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Saxophone Powerhouse Bob Reynolds on Mastery, John Mayer, and More

Source: Best. Saxophone. Website. Ever.
June 8, 2011

In a very special video piece for Best. Saxophone. Website. Ever., NYC saxophonist and music entrepreneur Marc Plotkin interviews saxophonist, composer, educator and sideman to John Mayer, Bob Reynolds. For those of you who only know him as John Mayer's sax man, you're only getting a small slice of Bob Reynolds' musical world. Michael Bublé, Nellie McKay, Guy Sebastian, Richard Bona, Tom Harrell, and Brian Blade are just a few of the talents he's shared the stage and studio with. ...

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Living Room Spin: The New Gary Burton Quartet

Source: Jazz Online By Joseph Vella
June 8, 2011

I recently had the great pleasure of hanging out with the new Gary Burton Quartet in support of their recording. To prepare for the video shoot and interview, I listened to the new CD at least five times straight through and the music captured on Common Ground was even better than I expected. The band of guitarist Julian Lage, bassist Scott Colley and drummer Antonio Sanchez are a tight group and showcase their compositional prowess as well as their musical ...

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Viklicky and Printup in Olomouc

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
June 8, 2011

New video has surfaced from an engagement that trumpeter Marcus Printup played with the Emil Viklický Trio during Printup's visit to the Czech Republic in 2007. YouTube identifies the first piece as “In Holomoc Town," but that is likely a misspelling or alternate spelling of “Olomouc," the name of Viklický's Moravian hometown. And where is Olomouc, you might ask. It is southeast of Prague (Praha) and northeast of Brno (thanks for the map, Google). Viklický is the pianist, Petr Dvorsky ...

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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Six Favorites from the Jazz Crusaders

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
June 5, 2011

Today, let's check out some clips of the Jazz Crusaders, who will be in St. Louis next Saturday, June 11 to play a concert at the Touhill Performing Arts Center under the auspices of Jazz St. Louis. The four original Crusaders - pianist Joe Sample, saxophonist Wilton Felder, trombonist Wayne Henderson and drummer Nesbert “Stix" Hooper - first met in the late 1950s playing in various bands in their home town of Houston. ...

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Lady Gaga Says Albums Only Worth 99 Cents, Not Every Artists Needs a Label [video]

Source: HypeBot
June 3, 2011

When if asked if her new album wasn't worth more than 99 cents that Amazon charged, Lady Gaga responded, “No. I absolutely do not, especially for MP3s and digital music. It's invisible. it's in space. If anything, I applaud a company like Amazon for equating the value of digital versus the physical copy, and giving the opportunity to everyone to buy music," she said in a new Wall Street Journal interview. “It also wasn't really 99 cents, because Amazon paid ...

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Documentary to Chronicle the Rise and Fall of Tower Records [video]

Source: HypeBot
June 2, 2011

Tower Records was cultural icon. If you loved music and lived anywhere near one, Tower was your clubhouse. I remember visiting ToweR on my very first day in Boston to start college. But in 2004, the company filed for bankruptcy and by the end of 2006, founder Russ Solomon had shut nearly every one of its worldwide outlets. Many see the chain's demise as the first of many dominoes which mark the end of the music industry as we knew ...

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Dave Lambert: Audition at RCA

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
May 31, 2011

What you're about to see is going to blow your mind (unless you've seen it already). This was the first time I viewed the following video clip, and I knew nothing of it until JazzWax reader and publicist Michael Bloom sent along a link.

Lambert from Peter on Vimeo.

The clip is a 15-minute documentary short called Audition at RCA, which was filmed in 1964 by master of the genre D.A. Pennebaker. According to George Avakian, Dave Lambert had put ...

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