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Monday Surprise: Seeing Bix
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
For many aficionados of Bix Beiderbecke the surprise is not that there is so little film of the great cornetist, but that there is any. To the left, we see a frame of film shot in 1928 for Fox Movietone News of the Whiteman orchestra recording or rehearsing a piece called “My Ohio Home.” When Beiderbecke died in 1931 at the age of 28, he had earned the admiration of his contemporary and friend Louis Armstrong and become an inspiration ...
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Rising Saxophonist Mike Casey Releases Debut Album "The Sound Of Surprise: Live At The Side Door”
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Mike Casey
Saxophonist and composer Mike Casey is proud to announce the February 7, 2017 release of his debut album The Sound of Surprise: Live at the Side Door. Splitting his time between alto and tenor saxophone, Casey and his longtime trio present a fresh approach to the chordless saxophone trio format over the course of seven first-takes. To present The Sound of Surprise, Casey will be touring throughout Connecticut, New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and beyond. See tour details below. While ...
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Napster/Rhapsody Posts Surprise $1.6M Quarterly Profit
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HypeBot
Napster, the music streamer formerly known in the U.S. as Rhapsody has posted a surprising $1.6 million profit in the third quarter of 2016. Maybe there is still hope for the financial future of streaming music.... After years of losses, Napster/Rhapsody posted a $1.6 million profit in the third quarter of 2016 on record revenue of $54 million. Profits are rare for music streamers and for Napster parent company Rhapsody International comes after several month of downsizing and office consolidation. Rhapsody ...
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Pandora's First Ads Feature Surprise One-on-One Concerts by Lindsey Stirling
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HypeBot
Pandora's new #ThumbMoments campaign may be awkwardly named but it's a pretty cool effort to delight individual fans. Basically a fan hits the thumbs up like button on an artist's song and they're surprised with a FaceTime video chat and personal concert by that artist. The program kicked off with Lindsey Stirling surprising some of her fans who then had a couple of ways to participate while Stirling played so they didn't just sit there. What a great #ThumbMoment! Pandora ...
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Vijay Iyer: The Surprise of Sound
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JazzINK by Andrea Canter
The recent two-night Vijay Iyer mini-festival, dubbed “The Sound of Surprise," covered what Walker Art Center curator Philip Bither described as a “curious diversity" of the wide-ranging projects of the creative pianist. Iyer, whose work of the past fifteen+ years has garnered critical praise, Grammy nominations, and certainly, the “sounds of surprise," embodies that “curious diversity" in his projects and in his physical being. His doctoral research at UC-Berkeley addressed musical cognition, an area of study usually limited to physicists ...
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Kris Wanders - Mani Neumeier Quintet - Taken by Surprise (Not Two, 2011) ****
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Free Jazz by Stef Gijssels
By Paul Acquaro The Kris Wanders and Mani Neumeier Quintet's Taken by Surprise is an excursion into free but highly melodic improvisation, and Wanders and Brett Evans' tandem tenor saxophones on the the impassioned “Oxymoron" is an inspiring opener. The quintet is rounded out by Rory Brown on bass, Yusuke Akai on guitar and Neumeier on the drums. The rhythm section is top notch with Akai's guitar providing dry, clean, rhythmic and probing accompaniment, sometimes comping chords and other times ...
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At This Jazz Festival, a Surprise: Jazz
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Michael Ricci
The town of West Orange is a highly logical place to stage a jazz festival. Besides having a lakeside amphitheater — the Oskar Schindler Performing Arts Center--it is home to a small but powerful army of jazz musicians, including the guitarists Dave Stryker and Vic Juris and the drummer Cecil Brooks III. But the OSPAC Jazz Festival, to be held Sept. 12 and 13 this year, its seventh, attracts many of its star performers with more than just the promise ...
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Is Apple Planning a September Music Surprise?
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HypeBot
Apple has traditionally used a post-Labor Day event to roll out new products for the Christmas sales season and this year should prove no different. Rumors are increasing that music related products will play a major part in any 2009 unveiling. But whether the news will be simply a revamped iPod Nano or include Apple's new digital album format called Cocktail remains speculation.
The goal of Cocktail is to reivigorate interest in the album by adding a download package that ...
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Surprise! Study Shows Few Indies on Radio
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Artist advocacy group The Future Of Music Coalition has released a new report “Same Old Song" confirming that indie music is not getting its fair share of airplay on broadcast radio.
In April 2007, the FCC found widespread payola and ordered the four largest U.S. radio groups (Clear Channel, CBS, Citadel and Entercom) to pay $12.5 million in fines and work with the American Association of Independent Music (A2IM) to draft 8 “Rules of Engagement" and an “indie set-aside" including ...
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