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4 Ways to Survive a Jazz Double Bass Session
Many home engineers might cringe in fear at the thought of a double-bass player walking in to record a jazz session. The instrument itself is large, has strings made from sheep's intestines, and isn't likely to show up in your usual rock and roll scene. Not to mention that jazz players aint impressed with hammer-ons, sweep ...
Is Anytime Access Worth It? The iPad 3G Review
iPad Wi-Fi + 3G In the five weeks or so that I've been spending time with an iPad, little has made me back off my initial review that while not for everybody, Apple's freshly conceived tablet is indeed a game-changer, a stunner of a machine that promises a profound long-term effect on media, mobile entertainment and ...
Net Neut: Webs Users Against Its Gatekeepers
With the majority of Internet traffic expected to shift to congestion-prone mobile networks, there is growing debate on both sides of the Atlantic about whether operators of the networks should be allowed to treat Web users differently, based on the users consumption. Proponents of the current system called network neutrality see that principle as a kind ...
West Coast Cool: The Jazz Sound of '50s California
When someone talks about “West Coast jazz" or “cool jazz," they're almost invariably referring to a style performed by jazz musicians in California (and primarily in Los Angeles) in the '50s and early '60s. As opposed to the hard-bop sound dominant on the East Coast during that time, the West Coast sound was a bit mellower ...
BT3 Returns with Hard Jazz/Funk Grooves & Guitar Pyrotechnics to Fat Baby -- Wednesday, May 19th @ 8PM
From a lifetime of breaking boundaries, leading an award-winning, DC-based hip-hop/fusion band, Miscellaneous Flux, and collaborating with numerous musical pioneers (Vernon Reid, Burnt Sugar: The Arkestra Chamber, and DJ Logic), guitarist Ben Tyree, pushes forward with his own ground-breaking, improvisational, sci-fi/jazz/funk trio project, BT3. On Wednesday, May 19th at 8pm, Tyree will present BT3 at Fat ...
Star-Studded Lineup for the Smooth Jazz Cruise 2012 Includes Smokey Robinson
Smooth sailing in the Caribbean with music legends and luminaries Star-studded lineup for The Smooth Jazz Cruise 2012 includes Smokey Robinson St. Louis, MO: Expect a Miracle at The Greatest Party at Sea. The stellar lineup to set sail from Fort Lauderdale to the Caribbean aboard The Smooth Jazz Cruise in 2012 was announced today by ...
Happy Birthday, Richard "Groove" Holmes!
Organist Richard “Groove" Holmes (born May 2, 1931) must have been extremely fond of his nickname. Or the marketing people at the record labels he recorded for were just cashing in on his brand. For whatever reason, variations on the word groove appear in numerous album titles:Groovin' with Jug (1961)Blue Groove (1967)The Groover! (1968)Workin' on a ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Bing Crosby
All About Jazz is celebrating Bing Crosby's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Bing CrosbyBing Crosby was the fourth of seven children of Tacoma, Washington, brewery bookkeeper Harry Lowe Crosby and Kate Harrigan Crosby... more Website | Photos | Articles Follow Bing Crosby Put ...
Multi-Instrumentalist/Composer Fred Frith Interviewed at AAJ...And More!
Since emerging in the 1970s with the fearless British group Henry Cow, multi-instrumentalist Fred Frith has built a career that's as comfortable in the realm of contemporary classical music as it is the equally innovative arena of free improvisation. From collaborations with John Zorn to his latest “rock" group, Cosa Brava, Frith refuses to sit still; ...
Kinky Friedman Announces First Tour of the West Coast in Two Decades
Former Texas gubernatorial candidate, political commentator and self-proclaimed “author, columnist, musician and beautician" Kinky Friedman will perform on the West Coast this summer for the first time in nearly 20 years. Dates for the Go West Young Kinky Tour of 2010 start on July 26th in Vancouver and continue into August. Two members of Kinky's seminal ...
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