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Beautiful Young Ladies in Jazz

Source: All About Jazz
July 20, 2008

Rome Neal's Banana Puddin' Jazz presents BEAUTIFUL YOUNG LADIES IN JAZZ Featuring Jazz Vocalists Julia Christgau, Rahimah Karim, Kavita S. Shah, Ashley Lorelle, Jacinda Nicole With Musicians: Kelly Nagata Powers (Piano), Maiko Ono (drums), Tsugawa Kuriko (bass) Megumi Sanihashi(violin) SATURDAY, AUG 2 @ 9PM $15 FOLLOWED BY A JAZZ JAM AND OPEN MIC AND COMPLIMENTARY BANANA PUDDIN' FOR ALL RSVP NOW! @ 212-465-3167 or [email protected] at the world famous NUYORICAN ...

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Class D Amplifiers Are Shrinking and Greening Your Electronics

Source: All About Jazz
July 20, 2008

Class D Amplifiers

Technology has democratized the music industry in many obvious ways -- notice how every band, regardless of stature, has a MySpace page? But one of technology's more subtle effects has been to make our sound systems smaller, lighter and greener.

The special sauce: Class D amplifiers, the first real advance in speaker design in decades. These amps were once thought to be appropriate only for low-end audio devices like cellphones. But with continuing refinements they have started ...

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Is "Sunday Morning" the Best Wake-up Tune Ever?

Source: All About Jazz
July 20, 2008

SUNDAY MORNING

Whether you're fighting off a brutal hangover or just welcoming daylight into your field of vision after a good night's sleep, it's hard to beat The Velvet Underground's 1966 classic. “Sunday Morning" has the magical capacity to soothe you into waking life, which is weird considering it was added to the band's seminal 1967 debut after it was almost in the can. It's one of the release's most memorable tunes, but still feels like an afterthought, over four ...

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World Mural Project

Source: All About Jazz
July 20, 2008

Four Score and some years Musicians Find it Hard to Land a Gig

Forty years in the future, humanity will be on the brink of mass extinction due to its blatant neglect toward the environment; robots will steal most of our jobs (even mine); I'll be too old to care about technology. But those are just my predictions. Let's hear what people less jaded have to say -- the children, in particular. The Intel Computer Clubhouse Network on Thursday launched ...

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Girl Talk Feed the Animals Pay-What-You-Want

Source: Michael Ricci
July 20, 2008

Mash up Model Pay-What-You-Want Download

When the Pittsburgh-based musician who calls himself Girl Talk announced that his new collection of songs, Feed the Animals, would be released on a pay-what-you- want download basis, it didn't get quite the same level of attention that Radiohead got when that band did the same thing last October. That makes sense: Aside from being first, Radiohead also happened to be a chart-topping critics' darling that had sold millions of records over the course of ...

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Jenkintown Jazz and Brewfest PA

Source: All About Jazz
July 20, 2008

While you tap your toes, we'll tap the kegs! Come to the 9th ANNUAL JENKINTOWN JAZZ AND BREW FEST.

It's five hours of fun with tasty local foods, a hot jazz soundtrack and premium handcrafted beer chasers!

Where: Jenkintown Town Square (Greenwood Avenue and Leedom Street off of Old York Road, PA) When: Sunday, September 14: 1 p.m.- 6 p.m.

Performers (all shows are FREE): DAVE SCHNITTER and his Quartet. ...

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Bass Management: Taming the Wild Upright Bass

Source: All About Jazz
July 20, 2008

Recording Technics These days, the upright bass is not just used in jazz, classical, rockabilly, and country music.

It's everywhere from roots rock to hipster lounge to salsa. It's also known by many names: double bass, contrabass, bass violin, bass fiddle, string bass, and, thanks to some Wikipedia research, bull fiddle. Whatever it's called, however, you'll likely be recording this beast someday, and here are some tips for capturing the instrument's ballsy tones.

First Steps The ...

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Music Producer/Composer Spud Too Tight Creates Hot New R&b Music Style Called "Drag & Push

Source: entertainmentPR
July 20, 2008

Minneapolis Music Producer/Composer Spud Too Tight signs Administration/Publishing Deal with Missing Link Music Hoboken, NJ R&B/NuJazz Music Producer/Composer Spud Too Tight creates hot new music style called “Drag & Push" Minneapolis - Music Producer/Composer Spud Too Tight - recently signed a Publishing/Administration Deal with Missing Link Music - Hoboken NJ, www.missinglinkmusic.com one of the music industry's leading music publishing and copyright administration companies covering all genres of music from R&B and Rock to Hip-Hop to Jazz and all styles in ...

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