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If 'Everyone Just Wants Free Stuff' Mentality Responsible For Piracy, Why Isn't Nintendo Able To Keep Classic Consoles In Stock?
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HypeBot
Recent buying trends among consumers of Nintendo's classic consoles have recently provided further rebuffment of the 'people just want free stuff' myth often proclaimed by content industries. Guest post by Timothy Geigner of Techdirt For a long time, we've been trying to debunk the “But people just want stuff for free" myth that purports to explain why the only proper strategy for infringement is heavy enforcement. Everyone should have instantly recognized that this was a dumb meme put forth by the content ...
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Shannon Murray, alias Saxman, Releases "The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of…"
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Plaza Mayor Company ltd
Plaza Mayor Company is proud to announce the return of the internationally acclaimed jazz artist Shannon Murray, alias Saxman, with his new recording Cool West Coast Jazz: The Stuff that Dreams are made of… The soulful Californian's new album of original jazz compositions are inspired by Hollywood's Film Noir genre of the 1940s. Film excerpts, photos, and animations projected during the concert add a rich visual narrative to Saxman's West Coast Cool sound. Track Listing: The Stuff That Dreams Are ...
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Vijay Iyer Trio - Break Stuff (ECM Records)
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Michael Ricci
Break Stufff features Vijay Iyer's long-running and widely-acclaimed trio with bassist Stephan Crump and drummer Marcus Gilmore, a band in existence for eleven years now. “We keep learning from each other and from experiences and try to set challenges for ourselves so that growth is part of the equation." It's a group whose musical language is informed by more than the jazz piano trio tradition. While Iyer acknowledges the influence of, for instance, Ahmad Jamal, Andrew Hill and Duke Ellington's ...
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Sell Stuff, Straight from Your Youtube Channel...
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Digital Music News
YouTube is arguably the biggest and baddest platform for music consumption. So why not leverage that power-position further into ecommerce?
Glad you asked. YouTube is now sharing details on Merch Store, a build-out that will allow artists to layer downloads, merchandise, tickets, and other items into their channels. The formal announcement happens Thursday in New York. “With 800 million people per month coming to YouTube you have a pretty big stage to share your music, and now we're adding features ...
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Old-School Major Label Executive Knows His Stuff
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HypeBot
In just about any good rant on the record industry, a reader can expect to find two elements. First, that record labels are evil empires that prey on our children and sell them the image of Hannah Montana. Second, that they're run by a bunch of old and struggling dinosaurs that have no idea what they're doing. They're trapped in a tar pit and have about as much chance for survival as a baby Tyrannosaurus. Jac Holzman, founder of Electra ...
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Great Stuff
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Riffs on Jazz by John Anderson
Stuff Smith, born on this date in 1909, was one of the three great pre-bop jazz violinists (along with Joe Venuti and Stephane Grappelli). In an era when the violin was considered a bit old-fashioned sounding for jazz, Smith's playing was more raw and rhythmic, using a more Texas blues feel to knock any whiff of stale classicism out of his violin. Born Hezekiah Leroy Gordon Smith in Portsmouth, Ohio, Stuff's father encouraged him to play classical violin, but he ...
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NuMuBu: We "Empower" Indie Musicans and Stuff
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HypeBot
If nothing else, NuMuBu, self-described as “The Music Industry Network," certainly has some very ambitious goals going for it and, in theory at least, has orchestrated a semi-elaborate system to help fulfill them. Of course, what site these days doesn't promise to “empower" artists and musicians? Oh. All of them.
“NuMuBu makes me feel extra skeptical."
If you watch the video on their site; they have a rather nuanced, yet severely naïve perspective on what's happening to the record industry ...
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Hear Ella, Stuff, and Ben in 1937!
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Jazz Lives by Michael Steinman
Ella Fitzgerald, Stuff Smith, and Ben Webster recorded together in the late Fifties for a Norman Granz project Ella Sings The Duke Ellington Songbook. But they had been captured on disc twenty years before in what are much more fascinating circumstances.
The good news is that the CD that is so delighting me is available and intensely rewarding--musically, not simply for its rarity. Anticipation over a long period rarely pays off. If you wait twenty years for something to appear, often ...
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New York Art Quartet - Old Stuff (Cuneiform)
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Master of a Small House
The title of this timely compilation is a true statement at face: Nearly half a century has passed since the sounds were ensconced on tape. Even so, sitting down with the disc yields the pleasing realization there's next to nothing in the way of dust draping the music. The New York Art Quartet was at once of and ahead of their time. They directly put to pasture the notion popular in some circles that New Thing players placed instrumental prowess ...
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Bobbi Humphrey, Grady Tate, Clifton Anderson, Stuff at Creole in October
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Ann Forster
Creole Restaurant NYC: 2167 Third Avenue, Corner of 118th Street, NY, NY 10035. Call (212) 876-8838 | Visit www.creolenyc.com
OCTOBER 2009 CALENDAR BOBBI HUMPHREY: October 2nd & 3rd CLIFTON ANDERSON: October 9th & 10th GRADY TATE: October 16th & 17th STUFF BROTHERS & SISTERS: Every Wednesday: Gary Sieger, Frank Canino, Chris Parker, Steve Greenfield, Andy Burton, Roy Bennett, Maxine Brown, Beverly Crosby
Friday, October 2nd & Saturday, October 3rd at 8:00pm & ...
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