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Herbie Hancock is Thinking Big on 'The Imagine Project'
Jazz great Herbie Hancock says humanity won't survive unless people come together. He hopes to help that process along with his “The Imagine Project," out today, a bridge-building album that crosses geographic, cultural and genre barriers. “At this point, I think about purpose before I decide to make a record," says Hancock, 70, a 12-time Grammy ...
National Recording Registry Adds 25
Recordings ranging from a 1913 klezmer band performance to a 1995 rap by Tupac Shakur have been selected by James H. Billington, Librarian of Congress, for preservation in the National Recording Registry. The 25 selections for the eighth annual registry, picked with advice from the Library of Congress' National Recording Preservation Board, are deemed “culturally, historically, ...
Noted Author Nat Hentoff Interviewed at AAJ...And More!
Nat Hentoff was eleven years old when, walking down the road one day in Boston, he heard music so exciting that he shouted with pleasure and ran into the shop to learn that the music was of clarinetist Artie Shaw. In that moment was born a love affair with jazz which has lasted seventy-four years thus ...
Glastonbury Calls to Music Lovers
More than 177,000 attendees and millions of TV viewers will celebrate Glastonbury Festival this week as the world's biggest -- and many say best -- annual live music event marks its 40th anniversary. As a nod to this milestone, producers have lined up a list of artists from previous fests, including headliners Gorillaz, Muse and Stevie ...
New York "Play Me, I'm Yours" 60 Public Pianos
Two Week Public Art Project Kicks Off on June 21 at the Make Music New York One-day Festival Featuring 1,000 Free Musical Performances throughout New York City For Locations of Pianos and Performances and More Information, Call 311 or Visit NYC.gov Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, First Deputy Mayor Patricia E. Harris, Sing for Hope Co-Founding Director ...
First iPhone 4 Reviews Mostly Sing Its Praises
Just when you thought a few lucky customers beat the rest of the world to getting an iPhone 4, some technology journalists with early access to the device just published their reviews. Apple typically handpicks a select group of publications to get early review units, and the first round of reviews comes from The New York ...
Enter the "Jason Moran - Ten" Giveaway
All About Jazz members are invited to enter the Blue Note “Jason Moran--Ten“ giveaway contest starting today. We'll select FIVE winners at the conclusion of the contest on July 23nd. Click here to enter the contest (Following Jason Moran at AAJ automatically enters you in the contest.) Good luck! Your Friends at Blue Note Records ...
Sound Gets 3D Upgrade
Mixers and theaters alike moving ahead with upgrades. Iosono's Brian Slack, whose multispeaker system delivers so-called 7.1 sound, calls 5.1. one-dimensional. It's long been a rule of thumb that as moving images improve, sound has to improve with them. And love it or hate it, there's no denying that 3D adds visual information to a projected ...
First RIAA File Sharing Trial Morphs into Groundhog Day
In a bid two avoid a third trial after two mistrials the Minnesota federal judge presiding over the 4-year-old Jammie Thomas-Rasset case wants the Recording Industry Association of American and the defendant to negotiate a settlement. But, as Thomas-Rasset's attorney, Joe Sibley, said in a telephone interview Monday, a settlement is not likely to happen. The ...
Targeted Ads Will Let You Spy on Them for a Change
If an advertiser knows you like the artist Jasper Johns, it could use targeted advertising to tempt you with prints of his 'Target' painting; a new standardized mechanism will let you opt-out of such targeted ads later this summer. Advertisers have grown much more sophisticated since the early days of the web and can now target ...
