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News: Recording

David Haney: Two New CDs and June Tour

March 22, 2010

Live from Yoshi's David Collective Cadence Jazz Records featuring John Tchicai, Duck Baker, Mat Marucci, Adam Lane, and Rob Scheps. Blue Flint Girl David Haney Trio C.I.M.P. Records featuring Michael Biseo and Adam Lane. David Haney grew up in Calgary, Canada and has come ...

News: Technology

Demise of Coral, Salamander Shows Impact of Internet

March 22, 2010

The Internet has emerged as one of the greatest threats to rare species, fueling the illegal wildlife trade and making it easier to buy everything from live baby lions to wine made from tiger bones, conservationists and law enforcement officers said Sunday. The Web's impact was made clear at the meeting of the 175-nation Convention ...

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News: Interview

Saxophonist Craig Handy Interviewed at AAJ

March 22, 2010

Saxophonist Craig Handy is a musician's musician. Those “in the know" know about him, which is why he's been a first call player in New York for over two decades. He is a careful, thoughtful improviser--expansive and precise. His solos build on a rich knowledge of the tradition at the same time as they often set ...

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News: Award / Grant

'Mother' Tops Asian Film Awards

March 22, 2010

HONG KONG -- The spotlight shone bright on South Korea at the fourth Asian Film Awards in Hong Kong on Monday night, when director Bong Joon-ho led his countrymen in six wins with the best film award for his thriller “Mother." The story of a mother who struggles to save her son from a murder accusation, ...

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News: TV / Film

Michael Jackson's Revived Captain EO is Still Wired, Slightly Tired

March 22, 2010

ANAHEIM, California Michael Jackson's 3-D short film Captain EO is playing again at Disneyland, and the 24-year-old space opera still holds up. Mostly. Representing the height of 1986 movie technology, Captain EO was a lavish collaboration between Disney and George Lucas Industrial Light & Magic studio. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Jackson at the ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: George Benson

March 22, 2010

All About Jazz is celebrating George Benson's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY George BensonAppreciated as both musician and performer by millions, George Benson has always had the duel personae of expert improviser and vibrant entertainer. He has always placed his keenly discerning art in the service of ...

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News: Performance / Tour

The Jazz Celebration Big Band with Special Guest Larry McKenna in Newtown, PA on April 29th

March 21, 2010

The Jazz Celebration Big Band is a 17 piece jazz orchestra regularly performing the last Thursday of each month at the Temperance House in Newtown, PA. We will be joined by Tenor Saxophone legend Larry McKenna on Thursday, April 29. There will be 2 sets - at 8 and 9:30 p.m. $15.00 cover. THIS SHOW WILL ...

News: Technology

Why @ Is Held in Such High Design Esteem

March 21, 2010

The French and Italians have nicknamed it the snail. The Norwegians have plumped for pigs tail, the Germans monkeys tail, and the Chinese little mouse. The Russians think of it as a dog, and the Finns as a slumbering cat. It's the @ symbol on the computer keyboard, which is an essential component of every e-mail ...

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News: Book / Magazine

Texts Without Context

March 21, 2010

In his deliberately provocative and deeply nihilistic new book, Reality Hunger, the onetime novelist David Shields asserts that fiction has never seemed less central to the culture's sense of itself. He says he's bored by out-and-out fabrication, by myself and others; bored by invented plots and invented characters and much more interested in confession and reality-based ...

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News: Technology

Playing It Cool with a Jawbone in Your Ear

March 21, 2010

The word apps, of course, is short for applications, which means programs. But until 2007, nobody used the term apps except the people who wrote them programmers. It wasnt until the iPhone came along that apps became shorthand used by normal people. And now theyre everywhere (apps, that is, not normal people). Apps on our phones. ...