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Live Sampler Jan Bang Interviewed at AAJ...And More!
When it comes to organically integrating modern technology into music, few countries are innovating to the degree of Norway, and at the epicenter of that country's forward-thinking approach to melding improvisation with jazz and Norwegian traditionalism--not to mention contemporary classicism, pop, ambient and more; truly any and all musical markers--is producer/remixer Jan Bang, who has just ...
July 4, 1776: Preserving the Declaration
1776: The Declaration of Independence is signed. It will take 127 years before someone gets around to saying, Hey, maybe we should preserve this thing. The Declaration of Independence can be fairly said to stand alongside the Magna Carta and Bill of Rights as the most important documents in the history of democracy. Its significance was ...
How I Used Twitter to Live-Blog the Opera
Opera and Twitter: Could any two vehicles for human expression be more diametrically opposed? And yet they kind of go together, as I found out this week while live-tweeting the San Francisco Opera's performance of Wagner's Die Walkre, a four- and-half-hour epic noted for its ambitious staging, bravura solos, massively overwhelming orchestration and ladies with pointy ...
ASCAP Bows Online Invoice
The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers announced the launch of cue sheet access on its Member Access online portal, allowing its almost 400,000 members to monitor data on music performed in audio-visual programming. Cue sheets, which act as a kind of invoice, are the most reliable source for keeping track of musical content in ...
Spartacus' Score Gets Upgrade
This year marks the centenary of Alex North, the composer of “A Streetcar Named Desire," “Cleopatra" and nearly 60 other scores, and the first composer ever to be awarded an honorary Oscar for his body of work. “Spartacus," the 1960 score for the Kirk Douglas classic that is widely perceived to be North's finest, is about ...
Jazz Gigs New York City
GABRIEL ALEGRIA AFRO-PERUVIAN SEXTET (Friday through Sunday) At 8 and 10:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday and at 7 and 9 p.m. on Sunday Tutuma Social Club 164 East 56th Street, at Third Avenue (646) 300-0305 J. D. ALLEN QUARTET (Friday through ...
How Mobile Multitasking Works
The major new feature of Apple's latest mobile operating system, iOS 4, is multitasking. What took the company so long? Apple claims it was waiting to get multitasking just right before unleashing the feature for the iPhone. Meanwhile, the Android OS and Palm Web OS have supported multitasking just fine for over a year. However, each ...
Announcing the Winners of the Resonance "Andreas Oberg - Six String Evolution" Giveaway
Michael Hammel, Paula Carlson, Jeff Leas, Craig Michaels and Teresa Armstrong, Congratulations! You're the lucky winners of the Resonance Records “Andreas Oberg - Six String Evolution“ giveaway. All About Jazz will contact you about claiming your prize. We'd like to thank everyone who participated in the contest and please visit Resonance Records for more releases. Enjoy ...
July Jazz at Charlie O's
Come to Charlie O's for a birthday celebration for our own John Heard on the 3rd, a birthday celebration for Tom Ranier on the 13th, Sax Liberation Day with the Saxtet on the 29th. Listen to some Latin Jazz with the Jimmy Branly Quartet on the 28th, enjoy the Pinky Winters Quartet on the 22nd and ...
Liberation Frequencies
Independence Day weekend has always been good for John Phillip Sousa but bad for jazz. Seems everyone is out picnicking and watching fireworks or at least drinking and playing with sparklers and not in the clubs, so we were pleasantly surprised to see such a strong run of stuff this week. Let's start with tenor Rickey ...
