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Wonderful now
by Scott Lichtman
What do you get when you combine the high-velocity beats of electronica with the virtuosic proficiency of fusion, the pristine sound quality of an ECM label record and the “goes down easy" catchiness of smooth jazz? When composed and performed at the highest level, it sounds like Anatole Muster's album, Wonderful now. This album gets better with repeated listening. Muster, who is 22 years old, creates nearly every sound on his orchestrations (except for several cameos), composes, writes ...
Continue ReadingContemporary Composer/Guitarist Matt Panayides' 'Field Theory' Explores New Sonic Landscapes
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Mouthpiece Music
On Field Theory, guitarist and composer Matt Panayides explores new sonic landscapes by mixing electric and acoustic sounds in a set of modern, highly original post-bop compositions. Field Theory is a departure from Panayides’ previous releases, Conduits (2016) and Tapestries of Song (2011), which were both acoustic, modern jazz projects. Panayides, who grew up in Springfield, OH, and Indianapolis, IN, played piano when he was young but switched to guitar because he was inspired by Jimmy Page and Jimi Hendrix. ...
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10 Field Artists Working Across Aesthetic Boundaries
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HypeBot
While field recording has existed for over a century, it has changed and progressed along with the rest of the industry. Here we look at ten people working in field recording who are crossing aesthetic boundaries to capture sounds from the outside world. Guest post by Patrick McGuire of Soundfly's Flypaper The roots of field recording go all the way back to early 1900s when pioneer musicologist John Lomax began recording cowboy songs in Texas. His son Alan eventually ended up taking recordings ...
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YouTube Is Leveling The Playing Field For Indie Artists says CD Baby CEO Tracy Maddux
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HypeBot
YouTube is often maligned for low payments to creators, but CD Baby CEO Tracy Maddux see's the video platform differently. Here, he recounts how, thanks in large part to YouTube's open platform, more and more independent artists have been able to build a significant audience than ever before Guest post by Tracy Maddux, the CEO of CD Baby. This first appeared in Billboard The last few months I've been on the road in Nashville, Barcelona, Mumbai and Rio, meeting with artists and ...
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A Look At How Well Streaming Music Is Really Doing And The Major Label's "Streaming Reality Distortion Field" [Mark Mulligan]
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HypeBot
All 3 major labels have reported impressive growth in streaming income. But that's only a fraction of the story, says top industry analyst Mark Mulligan of MIDiA. "If the music service wins, the label wins, if the music service loses, the label still wins," he says. “This disconnect... is one of the festering wounds of the streaming music market." Guest post by Mark Mulligan of MIDiA All of the three major record labels announced strong streaming music revenue growth in the ...
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Ken Field's Revolutionary Snake Ensemble Releases "I Want That Sound!"
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All About Jazz
The Revolutionary Snake Ensemble (RSE) has been developing and cultivating a distinct sound critics and audiences alike hail for invigorating an illustrious musical heritage with fresh ideas, wit, and spunk while in the process attracting new and younger audiences to the music. In fact, RSE has been at the forefront of the jazz renaissance The Guardian (UK) newspaper recently touted as a “new golden age”. Over more than a quarter century of touring and performing in settings ranging from clubs ...
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Wil Blades To Release "Field Notes" On Royal Potato Family
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Calabro Music
No less a jazz organ authority than the legendary Dr. Lonnie Smith has called Wil Blades “the future," anointing him the heir apparent “to carry on the legend [and] the legacy of the organ, of the B-3." Blades shoulders that responsibility with nonchalant virtuosity and infectious groove on his forthcoming studio album, Field Notes, out August 19 from Royal Potato Family. The nine songs report back from the rich incubator that is the road, with pieces written from snippets recorded ...
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Enter the "Dan Lehner's Memory Field - Spoken Migration" Giveaway at All About Jazz!
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All About Jazz
All About Jazz members are invited to enter the “Dan Lehner's Memory Field - Spoken Migration“ download giveaway starting today. We'll select FIVE winners at the conclusion of the contest on May 27th. Click here to enter the contest
(Becoming a fan of Dan Lehner at AAJ automatically enters you in the contest.)
Good luck! About Spoken Migration
Spoken Migration is the first EP from New York quartet Memory Field, led by trombonist/composer Dan Lehner. The online release features 5 ...
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Ken Field's Revolutionary Snake Ensemble Returns to NYC
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Rolling Thunder PR
Boston's Acclaimed Revolutionary Snake Ensemble Returns to New York City Bringing their Avant Second Line New Orleans Funk Back For the First Time in Two Years “The Revolutionary Snake Ensemble, a writhing, horn-heavy group led by the Boston-based saxophonist and composer Ken Field, dresses in feathered masks and sequined robes and covers a broad range of funk- and New Orleans-inspired music. A seasoned collection of horn and percussion players, the group, which is closing in on two decades of music-making, ...
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Ten for 2010: Year's Best Included Field Music, Ted Leo, Band of Horses and Mike Patton
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Something Else!
By Tom Johnson Every year I start out thinking that I have a feeling what album is going to ride high on my year end list, and more often than not I'm surprised by so many other things that the album in question may not even register. This year's victim is Corinne Bailey Rae's The Sea, a beautiful, heartfelt album by any measure, one I was excited to hear after gradually falling in love with her 2006 self-titled album. So ...
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