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News: Performance / Tour

Firehouse 12 to Present the Michael Attias Quintet May 1st

April 30, 2009

On Friday, May 1st, New York-based saxophonist/composer Michael Attias will make his Firehouse 12 debut as part of the venue's ongoing 2009 Spring Jazz Series. Fresh off a two-week stint performing his original live electronic score for the Yale Repertory Theater's production of Dostoevsky's “Notes From The Underground" in late March and early April, Attias will ...

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News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Percy Heath

April 30, 2009

All About Jazz is celebrating Percy Heath's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Percy HeathThe American jazz musician and bassist with the Modern Jazz Quartet, Percy Heath, began his musical apprenticeship in 1946, after Air Force service. It was just the right time... more Website | ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Barbican Celebrates Moondog

April 30, 2009

September 8th 2009 will mark the tenth anniversary of the death of Moondog, the blind American musician who for years was a familiar figure on the streets of New York. Moondog was the pseudonym of Louis Hardin, born 1916. From the late 1940s until the 1970s he performed on the streets of New York. Famously, he ...

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News: Interview

Bluesman Billy Jones Interviewed at AAJ

April 30, 2009

It's a long way from the rich, fertile delta lands of North Little Rock, Ark., to the Netherlands, where Billy Jones records for Dutch blues label Black and Tan Records, but it was a route of which he never lost sight. Billy Jones is betting that the blues can experience a revival of interest--what is needed ...

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News: Technology

Time Warner to Spin off AOL

April 30, 2009

The Internet service's plunging revenue has been dragging down the media company that it acquired in 2000. In 2000, America Online Inc. used its soaring stock price to gobble up Time Warner Inc. and create the world's largest media conglomerate. Nearly a decade later, it's Time Warner that's spitting out AOL. Time Warner said in a ...

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News: Technology

Top 10 Twitter Tools for Musicians

April 30, 2009

Great Tools For Fans Too SONG.LY - Type in a song title or mp3 link to tweeT and your followers get a short link to a page allowing them to play the song right in the browser without having to download it. TWITTERFEED - Use this free service to have your RSS feeds ...

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News: Technology

Experts Warn Internet is Running Out of Bandwidth

April 30, 2009

Internet users face regular “brownouts" that will freeze their computers as capacity runs out in cyberspace, according to research to be published later this year. Experts predict that consumer demand, already growing at 60 percent a year, will start to exceed supply as early as 2010 because of more people working online and the soaring popularity ...

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News: Music Industry

Next Music Battle: Hulu vs. Vevo

April 30, 2009

Music videos started life online as giveaways to win bands new fans — much as they did when MTV actually showed videos. But now, as the future of music sales seems dim, music labels see gold in what they used to handout for free. The change started about five years ago when labels began charging distributors ...

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News: Technology

Your Facebook Profile Makes Marketers’ Dreams Come True

April 30, 2009

Social networking feels free, but we pay for it in ways that may not be readily apparent. The rich personal data many of us enter into these networks is a treasure trove for marketers whose job it is to target us with ever-increasing precision. A company called Colligent mines social networks for data that it sells ...

News: Technology

MPAA Pounds Realnetworks' Glaser on Witness Stand

April 30, 2009

RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser, on the witness stand for the second day in a lawsuit challenging his DVD copying software, was hammered by the motion picture studios’ attorney questioning his earlier testimony. On Tuesday, Glaser testified that it would be “relatively easy” for the Hollywood studios to encrypt rental videos differently than those sold to consumers. ...