Jazz News

Preserving the Culture of New Orleans is Essential

Source: All About Jazz
July 30, 2008

Strike Up the Band A musicologist and Gulf folklorist explains why preserving the culture of New Orleans is essential.

“Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans," Louis Armstrong sang in the 1947 film “New Orleans." “I miss it, each night and day/The longer I stay away." The tune was actually written by two songwriters, Eddie DeLange and Louis Alter, who never lived in Louisiana. A hugely successful pop ditty, “Do You Know What it Means to Miss ...

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Norah Jones Goes Home

Source: All About Jazz
July 30, 2008

With a little help from her friends, Norah Jones helps the club where she started celebrate its 10th birthday.

Norah Jones might be a multiplatinum, Grammy-winning singer-songwriter who is apparently so talented she's adding “actor" to her professional repertoire by making her debut in Wong Kar-wai's “My Blueberry Nights." But that doesn't mean she's not still in touch with her roots. Last night Jones played a midnight show at New York City's Living Room to help celebrate the club's 10th ...

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George Carlin's Last Dying Laugh

Source: All About Jazz
July 30, 2008

George Carlin laughs in the face of death His final album comes out Tuesday, may be comic's best ever

Just months before he died, George Carlin was looking into the face of death -- and making it the butt of his jokes.

You know what I've been doing? Going through my address book and crossing out the dead people. It gives you a feeling of power, of superiority, to have outlasted another old friend. It's Bad For Ya! ...

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RIP: Cassette Tapes Obituary

Source: Michael Ricci
July 30, 2008

Say So Long to an Old Companion: Cassette Tapes

There was a funeral the other day in the Midtown offices of Hachette, the book publisher, to mourn the passing of what it called a “dear friend." Nobody had actually died, except for a piece of technology, the cassette tape. The cassette will grow even rarer now that audio book publishers are dropping them.

Hachette's audio department recently held a “funeral" for cassette tapes. While the cassette was dumped long ago ...

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Rick Braun & Richard Elliott @ The Keswick Theatre

Source: All About Jazz
July 30, 2008

Rick Braun & Richard Elliott KESWICK THEATRE 291 Keswick Ave., Glenside, PA THURS., AUG. 21, 8:00 PM

Tickets on sale now

RICK BRAUN & RICHARD ELLIOT's RnR - the smooth jazz CD release of 2007 becomes the can't miss concert of 2008 as two of the world's favorite smooth jazz artists unite at the Keswick Theatre in Glenside on Thurs., Aug. 21 @ 8:00 PM.

With 24 solo albums between them and a massive ...

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Mics Meet USB--the Universal Studio Bus

Source: All About Jazz
July 30, 2008

Not only have USB Mics come of age--so has the USB Bus

What's that? USB stands for Universal Serial Bus? Okay, but when you consider what it does in the studio, it's understandable some might think it has the alternate meaning in the title. Of course, there are so many USB audio and MIDI interfaces--as well as controllers--that we're not even going to go there. Instead, we're going to delve into USB mics, and sprinkle additional tips and ...

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Pete Seeger Readies First New Album Since '03

Source: All About Jazz
July 30, 2008

Folk legend Pete Seeger will release his first new album of studio recordings in five years this fall. The 32-track “At 89," a nod to Seeger's age, is due Sept. 30 via Appleseed Recordings.

According to a spokesperson, the material ranges from new takes on old favorites, vintage songs that have never appeared on an album and short banjo, guitar and recorder pieces. Seeger will play a handful of shows through the end of the year, including his annual Seeger ...

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Blues in the Press Room / Meet Me in Obits

Source: Michael Ricci
July 30, 2008

And they call this fiction? Black & White and Dead All Over By John Darnton An editor is murdered. And the suspect? That would be all the reporters.

ANY GREAT newsroom worth its salt is an ink-stained asylum, a toxic landfill, a college of cranks and a museum of misfits who never learn, despite years of broken promises to weary spouses, that they will not be home for dinner. I've had the luck of seven newspaper jobs in ...

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