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Familiar Names Dot Grammy Jazz Categories
The late keyboardist Joe Zawinul takes the contemporary prize, with Chick Corea and John McLaughlin getting the instrumental award. But singer Kurt Elling wins his first Grammy. In a year when the nominees in jazz featured a welcome number of young and under-recognized artists, Grammy voters couldn't resist the pull of familiar names when it came ...
Wanted: Artists for 2010 Glow Festival in Santa Monica
The city of Santa Monica is looking for a few good artists to participate in the second edition of its dusk-to-dawn Glow festival in September. Glow, which had its first run in 2008, is a biannual, all-night celebration of the arts that is set to take place on Sept. 25 at locations on Santa Monica Beach, ...
Hollywood Bowl Season Announced
Gustavo Dudamel will make three appearances at the Hollywood Bowl this summer, marking the first time that he will conduct at the venue since “Bienvenido Gustavo" in October. The season will also include performances by John Williams, Harry Connick Jr. and a production of “Rent." Here are some more of the summer's classical-music highlights at the ...
Sony Pictures to Lay off 450 Employees
Sony Pictures Entertainment is laying off 450 people, more than 6.5% of its global workforce, as part of a studio-wide belt-tightening move blamed on the growth of piracy and changing media consumption patterns, particularly the ongoing downturn in DVD sales. In a memo sent to Sony Pictures' approximately 6,800 employees Monday, Chairman Michael Lynton and Co-Chairman ...
Swedish Rapper Found Guilty of Second-Degree Murder in Road Rage Incident
David Jassy, a rapper and record producer from Sweden, was found guilty Monday of second-degree murder in the death of a pedestrian he was accused of assaulting in a fit of road rage. He faces 15 years to life at a sentencing next month. Witnesses said Jassy, 35, punched, kicked and then ran over John Osnes, ...
Oscar 2010: Best Song Submissions
The 2010 Academy Award nominations will be announced on Tuesday, February 2, 2010, at 5:30 a.m. PT in the Academys Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. The 2010 Academy Awards ceremony will take place on Sunday, March 7, 2010, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center. In the US, itll be televised live by ...
Herb Alpert and Lani Hall
Herb Alpert's inner jazzman has always been integrated within something more significant: a haunting, personal trumpet signature riding atop a melange of American and/or Latin components. Yet lately, his jazz roots have finally emerged into full view with a new CD, “Anything Goes" (Concord Jazz), and an intimately-scaled show with Alpert's wife, singer Lani Hall, and ...
Five Social Media Tips for Indie Musicians
To tweet or not to tweet. That is no longer the question. Musicians who don't take advantage of social networking tools will soon perish in the La Brea tar pits of old-school media. At least that's what the “social media rock stars" told the audience at an event this afternoon hosted by the Recording Academy as ...
Natalia Lafourcade at the Conga Room
She shows a maturing songwriting and singing voice. With early-bloomer musicians such as Natalia Lafourcade, there's sometimes a thin but crucial line between precociousness and preciousness. When this gifted Mexican pop-rocker released her self-titled solo debut in 2003, she was not yet 20 summers old. But Lafourcade -- a daughter of musicians who grew up singing ...
Blue Whales Are Singing in a Lower Key
Scientists don't know why, but some think the baritone voices reflect the security of their greater numbers. The whales' singing is barely audible to the human ear. Blue whales have changed their songs. It's also possible that the low voice is just a fad. It's the same old tune, but the pitch of the blues is ...
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