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Oscar "In Memoriam" segment tough to produce
“It gets close to agonizing by the end," produce Bruce Davis says of the editing process for the Oscar “in memoriam" segment. “You are dropping people who the public knows. It's just not comfortable." The Kodak Theatre goes quiet as the big screen at center stage begins flashing images of actors and filmmakers who have died. ...
Korean Jazz Singer Youn Sun Nah Interviewed at AAJ
Since she moved to Paris in 1995, Korean jazz singer Youn Sun Nah has won over French and Korean audiences alike with her rather special voice; dramatic, sensuous and bluesy, it is a tantalizing cross between Bjork and Melody Gardot. Hers is a jazz soul. For years, she led the Youn Sun Nah 5Tet and has ...
Hall & Oates Bassist Tom Wolk Dies
Tom “T-Bone" Wolk, who performed with scores of musicians but was best known as the longtime bass player for the band led by pop-rock stars Daryl Hall and John Oates, has died. He was 58. Wolk died Sunday in New York, hours after completing a recording session with Hall, who was working on a solo ...
Cyberwar Hype Intended to Destroy the Open Internet
The biggest threat to the open internet is not Chinese government hackers or greedy anti-net-neutrality ISPs, it's Michael McConnell, the former director of national intelligence. McConnell's not dangerous because he knows anything about SQL injection hacks, but because he knows about social engineering. He's the nice-seeming guy who's willing and able to use fear-mongering to manipulate ...
Playboy Jazz Fest Annual Event Bows June 12-13 at Hollywood Bowl
The star-studded Chick Corea Freedom Band, the return of George Benson and the Manhattan Transfer, Malian world music superstar Salif Keita, and a smooth jazz salute to the Stax Records legacy are among the highlights of the 32nd Playboy Jazz Festival, taking place June 12-13 at the Hollywood Bowl. The announcement was made at the Playboy ...
Who Will Replace Kevin Eubanks?
Who Should Replace Kevin Eubanks On 'The Tonight Show'? Doesn't seem like such a terrible job. The most prominent jazz guitarist in America is quitting his job -- or as Bill Braginsaid this morning over Twitter, perhaps he's finally going back to his job. The announcement that bandleader Kevin Eubanks will soon leave 'The Tonight Show ...
Creators of "Chaography," a New Kind of Jazz Film, Interviewed at AAJ
Who wants to see a movie about jazz musicians that tells a good story, accurately portrays the lives of musicians and contains good, happening music? Show of hands not necessary. Skepticism understood, based on past history. Yet that's exactly the lofty goal of young filmmaker Doug Chang, a jazz fan who is hoping to start filming ...
How Does Music Free Us? Afro-Asian Revolutionary Concepts in New Music
A discussion and reading by author/composer/activist Fred Ho In this talk, Chinese American composer, baritone saxophonist, scholar-writer, producer, matriarchal revolutionary socialist and aspiring Luddite Fred Ho explores the role of music, both in imagining a new society, and in its applied role in foreshadowing or prefiguring a revolutionary society and a transformed humanity. Fred Ho has ...
Donny McCaslin Quartet at Chris Jazz Cafe on March 5, 2010
The Donny McCaslin Quartet will be performing at Chris Jazz Cafe on March 5, 2010. McCaslin is touring in support of his recently released CD Declaration on the Sunnyside label. DONNY MCCASLIN QUARTET Donny McCaslin saxophone Ben Monder guitar Joe Martin bass Ted Poor drums February ...
New Chopin Museum Opens in Warsaw
Composers 200th birthday will be celebrated all year in his native Poland. A new museum focusing on the life of Frederic Chopin has opened in Warsaw. The last piano that Frederic Chopin composed on. A death mask made after he succumbed to what was probably tuberculosis. A lock of his brown hair. Those are among objects ...
