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1930s Recordings Preserve Haiti's Cultural Wealth
At 21, Alan Lomax went to Haiti and recorded its citizens making music - songs about Voodoo, carnival politics, children's games and the first airplanes crisscrossing its Caribbean skies in the late 1930s. He preserved the sounds on aluminum discs for the Library of Congress, but they were largely forgotten for seven decades as they ...
Cost, Crotchetiness Keep Broadband out of 1/3 of U.S. Homes
More than a third of American adults don't have a fast internet connection at home, leaving some 80 million adults and 13 million children at a distinct disadvantage in a wired world, according to an FCC report released Tuesday. The survey, conducted by phone last fall, comes less than a month before the FCC gives Congress ...
Village Vanguard Week Celebration
FEBRUARY 23rd, 1935 So what happened on February 23rd, 1935? Max Gordon opened the doors to the Village Vanguard! And 75 years later, we're still in the same spot; the basement of 178 7th Avenue South. The week of February 23rd - 28th, 2010 marks our 75th ANNIVERSARY! And to honor the occasion, Joe ...
FCC to Unveil Broadband Plan Mar 17
U.S. communications regulators will unveil on March 17 a blueprint aimed at bringing fast affordable Internet access to more than 90 million Americans being held back by fees and technology. The Federal Communications Commission said on Tuesday that the long-awaited National Broadband Plan will try to help connect 93 million Americans to high-speed Internet to find ...
Hawkwind's Nik Turner Interviewed at AAJ
Nik Turner is perhaps best known as the founding saxophonist and flautist for pioneering “space rock" band Hawkwind. As well as contributing to the profound influence that this band has had on rock and punk with its focus on community and grassroots movements--including its many benefit shows and long-standing support of England's free festivals, Turner may ...
Mark Growden Gets All Dark and Dramatic Tonight at the Redwood Bar & Grill
Singer, songwriter, accordionist, banjoist and more. Mark Growden makes darkly dramatic music in the style of Tom Waits, as well as cagey covers of Leonard Cohen, Bruce Springsteen and gospel tunes. All are rendered with a faint sense of the macabre, or “American noir" (as he likes to put it), by his muscular voice coupled with ...
Komeda Project Interviewed at AAJ
Komeda Project is dedicated to the music of the great Polish composer Krzysztof Komeda. Komeda died young--days before his 38th birthday. During his relatively short life, he composed numerous film scores and jazz tunes and was responsible for the seminal album Astigmatic (Muza Records, 1965)--one of Jazzwise Magazine's “100 Jazz Albums that Shook the World." It ...
Harry Connick Jr. Performs for Students at White House
Harry Connick Jr. told students Sunday that music can get people through the darkest times even a disaster like Hurricane Katrina, which devastated his hometown, New Orleans, in 2005. The Grammy-winning composer and singer was welcomed to the White House by first lady Michelle Obama, who invited him to perform for members of a Washington elementary ...
Jaga Jazzist Featured at AAJ!
Back after a five-year hiatus, Jaga Jazzist's One-Armed Bandit (Ninja Tune, 2010) is released today in North America. To celebrate the release of One-Armed Bandit, AAJ is providing extensive coverage: Read AAJ Managing Editor John Kelman's insightful review of One-Armed Bandit; Download the title track to One-Armed Bandit, today's Daily Download; Watch Jaga Jazzist perform “One-Armed ...
FTC Sounds Alarm: Data Leaking onto P2P Networks
FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz says data leaks can lead to ID theft. The Federal Trade Commission today put nearly 100 companies and agencies on notice that their employees appear to be regularly leaking large amounts of sensitive customer and employee data on popular peer-to-peer, or P2P, file-sharing networks. The FTC did not name names, either of ...
