Jazz News

Performance / Tour

Hollywood Bowl Season Announced

Source: Michael Ricci
February 2, 2010

Gustavo Dudamel will make three appearances at the Hollywood Bowl this summer, marking the first time that he will conduct at the venue since “Bienvenido Gustavo" in October.

The season will also include performances by John Williams, Harry Connick Jr. and a production of “Rent."

Here are some more of the summer's classical-music highlights at the Bowl. The L.A. Philharmonic said it will finalize all Bowl events and details in early March.

--Opening night (June 18): Thomas Wilkins conducts the ...

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Interview

Trumpeter Forbes Graham Interviewed at AAJ

Source: All About Jazz
February 2, 2010

Forbes Graham isn't hell-bent on taking the jazz world over by fiat.

Then again, a sterling tone like Louis Armstrong's, a sense of stride and a sidewinder sleekness position him to do so. He brings spot-on timing, inherited from his key precursor, Don Cherry, into the icy age of post jazz--and swings, too, situated comfortably within the classic idiom.

AAJ Contributor Gordon Marshall spoke recently with Graham about his background, numerology and music, and the road from thrash metal to ...

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Radio

Chicago Calling: Unsung Heroes of the City's Hardbop Scene

Source: Michael Ricci
February 2, 2010

Chicago is a historic capital of early jazz and post-World War II blues, but in the 1950s and early 60s it also had a thriving hardbop scene. While jazz luminaries such as Gene Ammons, Eddie Harris and Johnny Griffin all emerged from this scene, it also featured numerous talented players who achieved varied or limited degrees of recognition, such as trumpeter and saxophonist Ira Sullivan, bassist Wilbur Ware, and saxophonists John Jenkins and Von Freeman (who has finally gained some ...

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Award / Grant

Grammy Winners 2010: Jazz

Source: Michael Ricci
February 1, 2010

= winner

Field 10 -- Jazz

Category 44

Best Contemporary Jazz Album (For albums containing 51% or more playing time of INSTRUMENTAL tracks.)

Urbanus Stefon Harris & Blackout [Concord Jazz] Sounding Point Julian Lage [Emarcy/Decca] At World's Edge Philippe Saisse [E1 Music] Big Neighborhood Mike Stern [Heads Up International] 75 Joe Zawinul & The ...

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Technology

Privacy, Facebook and the Future of the Internet

Source: Michael Ricci
February 1, 2010

Today is the 3rd annual international Data Privacy Day and a whole bunch of companies are listed on the organization's website as participants. Google, Microsoft, even Walmart. Facebook is not listed as a participant and has stirred up a lot of controversy with changes to its privacy policy lately.

Why are these corporations singing out loud about protecting our personal privacy? According to the website, “Data Privacy Day is an international celebration of the dignity of the individual expressed through ...

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Technology

Momentum of HTML5 the Emerging Web Standard

Source: All About Jazz
February 1, 2010

Why Flash Isnt Going Anywhere, iPad Be Damned. The arrival of the Apple iPad is still months away, and already the tech pundits are declaring the demise of Flash. The view is based largely on the fact that the iPad, like the iPhone, will likely not support Adobe's plug-in, but its also a result of the enthusiasm surrounding the current momentum of HTML5. The emerging web standard, which is quickly being adopted by browser manufacturers and developers, offers native video ...

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Music Industry

Sony Pictures to Lay off 450 Employees

Source: Michael Ricci
February 1, 2010

Sony Pictures Entertainment is laying off 450 people, more than 6.5% of its global workforce, as part of a studio-wide belt-tightening move blamed on the growth of piracy and changing media consumption patterns, particularly the ongoing downturn in DVD sales. In a memo sent to Sony Pictures' approximately 6,800 employees Monday, Chairman Michael Lynton and Co-Chairman Amy Pascal said most of the layoffs would affect the home entertainment and information technology divisions. But all divisions will be affected, they said, ...

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Music Industry

Swedish Rapper Found Guilty of Second-Degree Murder in Road Rage Incident

Source: Michael Ricci
February 1, 2010

David Jassy, a rapper and record producer from Sweden, was found guilty Monday of second-degree murder in the death of a pedestrian he was accused of assaulting in a fit of road rage.

He faces 15 years to life at a sentencing next month.

Witnesses said Jassy, 35, punched, kicked and then ran over John Osnes, a 55-year-old jazz pianist, during the November 2008 incident. Osnes, who did not own a car and was an advocate for pedestrian rights, had ...

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