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News: Technology

Apple iAd Platforms Entry Fee Reported to be $1 Million

May 2, 2010

Apples iAd platform holds lots of promise for advertisers, considering how much people use their iPads, iPhones and iPods. But buying into this game wont be cheap. The company plans to charge each advertiser a minimum of $1 million when the platform rolls out in the next few month between five and 10 times what competing ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Aretha Franklin Cancels Jazz Fest Appearance

May 2, 2010

Soul legend Aretha Franklin has canceled her appearance at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, but organizers and fans got lucky with a replacement. Earth, Wind & Fire happens to be in the area and offered to play on the popular music festival's largest stage on Friday night. Festival spokesman Louis Edwards says the “Queen ...

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News: Technology

3G-Enabled iPads on Sale

May 2, 2010

5 p.m. a couple hundred people lined up at the the Fifth Avenue Apple store in Manhattan to pick up a 3G-enabled iPad. First in line: Justin Sher, 31, a molecular biologist from Brooklyn, who'd been waiting since about noon. Sher said he'd seen the Wi-Fi iPad and was “totally stoked" about buying the 3G version. ...

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News: Technology

Dead Zone Doldrums Test Skills of iPhone Customers

May 2, 2010

Owners of iPhones know that their love for Steve Jobs's touch-screen marvel comes at a price. The iPhone's cellular coverage, provided exclusively by AT&T Wireless, is notoriously spotty. In some parts of New York and San Francisco, it's impossible to connect. If you go for a dim sum lunch at Yank Sing restaurant on the edge ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Tomas Fujiwara Exploring the Drums' Potential as an Orchestra in Miniature

May 2, 2010

The drummer Tomas Fujiwara works with rhythm as a pliable substance, solid but ever shifting. Over the last five years he has established a busy profile on the experimental end of the jazz spectrum, where such perspective is vital; before that he was a cast member of “Stomp," the polymorphously percussive Off Broadway show. His style ...

News: Performance / Tour

Actor Cast for Charles Musical

May 2, 2010

Actor Brandon Victor Dixon will portray the legendary singer Ray Charles in “Unchain My Heart," a new musical opening on Broadway Nov. 7. Dixon won rave reviews earlier this season for his performance in “The Scottsboro Boys," the John Kander-Fred Ebb musical at off-Broadway's Vineyard Theatre. He also starred in the original Broadway production of “The ...

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News: Book / Magazine

Jazz: A History of America's Music (Hardcover)

May 2, 2010

Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns deserve far more than simple gratitude for bringing jazz to the limelight with this lavishly illustrated volume. The book features among its 500-plus pictures many of the previously unseen shots of musicians and venues glimpsed in Burns's 10-part documentary, Jazz. Continuing in the tradition of their critically acclaimed works, Geoffrey ...

News: Technology

iPhone Finder Regrets His Mistake

May 2, 2010

The person who found and sold an Apple iPhone prototype says he regrets not doing more to return the device to its owner, according to a statement provided by his attorney Thursday in response to queries from Wired.com. Brian J. Hogan, a 21-year-old resident of Redwood City, California, says although he was paid by tech site ...

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News: Festival

10th Annual Jazz Party at Sea

May 2, 2010

The 10th Annual Jazz Party at Sea is happening November 6 - 13, 2010. Guests will enjoy performances by the Heath Brothers, the Freddy Cole Quartet, Steve Turre, Larry Coryell, the Mulgrew Miller Trio, Larry Gray, the Marcus Belgrave Sextet, the Dena DeRose Trio, Sherri Maricle & The Diva Jazz Orchestra and many, many more. The ...

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News: Radio

KKJZ-FM Los Angeles Makes Lineup Changes

May 2, 2010

Jazz station KKJZ-FM (88.1) is adding a new program to its weekend schedule, “Bebop and More," featuring music by classic artists such as Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Thelonious Monk along with contemporary performers such as Christian Scott. It will air Saturdays from 7 to 10 p.m. and Sundays from 8 to 11 p.m., beginning this ...