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Backgrounder: Milt Bucker's 'Block Chords Parade'
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
What are block chords? That's when a pianist (or guitarist) plays a melody with chords rather than individual notes. This is done with the top note of the chord playing the melody line with chord notes below creating the harmony. Block chords are often played on piano with a “locked hands" technique, when both hands play block chords in unison or lock-step. To illustrate, let's visit with the great Dick Hyman... As Dick notes, Milt Buckner pioneered the block-chords sound, ...
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Jazz this week: Karrin Allyson, Olivia Block, Eric Marienthal, Tommy Halloran, and more
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week's schedule of jazz and creative music in St. Louis includes a typically varied assortment of sounds and styles, with a couple of notable touring performers in the middle of the week. So, without further delay, let's go to the highlights... Thursday, November 12 The Gaslight Cabaret Festival fall series continues with an encore performance from the duo Sleepy Kitty at the Gaslight Theater. Also on Thursday, the SIUE jazz faculty will feature saxophonist Jason Swagler in a concert ...
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RIAA Asks BitTorrent To Block Infringing Content
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HypeBot
In the latest attack on file sharing, the Recording Industry Association of America has requested that BitTorrent put into place a hash filter in order to block infringing content, but will it do more harm than good? By Mike Masnick of TechDirt Almost exactly a year ago, the Hollywood-funded and run astroturfing group “Creative Future" posted a bizarre and fact-challenged article attacking BitTorrent Inc. for copyright infringement, and demanding that the company “take responsibility" for how the BitTorrent protocol was being used. There was, ...
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Jazz This Week: Block, Gibson and Recoder, Jim Manley, Frank Catalano, Tom McDermott, Cornet Chop Suey, and More
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
It's potentially another very busy weekend for fans for jazz and creative music in St. Louis, with so many performances, workshops and film screenings going on that yr. humble StLJN editor got a bit behind schedule and worn out just assembling the basic info for all the events of interest. So, assuming you're willing to forgive this week's relative lack of description and/or commentary, let's go to the highlights... Tonight, the Jazz at Holmes series at Washington University presents “Freedom ...
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Elvis Presley "Jailhouse Rock" Original Dance Sequence Costume and The Eagles Don Henley's Handwritten "Hotel California" Working Lyrics Hit the Block for the First Time on Gotta Have Rock and Roll's "The Rock and Roll Pop Culture" Auction
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Susan Blond, Inc.
On Wednesday, March 21st over 700 rock and roll and pop culture original artifacts including an Elvis Presley iconic “Jailhouse Rock" costume will hit the auction block in the Rock and Roll Pop Culture Auction online at gottahaverockandroll.com. Also up for auction is a spectacular line up of rock and pop culture memorabilia that is as legendary as the stars themselves. Lots offered here include: Elvis Presley's owned and signed blue suede shoes, Paul McCartney's earliest known handwritten letter with ...
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October Music Programming Block on Smithsonian Channel
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JamBase
MONTH-LONG CELEBRATION OF MUSIC CONTINUES WITH MUST-SEE PETER GABRIEL AND HIP-HOP DOCS This October, Smithsonian Channel rocks out with Inside The Music, a series of new specials that tell stories about the people and sounds whose influence can be heard the world over. The music continues October 9 with The Real World of Peter Gabriel and October 21 Hip Hop: The Furious Force of Rhymes, a look at the global influence of rap music. The hour-long The Real World of ...
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Detroit's Annual Block Party
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JazzINK by Andrea Canter
The forecast for the Twin Cities says scattered thunderstorms for Friday. That means a lot of finger-crossing, weather map pondering, and figuring out the best timing for our private plane departure for Detroit and the 32nd annual Detroit Jazz Festival, one of the largest in the world and the largest free jazz festival in North America. I can hardly wait to join about 750,000 jazz fans in Motor City. For most of the year, Detroit is an unlikely destination. But ...
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Dan Block Plays the Music of Duke Ellington
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Gapplegate Music Review by Grego Edwards
Reedman Dan Block is cool with me. His Plays the Music of Duke Ellington, From His World to Mine (Miles High 8612) is cool too. It's not just another Duke tribute. For this one Dan obviously spent some time with the song list. It's not the well-worn blockbusters on display here, but instead some of the relatively under-recorded gems like the WWII era “Kissing Bug," the New Orleans Suite movement “Second Line," the Bigard-not-canard “Are You Sticking?" (he wasn't) and ...
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Breaking: House Republicans Move to Block Net Neutrality Rules...
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Digital Music News
Late Thursday, House Republicans voted to bar the FCC from imposing net neutrality guidelines on broadband providers. As part of an amendment attached to a larger spending bill, the FCC would be prohibited from using federal funds to force ISPs to comply with various access requirements.
This is a highly contentious issue, and ISPs have serious legal challenges against these rules. But groups like the Future of Music Coalition and A2IM are squarely in favor of net neutrality regulations.
And, ...
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Facebook's Reverbnation Block Was Just "A Mistake", but Serves as Reminder of Larger Issue
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HypeBot
Yesterday, ReverbNation told its tens of thousands of active artist users that Facebook had disabled RN links on their site. “This was a mistake in one of our automated systems for preventing spam," a Facebook spokesperson told Hypebot and by late in the day, the problem had been fixed. But the incident serves as a reminder of a hazard that accompanies the incredible potential of interconnected marketing—lack of control. While not confirmed officially by either company, it's likely that Facebook's ...
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