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News: Technology

Skype, Wireless Companies Fight to Shape Net-Neutrality Regs

Skype, Wireless Companies Fight to Shape Net-Neutrality Regs

The tech industry inundated federal regulators Thursday with pleas for and against new rules limiting what ISPs can do with internet traffic. The pleadings were a final attempt to shape upcoming net-neutrality regulations, whose broad outlines were announced by the FCC in October. Advocates say that without the rules ISPs will start monkeying with net traffic, ...

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News: Obituary

Bobby Charles Louisiana Singer and Songwriter Passes

Bobby Charles Louisiana Singer and Songwriter Passes

Bobby Charles, 71, the singer-songwriter who penned such hits as Fats Domino's Walking to New Orleans,See You Later Alligator by Bill Haley and His Comets and But I Do by Frogman Henry, died Thursday at his home in Abbeville, La. Charles had diabetes and was in remission from kidney cancer, said his publicist, Karen Johnson, but ...

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News: Obituary

Teddy Pendergrass Dies at 59; Quintessential R&B Boudoir Crooner

Teddy Pendergrass Dies at 59; Quintessential R&B Boudoir Crooner

Soul singer combined romantic love songs with a sexy stage presence. Left paralyzed by a 1982 car crash, he established a group for people with spinal cord injuries that focuses on quality of life. When Pendergrass was a toddler, his mother recognized his talent as a singer. He joined a church youth choir and was ordained ...

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News: Education

New England Conservatory Celebrates 40th Anniversary of Ground-Breaking Jazz Studies Program in NYC March 20 - 27

New England Conservatory Celebrates 40th Anniversary of Ground-Breaking Jazz Studies Program in NYC March 20 - 27

March 20 - 27 NYC Performers include John Medeski, Bernie Worrell, Cecil Taylor, Lake Street Dive, Dominique Eade, Ran Blake, Anton Fig, George Garzone, John McNeil, Cecil McBee, Billy Hart, Frank Carlberg, Marty Ehrlich, Jeremy Udden, Noah Preminger, Darcy James Argue's Secret Society & more New England Conservatory continues to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of its ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Hot and Cool: 40 Years of Jazz at NEC Schedule of Performances, March 20-27, 2010

Hot and Cool: 40 Years of Jazz at NEC Schedule of Performances, March 20-27, 2010

Schedule of Performances, March 20-27, 2010 Highlights include B.B. King's Concert with John Medeski of MMW, Cecil Taylor, Bernie Worrell, Lake Street Dive, Dominique Eade, Ran Blake, Anton Fig and more; Darcy James Argue's Secret Society, NEC Faculty Jazz All Stars with George Garzone, John McNeil, Cecil McBee, Billy Hart and Frank Carlberg; Marty Ehrlich's Quartet; ...

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News: Festival

Winter Jazz Fest 2010 in Chicago Suburb Features Mambo Zombies

Located in Glen Ellyn, IL, a southwest suburb of Chicago, College of DuPage is the venue for WDCB Jazz at the MAC Winter Jazz Fest featuring among others (Orbert Davis, Kurt Elling, Zvonimir Tot, Ari Brown, Laurence Hobgood, Steve Ramsdell, Tom Tallman to name a few)...the Mambo Zombies on Friday, Jan. 15, 2010, 10 p.m. in ...

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News: Performance / Tour

James Taylor and Carole King Tour

JAMES TAYLOR AND CAROLE KING NORTH AMERICAN TROUBADOUR REUNION DATES SET King & Taylor by Kevin Estrada Iconic recording artists Carole King and James Taylor unveiled North American dates for the Troubadour Reunion tour. This once-in-a-lifetime event marks a rare concert experience bringing two of the most beloved singer-songwriters on tour together - intimate and in ...

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News: Interview

Bob Freedman on Maynard Ferguson

Bob Freedman on Maynard Ferguson

Bob Freedman is a composer, arranger, pianist and reed player. In the early 1950s, he played alto sax with trumpeter Herb Pomeroy's big band in Boston, writing a good chunk of the orchestra's arrangements. Since 1960, Bob has arranged for more than 30 jazz and pop stars, including Ron Carter, Billy Joel, Joe Williams and Sarah ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Sheldon Concert Hall to Present Haitian Relief Benefit on Tuesday, February 9

Sheldon Concert Hall to Present Haitian Relief Benefit on Tuesday, February 9

A diverse group of St. Louis musicians will take the stage of the Sheldon Concert Hall at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, February 9 to raise money for Doctors Without Borders' Haitian earthquake relief efforts.“St. Louis Musicians for Haiti" will feature jazz, blues, soul, folk, classical and more, from a lineup that includes singer Brian Owens; ...

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News: Obituary

Ed Thigpen, RIP

Ed Thigpen, RIP

An American jazz master who relocated to Europe nearly four decades ago died yesterday in Denmark hours after eight of his peers were honored in New York. Drummer Ed Thigpen succumbed to heart and lung problems in a hospital in Copenhagen, his home since 1972. He was 79. Thigpen was universally admired for his technique, which ...


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