Jazz News

iPhone as Modem

Source: All About Jazz
August 3, 2008

iPhone Modem App Is Still Available

Minutes after Nullriver released an application allowing you to use your iPhone as a wireless 3G/EDGE modem for your computer, Apple took it down.

Or did it? The software, called NetShare, reappeared in the App Store on Friday afternoon. Users also reported that you can download it through a direct link.

“Despite reports of Apple removing Nullriver's NetShare tethering app for the iPhone, I bought it seconds ago," software developer Andy Baio wrote on ...

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Tutorial: Turn Your Iphone into a Wireless Modem

Source: All About Jazz
August 3, 2008

Here at Wired.com a few of us were excited about turning our iPhones into wireless modems with the $10 NetShare application

But none of us could get it to work. Fortunately, we got our connections up and running with some help straight from NetShare's maker, Nullriver. So we've created a step-by-step tutorial in case you're stuck, too.

Before we begin, do note that we could not get FireFox 3 to work with NetShare using Nullriver's settings; the company said it ...

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Guide to Chicago's Lollapalooza

Source: All About Jazz
August 2, 2008

Radiohead brings Lollapalooza its first sellout

All 75,000 tickets for Friday's opening day of Lollapalooza at Grant Park have been sold, according to the festival Web site. It marks the first sell-out for the festival since it made the lakefront its home in 2005. The Friday headliner, Radiohead, is making its first appearance in Chicago since releasing its latest studio album, “In Rainbows," on its Web site last year. The band was planning to announce a Thursday concert at the ...

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John Mellencamp at the Greek

Source: Michael Ricci
August 2, 2008

John Mellencamp songs from his latest album are highlights of the show at the Greek.

John Mellencamp is ready for your bad news. At the Greek Theatre on Thursday, stories of hard times fueled his songs, just as they always have, with Mellencamp's raspy drawl calling on the rest of us to join his bittersweet jubilee. His 90-minute set began with “Pink Houses," his rousing hit tune from 1983, when he was already singing of strained optimism in the ...

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Springsteen's Jersey Stand

Source: All About Jazz
August 2, 2008

Springsteen Takes Requests, Shows How “Magic" Tour Has Evolved at Jersey Stand

Midway through last night's Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band concert at Giants Stadium, Bruce held up a sign from an audience member that read “Play 'Incident on 57th Street' for your old, bald fans." He was seconds away from complying when another sign caught his eye. “Ooh, that's a good one -- let's do that instead," he said, before blasting into “Blinded by the Light." Such ...

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Sten Hostfalt's K-Mod Live in NYC

Source: All About Jazz
August 2, 2008

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Hiram Bullock NY Times Obituary

Source: Michael Ricci
August 2, 2008

Hiram Bullock, 52, Soulful Guitarist, Dies

Hiram Bullock, a soulful and adaptable jazz and rock guitarist who was a member of the original band for Late Night with David Letterman, died last Friday in Manhattan. He was 52. The cause is pending, said Jennifer Armstrong, his partner of 16 years. Mr. Bullock was found to have cancer of the tongue last fall, she said. Mr. Bullock played on some blockbuster pop albums, including “The Stranger" by Billy Joel, Steely Dan's ...

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Herbie Hancock on Studio Recording

Source: All About Jazz
August 2, 2008

Herbie Hancock On Apple

In the following (extended) interview, Herbie Hancock talks about serving on the board of a synthesizer company with Steve Wozniak, how he keeps his music fresh, what it was like to have released the biggest breakdancing hit ever, and his use of mental imagery techniques to record his then latest album (2007) River: The Joni Letters, featuring guest vocals from Norah Jones, Leonard Cohen, Tina Turner, Joni Mitchell, and others.

This album comprised of Joni Mitchell ...

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