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News: Music Industry

Firefly Club, Ann Arbor's Jazz Beacon, Closed by the State

August 15, 2009

Ann Arbor’s Firefly Club, a beacon for live jazz for nearly a decade and regarded by aficionados as metro Detroit’s finest all-around jazz club, has been closed and its property seized by the Michigan Department of Treasury due to a delinquent sales tax bill. Club owner Susan Chastain said the dispute boils down to overdue sales ...

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News: Technology

Experimental Tech Turns Your Coffee Table into a Universal Remote

August 15, 2009

Stock up on coasters. A new technology combines the coffee table with a universal remote so that people sitting around the table can tap on a screen to change the channel, turn up the volume or dim the lights. CRISTAL (Control of Remotely Interfaced Systems using Touch-based Actions in Living spaces) is a research project in ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson and John Mellencamp

August 15, 2009

Reporting from Lake Elsinore, Calif. — The great thing about minor league baseball is the intimate view it gives those who relish the game itself more than the race to the World Series or the high-priced superstars. Bob Dylan offers much the same intimacy for music fans with another summer tour of minor league ballparks, accompanied ...

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News: Music Industry

For Sale: Eternity with Marilyn Monroe

August 15, 2009

Elsie Poncher wants to sell the crypt, now occupied by her husband, above the actress to help pay off her Beverly Hills mortgage. Her starting price on EBay: $500,000. The crypt of her husband, Richard, which is directly above that of Marilyn Monroe. Richard Poncher's eternal sleep will soon be disrupted. The onetime Beverly Hills resident, ...

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News: Music Industry

You're Bob Dylan? Police Need to See Some ID

August 15, 2009

Rock legend Bob Dylan was treated like a complete unknown by police in a New Jersey shore community when a resident called to report someone wandering around the neighborhood. Dylan was in Long Branch, about a two-hour drive south of New York City, on July 23 as part of a tour with Willie Nelson and John ...

News: Music Industry

Don't Let Something as Wonderful as Jazz Slip Away

August 15, 2009

Regarding Terry Teachout's “Can Jazz Be Saved?The audience for America's great art form is withering away" (Leisure & Arts, Aug. 8): Miles Davis once said that “jazz is folk music"a music enjoyed by folks for entertainment, inspiration and even sometimes to provoke thought. It was Miles's music and overall persona that people found entertaining. Dizzy Gillespie ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Review: Diana Krall Fights the Chill

August 15, 2009

The cold and windy conditions at Livermore's Wente Vineyards Thursday night might have been great for growing grapes, but wasn't ideal for the sold-out crowd that turned out to see Diana Krall. And the jazz singer-pianist certainly sympathized. “I should have gotten some Diana Krall cashmere blankets made up for you," she quipped at one point. ...

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News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Oscar Peterson

August 15, 2009

All About Jazz is celebrating Oscar Peterson's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Oscar PetersonOne of the most admired pianists in jazz, Oscar Peterson has rightfully claimed the same sort of status as earlier greats such as James P. Johnson, Art Tatum, Teddy Wilson, Fats Waller, Thelonious Monk, ...

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News: Event

AAJ Orchestra to Premiere at Pier 66 (NYC) on August 14th - Free!

August 14, 2009

Jazz Comes off the Web and onto the River Free Jazz Concert on the Hudson Pier 66, on the Hudson River at West 26th Street Friday, August 14, 2009 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM New York City, A brand-new jazz ensemble, The All About Jazz Orchestra, will give its debut performance on Friday, ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Denise Donatelli with Josh Nelson Trio at Spazio Tonight

August 14, 2009

Denise Donatelli w/The Josh Nelson Trio plays Spazio Jazz Club Sherman Oaks TONIGHT! One of the jazz vocal worlds most eminently listenable talents. - Don Heckman, International Review of Music Denise Donatelli, vocals; Josh Nelson, piano; Hamilton Price, bass; Kevin Kanner, drums. Hope to see you there .... Friday, August ...