Jazz News

Bluesman Billy Jones Interviewed at AAJ

Source: All About Jazz
April 30, 2009

It's a long way from the rich, fertile delta lands of North Little Rock, Ark., to the Netherlands, where Billy Jones records for Dutch blues label Black and Tan Records, but it was a route of which he never lost sight.

Billy Jones is betting that the blues can experience a revival of interest--what is needed is a fresh infusion of imagination. And to capture a bigger share of the Black music market, what is needed is for the blues ...

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Time Warner to Spin off AOL

Source: Michael Ricci
April 30, 2009

The Internet service's plunging revenue has been dragging down the media company that it acquired in 2000. In 2000, America Online Inc. used its soaring stock price to gobble up Time Warner Inc. and create the world's largest media conglomerate. Nearly a decade later, it's Time Warner that's spitting out AOL. Time Warner said in a regulatory filing Wednesday that it intended to spin off the struggling Internet property, whose advertising revenue plunged 20% in the first quarter. AOL's decline ...

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Experts Warn Internet is Running Out of Bandwidth

Source: All About Jazz
April 30, 2009

Internet users face regular “brownouts" that will freeze their computers as capacity runs out in cyberspace, according to research to be published later this year. Experts predict that consumer demand, already growing at 60 percent a year, will start to exceed supply as early as 2010 because of more people working online and the soaring popularity of bandwidth-hungry Web sites such as YouTube and services such as the BBC's iPlayer. It will initially lead to computers being disrupted and going ...

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Next Music Battle: Hulu vs. Vevo

Source: All About Jazz
April 30, 2009

Music videos started life online as giveaways to win bands new fans — much as they did when MTV actually showed videos. But now, as the future of music sales seems dim, music labels see gold in what they used to handout for free. The change started about five years ago when labels began charging distributors for the right to show videos. Then the rise of YouTube brought enormous exposure for music videos online, but record labels claim YouTube’s payouts ...

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Your Facebook Profile Makes Marketers’ Dreams Come True

Source: All About Jazz
April 30, 2009

Social networking feels free, but we pay for it in ways that may not be readily apparent. The rich personal data many of us enter into these networks is a treasure trove for marketers whose job it is to target us with ever-increasing precision. A company called Colligent mines social networks for data that it sells to record labels to help them decide which demographics or individual fans might like a particular artist, and those are just the very first ...

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MPAA Pounds Realnetworks' Glaser on Witness Stand

Source: All About Jazz
April 30, 2009

RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser, on the witness stand for the second day in a lawsuit challenging his DVD copying software, was hammered by the motion picture studios’ attorney questioning his earlier testimony. On Tuesday, Glaser testified that it would be “relatively easy” for the Hollywood studios to encrypt rental videos differently than those sold to consumers. Glaser uttered that proposal as a way to prevent consumers from copying rented DVDs with the RealDVD software product that is the subject of ...

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Daisy Jopling Classical Rock Violinist Live at Beanrunner Cafe

Source: PublicEye
April 29, 2009

Classical Rock Violinist Daisy Jopling Live at the BEANRUNNER CAF Saturday, May 9th 2009 @ 8:00 p.m.

Peekskill, NY, April 13, 2009: Classical Rock Violinist Daisy Jopling, praised by Time Out New York as a “Sublimely gifted musician" will perform at the BeanRunner Caf on Saturday, May 9th at 8:00PM. Admission is $10 pp. Seating is limited. To reserve seating, call the BeanRunner Caf at (914) 737-1701. The BeanRunner Caf is located at 201 S Division ...

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Greg Wall's Later Prophets Featuring Rabbi Itzchak Marmorstein Release Passionate New CD

Source: Braithwaite & Katz Communications
April 29, 2009

“HA’OROT: The Lights of Rav Kook” on TZADIK Wall Simultaneously Straddles the Gates of the Ancient and Avant-garde “The soulful performances of all the pieces succeed to parallel and complement the texts with organic affinity and unity and leave enough space for reflection. Their inventiveness and the richness of the musical vocabulary of the band members suggest that these texts could, perhaps, have been pat of a canon of modern Beat poets…Quite quickly, after the third piece, it’s actually ...

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