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AOL Announces Expansion of Publishing Unit with the Creation of MediaGlow

January 13, 2009

After a year of strong growth for its programming efforts, AOL announced today a series of significant developments that will dramatically expand, reposition and monetize its digital publishing business in 2009. Over the past year, AOL's programming unit has seen page views climb 40% year-over-year, engagement increase 20% year-over-year and its audience grow to 70 million ...

Girls Night out Weekly Thursday 8-12 Jazz Jam at Chalkers Pub

January 13, 2009

Pianist Elio Villafranca Interviewed at AAJ

January 12, 2009

Cuban born pianist Elio Villafranca has spent a lifetime observing the space between different worlds. He spent his childhood in the small Piñar de Rio region on the Western coast of Cuba and then jumped into the centralized bustle of Havana. He went through a broad and varied musical education that not only focused on the ...

Faith Gibson Returning to Berlin to Record CD in April

January 12, 2009

American jazz vocalist Faith Gibson announced today that she will start production of a new CD in Berlin in April, 2009. The sessions, to be recorded at the award-winning Audio Cue studio, will feature some of the city's most sought-after jazz musicians. Since the release of her debut CD You Don't Know Me in 2004, Gibson ...

Wally's Cafe Jazz Club Recieves Bostonian Society Plaque

January 12, 2009

It's Official: Wally's Makes History Wally's Cafe Jazz Club has been making history for decades, a fact that will be made official later this month. On Jan. 30, the Boston Historical Society will recognize Wally's for the contribution it has made to the cultural fabric of the city by adding a plaque to the front of ...

Mark Rapp / Heather Greene at Le Poisson Rouge

January 12, 2009

Mark Rapp named one of the “top emerging jazz trumpeters" (Downbeat), Mark Rapp bridges the gap between modern and contemporary jazz music. Under the tutelage of Ellis Marsalis, Rapp earned a Masters in Jazz at the University of New Orleans. He has performed with Branford Marsalis, Wess Anderson and Walter Blanding Jr among many others and ...

Jazz Video Guy Asks: How Cool is the Monterey Jazz Festival

January 12, 2009

The latest installment of the Jazz Video Guys blog is How Cool Is the Monterey Jazz. Festival featuring highlights from the 51st edition of the extravaganza. Bret Primack, aka the Jazz Video Guy reports that he attended his first Monterey Jazz Festival this past September, at the invitation of Jason Olaine, and not surprisingly, I had ...

Guided Tour of the Most Awesome Depression Ever

January 12, 2009

Another Great Depression! Hardly are those words out when vast images straight out of Walker Evans trouble my sight: Hoboes! Okies! Hoovervilles! Women who resemble Harry Dean Stanton! It's all so very... 75 years ago. Our go-to icons of abject, debilitating American poverty are so nostalgic, so sentimental, so analog. Our recurrent national nightmare ...

Golden Globes 2009 Music Awards

January 12, 2009

BEST SCORE Alexandre Desplat - The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button Clint Eastwood - Changeling James Newton Howard - Defiance Hans Zimmer - Frost/Nixon WINNER: A. R. Rahman - Slumdog Millionaire BEST ORIGINAL SONG “Down To Earth" from Wall-E Music By: Peter Gabriel, Thomas Newman; Lyrics By: Peter ...

U2 to Play New Single at Brit Awards

January 12, 2009

U2 will play its new single, “Get on Your Boots," at the BRIT Awards ceremony on Feb. 17 at London's Earls Court. The band's new album, No Line on the Horizon, arrives March 2 internationally and a day later in North America. The band has previously won seven Brit awards, five of them for best international ...