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Bass Icon Eddie Gomez Interviewed at AAJ
Eddie Gomez is known throughout the world as a consummate bassist, sterling educator and a musician active in a wide variety of musical settings. He has been on the music scene for more than 40 years and has worked with everyone from Bobby Darin to Giuseppi Logan. Gomez moved from Puerto Rico as a child and ...
Visa Seeks to Extend Retail Dominance with Pay-with-iPhone Service
E-Wallet: A battle is heating up over the right to process payments when you wave your cellphone over a sensor to buy goods at a local merchant. Visa made waves this week by announcing a collaboration with DeviceFidelity, which makes an iPhone case called In2Pay with a near- field communications microSD card embedded in it that ...
Jazz Artist Boney James Grammy-Nominated Saxophonist Struck by Suspected Drunken Driver
Publicists for Boney James say the Grammy-nominated jazz saxophonist has canceled a show after being struck by a suspected drunken driver in Long Beach. They say James was driving home from a jazz festival in Newport Beach on Saturday when his car was rear-ended while he was stopped in traffic on Interstate 405. He suffered a ...
Can the Pompidou Center Revive a Fading French Town?
The French, say historians, prefer revolutions to reform. And in the cloistered world of French art museums, a small revolution erupted last week when the prestigious Pompidou Center opened France's first offshoot museum on home soil, in the small industrial town of Metz. In a country where culture, wealth and power are overwhelmingly concentrated in the ...
Copyright Lawsuits Plummet in Aftermath of RIAA Campaign
New federal copyright infringement lawsuits plummeted to a six- year low in 2009, the year after the Recording Industry Association of America abandoned its litigation campaign against file sharers, court records show. Copyright lawsuits numbered 2,192 in 2009, down almost a third from the previous year, and represented more than a 50 percent drop from 2005, ...
Jazz Icons Lambasts JJA, Calls DVD Nominee a Bootleg
“You should be ashamed of yourselves," producers of the Jazz Icons DVD series scolded the Jazz Journalists Association for naming Count Basie & His Orchestra: Live in Berlin & Stockholm 1968 a Jazz Video of the Year finalist in the 2010 JJA Jazz Awards. In an open letter sent to a selection of jazz journalists ...
Paul McCartney Announces Pair of Historic U.S. Concerts
There are only a handful of things Paul McCartney hasn't accomplished during his 50-year career, and performing in the state of Utah is one of them. But that will change this summer because McCartney has just announced his first-ever concert in the Beehive State. His “Up and Coming Tour" will visit the new Rio Tinto Stadium ...
Eagles Summer Tour
The Eagles, Dixie Chicks and Keith Urban will be touring together for the first time when they hit the road on June 8th for a North American stadium concert tour. The Eagles - Glenn Frey, Don Henley, Joe Walsh and Timothy B. Schmit - will perform hits from their more than 35-year career, such as “Hotel ...
How to Transfer Your Stanza E-Book Library to iBooks for iPad
Stanza, our favorite iPhone e-reader application, has not yet been updated for the iPad. Maybe its coming soon and will be awesome, or maybe the current owner, Amazon, has killed it to reduce competition for its money-making Kindle app. Either way, unless you want to read your e-book collection on a blocky, pixel-doubled screen, you'll have ...
Violinist Katt Hernandez Interviewed at AAJ
Katt Hernandez plays violin with a hand and eye versed in the vagaries of natural sound. A student of microtonal music, she is also steeped in European folk traditions, and skilled in classical forms of improvisation. While her work goes in many directions, it stays sharp and swift and supple. She is equally adept in all ...
