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Jazz Face: Craig Taborn, Jazz's "Avenging Angel"
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JazzINK by Andrea Canter
High on my list for jazz CD of the year is Craig Taborn's long-awaited solo set of improvisations, Avenging Angel. Released midyear on ECM, the recording has drawn praise far and wide, but perhaps nothing father or wider than its inclusion in the recent listing of “cultural artifacts" of the new millennium posted by online magazine Slate. Slate's editors posed the question to their contributors, “Which cultural artifacts since 2000 will speak to future eras? What are the timeless expressions ...
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Tunecore CEO Jeff Price on New Songwriter Services [interview]
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Last week digital music distributor TuneCore launched the Songwriter Publishing Administration Service to help songrwiters collect payments from global performing rights organizations (PROs) as well as directly from digital music providers. It's a major initiative for the company and CEO Jeff Price who has made often described TuneCore's mission as delivering “more money, more quickly, with transparency" to artists. To learn more, we interviewed Price via email. How long has TuneCore Songwriter Services been in the planning stages?JEFF PRICE: This ...
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Kenny Burrell, Octogenarian
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
Kenny Burrell has joined the parade of major jazz artists entering octogenarianism and performing at a high level. The guitarist is of a generation of Detroit musicians including Tommy Flanagan, Pepper Adams, Elvin Jones, Roland Hanna and Louis Hayes that made a significant impact on jazz. Burrell's 80th birthday was a week ago. He is preparing for a concert next weekend. Here's more from a Scott Zimberg profile of the guitarist in The Los Angeles Times: Part of what's kept ...
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Interview: Jordi Pujol
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Don't recognize the name? Jordi Pujol is the owner of Spain's Fresh Sound label. Since the 1990s, Fresh Sound has specialized in releasing American jazz albums from the 1950s that U.S. labels have all but ignored, overlooked or forgotten. In this regard, Fresh Sound has performed a heroic task, rescuing jazz's greatest decade from the dumb clutches of record conglomerates that have all but written off the music. You see, with the advent of the digital age in the 1990s, ...
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Jazz Face: Happy Birthday, Chick Corea!
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JazzINK by Andrea Canter
One of the icons of 60s and 70s music who has never lost his forward drive, pianist Chick Corea turns 70 this month. And for much of November, he is celebrating at the famed Blue Note in Manhattan with an all-star round-up of past and present collaborators, from duet mates Gary Burton and Herbie Hancock to his pioneering fusion band Return to Forever, his famed Elektric Orchestra, his recent gathering of giants in the Five Peace Band and more. I ...
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Interview: Chick Corea (Part 3)
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Jazz-rock fusion isn't easy music. For one, there isn't much space for your ear to catch its breath. For another, unless you were in your teens in the late '60s and early '70s, the music will likely sound like noise. But for those who heard this music with peers just as their sensibilities were being formed and think back to this period with fondness, fusion has a robust, explosive feel that was in sync with its time. At the forefront ...
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Interview: Chick Corea (Part 2)
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
When acoustic jazz began to fall on hard times in the 1970s and early 1980s, many fans blamed Chick Corea. After years spent pioneering a successful form of psychedelic jazz-rock fusion with his group Return to Forever, Chick became a lightning rod of sorts for complaints and dismay. Disgruntled jazz fans blamed Chick as well as Weather Report, John McLaughlin's Mahavishnu Orchestra, Larry Coryell's Eleventh House, Steps and other fusion bands for severely damaging acoustic jazz's influence and stealing away ...
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Something Else! Featured Artist: Stevie Wonder
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Something Else!
Stevie Wonder will be honored this month as a United Nations Messenger of Peace, during a benefit concert to be held Nov. 11 in Hollywood. We'd like to add to that resume line: Messenger of Funk, Sweet Soul and Pure Unfettered Get Down. Don't believe us? Too young to remember? Let's take a spin through the stacks ... LIVING FOR THE CITY (INNERVISIONS, 1973): In 1973 I was in eight grade, living in Middletown, Connecticut. My little middle school was ...
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