Jazz News

California Looks to Expand Data Breach Notification Law

Source: All About Jazz
March 9, 2009

California State Sen. Joe Simitian, the man responsible in large part for the nation's first data-breach notification law, has introduced new legislation that would require companies doing business in the the state to provide more information in their breach notification letters to consumers.

But Simitian (pictured at right) said getting consumers compensated for data breaches isn't high on the priority list for legislators.

Simitian, speaking at the Security Breach Notification symposium in Berkeley, said the new legislation would force organizations ...

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Cognitive Scientists Seek to Quantify Body Movement

Source: Michael Ricci
March 9, 2009

With a dozen high-def cameras and a couple of camcorders, plus pens, notebooks, sketch pads and laptops, more than 40 people spent three recent weeks in a black-box theater on the campus of UC San Diego documenting what was occurring there.

The object of their study was notoriously elusive: dance and the process of choreographic creation.

What happens, they wondered, when choreographer Wayne McGregor creates movement on (through? with?) the protean, hyper-articulated bodies of his Random Dance Company? How ...

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M83 Electronica Act Gets Overwhelmed by Orchestration in an Intriguing but Unwieldy Disney Hall Showcase

Source: Michael Ricci
March 9, 2009

The gauzy French electronica band M83 regularly admits to the big influence of schlocky '80s teen movies on its sound.

So to contextualize its orchestral debut with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at Disney Hall on Saturday night, let's use a familiar metric: the cast of “The Breakfast Club."

The band's hazy breakout album Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts conjured Molly Ringwald -- moody and distant with occasional glimmers of flamboyance. Follow-up Before The Dawn Heals Us was M83's ...

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A Diva Meets a Duke Meet in a Cathedral’s Vastness

Source: Michael Ricci
March 9, 2009

In spirit and design Duke Ellington’s “Sacred Concerts” are forgiving, like the force they celebrate. These three suites, composed between 1965 and 1973, are for anybody, not just for adepts of jazz or Christian believers. They don’t entirely depend on the irreproducible magic of Ellington’s own musicians: they include gospel choirs, recitation and here and there some fairly mundane music that doesn’t require a great band. They’re modern in the creole of their musical style and lyric diction; they have ...

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A Tradition for 20 Years: Allman Band at the Beacon

Source: Michael Ricci
March 9, 2009

Michael Springer’s vacation starts on Monday. As usual, though, he won’t be traveling far from his home in Valley Stream, Long Island.

For most of the next three weeks, he and his wife will be spending their evenings in Manhattan, taking part in one of the city’s most curious rites of spring: the Allman Brothers Band’s annual run of shows at the Beacon Theater.

Since 1989 the Allman band has played at the Beacon 175 times — and Mr. Springer, ...

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Jazz @ The Center Abilene, TX

Source: All About Jazz
March 9, 2009

Jazz At the Center for Contemporary Arts - come join us in Downtown Abilene for an exciting evening of “live" Jazz music, art by the areas finest artists, a cash bar and an atmosphere thats second to none.

JAZZ @ The Center will be held on the 4th Friday of each month as part of The Centers continued efforts in providing the unique and diverse forms of contemporary art as it celebrates 20 Years of showcasing the works of local, ...

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There Will Never Be Another Michael Brecker

Source: All About Jazz
March 9, 2009

The latest edition of Bret Jazz Video Guy Primack's video blog is There Will Never Be Another Michael Brecker.

Features a rare video performance of the Saxophone Summit live, from December 18, 1999 at Birdland. The video includes a brief interview with Michael and his solo on “There Will Never Be Another You." The rhythm section includes Phil Markowitz on piano, Rufus Reid on bass, and Billy Hart, on drums.

“That was a magic night," Primack remembers, “because the three ...

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2009 Detroit International Jazz Festival Announces Theme

Source: JazzStage Productions
March 9, 2009

Detroit International Jazz Festival to Keep Up with the Joneses in 2009

Detroit, MI – Today, organizers of the Detroit Jazz Fest announced the festival theme and initial slate of performers for its 30th anniversary Labor Day Weekend (September 4 - 7).

In celebration of three decades of presenting jazz, the Detroit Jazz Fest will honor key jazz families and Detroit's own significant history of players and composers.

Sub-titled Keepin' Up With the Joneses, it will center on the family ...

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