Jazz News

First Annual Asian American Jazz Festival Launches October 30 Through November 1, 2009

Source: Michael Bloom Media Relations
October 1, 2009

Asian jazz artists from around the world will appear together for the first time at the Asian American Jazz Festival (AAJF) in Los Angeles, celebrating their unique contributions to the international jazz scene. Headliners include Japanese piano genius Hiromi, Filipina “jazzipino” sensation Charmaine Clamor, Korea’s #1 jazz quintet Prelude, and the champion of the 2006 London International Vocal Jazz Competition, Filipino Mon David. These superstars will be joined by an eclectic lineup of Asian-American virtuosos in a 3-day, multi-cultural celebration. ...

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YouTube to Regain Warner Music Videos

Source: Michael Ricci
October 1, 2009

A new agreement lets Warner control the advertising around its music videos and split the proceeds with YouTube but keep most of the revenue. Licensing talks had reached an impasse late last year.

The Internet's dominant video site and one of the world's largest music companies had been locked in a dispute over the value of music videos, some of the most popular content on YouTube, whose young viewers are coveted by advertisers.

Licensing talks reached an impasse late last ...

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Comcast in Deal Talks with NBC Universal

Source: Michael Ricci
October 1, 2009

Cable giant Comcast Corp. is kicking the tires of NBC Universal, according to people familiar with the situation.

Comcast, the nation's largest cable operator with almost 25 million subscribers, has been looking to increase its content holdings for several years. In NBC Universal it would get its hands on not only a big broadcast network and movie studio, but also several powerful cable channels, including USA, Syfy, CNBC, MSNBC and Bravo. NBC parent General Electric has often denied that it ...

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Lili Anel Releases "Every Second in Between" NY CD Release Show

Source: Randex Communications
September 30, 2009

LILI ANEL CUBAN INFLUENCED SINGER-GUITARIST FROM SPANISH HARLEM READIES EVERY SECOND IN BETWEEN ‘PART SOUL SISTER, PART JAZZ CHANTEUSE, AND PURE DYNAMITE’ CONFIRMS SPECIAL PERFORMANCES IN BOTH HOME TOWNS TO CELEBRATE 5TH RELEASE IN HERALDED CAREER Nov. 10 in New York City Listen to new tracks from Every Second In Between PHILADELPHIA - LILI ANEL has been described as “Part soul sister, part jazz chanteuse, and pure dynamite" (Jazz Times), possessing “unusual power, fearless emotional directness, and a wide-open timbre” ...

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New Releases at Random Act Records

Source: Michael Ricci
September 30, 2009

Random Act Records (http://www.randomactrecords.com) is proud to announce the release of three swinging new recordings! Jeff Lashway: REUNION features the masterful pianist with legendary drummer Vinnie Colaiuta, Jim Rotondi, John Allred, Frank Basile, Todd Coolman, Jeff Rupert, Richard Drexler and John Jenkins. Vocalist Jimmy Hall (Jeff Beck, Wet Willie) sings on two tunes. Jeff Rupert: FROM MEMPHIS TO MOBILE features the blazing tenor player with a quartet, and in duets featuring piano virtuoso Kenny Drew, jr. Memorable originals and intriguing ...

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Jesse Cook's "The Rumba Foundation" is off to a Strong Start

Source: Great Scott P.R.oductions
September 30, 2009

The World Music-pop guitarist debuts at the top of the iTunes and Amazon charts as his concert tour gets underway There's a reason why all the seats were empty halfway through Jesse Cook's set at the fabled Greek Theatre last Saturday night (September 26). The prodigious guitarist had told the Wavefest crowd that the rest of the show, hosted by Los Angeles radio station 94.7 The Wave, would be comprised entirely of dance tunes. The Juno award-winner and his band ...

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Retired Prosecutor Says He Lied in HBO Documentary About Roman Polanski Case

Source: Michael Ricci
September 30, 2009

A retired Los Angeles County prosecutor who claimed in a 2008 documentary that he advised a judge to sentence Roman Polanski to prison for having sex with a minor now says that he lied on film about his role in the case.

The on-camera statements by David Wells in Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired were seized upon by Polanskis defense attorneys, who say in court documents that Superior Court Judge Laurence J. Rittenband and Wells engaged in misconduct by improperly ...

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Wireless Industry to FCC: Show Us the Spectrum

Source: All About Jazz
September 30, 2009

The nations wireless carriers have an answer to the nations broadband challenge and the growing interest by federal regulators in how wireless companies run their networks: Give us more of the airwaves so we can do our job.

In a filing Tuesday to the FCC, the wireless industry asked the agency to free up and auction off more spectrum, citing the growing popularity of smartphones and wireless cards essentially endorsing the view of even its harshest critics that that there ...

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