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Emmy Keeps Main Title Theme Music Award
A plan -- floated earlier this year by the executive committee of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences' music branch -- to replace the award with one for original documentary scores, has been rejected by the branch membership. The vote was 85-36 in favor of keeping the award, which honors the best theme music for ...
Embed Videos in Your Web Pages Using HTML5
HTML5 video is taking the web by storm. Not only has a very public (and contentious) debate unfolded on the web about the efficacy of presenting videos using HTML5 instead of Flash, but momentum is gathering behind the nascent web standard. From giant video sites like YouTube to Wikipedia, everyone it seems wants to get their ...
8-Bit Imagery Invades Music Videos
Like a relentless swarm of Space Invaders, retro videogame graphics have marched into music videos over the past decade. Directors, never immune to the nostalgic allure of the pixel, have injected bold, blocky 8-bit imagery into the videos of all kinds of songs. The videogame-inspired visuals seem an especially appropriate accompaniment for chiptune music, itself spawned ...
Jazz Around Cannes
The 63rd annual Cannes Film Festival kicks off Wednesday and runs thru Sunday, May 23rd. Some of the jazz sounds playing in France during the Festival. Antibes & Juan-les-Pins Bar en Biais Jazz Club Bar en Biais Jazz Club is one of the foremost jazz concert venues in all of the Cte d'Azur. Located ...
Trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith Profiled at AAJ
From creating his own notational system and an active role as educator to his Yo Miles! collaboration with guitarist Henry Kaiser and free improvisation that defies any kind of easy categorization, trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith isn't slowing down a bit, despite approaching 70. AAJ Contributor Lyn Horton spoke with the intrepid Smith about his approach to ...
Enter the "Erik Telford - Kinetic" Giveaway
All About Jazz members are invited to enter the “Erik Telford - Kinetic“ giveaway contest starting today. We'll select FOUR winners at the conclusion of the contest on June 10th. Click here to enter the contest (Following Erik Telford at AAJ automatically enters you in the contest.) Good luck! About Erik Telford Erik Telford ...
Playboy Centerfold Goes 3-D in Naked Attempt to Create Buzz
Playboy readers who can only imagine what it would look like if a nude centerfold jumped off the page are getting new specs to help them see into Hef's world. The magazine's June edition hits newsstands Friday equipped with 3-D glasses. Now the toy that has kids dodging dragons, meatballs and tall blue aliens at the ...
Bassists Anthony Jackson and Yiorgos Fakanas Interviewed at AAJ
It may come as a surprise to anyone wading through bass guitar giant Anthony Jackson's discography, which mind bogglingly totals over three thousand recordings, that he has never recorded a solo album. The legendary bassist--who has played with an astonishing variety of artists of the caliber of Chick Corea, Roberta Flack, the O'Jays, Buddy Rich, Paul ...
Head-Direct HiFiMan HM-801 Audio Player
Suck It, iPod: Meet the King of Geeky Portable Audio Devices It used to be there were only two ways to improve the sound quality on your portable music player: Ditch the shoddy included earbuds for real headphones, or hook in a headphone amplifier. Now there's a third option, in the form of the HiFiMan HM-801 ...
Tommy Castro Collects Four Blues Music Awards
Singer-guitarist Tommy Castro scooped up four Blues Music Awards at the non-profit Blues Foundation's annual ceremony, held in Memphis on Thursday. During the Cook Convention Center fete, journeyman Castro received the B.B. King Entertainer of the Year Award, and also took home honors for band of the year, best contemporary blues male artist and best contemporary ...
