Jazz News

New Wrist Watch Cell Phones -Time to Call the Future

Source: All About Jazz
February 18, 2009

Calling Dick Tracy LG's chic, wearable phone is a follow-up to the prototype that LG introduced at CES 2008 and includes a number of upgrades.

We don't have flying cars yet but it appears the future has arrived anyway as a new wrist watch cell phone market emerges. LG showed their new GD910 watch phone at CES and now Samsung announced a watch phone prototype of their own. The guys at Engadget spotted the GT-S1100 on display at ...

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Facebook Does an About-Face on Privacy

Source: All About Jazz
February 18, 2009

Behold! The two faces of Facebook: It's such a smart young company. It's such a slow learner.

Both faces peeked out from the wreckage of the privacy imbroglio that wracked the social networking site this week. Yes, it was asinine, a tempest in a teapot, but it underscored a more fundamental problem that continues to plague Facebook — the world's most popular social network is simply not learning from its mistakes. (Read “Why Facebook Is for Old Fogies.")

Quick recap: ...

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Henry Rollins Will Debut New Show on KCRW Next Month

Source: Michael Ricci
February 18, 2009

Well, it's started. One of the few other destinations for progressive radio in L.A. has scooped up Henry Rollins, who will air his new show live at KCRW on Saturdays from 6 to 8 p.m., starting March 7. Next question: Who's taking Jonesy?

When Entravision folded Indie 103 last month, Rollins diligently followed other DJs such as Joe Escalante and Jose Galvan to the Web version of the radio station, but it always seemed like a stop-gap measure. The Black ...

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Cher Says She’S Living ‘Like a Nun’ in Vegas

Source: All About Jazz
February 18, 2009

In order to rest her voice during the day, the singer doesn’t speak.

Cher’s concert stand in Las Vegas may be the ultimate representation of Sin City: it’s decadent, glitzy, oversized, over-the-top and a thrill-a-minute experience.

But when she leaves the Colosseum at Caesars Palace at the end of her performance, the 62- year-old singer leads a lifestyle quite opposite from the kind that Las Vegas has come to represent: She stays out of the casinos, refrains from drinking, doesn’t ...

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Grammys: Where Were the Latino Musicians?

Source: Michael Ricci
February 18, 2009

There's been an understandable amount of head-scratching and second-guessing in some quarters over the shortage of Latino and Latin American musical artists presenting trophies at the Grammys earlier this month.

Musically, CBS' 3 1/2 -hour broadcast on Feb. 8 reflected what Times pop critic Ann Powers called “the great wide mess of styles and sounds that fill the marketplace,” including artists as dissimilar as Neil Diamond and Lil Wayne. But while Latino musicians were represented within that mishmash, they were ...

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SFJAZZ Collective to Perform in Ottawa on March 1, 2009

Source: All About Jazz
February 18, 2009

Celebrated jazz artists perform together in Ottawa for the first time

“Sheer, out-of-the-box musicality… revealed the joys and complexities of free improvising." – Los Angeles Times

Ottawa (Tuesday, February 3, 2009) – Joe Lovano, Dave Douglas, Miguel Zenon, Robin Eubanks, Renee Rosnes, Matt Penman and Eric Harland are each giants of the jazz genre. The Ottawa Jazz Festival is proud to present all seven musicians performing together in their first Ottawa appearance as San Francisco’s SFJAZZ Collective at Dominion-Chalmers United ...

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Mark Winkler "Gets It Right" on Ninth Release

Source: All About Jazz
February 18, 2009

With the release of Till I Get It Right, Mark Winkler's ninth release and his first on FreeHam Records, jazz critics are already raving about the veterans latest creation.

Jonathan Widran of Jazziz writes, “Always sly and cool, yet passionate as a vocalist, his wonderfully compelling, distinctively vivid lyrics tell tales that are clever and witty one minute, lovelorn and heartbreaking the next." Christopher Loudon of Jazz Times says, “There isn't anything fake about Mark Winkler. ...

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Singer/Keyboardist a-Kube Interviewed at AAJ

Source: All About Jazz
February 18, 2009

"Un-kid-ified music." Now there is a concept. Un-kid-i-fide music is music that sounds like today's music, but with the kid's focus and vibe removed; music to which the 28 to 65 or older crowd can relate. When so much music is geared to a younger market, and much of it contains objectionable, or border-line objectionable lyrics, Asure Akhi Amen, AKA A-Kube has developed a sound that is geared to a more mature market, or a market that would appreciate a ...

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