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Washington, D.C. (CNN) In light of the recent downturn in the American economy, the nation’s jazz musicians have joined the long line of lobby groups looking to Washington for support as the economy slides into a deepening recession. The jazz industry is asking Washington for a bailout package and major subsidies on par with that [Continue]

Douglas Adam’s The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, the thing to have as a towel. “A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value – you can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan [Continue]

Suppose you want to play EWI. But you don’t want to play the Studebaker one. And you don’t particularly need nor want to visit the 70s and early 80s with the Analogue synth found in the EWI4000S. Fear not, Akai has heard your pleas. ” Akai Professional, the name synonymous with music production, announces EWI [Continue]

Ok, not Jazz or Saxophone related, but entertaining none the less. Check out Joss Whedon’s latest masterpiece. Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog. [Continue]

Ok, not saxophone related. But this is good. Really. [Continue]

I just was given, to look at, some technology thing from some guy named Wilson, who is in charge of CMEA (California Music Educators Association) technology or something. Anyhow, it was about Band in a Box. It read like this guy had just found the Holy Grail. And, he had really BAD rendered backgrounds done [Continue]

Pure genius! [Continue]

With all the bad stuff going on in the world, here is a little humor. You may know that Rosie O’Donnell suggested that they change the lyrics “I can shoot a partridge with a single cartridge” in the revival of “Annie Get Your Gun”, to make them less violent. This inspired writer Susan Brady Konig [Continue]

I first saw this on an episode of Southpark where, if I remember correctly, Kenny G was the star. However, one of my favorite shows MythBusters did a more scientific exploration of it. Very well done I thought. The “brown note” in case you did not know, is supposedly a note or frequency that will [Continue]

I stumbled across this tonight. Very funny. As an iPod owner, I found this enlightening.I present you with iPod vs. Cassette Tape [Continue]

This is from a Slashdot article: "I found this wonderful page on the net. The project was initially fueled by the desire to explore the MIDI protocol. It was decided that this would be accomplished by building a MIDI device, and an intelligent hamster controlled MIDI sequencer was designed. Each voice was controlled by two [Continue]

With the TransPerformance Performer you push a button to activate a mechanical re-tensioning of the strings to any of a few hundred tunings, ‘accurate to within 2 cents over the entire tuning range’, in a couple of seconds. They can even refit your existing guitar. This should be a requirement for all guitar players . [Continue]

The Cult Of Guido is taking off!!! Two cars have been spotted and photographed with “I’m Not As Good As Guido” stickers on them. If you see a “I’m Not As Good As Guido” sticker, send me a picture. They seem to be cropping up more and more There is a Six Degrees of Kevin [Continue]

J. Byron writes “ Exposing the Happy Birthday story: An editorial by J. Byron, May 2003, rev. June 2003 In this article, I attempt to answer three questions: 1 - What is that song Good Morning to All, and how does it relate to Happy Birthday to You? 2 - Is the melody to Happy [Continue]