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How Hyperlocal Blogs Impact Music [interview]

Source: HypeBot
March 10, 2011

Recently I spoke to Jason, who is the Founder and Editor of The Pop Cop, a Glasgow based music blog, which focuses on the Scottish music scene, with daily updated news, reviews, features, and interviews. He also founded and runs the Music Alliance Pact, which sees around 35 music blogs from around the world (one per country) join forces on the 15th of every month to share their favorite songs with our collective readership—The Guardian Music Blog are England representatives. In ...

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Punch Brothers: Gunning for Transcendence

Source: JamBase
March 10, 2011

By Dennis Cook The Punch Brothers are currently out on their Spring 2011 tour. They play tonight (3/9) at the Aladdin Theatre in Portland, OR and then a three-night run at Alyeska Resort in Alaska (3/10-3/12). Full tour dates are here. Usually, evolution is not something that can be willed into being. It's a process of interacting with the environment, DNA and other factors outside one's control. However, from time to time, we encounter an entity that seems to grow ...

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Interview | Vijay Iyer

Source: Ars Nova Workshop
March 9, 2011

On Saturday, March 12, for the second night of Ars Nova Workshop’s Composer Portrait: Fieldwork, pianist Vijay Iyer, drummer Tyshawn Sorey, and saxophonist Steve Lehman will play in trio. The following night, pieces composed by Iyer and Lehman will be performed with the JACK Quartet. As Pitchfork wrote in a review of Iyer’s 2010 release, Solo, “Vijay Iyer is, simply put, one of the most interesting and vital young pianists in jazz today.” Consistently earning positions on critical year-end lists ...

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Ian Kwon on Fanatic.FM's Platform to Monetize Music by Connecting Artists with Brands and Charities

Source: HypeBot
March 9, 2011

Volumes have been written on how to monetize music in the post-Napster age. Most recently, streaming music and selling direct to fans are touted as industry saviors. But Ian Kwon, who I met and began advising last year offers a different solution that's a four-way win for artists, brands, charities and fans. In this interview, Kwon explains fanatic.fm in depth. HYPEBOT: fanatic.fm connects bands and brands. What do you see as the implication of your model to the music industry? ...

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David Binney's 'Graylen Epicenter' Marks Creative Breakthrough for Jazz Saxophonist

Source: All About Jazz @ Spinner
March 8, 2011

Alto saxophonist David Binney has been on the New York jazz scene for years now, collaborating regularly with fellow saxophonists Chris Potter or Donny McCaslin, or playing the hired gun for icons like Jim Hall, Bill Frisell and countless others. He's released several records as a leader on his own label and smaller European imprints, becoming known as something of a musicians' musician due to the stellar list of players who line up to play on his low-profile gigs at ...

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Interview | Tyshawn Sorey

Source: Ars Nova Workshop
March 8, 2011

This Friday night, March 11, Ars Nova Workshop begins its three-day Composer Portrait: Fieldwork series with a performance of Fieldwork drummer Tyshawn Sorey’s composition, “For Kathy Change.” Inspired by Kathy Change, an American performance artist and political activist who killed herself in an act of self-immolation on the University of Pennsylvania campus in 1996, Sorey’s ensemble includes trombonist Ben Gerstein, pianist Kris Davis, cellist Okkyung Lee, and guitarist Terrence McManus. One of the newest stars of New York's creative music ...

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Terry Gibbs on Benny Goodman

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
March 7, 2011

"[In 1950, when I was in Benny Goodman's Sextet], Benny used to bug me every time I would start to play my jazz choruses. He would let me play for about eight bars, and if I started swinging, he'd immediately pick up his clarinet and join me in playing. But first he'd put his cigarette down on the edge of my vibes and then start playing with me. “The fist time I saw him do that, I stopped him and ...

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Pianist Keiko Matsui Interviewed at All About Jazz

Source: All About Jazz
March 9, 2011

Keiko Matsui has been out of the studio but relentlessly trotting the globe since 2007's Moyo (Shout! Factory), her acclaimed South African-inspired recording that featured the Japanese-born pianist/composer/producer collaborating with trumpeter Hugh Masakela, among others. The Road... (Shanachie, 2011) marks the further evolution of her signature sound and demonstrates a new chapter in her artistic growth. “When I started this project I spent a lot of time reflecting on the soul and where it comes from," Matsui explains. “I am ...

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