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Montreal Jazz Festival Heats up the Music
Montreal has never been called the birthplace of jazz. But for the past three decades, the city has been pivotal in stoking the genre's flames via the ever-growing Montreal Jazz Festival. Kicking off this weekend, the fest -- which swells to 12 days this year -- will present more than 650 shows spread across nearly two ...
Giuseppi Logan to Play 1st Annual Albert Ayler Festival
Legendary saxophonist Giuseppi Logan will perform at the 1st Annual Albert Ayler Festival, July 10th 2-10pm Riverwalk Commons, Roosevelt Island. FREE. Logan, who knew ESP labelmate Ayler in the 60's, has released his first album in 45 years, The Giuseppi Logan Quintet, featuring Dave Burrell, Francois Grillot, Warren Smith and Matt Lavelle. “With Giuseppi, it's always ...
Songwriters Fest Fails to Carry a Tune
Everyone showed up late to the party Perhaps it was because everyone knew who the winners were well before the ASCAP Rhythm & Soul Music Awards were doled out Friday night. But everyone was late to the party. The wind whistled through the ballroom at the Beverly Hilton at the scheduled start time; finally, more than ...
Isabel Rose Shows Moxie on Jazz/Swing Triumph 'Swingin' from the Hip'
Isabel Rose's Quirky, Upbeat Mix of Songs, From 'Hit Me With Your Best Shot' to 'Aquarius', Make 'Swingin' From The Hip' a Vibrant Jazz/Swing/Cabaret Knockout Isabel Rose has moxie--the kind that made multi-hyphenates such as Ann-Margret, Peggy Lee and Bette Midler so appealing in years past. Rose's never-say-never attitude has carried her through many an odd ...
Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival
Close-ups of strings, fretboards and guitarists call used fingers filled the video screens on Saturday at Toyota Park here, a stadium just outside Chicago, where Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival presented some two-dozen guitar-slingers during a sold-out, 11-hour concert. Joining Mr. Clapton among the headliners were B. B. King, Jeff Beck, John Mayer, Buddy Guy and ...
Broadband Availability to Expand
The Obama administration is seeking to nearly double the wireless communications spectrum available for commercial use over the next 10 years, an effort that could greatly enhance the ability of consumers to send and receive video and data with smartphones and other hand-held devices. President Obama will sign a presidential memorandum on Monday that aims to ...
Got an iPhone 4 and Want to Try FaceTime? Just Call 1-888-FaceTime
One of the iPhone 4's most heralded new features is FaceTime video calling. For the time being, however, this only works for calls from one iPhone 4 to another, so if you don't know anybody with an iPhone 4, you can't really test it. Thankfully, though, Apple just set up a phone number for you to ...
ASCAP Assails Free-Culture, Digital-Rights Groups
The association representing 380,000 composers, songwriters, lyricists and others associated with the music industry has begun a fund-raising campaign to stifle groups that support free culture and digital rights. The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers is urging the membership to donate money to battle the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Public Knowledge and even Creative Commons. ...
10 Stellar iPad Apps That Will Blow You Away
The iPad is less than three months old, and already programmers have whipped up 9,000 apps for the fancy tablet. But, just as with the iPhone, there's a problem: Its hard to navigate the App Store for quality wares because its just too crowded. Right before the iPad launched and after it came out, we rounded ...
Reliving Peter Tosh Live at the Montreux Jazz Festival
Offbeat travels back in time to July 16, 1979, 30 years past, to figuratively relive reggae legend Peter Tosh performing a devastating live set at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland. The concert was performed in The Casino which is mostly known for having been burnt down eight years earlier and memorialized in the Deep ...
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