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News: Performance / Tour

Thievery Corporation | 01.20 | D.C.

February 4, 2010

Words & Images by: Dan Ettinger Thievery Corporation :: 01.20.10 :: 9:30 Club :: Washington, D.C. Thievery Corporation :: 01.20 :: Washington, D.C. From the initial chirps bubbling out of the 9:30 Club's massive speakers, it was immediately evident that Thievery Corporation wouldn't present ...

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News: Radio

The Jazz Session #140: Ben Powell

February 4, 2010

Violinist Ben Powell made his festival debut this summer at the 2009 Tanglewood Jazz Festival, where this interview was recorded. Powell was raised in Cheltenham, England, the son of a cellist and a violin teacher. He released the album Light in 2008. In this interview, Powell talks about his musical upbringing; how a chance meeting with ...

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News: Technology

AT&T Gives Green Light to Sling TV over 3G

February 4, 2010

Remember the Great Sling Spat? A year ago, Sling Media, a subsidiary of EchoStar, introduced a nifty application for the Apple iPhone that allowed users with a Slingbox at home to watch and control their home television signal from their handsets. The only problem: AT&T said that such a bandwidth-intensive video service would overwhelm its network, ...

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News: Technology

Will iPad Actually Chill Development of Mobile Web Pages?

February 4, 2010

The iPhone is the face that launched a thousand mobile websites-actually, more like 326,600, according to a recent study by Taptu, a mobile search engine. That number is growing by leaps and bounds in various areas of the web, such as shopping and services, the survey concludes. By the end of 2010, we forecast that the ...

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News: Music Industry

Who Really Benefits from Intellectual Property Law? And Who Should?

February 4, 2010

Economic policy bloggers, Matt Yglesias, started a kerfuffle the other day with a frighteningly commonplace point about the vain fight of creative producers against free content online, especially vis-a-vis music file-trading. In short, he proposed that in a perfect marketplace for music. The price of a song ought to be equal to the marginal cost of ...

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News: Music Industry

Live Concert Business is a Broken Model

February 4, 2010

It's hard to think of Tim Leiweke, chief executive of AEG, which owns the L.A. Kings hockey team, as an underdog. He's orchestrated concerts for the likes of Bon Jovi, Black Eyed Peas and Celine Dion. His company, Anschutz Entertainment Group, owns some of the world's biggest venues, including Staples Center, Target Center and The O2, ...

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News: Technology

Best New Gear for Musicians, Fans

February 4, 2010

If youre a musician, walking the floor of the NAMM Show is like taking a trip to Candy Mountain. All the latest music gear gets trotted out at the massive industry expo in Anaheim, California. Were talking five or six football fields worth of the newest guitars, amps, basses, drums, mikes, keyboards, sousaphones, electric oboes think ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Barry Harris Trio Opening Tonight for Four Nights at the Iridium, Sets at 8:30 & 10:30PM

February 4, 2010

THIS WEEK AT IRIDIUM FEB. 4-7 BARRY HARRIS TRIO RAY DRUMMOND-BASS, LEROY WILLIAMS-DRUMS BARRY HARRIS Barry Harris is an Internationally renowned Jazz Pianist, Composer and Teacher. Strongly influenced by Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk, and Charlie Parker Harris is unquestionably the foremost exponent of the music of Powell, Tadd Dameron, and Monk, and is one ...

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News: Interview

Interview: Dave Brubeck (Part 3)

February 4, 2010

Many listeners who are new to jazz tend to think of Dave Brubeck as a pianist who flowered in 1959 with Time Out, the album that gave us Take Five. In truth, the promise of Dave's musical brilliance actually can be heard on recordings 13 years earlier. If you want to hear why Dave's commanding officer ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Bill Stewart Quartet Live at Smoke/NYC - Friday and Saturday February 12th and 13th, 2010

February 4, 2010

Drummer Bill Stewart will be performing with his Quartet at SMOKE Jazz Club in NYC on Friday & Saturday February 12th & 13th, 2010 Set times are: @ 8:00PM, 10 & 11:30pm Bill Stewart Quartet Steve Wilson (alto saxophone) Seamus Blake (tenor saxophone) Peter Washington (bass) Bill Stewart (drums) About ...