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News: Festival

Toronto Jazz Festival Announces Complete Line-Up

April 4, 2009

On Monday, April 6, the TD Canada Trust Toronto Jazz Festival will unveil its 2009 line-up, including the addition of British sensation Jamie Cullum. Previously confirmed artists for the 23rd edition of the Festival include Sonny Rollins and the Gary Burton Quartet Revisited with special guest Pat Metheny, Steve Swallow and Antonio Sanchez. This years Festival ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Bill Frisell's Disfarmer Project at Skirball Center

April 4, 2009

Long known for merging rustic Americana with atmospheric jazz, Bill Frisell brought to the Skirball Center on Thursday night. His new Disfarmer Project, a suite of as-yet- untitled compositions intended for a future CD release that are inspired by the American photographer known as Disfarmer. An eccentric, reclusive man, Disfarmer, born Mike Meyers, became an outsider ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Clarinetist David Krakauer's Klezmer All Star Bash at Carnegie Hall

April 4, 2009

The Wild and Woolly Music of the Shtetl, in All Its Infinite Variety. The clarinetist David Krakauer, the artistic director of Klezmer All-Star Bash at Carnegie Hall on Thursday, taking the stage to play a number with the Klezmatics, one of the evenings acts. What comes after a revival? Thats the question that a generation of ...

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News: Performance / Tour

The Slack-Key Guitarist Makana, One Mans New Take On an Old Tradition

April 4, 2009

Half a dozen songs into his show at the Sage Theater in Times Square on Thursday night, Makana paused for reflection. Somehow, he said, not being of Hawaiian ancestry allowed me to really embrace the artistic side of the culture. The line felt sincere but well worn; its air of self-reassurance suggested a talisman on a ...

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News: TV / Film

Soloist Downtown Street Musician Inspires Times Columnist

April 4, 2009

When I met a street musician in downtown Los Angeles nearly four years ago, a guy playing a violin that was missing two strings, I wasn't sure I'd ever write about him. But as I got to know more about this gent, Nathaniel Anthony Ayers, one column led to another, and then to a book called ...

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News: Music Industry

Carlos Santana Wants Obama to Legalize Pot

April 4, 2009

Guitar legend says money for teachers, education would transform country President Barack Obama brushed off a question about legalizing marijuana in his online town hall last month, but guitar god Carlos Santana says he wishes he would seriously consider it. “Legalize marijuana and take all that money and invest it in teachers and in education,” Santana ...

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News: Music Industry

Ex-Beatle Harrison to Get Hollywood Star

April 4, 2009

Paul McCartney may have a knighthood, but it’s George Harrison who is receiving the royal treatment from the Hollywood Walk of Fame this month. Harrison will receive a star on the fabled walk on April 14, the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce announced Friday. His widow, Olivia Harrison, and his son, Dhani, are expected to attend the ...

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News: Technology

Ticketmaster Seller Records Subpoenaed

April 4, 2009

Regulators look closer at Ticketmaster-Live Nation. Last month Ticketmaster Chairman Barry Diller denied wrongdoing in the handling of the Springsteen tickets. The company is being forced to identify clients who sold tickets to two Springsteen concerts in New Jersey. Fans complained about paying marked-up prices through Ticketmaster's resale unit. An investigation into how Ticketmaster Entertainment Inc. ...

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News: Technology

Murdoch Calls Google, Yahoo Copyright Thieves

April 4, 2009

Rupert Murdoch, the owner of News Corp. and The Wall Street Journal, says Google and Yahoo are giant copyright scofflaws that steal the news. “The question is, should we be allowing Google to steal all our copyright ... not steal, but take," Murdoch says. “Not just them, but Yahoo." But whether search-engine news aggregation is theft ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Youman Wilder and Weird Stories Live from Here

April 4, 2009

Youman Wilder and Weird Stories have not been on the music scene much in the past year. After performing over 470 shows in an 2 year period decided to take a long sabbatical from touring. The band decided to work on different projects as well as continuing work on the humanitarian work the band has come ...