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Instrumental Bass & Vibes Duo Cliffwalker Can Be Compared To Steve Reich, Philip Glass As Well As Contemporaries Such As Tortoise, Death From Above 1979
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Fanatic Promotion
“Delightfully teeters on the edge of chaos...” says music discovery blog Independent Clauses in its coverage of “Punching Clocks,” the debut single by Portland-based duo CLIFFWALKER. Punching Clocks is the sort of thing that the word post-rock was made for. It’s rock put in the service of other moods. The interplay of the leads produces the experience of a spy-movie chase scene.” The Portland, Oregon-based instrumental duo of Cliff Hayes (Bass, Keys) and A. Walker Spring (Vibes, Drums, Keys, Guitar), ...
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Eric Starr Group's "Such Is Life" Now Available
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Eric Starr
After a long hiatus, the Eric Starr Group is back with a brand new album entitled Such is Life. The album includes ten new tracks by Eric and features Nelson Starr on vocals, piano, and guitar, Iain Ballamy on tenor saxophone, Ike Sturm on bass, and Eric Starr on drums, vibes, and percussion. Also, special guests ETHEL (string ensemble) appear on five tracks. All of the songs, lyrics, and orchestrations are by Starr. “One cannot help but be impressed by ...
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Soundcloud: If Only Playing by the Rules Wasn't Such a Drag...
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Digital Music News
The daringest startups break all the rules, and people start music companies to shake things up. But sooner or later, growing startups find themselves bowing to the music industry's maze of complicated rules. Everyone needs to get paid, but from theperspective of the entrepreneur and music fan, this can be such a buzzkill. And, it's rarely factored into ambitious models and ideas. And so it is with Soundcloud, a seriously grown-up destination that can no longer evade detection from large ...
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Open Gate Sunday for April w/ Horvitz-Krauss-Ninh Trio and Such Simple Fears
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SoCal Creative Music
Check the Hype -- There's No Such Thing As "Cyber"
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All About Jazz
How can you tell the difference between a real report about online vulnerabilities and someone who is trying to scare you about the security of the internet because they have an agenda, such as landing lucrative, secret contracts from the government? Here's a simple test: Count the number of times they use the adjective “cyber." Nobody uses the word “cyber" anymore, except people trying to scare you and trying to make the internet seem scary or foreign. (Think, for instance, ...
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Why @ Is Held in Such High Design Esteem
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Michael Ricci
The French and Italians have nicknamed it the snail. The Norwegians have plumped for pigs tail, the Germans monkeys tail, and the Chinese little mouse. The Russians think of it as a dog, and the Finns as a slumbering cat.
It's the @ symbol on the computer keyboard, which is an essential component of every e-mail address. Millions of us type it each day, usually without thinking about it. Yet the Museum of Modern Art in New York has deemed ...
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Double Bassist Art Davis, Who Played with Jazz Greats Such as Coltrane, Dies at 73
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All About Jazz
LONG BEACH, Calif. - Art Davis, the renowned double bassist who played with John Coltrane and other jazz greats, has died. He was 73. Davis died of a heart attack Sunday at his home in Long Beach, his son Kimaili Davis told the Los Angeles Times for a story in Saturday's editions. Davis was blacklisted in the 1970s for speaking up about racism in the music industry, then later earned a doctorate in clinical psychology and balanced performance dates with ...
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Lorraine Feather joins Bill Elliott for a "Such Sweet Thunder" release party in LA
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All About Jazz
On on Monday April 26th, Lorraine Feather will front a big band headed by Bill Elliott for a combination release party/Duke Ellington's 105th birthday bash at the Catalina Bar and Grill in Los Angeles. Feather's album, “Such Sweet Thunder-Music of the Duke Ellington Orchestra," was released on March 23rd on the Sanctuary label and is Chartbound in its fourth week of radio promotion. The album features ten Ellington instrumentals with Feather's lyrics and vocals. The eleventh track is “Mighty Like ...
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Such Monkey: i lnuovo CD del Pietro Vitale Jazz Combo (Altrementi)
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All About Jazz
