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Barry Cleveland Assails Wing Nuts With "Warning" Video Starring The Artist General
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Barry Cleveland
Barry Cleveland's video accompaniment to his avant-metal protest song “Warning," from the critically acclaimed Hologramatron album on MoonJune Records, facilitates a full-frontal assault on the Corporate Media ("Truth is willing but the press is weak"), Big Oil ("Oilygarchs"), the Military Industrial Complex ("Chickenhawk multi-millionaires"), Climate Change deniers ("The North Pole has melted”), and self-righteous hypocrites of all stripes—before soaring into metaphysical exegesis ("That's just how it is, that's how it works: the Universe is HUGE!"). “The Artist General improvised his ...
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Amy Winehouse and Tony Bennett: "Body and Soul" Video
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JamBase
SINGER'S FINAL RECORDING TO BE RELEASED AS PART OF TONY BENNETT DUETS II ALBUM OUT SEPTEMBER 20 The track and video of “Body and Soul," recorded by Amy Winehouse and Tony Bennett on March 23, 2011 at Abbey Road Studios in London, has been released in its entirety on today to commemorate Amy Winehouse's birthday. “Body and Soul" became the final recording Amy ever made before her passing on July 23 of this year. September 14 marks what would have ...
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Gerry Mulligan's "Jazz America"
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
Gerry Mulligan, Jazz America (MVD Visual). The film's opening alternates clips of Mulligan smiling, playing his baritone sax and speaking. That brief documentary sequence establishes the good feeling that prevails in this 1981 performance at Eric's, a New York club. From there on, it's all music. Mulligan's rhythm section—pianist Harold Danko, bassist Frank Luther, drummer Billy Hart—are locked into the spirit, one another and their leader. It's a flawless set of Mulligan tunes of the period, including “North Atlantic Run," ...
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Former Major Label Chief al Teller on Radio, the Death of the Old Music Industry and the Future
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HypeBot
Al Teller ran CBS, Columbia and MCA Records, but in this interview with Ian Rogers on This Week In Music, he shares a visionary view of where the music industry is headed. It starts as a history lesson, but things get interesting around 17:30. Topics include how (sadly) mass-saturation radio play is still the most powerful way to connect with fans, and at 20:45 Rogers asks: “It seems that the music industry always relies on entities that don't actually care ...
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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: The Improvisations of Joe McPhee
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week, let's take a look at some video clips of multi-instrumentalist Joe McPhee, who will be performing next Saturday, September 17, at the Kranzberg Arts Center in a concert presented by New Music Circle. The show will feature McPhee with his band Survival Unit III, which also includes Fred Lonberg-Holm on cello and electronics and Michael Zarang on percussion. McPhee, who will turn 72 this year, was born in Miami, raised in Poughkeepsie NY, and now spends a lot ...
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Reconsidering Ken Burns "Jazz"
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The Independent Ear by Willard Jenkins
In a classic example of how time can inevitably alter one's prior impressions, last month I was down in New Orleans working on a piece that will arrive in JazzTimes magazine's forthcoming annual jazz education issue, on the annual Louis Armstrong Jazz Camp. On a couple of occasions during that week I noticed the students viewing an episode of Ken Burns' controversial “Jazz" documentary series. Spurred by that viewing I knew I needed to see the series again, at my ...
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"Stan Kenton: Artistry in Rhythm- Portrait of a Jazz Legend" wins two EMPixx Awards
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Graham Carter
The EMPixx Awards has honored Jazzed Media with two 2011 EMPixx Awards for the documentary film Stan Kenton: Artistry in Rhythm- Portrait of a Jazz Legend. The film has received a Platinum Award in the Documentary Category and an additional Platinum Award in the Use of Music Category. The documentary film was produced and directed by multi-Grammy nominated producer and award winning filmmaker Graham Carter, founder of Jazzed Media. Jazzed Media produces jazz CDs and documentary films. Previously the Kenton ...
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Dropkick Murphys, Dangerbird Records Talk D.I.Y. and Fan Engagement with Ian Rogers [video]
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HypeBot
