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Yes Legend Jon Anderson To Receive Prog God Award From Progressive Music Awards
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Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
Music legend Jon Anderson will be presented with the Prog God award at this year's Progressive Music Awards, in association with currencies.co.uk, which will be held at London’s Underglobe on September 1, 2016! This very special honor is awarded to musical innovators within the world of progressive rock music and sees Anderson joining such music luminaries as Rick Wakeman, Ian Anderson, Peter Gabriel and Tony Banks, in collecting the prestigious award. Says Jon “After all these years, it’s just wonderful ...
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"God's Trombone" Gets 1st Broadcast-40 Years After
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S.G Provizer
As a part of Boston's Jazz Week celebration, listeners will be able to hear for the first time a concert recording of “God’s Trombones” performed 40 years ago. The composition, which features virtuoso trombonist Carl Fontana, will be broadcast on Steve Provizer's Duplex Mystery Jazz Hour on Thursday, May 1, from 5 to 6 PM on WZBC, heard locally at 90.3 FM and streaming live at WZBC.ORG. “God's Trombones" was written to help mark the second annual “Sackbut Week,” an ...
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The God-Given, Inalienable Right to Steal Music...
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Digital Music News
Sunday, Monday, Tuesday.... seemingly every day this industry talks about 'competing with free,' and the need to craft better premiums, packages, and non-reproducible experiences. But more than a decade into file-trading and digital content ubiquity, the consumer not only expects free content—they increasingly seem to view it as a right.
Just recently, British ISP BE Broadband conducted this survey of their users to anticipate the impact of the Digital Economy Act. The IP-focused enforcement initiative is currently focusing on stern ...
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One Track Mind: Bill Summers on "God Make Me Funky," "Watermelon Man," Others
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Something Else!
On this special edition of Something Else! Reviews' One Track Mind, we hand the reins over to percussionist Bill Summers. As he and the rest of the Headhunters are set for the June 14 release of Platinum—a multi-faceted new release that blends jazz, funk, hip hop and Afro-Cuban sounds—Summers remembers a previous Headhunters reunion, then looks back on a classic R&B groove that will still “sno-nuff make you wanna move." Find out which track he simply describes as “nasty" on ...
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Forgotten Series: David Torn - Tripping Over God (1995)
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Something Else!
by Tom Johnson David Torn's Tripping Over God is an album that has defied description since the day I bought it in 1995. With only a vague knowledge of the man as a member of David Sylvian's band for the Secrets Of The Beehive album, I happened upon a listening station at the local Tower Records offering the chance to hear the album. Mesmerised within a moment of pressing play, I quickly grabbed a copy. I couldn’t possibly be the ...
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One Track Mind: The Low Anthem, "This God Damn House" (2007)
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Something Else!
By Mark Saleski I have attempted to describe this before (and I even referred to it in a recent preview of The Low Anthem's Smart Flesh), but the sensation is a difficult one to get at. Without any sort of documentation, the best I've ever been able to come up with is having an out of body experience. I've also heard it described as “forgetting who you are." That's getting closer. So yesterday I stumbled onto a video of the ...
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Jazz in God's Living Room
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Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes
Jazz has been considered “the devil's music" at times. More in distant decades and in some places more than others, and even among random people today. So it is ironic when we get to hear it performed in church. I'm not talking about St. Peter's (the “jazz church" in midtown Manhattan) or other ministries that offer jazz vespers on a regular basis. But places we don't expect it for one reason or another. So what a pleasant surprise last night ...
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Brad Mehldau: Coltrane, Jimi Hendrix, Beethoven and God
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AAJ Staff
Coltrane, Jimi Hendrix, Beethoven and God I have written an article for the new magazine, The Scope. The Scope is an internationally distributed English language magazine with writing that focuses on travel, environment, geopolitics, arts and culture. The graphic design of the magazine and the photography are beautiful and other contributors to the magazine so far include Noam Chomsky. I am proud to have my writing published by The Scope and it's a fantastic publication—have a look. —Brad Mehldau Read ...
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God-F@%&!ing-Damn You, Verizon and Google
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We All Make Music
A couple of days ago, news started to trickle out about a deal between Verizon and Google that would represent the death of net neutrality.
The deal, which would grant delivery priority to content providers willing to pay a fee, has wide-ranging (and potentially catastrophic) ramifications, but amazingly, one of the most succinct, eloquent explanations came from Google back in 2006:
“Today the Internet is an information highway where anybody—no matter how large or small, how traditional or unconventional—has ...
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After Vegging Out, Guitar God Jeff Beck Takes a Sharp Turn
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All About Jazz
What a tabloid headline it would have made: “Guitar god felled by mutant carrot!" And it would have been no Spinal Tap-ish joke. The incident occurred last fall as Jeff Beck, five-time Grammy winner, two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee and one-of-a-kind six-string wizard, was prepping for a dinner party at his home outside London. “We had these massively long carrots," he says. “For some stupid reason, I started slicing them lengthwise. I got a bit lazy, and ...
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