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News: Interview

Lenny Kravitz Drummer Cindy Blackman Honors Jazz Legend Tony Williams

March 7, 2010

By Tad Hendrickson Cindy Blackman is best remembered by many up to this point as the badass woman behind the drum kit in Lenny Kravitz's band for many of his classic recordings and videos. Before, during and after the Kravitz gig, however, Blackman has drummed with countless jazz notables and young stars and released an eclectic ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Anthony Ocaña

March 7, 2010

All About Jazz is celebrating Anthony Ocaña's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Anthony OcañaComposer and guitarist, born in Dominican Republic (“D.R.”) on March 7, 1980. Ocaña became a Spanish citizen in 2007. From an early age, he discovered his love for music. At the age of 5 ...

News: Festival

Sydney-Bay Day Festival and Viva the Duo

March 6, 2010

Sydney Band at Tea Festival Viva the duo,a Local band from Northern Beaches of Sydney will be performing at Bay Day festival at Mcilwaine park at Rhodes on the 28th March. Bay day is free festival, celebrating the history of tea and the way different cultures love and enjoy the world's most popular beverage. In keeping ...

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News: Radio

Lin McPhillips Moves up the RMR Jazz Chart

March 6, 2010

Veteran jazz vocalist Lin McPhillips moves up the RMR national airplay chart in the jazz category. Most notably remembered for her work with Solar Plexus and after a long hiatus prompted by the loss of so many of her friends, she has returned to the recording environment and tested her jazz prowess once more. She brought ...

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News: Video / DVD

Time to Stomp

March 6, 2010

The New Jersey Jazz Society does a lot for jazz fans -- and for the future of jazz. One project the NJJS undertakes is the support of young jazz musicians, with scholarships awarded to students at New Jersey's fine schools of jazz: Rutgers University, William Paterson University, Rowan University and New Jersey City University.Scholarships ...

News: Performance / Tour

Pow!: Alejandro Demogli at FB Lounge

March 6, 2010

I've written before about my love for Argentine jazz, an unexpected attraction that started on a Thursday night at Thelonious in Buenos Aires and continues to this day. Soon (fingers crossed), I'll be hosting a radio documentary on the composer Guillermo Klein and I've already spilled quite a bit of digital ink covering musicians such as ...

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News: Music Industry

Photostory16: Buddy Rich

March 6, 2010

This image of Buddy Rich by Paul Slaughter is a personal favorite of mine. I think it's one of the most dynamic and revealing photos of the drummer. For a brief second, you get to see Rich's intensity, anxiety and aggression in one fleeting glance (or glare). Let Paul pick up the story: “On September ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Adam Rudolph's Moving Pictures Tours East Coast; Yeyi Duo Tours Midwest

March 6, 2010

Composer & Master Percussionist Adam Rudolph Tours in March & April With Moving Pictures Quintet and Octet (Boston, New Haven, Teaneck, Philadelphia, New York City) Yeyi Duet With Multi-Instrumentalist Ralph Jones Tours Midwest (Champaign-Urbana, Chicago, Grand Rapids, Ann Arbor, Oberlin) This March and April, master percussionist ...

News: Technology

New York Isn't Silicon Valley. Thats Why They Like It.

March 6, 2010

One sign of a dot-com revival is the North Brooklyn Breakfast Club, for local tech types. Three of its organizers are Justin Shaffer, Dorothy McGivney and Chrysanthe Tenentes. THE two dozen or so people arranged around wooden tables, warming their hands and bellies with steaming mugs of coffee and plates of homemade biscuits, looked like just ...

News: Technology

The Key to Apple's iPad? Uh-Oh, It's Magic

March 6, 2010

Wizard of Cupertino Steve Jobs announced Friday morning that the Apple iPad will go on sale April 3, and with that news revealed One More Thing that even iFixit won't find: It's magic. The “iPad is something completely new," said Jobs. “We're excited for customers to get their hands on this magical and revolutionary product. ...