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News: Festival

Ultra Music Festival | 03.26 and 03.27 | Miami

April 6, 2010

Ultra Music Festival :: 03.26.10 & 03.27.10 :: Bicentennial Park :: Miami, Fl As the official closing event of the Winter Music Conference, Miami's Ultra Music Festival served up an elite and eclectic smattering of electronic and live acts. From humble beginnings in Miami Beach, Ultra has evolved into an international, award winning festival, smashing ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Matt Wilson Quartet to Play This Thursday, April 8 at Hixson Middle School

April 6, 2010

This just in: Drummer Matt Wilson (pictured) is bringing his quartet to St. Louis for a concert at 7:00 p.m. this Thursday, April 8 at Hixson Middle School, 630 S. Elm in Webster Groves.Wilson and his band - saxophonist Jeff Lederer, trumpeter Kirk Knuffke and bassist Chris Lightcap - will be joined onstage by ...

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News: Recording

Guitarist Tom Lagana Stakes His Claim on Second CD; Sax Legend George Garzone Guests on Schematic

April 6, 2010

Guitarist Tom Lagana Stakes His Claim on Second CD; Sax legend George Garzone Guests on SchematicScheduled for May release on Harvest Time RecordsFor the past decade, guitarist Tom Lagana has been quietly carving out a niche on the D.C.-Baltimore-Annapolis jazz scene, with occasional forays into Richmond, Virginia and Philadelphia. On Schematic, the ...

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News: Obituary

Mike Zwerin, Jazz Critic and Author, is Dead at 79

April 6, 2010

Mike Zwerin, a jazz trombonist who became a prominent jazz critic and author, died Friday in Paris after a long illness. He was 79. When he was 18, nervously sitting in with Art Blakeys group at Mintons Playhouse, in Harlem, Mr. Zwerin was noticed by the trumpeter Miles Davis, who complimented the young player and used ...

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News: Recording

Jake Hertzog Promotional Tracks

April 6, 2010

Jake Hertzog's new release on Buckyball Records, Patterns, is hitting the streets by the end of the month. We want to share with you in advance two free mp3 promo tracks. “Echoes of Metheny, Stern, and Breau (among others) surface in Hertzogs playing, but his dazzlingly adventurous approach puts him in a jazz league all his ...

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News: Recording

One Track Mind: Roberto Badoglio "Inner Urge" (2010)

April 6, 2010

By PicoI find that much of jazz is taking someone else's tune and make it into something new. The trick is to do so without casting off the thing (or things) that made it such a great tune to cover to begin with. But who can take Joe Henderson's modal madness of “Inner Urge", ...

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News: Award / Grant

Jazz Vocalist Elli Fordyce Receives a Mac Award Nomination

April 6, 2010

Jazz Vocalist Elli Fordyce Receives A MAC Award Nomination For The Second Year In A Row New York, NY -- Jazz Vocalist Elli Fordyce receives a MAC Award nomination for the second year in a row. The Manhattan Association of Cabarets and Clubs, NYCs only organization dedicated to advancing the art and business of live entertainment, ...

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News: Event

Maynard Ferguson Birthday Bash @ Chris' Jazz Cafe (Philadelphia) on May 1

April 5, 2010

Maynard Ferguson Birthday Bash! Featuring Maynard Ferguson alumni: Denis DiBlasio, Reggie Watkins and Dennis Noday at Chris' Jazz Cafe on May 1. Come experience the high energy big band jazz that only Maynard Ferguson and his band could deliver on what would have been his 82nd birthday. The alumni will be backed by the John Hoey ...

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News: Technology

Hackers Have Already Jailbroken the iPad

April 6, 2010

The iPad has only been on sale for less than three days, and already hackers have jailbroken it to get around Apple's restrictions. MuscleNerd, a member of the iPhone Dev Team committed to hacking the iPhone OS, has jailbroken the iPad after just a day of tinkering. The hack gave him root access to the iPad ...

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News: Technology

Where the iPad's Early Adopters Live

April 6, 2010

Now that we've finally embarked on a future of tablet computing (didn't we do that ten years ago?) with the iPad, we immediately got to wondering: What does iPad adoption look like across the country? Luckily, online ad network Chitika has offered some numbers on what its seeing for iPads broken down over time and state ...