poet, interviewer, musician, traveler
What a difference a good copy editor makes. This New York Times story on the Zinedine Zidane head-butt incident contains a photo with the following caption:
As Italy celebrated, France wondered why Zinédine Zidane, with President Jacques Chirac, head-butted an opponent.
Unless the secret agents of a shady global conspiracy edited out the footage of Chirac joining Zidane in his whacking of Materazzi, I think that caption may need a little tinkering.
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The Jason Crane Show is now available via iTunes. Just use this link, which will open iTunes and take you to The Jason Crane Show page, from which you can subscribe to the feed. Enjoy!
One more thing: You can listen to the show right now using the snazzy PodPress player right in the post. Clicking on the Play button (the triangle) will start the show. You can also download using the Download link. Cool, huh?
Comments closedPlease note that this show is now available at thejasoncraneshow.com.
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From the producers of Traffic Jam on Jazz90.1 and The Jason Crane Show on NewsTalk 950 comes a bold new podcast…
The Jason Crane Show! (OK, I kept the old name.)
This show will feature interviews, reviews, and my views on a host of topics from politics to science to the arts. The pilot episode is now available. To listen:
I hope to have The Jason Crane Show available at iTunes soon. Please give it a listen and let me know what you think. Thanks!
Comments closedDuring the recent Rochester International Jazz Festival, I sat down for an hour with guitarist, arranger and songwriter Joel Harrison. The interview is now available at All About Jazz.
Comments closedAs you can see, I’ve made a few changes around the old place. Thanks to Erik Telford for pointing me to the excellent hosting site dreamhost.com, where this site is now living. They have a very simple one-click install feature for setting up WordPress blogs. Here’s the 10-cent tour:
As James Brown says, let’s take it from the top. The photo is of the Hagyard Building on Main Street in my hometown — Lenox, Massachusetts. This building is where I lived with my mom and grandparents when I was first born. My grandparents lived on the floor with the bay windows, and my great-uncle and his wife lived upstairs. The first floor was the Hagyard Pharmacy, thus the name of the building. Clicking on the photo will always bring you back to the home page.
Right under the photo is the navigation bar. You can get to my bio and resume, the home page and the links page from here. You can also send me an e-mail using the link that says … wait for it … SEND E-MAIL. Tricky!
On the right side is the other navigation bar. You’ve got the basics repeated there, plus two other snazzy features: Categories and Archives. You can pick a subject area from the category list, and you’ll see all the posts that fit that subject. For example, if you want to read everything I’ve written about the Rochester International Jazz Festival, just click on the RIJF category. Similarly, you can read all the posts from a specific month by choosing that month from the Archives list.
Underneath the archives is the search box. You can search for any word or phrase on the site by entering your text into that box.
Under the search box is the mailing list subscription box. Just type your name and e-mail address into the boxes, and you’ll receive periodic e-mail updates about the site.
If you look way down at the bottom, you’ll find the RSS feed. You can plug that link into your news reader or other RSS reader and get the updates delivered right to you every time I add something new.
Soon, I’ll be adding more multimedia files, including the new Jason Crane Show podcast.
Drop me a line to let me know what you think of the new site, and thanks for stopping by!
Comments closedMy review of the 2006 Rochester International Jazz Festival — written as a track list for a mixtape — is now at All About Jazz. Enjoy!
Comments closedNew York shot down gay marriage rights today (read the New York Times article). In response, Rochester’s progressives met in historic Washington Square Park downtown to grieve, shout and plan for tomorrow. Here are two images from today’s events:
I watched the documentary Miles Electric: A Different Kind of Blue tonight, having seen the first half two years ago at the Rochester International Jazz Festival. About 25 minutes in, percussionist and Miles sideman Mtume drops this:
You cannot create new music without access to new colors. Unfortunately, jazz — to me — stopped developing when the premier jazz creators did not want to accept the reality of electronics. Look man, when the piano, the tempered scale, was created — the 440 — that was the synthesizer of its time. I’m sure there were some harpsichord players walking around talking about “they’re not keeping it real.”
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I found a link to World Jump Day on my friend Josh Rutner’s site. The idea? To have everyone in certain parts of the world jump at the same time, thus altering Earth’s orbit and stopping global warming. It’ll also make the weather nicer.
Looks like Van Halen were right.
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My review of Andre Canniere’s new album As of Yet is now ready for your reading pleasure at All About Jazz.
Comments closedAuthor, blogger and jazzhead Doug Ramsey was in Rochester recently to write about The Commission Project’s annual Swing ‘n Jazz event.
While he was here, he also wrote two good pieces about Rochester as he saw it. The first piece is an overview of the city, and the second essay is a tourist’s-eye’view of the Flower City. I always enjoy reading about where I live as viewed through another’s eyes. If you feel the same, check out Doug’s essays. And then put his blog on your daily reading list.
Comments closedNEW ORLEANS (22 June 2006) — The family of jazz pianist Hilton Ruiz, who died June 6 in New Orleans, is suing Club Utopia, claiming Ruiz was attacked in the Bourbon Street dance club while the club’s bouncers “failed to intervene in any meaningful fashion.”
Filed by Ruiz’s daughter, Aida Ruiz, the negligence suit alleges the security workers didn’t even call an ambulance for Ruiz after the May 19 incident, but instead threw him out of the club.
Police said the incident first was investigated as an attack, but evidence indicated Ruiz sustained his injuries in a fall that left him unconscious. (He never regained consciousness.)
Utopia manager Fred Woodruff said he had not heard about the lawsuit.
From wire reports
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Clint Dempsey, who scored the only U.S. goal of the World Cup.
And that’s the way the ball bounces. The U.S. Men’s National Team is leaving the 2006 World Cup after an exceedingly craptacular game against the Czech Republic, a heroic match against Italy, and a match against Ghana that featured some spirited play by the same chronic trouble putting the ball in the back of the net.
I hate to say that the refereeing cost us the game, because our play on the field is what cost us the game. That said, the call against Onyewu was a bad call. It wasn’t even a foul, let alone worthy of a penalty kick.
I watched the game in a packed Monty’s Korner here in Rochester. The place went nuts when Clint Dempsey scored his fabulous goal. Then it was as if someone had thrown a heavy blanket over the crowd, as the shouts and chants were instantly muffled by the penalty kick.
I’ve always said that my soccer loyalty comes in three levels: first, the US Men’s National Team; second, the MetroStars (now Red Bulls); and third, the Rochester Rhinos. It’s sad to see the U.S. exit in the first round, but exciting to think about all the great soccer to come at every level.
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