Jazz News

Feeling Neighborly on Bluegrass

Source: Michael Ricci
July 7, 2008

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. YANKEES aren't supposed to know country music from a hole in the ground. But on Tuesday nights, not a mile from Harvard, the grass grows blue at the Cantab Lounge.

This dive bar in Central Square is the home for local and traveling bluegrass pickers alike. But it draws mostly non-musicians who flirt, chatter, hoot and holler under the glow of a scratch-ticket lottery machine and a net of Christmas lights. “It's a classic Cambridge atmosphere where you ...

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Petabyte in a Nanosecond

Source: All About Jazz
July 7, 2008

A Petabyte is approximately 1,000 Terabytes or one million Gigabytes. It's hard to visualize what a Petabyte could hold.

1 Petabyte could hold approximately 20 million 4-door filing cabinets full of text. It could hold 500 billion pages of standard printed text. It would take about 500 million floppy disks to store the same amount of data.

1 bit: a binary decision 1 byte: a character 5 Megabytes: The complete works of Shakespeare 2 ...

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Service Providers Determine What's Free Speech

Source: All About Jazz
July 7, 2008

Does free speech still apply on the Internet of private servers?

Rant all you want in a public park. A police officer generally won't eject you for your remarks alone, however unpopular or provocative. Say it on the Internet, and you'll find that free speech and other constitutional rights are anything but guaranteed. Companies in charge of seemingly public spaces online wipe out content that's controversial but otherwise legal. Service providers write their own rules for users worldwide and set ...

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Maria Neckam at Bar Next Door (la Lanterna) Monday July 7th

Source: All About Jazz
July 7, 2008

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Kevin Frenette 5, Featuring Tatsuya Nakatani - Sat July 12th at The Outpost, Cambridge, MA

Source: All About Jazz
July 7, 2008

WHO: The Kevin Frenette 5 (featuring Tatsuya Nakatani) Kevin Frenette - guitar Tatsuya Nakatani - percussion James Rohr - fender rhodes Joe Moffett - trumpet Ryan McGuire - bass

WHEN: Saturday July 12, 2008 8:00PM

WHERE: OUTPOST 186 186 1/2 Hampshire Street Cambridge, MA 02139

Boston area guitarist Kevin Frenette has performed throughout the Northeast USA making music ...

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The Petabyte Age End of Theory

Source: All About Jazz
July 7, 2008

The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete. Because More Isn't Just More -- More Is Different

There's no reason to cling to our old ways. It's time to ask: What can science learn from Google?

Sensors everywhere. Infinite storage. Clouds of processors. Our ability to capture, warehouse, and understand massive amounts of data is changing science, medicine, business, and technology. As our collection of facts and figures grows, so will the opportunity to find answers to fundamental questions. Because ...

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Vocalist Jamie Davis Releases New CD "Vibe over Perfection" on Unity Music

Source: All About Jazz
July 7, 2008

The Chocolate Baritone Debuts At the 2008 Monterey Jazz Festival

Walnut Creek, CA -- 2008 is a defining year for Unity Music and jazz vocalist Jamie Davis as he confirms his position in the pantheon of great male vocalists on VIBE OVER PERFECTION, his new CD, scheduled for release July 15, 2008.

Mr. Davis, who debuts at the 2008 Monterey Jazz Festival on September 21st, 2008, has been compared to Joe Williams, Johnny Hartman, and Lou Rawls, with a truly ...

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Gits Punk Band Singers Murder

Source: Michael Ricci
July 7, 2008

At Last, Closure for the Gits

In 1993, the punk band's singer was murdered. A documentary looks at the crime's effects on the band and the Seattle music scene, and the decade until her killer was found. In the summer of 1993, everything seemed to be going the Gits' way. Bypassed in the initial wave of interest in Seattle's grunge bands, the punk quartet was close to signing with a major label and had begun recording its second album. But ...

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