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News: Performance / Tour

Seattle Jazz Legends Concert to Serve Dual Purpose

January 31, 2010

“Seattle Jazz Legends" concert, with Buddy Catlett, Ernestine Anderson and others, is part of a jazz-documentary project spearheaded by Jessica Davis. Documentary filmmaking is by nature a labor of love, which explains Jessica Davis' dogged pursuit of the ongoing project “In Between the Raindrops," an affectionate, episodic look at the history of jazz in Seattle. An ...

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News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Bobby Hackett

January 31, 2010

All About Jazz is celebrating Bobby Hackett's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Bobby HackettBobby Hackett, one of nine children, was born and raised in Providence, Rhode Island. At an early age he played the ukulele and by the time he was twelve played guitar and violin, and ...

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News: Award / Grant

Neil Young MusicCares Person of the Year

January 30, 2010

Red Hot Chili Peppers, Norah Jones, Dave Matthews, CSN, Elton John, Wilco and more pay tribute to Neil Young Neil Young is hardly the oldest guy in pop music. Accepting the award for MusiCares Person of the Year at Friday's annual gala at the Los Angeles Convention Center, the 64- year-old musician, philanthropist and activist ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Dave Pell & Med Flory Quintet

January 30, 2010

Dave Pell & Med Flory Quintet @ Henri's Back Room Friday, February 12 The Back Room at Henri's 21601 Sherman Way Canoga Park, CA 91303 Reservations (818) 348-5582 Dave Pell - Tenor Med Flory - Alto Bill Fulton - Piano ...

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News: Interview

Buddy de Franco + Sonny Clark, PT 2

January 30, 2010

By 1954, the clarinet was all but finished as a solo instrument. Benny Goodman was largely a nostalgia act. Artie Shaw was completing his final recordings with his Gramercy Five. And other leading jazz musicians who played the “stick" did so out of necessity for studio work or as a secondary instrument. One of the only ...

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News: Performance / Tour

My Morning Jacket Tour with Preservation Hall Jazz Band

January 30, 2010

MY MORNING JACKET HIT THE ROAD WITH PRESERVATION HALL JAZZ BAND My Morning Jacket It's been almost a full year, but the wait is finally over. My Morning Jacket is ready to bring its electrifying live show back on the road. The guys will make their way around the Southeastern United States this Spring, including a ...

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News: Technology

The Day the Tech World Stood Still

January 30, 2010

Over the past three months, people of all walks of life have asked me about the Apple tablet. Some work in the tech industry, but many were people I know from my outside life, who have become caught up in the excitement surrounding Apple's announcement. In the months leading up to the Apple iPad launch, rumors ...

News: Technology

MediaNet's Downloads and Streaming Soar

January 30, 2010

MediaNet's content network delivered a record 200 million music downloads and 150 million on demand plays in December, the company's CEO Alan McGlade shared in a Thursday afternoon call. That's a 124% increase in downloads from December 2008. MediaNet powers music and media delivery via an API and web components to iLike, HMV, Tesco, MOG, Fox ...

News: Interview

19th-Century Concept, with a Few Upgrades

January 30, 2010

Pat Metheny, the jazz guitarist, has lately spent an inordinate amount of time thinking about robots. Actually, that's putting it mildly: he has been downright obsessed with robots, and with getting them to do his bidding. “I haven't slept more than four hours a night for six months now," he said one day last fall at ...

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News: Interview

Giant Steps: The Survival of a Great Jazz Pianist

January 30, 2010

Influential artists sometimes click in the public consciousness only after the rise of the movements they have influenced. A school of creative work emerges--seemingly spontaneously, its origins obscure at first. Then, with attention to the artists in that school comes recognition of their influences, their antecedents and their mentors. After Pollock, de Kooning and their peers ...