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Celebrate Mardi Gras with New Orleans Piano
It's Mardi Gras week in New Orleans, so it's as good a time as any to join in the celebration with a brief but broad overview of some of the Crescent City's many extraordinary pianists. One of the beauties of New Orleans piano music is that once you hear it, you'll know it whenever you encounter ...
Terence Blanchard Quintet: Live at the Village Vanguard
Many Americans have heard Terence Blanchard's music, even if they don't know it — he's scored many of Spike Lee's films since the early '90s. But only a relative few have connected Blanchard the movie composer with Blanchard the acclaimed jazz trumpeter, who combines a love for the music of his native New Orleans with modern ...
Grand Pianoramax on 14-City Eu / Us Tour for 'The Hook'
Coming soon to a city near you: Grand Pianoramax! After a 2009 kick- off at New York hot spot Canal Room, with Leo Tardin, Jojo Mayer, Mike Ladd and Celena Glenn tearing up the stage, Grand Pianoramax is hitting the road for a 14-city European and US tour. Grand Pianoramax will be touring to support their ...
Creating Tom Waits One from the Heart Soundtrack
With the Academy Awards tomorrow night, take a look at what actually goes into the creation of the musical score for the soundtrack a motion picture. Tom Waits is brought onto the Francis Coppola classic, One From The Heart, before even the script is finished. All recording is complete before shooting begins. Waits music gives fabric ...
Giants of Jazz for Charlie Rice at Ortlieb's JazzHaus on February 22
On Sunday February 22nd, three of Philadelphia's most revered jazz legends will appear on stage at Ortlieb's JazzHaus, Bootsie Barnes, Larry McKenna, and Sam Reed, at 847 N. 3rd Street, Philadelphia, PA from 4-7PM. The rhythm section will be pianist Jason Shattil, bassist Mike Boone, and drummer Jim Miller. All of these musicians are donating their ...
Got Big Ears? John Hollenbeck's Large Ensemble at Painted Bride on February 28 and March 6
With a huge sound and mesmerizing subtlety, John Hollenbeck's Large Ensemble combines the sonic range of a big band and the intimacy of a small group of closely-knit musicians. Hollenbeck is striking for his compositional process, one that is deeply immersed in personal experience and that uses the accumulation of simple elements to create a complex, ...
How We Bungled the Digital Television Transition
America's transition to over-the-air digital television signals, which netted the government $19 billion in a wireless spectrum auction, was doomed from the start, thanks to a flawed voucher program and a time frame that left the country stranded between administrations. In January, close to two million people were stuck on the waiting list for $40 coupons ...
Feds Propose Storing Internet User Data for 2 Years
In the name of combating child pornography, federal lawmakers are proposing that internet users' online surfing habits be retained for two years. The so-called “Internet Stopping Adults Facilitating the Exploitation of Today's Youth Act of 2009," or SAFETY Act, was floated in both the House and Senate on Thursday. Among other things, it demands: “A provider ...
Confessions of an iPod Touch Artist
Mobile devices are no longer just for communication, entertainment and business: They can make art, too. Several different iTunes apps for the iPhone and iPod Touch allow users to edit photos, record music and now paint. Last month, French artist and videographer David Lasnier began composing paintings with the Brushes app on his iPod Touch and ...
The Evolution of Art
We may be genetically predisposed to appreciate listening to Sinatra or staring at a Seurat. Art suffuses our lives. Whether it's bluegrass, heavy metal, Frank Sinatra or Mozart, music moves us all. On a trip to a foreign city, visiting an art museum is a mandatory exercise. Imaginative writing affects many of us, though—alas—with decreasing frequency. ...
