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Jack Reilly, RIP
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
News has arrived that the pianist Jack Reilly died of a massive stroke on Friday at his home in New Jersey. Mr. Reilly, 86, was an accomplished classical and jazz pianist who returned to his native New York in 1954 following Navy service and pursued graduate studies at the Manhattan School of Music. His early experience in jazz was with John LaPorta, Sheila Jordan, Ben Webster and George Russell, among other prominent figures in the bebop and post-bop eras. From ...
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Austin Tech Talk at SXSW: Interviews with Tom Silverman and X5's Scott Reilly
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HypeBot
The following excerpts are from 2 days of interviews conducted by Helsinki based streaming company LiveMusicStage at SXSW 2013. These interviews were filmed and streamed live on Austin Tech Talk from the LiveMusicStage booth at digitalmusic.org's lounge. LiveMusicStage is an online venue where fans can participate in interactive live-streamed concerts, broadcast by venues, festivals and studios from around the world. Tom Silverman from New Music Seminar (Interviewed by Ted Cohen) “The music business used to be like many other businesses, ...
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Pianist Luke Carlos O'Reilly In Media PA On Wed. Jan. 16th!
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Jim Miller
Jazz Bridge in Media! presents pianist Luke Carlos O’Reilly at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Delaware County — 145 West Rose Tree Road in Media, PA — on Wednesday January 16th. Tickets are $10, $5 for students, and are available only at the door. Show time is 7:30. Columbian native O'Reilly, a graduate of Temple University's Esther Boyer College of Music, is a much sought-after pianist, at home in straight ahead Jazz, Latin, soul and R & B. In the ...
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Jack Reilly - "Live at Maybeck Recital Hall"
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AAJ Staff
OVERVIEW: When you read the biographies of jazz artists, many relate a common story; musical studies that began with a foundation built on classical training before giving way to jazz. And while a classical influence can still be heard in a number of contemporary musicians, see Brad Mehldau, few actually perform both classical and jazz, and even fewer release a mixed recording of the two genres. I'm not speaking of Third Stream music here (the synthesis of classical and jazz); ...
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Scott Ambrose Reilly Exits Amazon to Helm US X5
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HypeBot
EXCLUSIVE: Scott Ambrose Reilly, better known to his longtime music industry friends as Bullethead, is leaving Amazon after almost 5 years to become the U.S. CEO of Stockholm based X5 Music Group. Just months ago, X5 received $9.09 million in funding from Northzone Ventures, who are also a lead investor in Spotify. Ambrose Reilly started as a key member of the team that launched Amazon MP3 and made it iTune's most aggressive competitor. 15 months ago, he penned a farewell ...
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Jambalaya Live at Paddy Reilly's Music Bar on November 9th
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Carol Green, Redwood Entertainment
New York, NY—Jambalaya Brass Band will be performing live in celebration of their new CD release It's a Jungle Out There on Tuesday, November 9, 2010 at 7:00 pm at Paddy Reilly's Music Bar in New York, NY. The Jambalaya Brass Band is a group of seasoned musical pros from a variety of impressive previous musical settings as diverse as the Duke Ellington Orchestra to the Lounge Lizards, yet they have a knack for integrating these disparate musical experiences into ...
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Recent Listening: Jack Reilly at Maybeck
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
Jack Reilly, Live At Maybeck Recital Hall (Unichrom). Maybeck is a small hall in Berkeley, California, loved by pianists and listeners for the perfection of its acoustics. Carl Jefferson of Concord Records was so taken with the sound of the room that he initiated a series of 42 solo piano recordings there. It began with Joanne Brackeen in 1989 and ended with James Williams in 1995. In between is a variety of the finest pianists in jazz, among them Dick ...
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Jazz This Week: Count Basie Orchestra, John Patitucci, Jeff Beck, Curtis Roads and Bryan O'Reilly, Steve Tyrell, and More
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
It's going to be another busy weekend for jazz and creative music in St. Louis, with shows on tap ranging from classic big-band swing to experimental electronics, along with several stops in between. Let's go to the highlights:Starting tonight, bassist John Patitucci (pictured) leads his trio for two sets per night through Saturday at Jazz at the Bistro. Considered one of the top bass players in jazz since the mid-1980s, Patitucci has played St. Louis before, most recently ...
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Full Text of Amazon's Scott Ambrose Reilly's Farewell Letter to the Music Industry
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HypeBot
Scott Ambrose Reilly, Amazon's Sr. Manager of Digital Music is shifting gears to the company's Kindle team. On Friday, he sent this email to his peers in the record label community. (Also: Did Amazon Music Just Loose It's Soul?)
Subject: Sad Eyes
Dear friends and music business colleagues, On Monday I start a new position running business development for Periodicals for the Amazon Kindle team. It is an exciting opportunity to be on ...read more
Innocence: The Music of Jack Reilly Duo Concert on November 17th
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Michael Ricci
Jack Reilly, composer/pianist, with assisting artist Ashton Fletcher (bassist), will play at the WEINBERG Ceremonial LOBBY of the SIDNEY KIMMELL CANCER CENTER, (Johns Hopkins Hospital), 901 S. Bond Street, downtown Baltimore, MD. on Tuesday, November 17th at noon. The program includes excerpts from Jack's GREEN SPRING SUITE and The SILENCE of the HEART plus his four movement SONATA in D minor. The concert is free and open to the public. Jack's new CD Innocence will be given to all attendees, ...
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