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News: TV / Film

'American Idol's' Bigger Message

May 19, 2009

Finalists Adam Lambert and Kris Allen help illustrate how people with cultural differences can make beautiful music together. The two-part finale of hit series “American Idol," which begins tonight, is the most talked-about thing in television right now, partly because this season's contenders, Adam Lambert and Kris Allen, are exciting performers. But it's also because they ...

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News: Technology

Napster: $5 Monthly Streaming with 5 Downloads

May 19, 2009

Napster is adding a new hybrid tier to its music subscription service that includes unlimited computer only streaming plus 5 free downloads for $5 monthly. While compatible with most web connected music devices, there is no mobile component to the new offering. The $5 monthly tier will be promoted primarily in Best ...

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News: Interview

Interview: Jackie Cain (Part 1)

May 19, 2009

There is no cheerier voice in jazz than Jackie Cain's. A teenage singing sensation in Milwaukee and then Chicago in the mid-1940s, Jackie met her life-long husband and singing partner Roy Kral by accident after dropping in at a local club. Shortly after the vocalese duo joined Charlie Ventura in 1948, they rose rapidly to prominence ...

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News: Event

NFL Awards 2013 Super Bowl to New Orleans

May 19, 2009

New Orleans is a Super Bowl city again. Big Easy beats out Miami and Glendale, Ariz., gets title game for 10th time. NFL owners voted Tuesday to play the 2013 Super Bowl in New Orleans, the first time the championship game will be played there since Hurricane Katrina shredded parts of the Louisiana Superdome. The hurricane ...

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News: Award / Grant

Announcing 13th Annual JJA Jazz Awards Nominees and Gala

May 19, 2009

The Jazz Journalists Association -- of which I'm president--has announced finalist nominees in 42 categories of excellence in jazz music, recording, presenting and journalism at a new website, JazzJournalists.org--which also details who's playing at the Jazz Standard (NYC) cocktail barbeque where winners will be announced on June 16, 3-6 pm. and lets you buy tickets to ...

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News: Obituary

Alfred Appel Jr. Professor Wrote on Jazz, Literature Passes

May 19, 2009

Alfred Appel Jr., 75, a Northwestern University English professor who was a leading expert on Russian American author Vladimir Nabokov and a scholar of modern art and jazz, died of heart failure May 2 at a hospital in Evanston, Ill. As a Cornell University undergraduate, Appel studied under Nabokov and in 1970 produced one of his ...

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News: Interview

Notes from the Net: An 8-Bit Tribute to Miles Davis, David Sanborn Interviewed, Plus News, Reviews, and More

May 19, 2009

Here's this week's compilation of assorted news briefs and links related to jazz, improvisation, and creative music in St. Louis, including news of musicians originally from the Gateway City, recent visitors, and coming attractions, plus assorted other items of interest:* As is customary, we begin with the Miles Davis beat, where the news is ...

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News: Obituary

Lee Solters Prominent Publicist for Hollywood Stars and Broadway Plays Dies

May 19, 2009

Lee Solters, 89, a longtime publicist who worked with some of the biggest names of Broadway and Hollywood, died Monday of natural causes at his home in West Hollywood, according to Jerry Digney, his partner in the public relations firm of Solters & Digney. In the 1960s, Solters was considered the top publicist on Broadway and ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Sonny Rollins to Play at the Touhill on Saturday, September 19

May 19, 2009

He's been called the “Saxophone Colossus," “the heavyweight champion of the tenor sax," and even “the world's greatest jazz improviser." Whatever superlatives you choose to apply, there's no doubt that even after more than fifty years in the music business, Sonny Rollins remains one of the most intriguing and important musicians in jazz.The rumors ...

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News: Festival

Full Programme Announced for Ornette Coleman's Meltdown

May 19, 2009

The complete programme has been announced for Ornette Coleman's Meltdown festival, which runs at London's Southbank from June 13th to 21st. As well as the headline acts that had already been announced--and for which tickets are selling fast-- the full programme now includes all the support acts, the free events, and the opportunity for a limited ...