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Myra Melford Presents Two Benefit Events for U.C. Berkeley Jazz and Improvised Music Fund
The Department of Music at The University of California, Berkeley, today announced two special fundraiser events for the Jazz and Improvised Music Fund (JIM). The first event on Friday, April 23 at UC Berkeley's Hertz Hall will feature The Contemporary Improvisation Ensemble (CIE) comprised of UC Berkeley students, alumni and guests directed by Myra Melford followed ...
Wife of Grammy-Winning Jazz Star Grazed by Bullet
Prosecutors say an 81-year-old woman pulled a revolver from her fanny pack and tried to shoot the wife of a Grammy-winning jazz pianist near the elevator of their New York City condominium. Queens District Attorney Richard Brown says Maria Cartegena pulled out the gun Tuesday night and fired at the 73-year-old wife of Eddie Palmieri. ...
Singer Johnny Maestro Dies in Fla., Battled Cancer
Singer Johnny Maestro of the rock 'n' roll and doo-wop band The Brooklyn Bridge has died. Original band member Les Cauchi says Maestro died late Wednesday in Florida. Maestro was 70 and had been battling cancer. His last residence was in Cape Coral, Fla. Maestro begin his career in the 1950s with The Crests, whose ...
Drummer Gerry Gibbs Hands Down His Awesome Aural History of Jazz Icon Miles Davis
Since the beginning of time there has been the telling of oral history. Stories have been passed down through generations, of family, of ancestry, of traditions, of myth, all indispensable to human identity. In fact, it is essential for a people to retain this history because it defines the character found at man's core. It's the ...
Lou Reed's Metal Machine Trio Tour Europe in April
Lou Reed's Metal Machine Trio, consisting of Lou Reed, saxophonist Ulrich Krieger and electronics wizard Sarth Calhoun, tour Europe in April. The threesome play Cambridge Junction (April 17), Oxford O2 Academy (April 18) and London Royal Festival Hall (April 19), La Cigale, Paris (April 21), Ancienne Belgique, Brussels (April 22), Koncerthuset, Copenhagen (April 24), Sentrum Scene, ...
Internet Agency Approves Domains in Native Scripts
Four countries and two territories have won preliminary approval to have Internet addresses written entirely in their native scripts as early as this summer. However, proposals for Internet addresses that would say “China" and “Taiwan" in Chinese will require a few more months of technical review. The delay is not over political disputes, but rather ...
Sneak Peek at Instapaper for iPad
Instapaper lets you strip formatting and superfluous design elements from Web articles to read them later as plain text. We absolutely love this app on the iPhone, and the iPad app currently in the works looks insanely cool. The Instapaper founder writes: I'm probably supposed to keep this secret and build everyone's anticipation to ...
Interview: Mike King of Berkleemusic and Online Music Marketing with Topspin (PT. 1)
Kyle Bylin (@kbylin), Associate Editor (UPDATED) Over the course of the last ten weeks, I've had the pleasure of taking Online Music Marketing with Topspin through Berkleemusic with Mike King (@atomzooey)as my instructor. Though, to be sure, I'm likely to a biased opinion of the course -- for some reasons I can account for and others ...
Interview: Jim Hall (Part 1)
Jim Hall sounds like your heart. Whether the guitarist is playing in a medium-sized group or just a duo, your ear is instantly drawn to the hushed pulse of his tasteful chords and notes. There's a tenderness and shyness to Jim's playing that makes your soul want to seek him out, like the person at a ...
The Jazz Session #154: John Ellis
Saxophonist John Ellis & Double-Wide return with an expanded instrumental line-up on their new CD, Puppet Mischief (Obliq Sound, 2010). This interview was recorded in Albany, NY, right before Elliss show at Red Square. In this interview, Ellis talks about the addition of harmonica and trombone to the band; how he approaches recording sessions; and Ice ...
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