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Tony Scott at Bop's Dawn
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Clarinetist Tony Scott didn't make many friends. A good number of jazz musicians who knew him recall an egoist who was abrasively competitive and made less and less musical sense as the years wore on. Personally, I find Scott a mixed bag, in some cases producing lovely swinging music and in other cases using a purposefully dry and dull tone, especially as the '50s progressed. What isn't as well known about Scott was his early involvement with bebop, when the ...
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Esperanza Spalding and Her Jazz Bass Still on the Move After Her Grammy Nomination
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All About Jazz @ Spinner
It was just over a year ago that I wrote about Esperanza Spalding in this space. Back then, the bassist was hot off her performances at the White House and President Obama's Nobel Prize awards ceremony. That is enough for most people to hang a career hat on, but then came the 2011 Grammy nominations: Spalding was nominated in the Best New Artist category, going up against the likes of Justin Bieber, Drake, Mumford and Sons and Florence and the ...
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Chick Corea Headlines at Jazz at Lincoln Center
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Greg Thomas
To judge by the latest whirlwind of activity, jazz great Chick Corea has no intention of slowing down after more than 50 years. Saturday he led a tribute to Herbie Hancock in Washington, D.C. Sunday he was in a Manhattan studio recording with Roy Haynes, who, at 85, may be the world's greatest living jazz drummer. Now the pianist and composer works with another legend, Wynton Marsalis, when he settles in for a three-night sojourn starting Thursday at Jazz at ...
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Why a Music Social Network Won't Succeed - Less Fan Interest Than We Imagine [interview]
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HypeBot
Recently, I spoke with Kevin Leflar, who is the Founder, President and CEO of officialCOMMUNITY, a leader in creating commercialized online communities for established recording artists. In this interview, Leflar talks about how shortening of fame cycles and the challenges in monetizing viral activity. Hypebot: How has the shortening of fame cycles affected the ability of online communities to mature? Kevin Leflar: The short answer is that shorter fame cycles don't allow for social cohesion to occur around the artist/brand. ...
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Sonny Rollins on His Favorite Soundtracks
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Inverted Garden by Eric Benson
New York magazine's Vulture site has an ongoing feature called Vulture Recommends in which artists of different stripes (actors, comedians, directors, writers, musicians) discuss their top five works in given categories. In the past, I've done Vulture Recommends with Vijay Iyer, The Bad Plus, Neil LaBute, and Joe Lovano. Last week, I interviewed the great Sonny Rollins about a top-five category of his choosing: film music. Each Vulture Recommends has very limited space, no more than 300 words. I spoke ...
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Amateurs Blur with Professionals - As Music Apps Get Better, the Music Will Too [interview]
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HypeBot
This is part two of my interview with Suzanne Lainson. She is a marketing strategist who has worked with sports, tech, and music companies, and currently writes about the future of the music industry for the Brands Pus Music blog. In this interview, she talks about the implication of a global community of creators and how they will shape our culture. Hypebot: Was the iPhone a tipping point for expressive social media that could operate on a global scale? Suzanne Lainson: ...
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A Future Where Everyone is a Music Maker - How Apps Will Change Cultural Creation [interview]
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HypeBot
Recently, I spoke with Suzanne Lainson, who is a marketing strategist who has worked with sports, tech, and music companies, and currently writes about the future of the music industry for the Brands Pus Music blog. In this interview, she talks about the future of music apps and how they'll shape music culture. Hypebot: What do you believe the cultural implications are for a future where everyone is a music maker? Suzanne Lainson: Overall, it's good for society. It gets ...
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Mr Ho's Orchestrotica's Brian O'Neill Interviewed at All About Jazz
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John Kelman
Led by pianist and multi-percussionist Brian O'Neill, Mr Ho's Orchestrotica plays the kind of music you can listen to with your mother. She'll love the '50s atmosphere of The Unforgettable Sounds of Esquivel (Exotica For Modern Living, 2010)—while you'll pick up all the left-of-center global hints—and she won't even know it's good for her! It's good, indeed, wrought as it is from original charts from lounge/exotica avatar Juan Garcia Esquivel, transcribed from actual recordings by ear. For baby boomers, it ...
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