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7th Annual Portland Jazz Festival
Is Jazz Dead (Or Has It Moved to a New Address)?-New Music from Norway Contemporary American and Norwegian jazz artists come together during the 2010 Alaska Airlines/ Horizon Air Portland Jazz Festival presented by U.S. Bank, February 21 - 28, throughout downtown Portland, Oregon. This years provocative theme is borrowed from the title of British jazz ...
Grammy-Winning Composer Says Games Were His Big Break
Composer Michael Giacchino won two Grammys this weekend for his work on the Pixar animated feature Up. After his victory, he said that he had Steven Spielberg to thank for giving him one of his first gigs: Scoring a Videogame. Giacchinos career got a kickstart when the famed film director hired him in 1996 to score ...
Mobile Devices Are Splintering the Web
Smart phones, with their app platforms, and now tablets, with their, um, app platforms, are segmenting Internet content, according to a post by Advertising Age. Are the days of any device being able to access anything on the Web quickly becoming numbered? Editors note: DUH! Turns out this is a Tweet, which ...
Jazz It Up! Episode 10, Season 2: Christian McBride Big Band, Eric Person Trio, Jon Hendricks, Robin D.G. Kelley, Vintage Oscar Peterson
One of the hardest working men in jazz, bassist Christian McBride, leads a big band at the Iridium in New York City for the last episode of season 2 of Jazz it Up! In the first of two feature songs, tenor saxophonist Todd Williams caresses a blues as McBride co-signs on bass and voice; during the ...
Five Social Media Tips for Indie Musicians
To tweet or not to tweet. That is no longer the question. Musicians who don't take advantage of social networking tools will soon perish in the La Brea tar pits of old-school media. At least that's what the “social media rock stars" told the audience at an event this afternoon hosted by the Recording Academy as ...
Natalia Lafourcade at the Conga Room
She shows a maturing songwriting and singing voice. With early-bloomer musicians such as Natalia Lafourcade, there's sometimes a thin but crucial line between precociousness and preciousness. When this gifted Mexican pop-rocker released her self-titled solo debut in 2003, she was not yet 20 summers old. But Lafourcade -- a daughter of musicians who grew up singing ...
The American Composers Festival
The Pacific Symphony's annual American Composers Festival explores a different facet of music in America. This year's festival -- the 10th -- focuses on “The Greatest Generation," examining themes from the Depression of the 1930s through World War II. Programs at the Orange County Performing Arts Center will feature composers Aaron Copland and Kurt Weill as ...
Blue Whales Are Singing in a Lower Key
Scientists don't know why, but some think the baritone voices reflect the security of their greater numbers. The whales' singing is barely audible to the human ear. Blue whales have changed their songs. It's also possible that the low voice is just a fad. It's the same old tune, but the pitch of the blues is ...
Mark Berman ("Sex and the City") Returns to NYC's "Top of the Rock" February 24
Mark Berman, jazz piano star notable for his hot montuno piano playing on HBO's “Sex and the City" theme song, as well as for his live playing with such stars as Aretha Franklin, Mark Murphy, and Wycliffe Gordon, to name but a few, brings his jazz trio to the 67th Floor Weather Room at the Top ...
Tito Gonzalez and Cuban 'Son'
Tito Gonzalez, Al Doblar la Esquina Introducing Tito Gonzalez, his tres, and a long, strange trip. There aren't many people who can claim to have cut their musical teeth while traveling worldwide as a fisherman, been blasted onto national television as part of a taxi-driver's collective of musicians, and had a government agency land them a ...
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