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iPhone 2.0 & 3G Unveiled
Steve Jobs did something never before seen in the history of Apple: He unveiled a cutting-edge product that's relatively cheap. The iPhone 3G handles data at nearly three times the speed of its predecessor, and has built-in, always-on global positioning via satellite, but costs $199 $400 less than the original iPhone, unveiled almost a year ago. ...
Ulster Orchestra Unveils New Season
Alfie Boe, Cleo Laine and Charlie Chaplin are just some of the stars headlining the Ulster Orchestra's new season, unveiled today. Rousing fanfares were provided at the Elmwood Hall launch party by the Orchestra's Brass Quintet and 18 year old superstar clarinettist Julian Bliss played for the assembled guests. Bliss is just one of many talented ...
Bill Finegan Arranger for Dorsey, Miller Bands Dies
ORIGINAL, INVENTIVE: Bill Finegan wrote more than 300 arrangements for Glenn Miller, including Little Brown Jug," Sunrise Serenade" and Song of the Volga." Nelson Riddle was his student. Bill Finegan, an architect of the big band sounds of Tommy Dorsey and Glenn Miller who later traded in commercial success to co-create the Sauter-Finegan Orchestra, which produced ...
Pianist Aaron Parks Makes His Major Label Debut on Blue Note Records
On August 19, pianist Aaron Parks will make his Blue Note Records debut with Invisible Cinema, a stunning concept record conceived entirely by Parks. Invisible Cinema finds Parks in excellent form as both a soloist and composer, buoyed by the support of guitarist Mike Moreno, bassist Matt Penman and drummer Eric Harland. Together and apart, all ...
Stephen 'Doc' Kupka Releases "Doc Goes Hollywood"
Best known as a founding member of the legendary Oakland, California horn band Tower of Power" and a prodigious songwriter, Stephen Doc" Kupka has once again pulled together the best of the best for this, his latest Strokeland Records release. This release, however, is a major departure from Doc's trademark East Bay Soul or snap funk" ...
Opera, Tango, Chamber Music, Jazz: It's All at New York Fest
El Paso Times columnist Ruth Taber, a native New Yorker, was invited by Paul Rosenblum, the managing director of the Caramoor International Music Festival, to write an article for this year's festival program. In the following column, she shares with El Pasoans what the festival has to offer. Ninety acres of gardens, a Venetian theater and ...
New Jazz Showcase Set to Open in Chicago
Cans of paint and crumpled dropcloths are scattered everywhere. Bare windows and half-empty walls stare at a couple of dusty cabaret tables and a few wooden chairs. But come Thursday, if all goes according to plan, this space-in-progress will emerge as ground zero for jazz in Chicago. Or perhaps we should say re-emerge," for Jazz Showcase ...
How to Find a Groove at the Rochester International Jazz Festival
In four days -- at 4:30 p.m. Friday -- the School of the Arts High School Jazz Band is scheduled to open the seventh Rochester International Jazz Festival on a closed-down Gibbs Street. Nine days later, the last you'll probably hear of the event is the sound of trucks hauling away the empty plastic beer cups ...
The Birth of the Cool Songbook
The Birth of the Cool was a milestone in modern jazz--a handful of arrangements, compositions, recording sessions, and performances that, as historian Ted Gioia notes, turned the jazz idiom on its head." It extended the idea of what a jazz combo could sound like, and it provided an aesthetic head of steam for several of its ...
News from Romania
Every once in a while, news appears to remind us of the extent to which jazz has become an international art form and field of study. For example: The third annual Romanian Jazz Education Summit will begin July 5, and last until July 10, 2008. All jazz music educators and most Romanian jazz students ...

