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MAP: Six Improvisations for Guitar, Bass and Drums
by Michael A. Parker
This a fresh and valuable document of the current underground avant-garde improvisation scene in New York, offered in minimal, attractive packaging and self-released on a small scale by Tatsuya Nakatani, the most well-known and widely-published musician of the trio. The only time I've heard Mary Halvorson previously was in a performance of MP3, drummer Mike Pride's melodic, energized compositional unit rounded out by Trevor Dunn. There she caught my attention with spiky, angular, single-note runs on her clean-toned electric hollow-body ...
Continue ReadingAll About Jazz Senior Contributor Karl Ackermann Publishes 'A Map of Jazz: Crossroads of Music and Human Rights'
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All About Jazz
A Map of Jazz is a history of jazz in parallel with world events. Jazz matured in the era of prohibition with organized crime as its patron. It was homogenized as swing music and found its true Black voice with Bebop and the Civil Rights movement. In spite of systemic racism in the United States, fascism in Europe, and anti-Western sentiment in Asia, the music survived throughout the world. Musicians embraced its history but continued to rethink and redefine their ...
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Next Big Sound Adds Pandora Streams To Audience Map: Know Where Your Fans Are
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HypeBot
Pandora owned analytics platform Next Big Sound has improved its Audience Map with adding an important metric- where an artist's Pandora streams are coming from. Launched last last November, the chart had previously only highlighted the areas where an artist received Pandora Artist Station Adds over the last 28 days. Station Adds for the last 28 days show growth in an artist's more dedicated fans. Here’s the map of the Artist Station Adds of Yung Booke, an up-and-coming rapper from ...
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Map of Today's Jazz Events Added to Jazz Near You home page
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All About Jazz
Jazz Near You now represents today's events on a map with pin drops highlighting their locations. “Though there's still plenty of development work ahead, we're starting to move beyond foundational programming for the website, which is freeing us up to experiment with new features like mapping your way to jazz events," enthuses Michael Ricci, Jazz Near You's founder. Users can click on a pin drop to get title and venue information, and then click the pop up window for event ...
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Musicians: Put Yourself on the Map, the Google Street View Map
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HypeBot
Though many of us are balking at Google's ongoing drive to connect products, such as the widely attacked, integration of Google+ comments on YouTube, sometimes those connections open up great new possibilities. In this case, Google's connecting their Photo Sphere tech for 360 degree photo creations and Google Maps' Street View to allow you to create tours with some interesting marketing possibilities. I haven't worked with photo spheres or placed photos on Google Maps but I have checked out Street ...
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How Music Travels: Map Documents the Evolution of Dance Music
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HypeBot
Thomson, a UK-based travel company, recently made a smart marketing move by posting an infographic on its blog titled “How Music Travels—The Evolution of Western Dance Music." Drawing from multiple sources, it's meant less to be a definitive statement than it is to be a conversation starter. It's also received plenty of media coverage and looks like a big success as an attention getter.
How Music Travels—The Evolution of Western Dance Music (Click ...
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Map Pinpoints over 200 Detroit Record Labels
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HypeBot
Someone has created a Google Map that pinpoints over 200 Detroit record labels throughout history. In their blog post, they say that they have been working on the project for a couple weeks. “It is by no means complete or perfect," cassdetroit writes, “but I think it's a good start." Every pinpoint comes will a little info about each label. Overall, it's a rather intriguing map. What would be interesting is to animate the founding of the labels and their ...
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New fans sustain Bix legacy: Musician’s global reputation puts Davenport on jazz music map
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AAJ Staff
Places exist on this planet where the term “Quad-Cities" means nothing, but the name “Bix" brings instant recognition. The name connotes jazz innovation, made even more memorable by what it did to an entire music genre. In his time, jazz musicians changed after hearing Bix Beiderbecke's melodic twists. “The best British, French and Danish jazz musicians went out of their way to study and cherish Beiderbecke's records. British dance orchestras, especially, took to Beiderbecke," writes Michael Steinman in his review ...
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Site News: STLJN Goes Mobile, Plus a Map of St. Louis Jazz Venues, and More
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
It's a new week in a new month, and with it come some new features on this site:* If you'd like to read St. Louis Jazz Notes using a iPhone, Blackberry or similar gadget, there's now a version of StLJN formatted especially for mobile devices available at http://stljazznotes.mofuse.mobi/. (I'll also be adding a permanent link for the mobile service over on the right sidebar, below the “Subscribe to StLJN" section.)Essentially, it takes the RSS feed of ...
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Here I AM! Google Latitude Map Tool Launches
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PC Magazine
Need another online method for being tracked? Google today announced the release of Latitude. Built into Google Maps for Mobile and iGoogle, the feature lets users share their locations. The opt in feature offers up the user's rough location, placing their profile picture on a map accessible through a PC or mobile device. By clicking on the map-based icon, friends and family member can call, text, e-mail, or IM the user. Maps will also provide driving directions to their location. ...
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