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The Mass: Collective Identity
by Glenn Astarita
The all saxophone quartet, “Collective Identity” was formed due to woodwind specialist Alex Harding’s affinity for the world renowned “World Saxophone Quartet” as this band also features Sam Newsome, Jorge Sylvester and Aaron Stewart. And while the results are somewhat mixed, the band turns in a multidimensional rendition of Wayne Shorter’s classic, “Nefertiti” as they expound upon the primary theme yet also execute spiked choruses amid fervent interplay and a wavering pulse. Baritone saxophonist Alex Harding anchors the odd-metered pulse ...
read moreMainstream Fanatic: Songza Takes Music Playlists to the Masses
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Every year, dozens of startups attempt the impossible: to make their product mainstream. In the music sector, this proves to be a particularly challenging task, because startups are often founded by fanatics who are unlike the casual listeners they're targeting with their product. The team at Songza, a music streaming service, faces this hurdle. The company presents itself as a destination for hand-crafted playlists and effortless music discovery, but the roll-out of its latest platform signals that its ambitions are ...
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Don't Go for the Masses, Go Direct-to-Fan
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Major labels are mass marketing power giants; it's what they do. Before the advent of the social web, they were the only way to reach the masses. Due to their influence on commercial radio stations, big-box retail outlets, and television, much of this remains to be true. If an artist wants the general public to become familiar with their music and know the all words to their songs at the next show, then having the financial support of a major ...
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Bringing Digital Music to the Masses
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If digital music is to reach mainstream adoption, the music industry must eliminate the barriers that confuse many non-techie consumers. That's the conclusion of Forrester analyst Mark Mulligan's new report Taking Digital Music To The Mainstream: The Music Product Features For The Living Room".
Easier and cheaper hardware if the key to the conversion according to Mulligan, Our conceptual technology is a hard drive, midi-sized music hi-fi that with a detachable touch screen display / remote control." On his blog ...
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Heath Ledger's Final Days Among the Masses
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All About Jazz
L.A. Art Collective Struggles to Go On After Actor's Death
A Greyhound-style bus purchased on Craigslist for $8,700 rolls eastbound out of Los Angeles on Interstate 10, headed for Marfa, Texas, with 18 passengers. If a highway patrolman were to pull us over, he'd encounter a head-scratcher of a group. First he'd confront a big, bald white man named Cornfed, the driver, also acquired on Craigslist. Cornfed, a sometime rapper, is making a little money on this trip, biding his ...
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Fastest Drummer Champ Drums Himself into the Mass Media
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All About Jazz
East Hanover, NJ, September 7, 2005 - Who does one of the leading communication companies, Comcast, call on to represent their High-Speed Internet Service on a commercial? World's Fastest Drummer Champ, Art Verdi.
In the last few weeks, Art has been featured in the leading drum magazine, Modern Drummer, in which he was described as having a frightening fast" single stroke roll; contacted by a major radio station to appear; and flown down to Florida to display his blazing drumming ...
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Ben Castle brings Blah to the Masses
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All About Jazz
Award Winning Jazz Musician Ben Castle has brought his new album Blah Street" to the attention of millions with his first appearance in Hello Magazine. In the four page article Ben talks about his life, his Dad Roy, the album and the people that he has worked with in his amazingly varied music career. There are some exclusive photos taken at Ben's home studio by Photographer Andrew McCartney that also feature Ben's highly talented girlfriend singer Beth Rowley, and the ...
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