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News: Award / Grant

ASCAP to Add Seven Music Greats to Jazz Wall of Fame at Jazz at Lincoln Center Event

May 21, 2009

NEW INDUCTEES ARE LIVING LEGENDS JON HENDRICKS, JOHNNY MANDEL, ANNIE ROSS AND RANDY WESTON AND JAZZ GIANTS OF THE PAST JOHN COLTRANE, DAVE LAMBERT AND TITO PUENTE Regina Carter to be recognized with the ASCAP Foundation Vanguard Award Anat Cohen to receive The ASCAP Jazz Wall Of Fame Prize Event Will Also Celebrate Recipients of the ...

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News: Technology

It's Official: Netflix Coming to Windows Media Center

May 21, 2009

After years of unofficial support, Netflix is finally coming to Windows Media Center. When the DVD-distributing giant first announced streaming video, clever programmers were quick to create add-ins that allowed users of Media Center to view the content on their systems--apps like MyNetflix and vmcNetFlix. But the apps were quirky, breaking whenever Netflix tweaked its interface, ...

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News: Technology

Facebook's Zuckerberg in No Rush to IPO

May 21, 2009

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg hopes to eventually take his company public but said it won't be for a few years, and stressed that the world's largest online social network is in no immediate need of capital. The 25-year-old co-founder of Facebook said he is always open to partnerships and investments, but stressed that Facebook can achieve ...

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News: Festival

JVC Jazz Fest-NY Cancellation Reported

May 21, 2009

No major, mainstream, corporate-supported jazz fest will occur in New York City this summer, according to today's New York Times report confirming my posting of April 15. Festival Network principal Chris Shields, purchaser in 2007 of the production company headed by George Wein which staged June jazz concerts at major mid-town Manhattan venues for 37 years, ...

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News: Technology

Sixth Grader Wins Google Logo Contest

May 21, 2009

Amazing prizes, worldwide exposure, and the Google empire at your beck and call, if only for 24 hours--not a bad day for a sixth grader. Top honors in the second annual Doodle 4 Google competition went to budding artist Christin Engelberth, 12, who attends Bernard Harris Middle School in San Antonio, TX. Her logo doodle, “A ...

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News: Music Industry

Bruce Cockburn: Water into Wine

May 21, 2009

By: Dennis Cook These fragile bodies of touch and taste This vibrant skin, this hair like lace Spirits open to the thrust of grace Never a breath you can afford to waste Bruce Cockburn There is a sense of ...

News: Festival

New York Loses Its Jazz Festival

May 21, 2009

Around this time of year, posters for the JVC Jazz Festival would be appearing on the streets of New York, and jazz tourists would be finalizing plans to arrive in the middle of June for two weeks of bragworthy shows. But for the first time in 37 years, there will be no major summer jazz festival ...

News: Recording

Zappa Digital Downloads

May 21, 2009

ZAPPA RECORDS BEGINS SELLING DIGITAL DOWNLOADS DIRECTLY FROM ZAPPA.COM MOVE COMMEMORATES THE 45TH ANNIVERSARY OF ZAPPA NAMING HIS BAND THE MOTHERS Frank Zappa Zappa Records has begun selling official digital downloads (ODDs) directly from Zappa.com with the 41st anniversary release of MOTHERMANIA, which also marks the 45th anniversary of Frank Zappa & The Mothers. ...

News: Recording

Peter Martin Releases New Solo Piano CD "Set of Five"

May 21, 2009

Jazz pianist and St. Louis native Peter Martin has released a new CD of solo piano music entitled Set of Five. The EP-length release includes five tracks: “Dr. Jazz", “I Can't Help It", “Intimate Dance", “Basin Street Blues" and “Viva La Vida".Set of Five is available as either an MP3 download or CD directly ...

News: Performance / Tour

Triango @ BistrOuge (NY) on June 7th

May 21, 2009

New York TRIANGO, a fertile Euro-American trio mesh up in jazz improvisation flavored with tango, a taste of Central European schmaltz, echoes of classical and contemporary music, folk music influences, playing based on a detailed research of sources but also on a maximum creativity where stylistic distance provides an extraordinary and observant insight, all this enriching ...