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News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Venissa Santi

May 10, 2009

All About Jazz is celebrating Venissa Santi's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Venissa SantiBienvenida First solo recording. To be released April 21st 2009 on Sunnyside records!! A bilingual album of jazz and Cuban standards, Afro-Cuban folkloric songs, Rumba with original songs in English, Boleros dressed in the ...

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News: Contest

Enter the Ubiquity Records "NOMO - Invisible Cities" Giveaway Contest

May 9, 2009

All About Jazz members are invited to enter the Ubiquity Records “NOMO - Invisible Cities“ giveaway contest starting today. We'll select FIVE winners at the conclusion of the contest on June 7th. Click here to enter the contest (Following NOMO at AAJ automatically enters you in the contest.) Good luck! Your Friends at Ubiquity ...

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News: Interview

Interview: Creed Taylor (Part 20)

May 9, 2009

Creed Taylor has never before granted an interview about the events leading up to the bankruptcy of CTI Records in 1978. Until now, that is. In an exclusive conversation with JazzWax, the maverick producer looks back at one of the most painful periods of his career, reflecting on the shifting record-industry business practices during that decade ...

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News: Music Industry

Peace, Quiet and Pajama-Clad Jazz

May 9, 2009

Frankie Foye styles hair for a living, traveling to studios and locations around the world to make models look just right in fashion advertisements for such clients as Bergdorf Goodman and Victoria’s Secret. Since she spends so many days working with big crews in noisy photography studios filled with blaring music and inordinate demands, she has ...

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News: Education

Seattle Times: 3 Seattle-Area Schools Intend to Prove Their Essentially Ellington Prowess This Weekend

May 9, 2009

Essentially Ellington, the nation’s premier high-school jazz band competition, begins in New York City today, and once again, Seattle-area schools are there. The 2009 field includes Seattle’s Garfield and Roosevelt high schools, plus Bellevue’s Newport High School. Roosevelt won the 2008 contest, with Garfield finishing second, showing Seattle’s continued dominance of the competition. Seattle-area schools have ...

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News: Event

Galaxie Gypsy Jazz Jam with Alfonso Ponticelli

May 9, 2009

CHICAGO, Ill. – Alfonso Ponticelli is set to lead the next gypsy jazz jam session at the Gaaxie on Thursday, May 21 from 8 to 11 pm. These sessions are open to jazz fans, musicians and dancers of all types and levels, as well as fans of vintage films. Previous sessions have featured bands such as ...

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News: Music Industry

Live Nation Attendance Drops 22%. is Live Music in Trouble Too?

May 9, 2009

Conventional wisdom says that live music is exempt from recessions. Even when times are tough - perhaps particularly when times are tough - people want to party. But that didn"t prevent Live Nation's first-quarter losses widened as the company saw a sharp drop in attendance for North American concerts. Live Nation's quarterly earnings report showed a ...

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News: Festival

Virgin Music Fest Expands to Five Canadian Cities

May 9, 2009

The Virgin Music Festival will hit five Canadian cities this summer, including Montreal, the event’s organizers announced today. The festival, which launched in 2006, is sponsored by Virgin Mobile Canada, which was fully acquired by Canadian telecommunications giant Bell Canada today. Event organizers didn’t disclose which cities the festival would be hitting, naming only Ontario, British ...

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News: Technology

Cell-Phone-Only Homes Top Those with Landlines

May 9, 2009

For quite some time now, the number of people in the U.S. that have dropped landlines in favor of cell phones has gradually increased. However, it seems we've reached a milestone. According to the Associated Press, the number of U.S. households opting for only cell phones has for the first time surpassed those that just have ...

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News: Book / Magazine

Hugh Hefner the Bunny Man

May 9, 2009

I've been in this room in the Playboy Mansion before. As I recall, the painting on the wall was a topless portrait of his wife, Kimberley, mother of his two teenage sons, from whom he is now separated. Now it's just Hefner, painted in Tudor robes, in the style of Holbein. In person, he wears his ...