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News: Festival

Emil Viklicky Gives a Spellbinding Performance at City of London Festival

July 25, 2009

It’s not often you see starched white table-linen and little posies of flowers decorated with national flags at a jazz gig. But this was a special event put on by the City of London Festival Festival to mark the handover of the EU presidency from the Czech Republic to Sweden (you didn’t know that important fact? ...

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News: Music Industry

Experts: Jackson Case Now a Full Criminal Probe

July 25, 2009

“This is about building a criminal case, not cause of death," lawyer says. The odd array of evidence police collected from Michael Jacksons personal physicians clinic and storage unit shows authorities are trying to follow a trail of drugs and looking into the doctors record keeping as they attempt to unravel what led to the pop ...

News: Technology

Twitter Will Remain Free, May Add Business Accounts

July 25, 2009

Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter, said instead of thinking of the service as a social tool to connect with friends, he wants Twitter to be seen as a communications and information network for discovering and sharing what is happening right now. This was part of a discussion at Fortune Brainstorm Tech about the company, perhaps the ...

News: Technology

News Corp.: Constraining Content Produces Piracy

July 25, 2009

More On This Related Links * News Corp Wants Broader Ad Deal with Goo... * Will Hulu Start Charging for Web Video? * MySpace Co-Founder DeWolfe Steps Down Related Topics * Jonathan Miller * News Corporation Ltd. * Media Sector Powered by Inform news * 7.24.2009 NASA: Permanent Mars Robots Within Ten Years * 7.24.2009 HP ...

News: Technology

AOL's New Focus: Content, Mapping

July 25, 2009

AOL's new CEO Tim Armstrong believes the company can improve its core products and focus much more on the consumer experience, which will let the company grow and attract more advertising. In a discussion on Thursday at Brainstorm Tech, Armstrong said he is focusing AOL on content, Advertising.com, local and mapping, messaging, and AOL Ventures. Armstrong ...

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News: Music Industry

Survey Shows Pirates Can Become Paying Fans

July 25, 2009

A new Interpret research report on the music consumption behaviors of “illegal" downloaders shows that while downloading can't be eradicated, there are steps that the industry can take to get downloaders to pay for music and even become assets to record labels and artists. “Illegal downloaders have been a source of frustration ...

News: Technology

Myspace Music Showing Strong Growth

July 25, 2009

Growth may have slowed for MySpace, but the same can't be said for its music.myspace.com subdomain. New Nielson figures show a 190% increase at MySpace Music since its launch in September 2008 and year-over-year traffic to the URL has increased a whopping 1,017% That's a jump from 4.2 million unique visitors to 12.1 million ...

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News: Recording

Offbeat, Nabokovian and West Coast Hip

July 25, 2009

Franz Koglmann The Austrian jazz musician and composer Franz Koglmann likes to swim among his favorite artists, touching them and then cruising by. On his new album, “Lo-lee-ta” (Col Legno), he’s thinking about Vladimir Nabokov. How do you evoke Nabokov with music? It’s a matter of indirect inspiration: “detachment and coolness,” as Mr. Koglmann explained in ...

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News: Radio

Listen to Origin Records' Northwest Jazz Show at 11:00am

July 25, 2009

Following up on our recent stories regarding the programming changes at KBCS a number of people have commented that they listen to a majority of their music online now. You might have noticed on the right side of Seattle Jazz Scene an ad for Origin Records Online Radio through Live365.com. If you have never tried it ...

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News: Performance / Tour

This Sunday: Bernie Jacobs Quartet on Jazz NW, 88.5 KPLU

July 25, 2009

Andre Thomas, Chuck Kistler, Bernie Jacobs, Eric Verlinde at The Seattle Art Museum Bernie Jacobs is a versatile musician who plays flute, saxes and sings in a wide range of settings. We recorded the Bernie Jacobs Quartet in the July Art of Jazz concert at The Seattle Art Museum. Highlights from this concert including ...