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The Hub "With the spit-in-yer-face attitude of punk, and the muzo-sophistication of jazz, The Hub can make you punch the air with joy or drop your jaw with amazement in the same tune. Their cutting edge blend of styles is perfect for its time - our time!" Fred Grand- Jazz Review Out of the Brooklyn underground, THE HUB create a sonic amalgam to jazz/punk, no-wave, and hard core that lead to music that is raw, fresh, and original. Since 1998, The magical duo of Sean Noonan- drums and Tim Dahl ñbass have been driving THE HUB with their interactive unique approach to the rhythm section. In 2004, Paul Meurens joined the group and gave THE HUB a jump start after they were involved horrible car accident. Meurens (alto saxophone) who is also a guitarist is a perfect match intensifying and broadening the groups sound with his sharp electronic and cool vocalist saxophone style. "The hungry young players in THE HUB have a voracious appetite for far-flung sounds, Charles Ives, Busta Rhymes and Slayer pin them to a specific place and time: namely New York City at the dawn of the new millennium."- The Metro, UK THE HUB has excited audiences in over 13 countries, performing in some of the most respected music venues such as, The Knitting Factory, Copenhagen Jazz House, and U.K's The Wardrobe. There original compositions shock audiences where they have earned a loyal fan base worldwide. HUB fans have even been known to travel up to six hours to see them perform. In London Jazz critic John Fordham described them as, "Maniacally exhilarating, gripping in its precision and energy, a real breath of fresh air."
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Jazz Ensemble Of Memphis Showcases The Legendary Music Hub's Rising Talents On 'Playing In The Yard,' Set For Release April 5 On Memphis International Records
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Terri Hinte Publicity
The storied musical city of Memphis, Tennessee presents its delegation to the rising generation of cutting-edge jazz artists with Playing in the Yard,the debut recording by the Jazz Ensemble of Memphis, hitting April 5 on Memphis International Records. An answer record to the revelatory 1959 album Down Home Reunion: Young Men from Memphis, the new album comprises a summit of five of the city’s freshest jazz talents, here playing together for the first time. (Playing in the Yard is available ...
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The MPS Records legacy resumes with vinyl releases of Ella Fitzgerald’s 'Sunshine Of Your Love' and Freddie Hubbard’s'The Hub of Hubbard'
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Great Scott P.R.oductions
Jazz history was forged in the rustic Black Forest of Germany in 1968 when Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer launched MPS Records and recorded some of the genre’s seminal artists. Legends like Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Dexter Gordon, Freddie Hubbard, The Count Basie Orchestra and George Duke released albums on the prestigious label known for its high-level recording technique and distinctive aesthetic. Much of MPS’s catalog will be reissued in the United States over the coming months thanks to a ...
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eMusic Relaunches Indie Focused Music Hub with Free, Discounted Downloads, Cloud Storage
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HypeBot
A pioneer in digital music, eMusic has relaunched with an indie focus similar to its early days. TriPlay acquired eMusic in September of 2015 and has rebuilt the platform from the ground up. eMusic has been resurrected as a home for the indie music aficionado with free cloud storage for existing music collections and a catalog of 32 million tracks available for download at at up to 55% off retail. In an age of streaming, its decidedly risky yet artist ...
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Is Flipagram The Next Social Hub for Artists?
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HypeBot
Gunning to be the social network where artists connect with their fans is an ambitious goal. But Flipagram has deep pockets and offers the one thing most of its competitors from Facebook to niche players don't - artist monetization. By music and entertainment consultant Cortney Harding Since closing a $70 million series B round earlier this year, Flipagram has been gunning for dominance in the music space. Its most recent development: the launch of a feature called the Music Video ...
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Hub and Spokes: The Key to Driving Fans to Your Band Website
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HypeBot
By David Dufresne, CEO of musician website and marketing platform Bandzoogle In a previous blog post we talked about the importance of driving fans to your website. In this post, we'll go over the “Hub & Spokes" analogy and method to help drive traffic to your site using your social media profiles, and some of the best ways you can use content to do that. Hub & Spokes A lot of artists we work with, or meet at different events, are ...
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BandPage Expands to Become Hub for Musician Content on the Web
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HypeBot
When Facebook required brand and band pages to switch over to the Timeline layout earlier this year, many Facebook application providers felt an uncomfortable blow as the new layout resulted in less visibility and usage of their products. Forced to adapt to a changing environment, the leading application for musicians on Facebook, BandPage, announced today that they've expanded their reach to the broader Internet with the introduction of BandPage Everywhere, a hub for musicians to update their online properties across the ...
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Samsung's New Music Hub Takes On Spotify, Pandora, iTunes and iCloud
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HypeBot
One year ago this week, we wrote about a company called mSpot and its quest to dethrone music service titans like Spotify, Pandora, and iTunes/iCloud by combining everything they all do into one unique package. Samsung acquired mSpot earlier this month, and already, we're seeing what the electronics giant has planned for its acquisition — you know, just like Facebook and Instagram. Today announced Samsung Music Hub, which it calls “the first completely integrated, all-in-one mobile music service," which runs ...
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Pandora Launches Web Hub for Live Concert Series
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Pandora has announced an online extension of the free, live concert series that the company debuted earlier in the month. The Pandora live concert series hub is currently sponsored by Budweiser. The Pondora live concert series launched in Portland, Ore. on December 13 with Dawes, an emerging rock band from Southern California. As the official launch sponsor, Budweiser presented the inaugural concert free of charge to more than 230 fans, and is now bringing the experience online via the dedicated ...
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Google Music Launches: Free Cloud Storage, 320kps Downloads and D.I.Y. Artist Hub
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(UPDATED) Google Music left beta this afternoon touting music discovery, unique sharing options, mobile payments and a direct to fan sales hub for independent artists. In a move that bests Apple, Google's cloud service is free for up to 20,000 songs and available for streaming on all platforms including iOS. 320kps music download purchases have been incorporated into the Android app store. Music Available At Launch The service launches with 8 million tracks Sony, UMG, EMI, Merlin and dozens of ...
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Seeking the Essence of Freddie Hubbard: Suzanne Pittson "Out of the Hub"
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The Independent Ear by Willard Jenkins
Vocalist Suzanne Pittson previously accepted the challenge of lyrically interpreting John Coltrane's opus “Resolution" from “A Love Supreme." With Alice Coltrane's consent she did so with all due humility... and with gusto! Her latest effort is a loving tribute to an artist whose legend appears to be growing slowly in ancestry, the late NEA Jazz Master trumpeter Freddie Hubbard. For “Out of the Hub" Suzanne addresses compositions credited to Freddie and songs he indelibly enhanced through his artistry, and she ...
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