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Announcing the Winners of the "Erik Telford - Kinetic" Contest
Jason Adams, Robert Klevan, Ronald Holst and Martin Brandt, Congratulations! You're the lucky winners of the “Erik Telford - Kinetic“ giveaway. All About Jazz will contact you about claiming your prize. We'd like to thank everyone who participated in the contest and please visit Erik Telford's website for the latest information. Enjoy the music! Your Friends ...
Pow!: Undead Jazzfest
I started Inverted Garden to join a conversation that I heard increasing in volume and seriousness: namely, how to “revive" jazz. For the last 40 years, the imminent death of jazz has been oft foretold, and while much of the doomsaying has been nothing more than Chicken Little-ism, it does seem true that the jazz audience ...
Some Enchanting Evening
South Pacific has a way of making grown men cry. Kenneth Tynan started his 1951 review of the musicals London premiere with the confession, I wept, and there is nothing in criticism harder than to convey ones gratitude for that. The tears shed for the beautifully sung Lincoln Center Theater production, which opened Wednesday at the ...
Lawyers, Nations Clamor for Google Wi-Fi Data
A hard drive with perhaps several hundred gigabytes of internet surfers private data resides under lock and key in a Portland, Oregon, federal courthouse. Regulators and private lawyers across Europe and the United States are demanding, and in some cases obtaining, access to data that Google sniffed for the past three years from unsecured Wi-Fi hot ...
What is That Weird Hum During World Cup Games?
Is there something wrong with your television set, or has a swarm of angry bees invaded the World Cup pitch? Neither the strange noise you're hearing during today's World Cup games (and for the rest of the tournament, presumably) is the sound of thousands of vuvuzelas. But what, pray tell, is a vuvuzela? A vuvuzela is ...
With 'Mojo,' Tom Petty Happily Sings the Blues
Tom Petty's plunge into the blues left him ecstatic. “We finally made a record worthy of the band, one that makes use of the musicianship," he says. “Every rehearsal for years started with blues. It's how we sound after hours. I thought, 'we should stay where we naturally play.' I'm more excited than I've been in ...
The Comedian as Politician, and Often Vice Versa
Bob Hope Collection, Library of Congress Its great for a comedian to be honored in Washington, Bob Hope said when he was celebrated at the Kennedy Center in 1985. If there was ever a city that knew how to get laughs ... . There are so many congressmen and senators here, he added. I ...
Esperanza Spalding, Liberation Fighter for Jazz
If you really want to hear Esperanza Spalding get excited talking about jazz, ask her about its effect on 5-year-olds she introduces to free jazz. Speaking by phone from her home in Portland, Ore., the effervescent young bassist's conversational tempo shifts into another gear as she talks about leading a jazz workshop at an elementary school. ...
Flickr Loves Facebook
Social photo-sharing site Flickr has, at long last, added some much-need social networking integration to its online service. You can now simultaneously post your photos to Flickr and Facebook. Only photos you set as “public" will appear on your Facebook Wall, however, as the new sharing options respect your photos' privacy settings. But don't be confused ...
The Sounds and Songs of Stanley Cup Rivals
While the Flyers and the Blackhawks have waged a fierce battle for the Stanley Cup, the singing of “God Bless America" and “The Star-Spangled Banner" has its own competition for bragging rights between the cities of Philadelphia and Chicago. Kate Smith singing “God Bless America," which had become a Flyers talisman, in 1975. The Flyers won ...
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