRY HARRIS TRIO RAY DRUMMOND-BASS, LEROY WILLIAMS-DRUMS BARRY HARRIS Barry Harris is an Internationally renowned Jazz Pianist, Composer and Teacher. Strongly influenced by Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk, and Charlie Parker Harris is unquestionably the foremost exponent of the music of Powell, Tadd Dameron, and Monk, and is one of the few jazz musicians of the late 20th and 21st Centuries who can teach and play the music with equal clarity. RAY DRUMMOND ...

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Internationally Renowned Violinist Regina Carter Releasing Reverse Thread, a Celebration of African Folk Music

Source: Michael Ricci
February 4, 2010

EI Entertainment to Release REVERSE THREAD on May 18th When preeminent violinist Regina Carter made the decision to record an album primarily of African folk tunes, she created a great challenge for herself: how do you take beautiful traditional music and infuse it with a contemporary feel while remaining true to its past -- and then, not compromise its beauty? Her newest release, Reverse Thread, due out on E1 Entertainment on May 18th brilliantly responds to the challenge. To achieve ...

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