Celestial

Music in the Cloud: Battle for the Celestial Jukebox

Source: HypeBot
May 13, 2011

Yesterday Bruce wrote about “How Google & Amazon Hurt Recorded Music By Launching Cloud Lockers“. Today Clyde Smith weighs in. With the recent debuts of cloud-based music storage services with streaming abilities from Amazon and Google, plus something on the way from Apple, talk of the cloud has moved from the business side to the consumer side. We'll be hearing lots of marketing speak in the coming days as if the cloud was something brand new and magical that will ...
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Celestial Septet Performing at UMass Amherst on Thursday, February 24

Source: MassJazz: Jazz in Massachusetts
February 23, 2011

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Interview | Larry Ochs (Celestial Septet)

Source: Ars Nova Workshop
February 20, 2011

On Tuesday, February 22, Ars Nova Workshop presents the Celestial Septet, featuring Rova and the Nels Cline Singers, who kick off their 5 date tour at International House Philadelphia. For those living outside the city who would like to experience this special concert, be sure to sign up for the free live webcast at this link. We'll see everyone else on Tuesday! ANW was able to catch up with Larry Ochs, a founding member of Rova, for a few questions ...
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The Celestial Septet | Live Webcast

Source: Ars Nova Workshop
February 18, 2011

On Tuesday, February 22, Ars Nova Workshop presents the Celestial Septet, an extraordinary union of the Nels Cline Singers and the ROVA Saxophone Quartet. Hitting the road for only 5 concerts, this first date of the tour marks the septet’s Philadelphia debut. Given the significance of this epic collaboration, ANW will be offering a free live webcast of the concert to audiences outside Philadelphia. Please follow this link to register for the webcast. Local audiences can purchase tickets to the ...
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The Future of Music: The Celestial Jukebox

Source: All About Jazz
April 2, 2009

The killer app for musicany song, at any timeis almost here. The only question is whether or not we'll label everybody who wants to tune in to it a “criminal."

The ultimate goal for music technology, “the celestial jukebox," is going to be reached very soon. That term has been floating around for a decade or more, but what it comes down to is total access, anywhere and at any time, to any music ever recorded. That's not just the ...
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DJ Spooky 'Celestial Mechanix: The Blue Series MasterMix' June 22, 2004

Source: All About Jazz
April 14, 2004

To commemorate the thirtieth entry into the Blue Series catalogue, DJ Spooky has cooked up a very special new album. With the entire Blue Series spread out before him, Spooky has expertly sorted, sifted, chopped and recombined this vast amount of music into a shining new work that teases out the lines between jazz and hip-hop, and then obliterates those lines.

The result is “Celestial Mechanix: The Blue Series MasterMix," a no-holds-barred re-envisioning of some of the most visionary jazz ...
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