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News: Award / Grant

Leonard Cohen, Earth Wind & Fire to Enter Songwriters Hall of Fame

February 20, 2010

Among those up for enshrinement in the Songwriters Hall of Fame this year are Leonard Cohen, key members of Earth, Wind & Fire, and producer-composer David Foster. The hall made the announcement of its inductees on Tuesday. Earth, Wind & Fire's Maurice White, Philip Bailey and Verdine White are being honored in addition to Foster and ...

News: Technology

It's Official: Google Can Sell Power Like a Utility

February 20, 2010

The Federal Regulatory Energy Commission has granted Google Energy, a wholly owned subsidiary of the search giant, the right to behave like a utility. The order grants Google Energy the power to sell energy, capacity and services at market rates. Why does Google want to do this? Right now, the company rakes in billions of dollars ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Upcoming Concerts Across the Southland

February 20, 2010

Honda Center Los Tres with Joan Sebastian, Alejandro Fernandez and Marco Antonio Solis April 9 (Fri.) Gibson Amphitheatre Ramon Ayala April 17 (Fri.) El Rey Theatre Ethan Bortnick and his Musical Time Machine Feb. 28-March 1 High on Fire April ...

News: Technology

Glimpse the Wireless Future of Transportation

February 20, 2010

The coming convergence of how we communicate and how we travel is spawning technologies that will change how we get around and make transportation safer and more efficient, at the same time. The promise of vehicles communicating with each other and with the road, coupled with advancements in transportation infrastructure, has planners, technocrats and futurists creating ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Yes, Two Guitar Idols Are Better Than One

February 20, 2010

Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton performed in the first of their two shows at Madison Square Garden. The musicians performed together at the end of the concert, with Steve Gadd on drums. At 10:30 on Thursday night, the Eric Clapton-Jeff Beck concert at Madison Square Garden woke up. After playing individual sets, the guitarists faced each ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Marcus Roberts Reprises His Seminal 1990 Release "Deep in the Shed"

February 20, 2010

This Saturday, February 20th, award-winning jazz pianist Marcus Roberts and The Marcus Roberts Septet will perform two historic reprises of Roberts' 1990 release 'Deep in the Shed' during Tallahassee's “Seven Days of Opening Nights" concert series in Turner Auditorium at Tallahassee Community College. “The beauty of the compositions came through clearly...carefully arranged and packed with incident ...

News: Performance / Tour

Mom's the Word for Promising Jazz Bassist

February 19, 2010

With 19 concerts over seven days (Feb. 20-25, Feb. 27), Winterruption, the annual winter music festival at Granville Island's Performance Works, has music for just about any jazz taste. You can hear straight-ahead music (Altered Laws), hard bebop (Ugetsu), European improv (Eric Vloeimans Fugimundi Trio), Parisian cafe sounds (Mimosa), a string quartet (Quatuor Bozzini) and experimental ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Nancy Wilson

February 20, 2010

All About Jazz is celebrating Nancy Wilson's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Nancy WilsonNancy Wilson’s musical style is so diverse that it is hard to classify. Over the years her repertoire has included pop style ballads, jazz and blues, show tunes and well known standards. Critics have ...

News: Performance / Tour

Mariah Carey Does the Citywalk

February 20, 2010

Hot on the heels of her award-winning performance in “Precious," and in anticipation of next month's remix album, Ms. Carey's “Angels' Advocate Tour" holds down two nights at at the Gibson Amphitheatre. This marks the seventh concert tour for the 39-year singer and actress. Mariah Carey February 23rd : 8:15 p.m. ...

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News: Music Industry

Reminders of the Future of Jazz

February 19, 2010

For those naysayers and/or moldy figs who say, perhaps tongue-in-cheek, that jazz is dead, don't buy it. The music isn't even on life support, given the attention and interest it receives from music educators and their serious students at college, high school and lower levels. Jazz at Lincoln Center's Essentially Ellington" competition each ...