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Who's Really Destroying Music? Take a Closer Look...
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Digital Music News
If you want to beat up on the majors, have fun—there's plenty of material to go around. But just be prepared to beat up on the tech sector as well, because they're just as responsible for devaluing music and lowering artist welfare. It's the only balanced way to view the crisis that music finds itself in today. Wait, what? Isn't tech all about innovation, access, and opportunity? Aren't the labels to blame for not keeping up, for trying to pound ...
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Clifford Brown and the Great Tree
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Brilliant Corners, a Boston Jazz Blog
By Matt Lavelle Hearing the opening of the Clifford Brown birthday broadcast on WKCR at midnight this past Saturday,a 30 hour marathon,got me to reflect again on what I call the trumpet brotherhood,.and Clifford Brown's towering place inside of it.In 2010 it's hard to find members of the brotherhood,.but we still exist.Of course We all start with Louis Armstrong who passed on when I was four years old.You can really chart the progression of the Trumpet in Jazz through members ...
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Vote with Your Ears-Dizzy for Pres
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Brilliant Corners, a Boston Jazz Blog
By Steve Provizer Herbert Hoover's advisers no doubt warned him that getting endorsements from Red Allen or Miff Mole might backfire. Ditto Harry Truman, who never sought the support of Bird-or even Tommy Dorsey. Ronald Reagan never thought that the backing of Archie Shepp would seal the deal. Through most of its history, even in its mainstream swing heyday, jazz was considered dionysian enough to be vaguely disreputable. Eventually, you got jazz people invited to the White House and there ...
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Parker: The High-Tech Hitler?
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Moses Supposes
With Limewire Gone is Spotify the New Napster? I Don't Know. Is Sean Parker the New High-Tech Hitler? Is there no limit to this guy's narcissism? The old saying goes, when three people tell you you're drunk, maybe you should sit down. When, the US Supreme court says, you are a thief who stole from millions of artists, and when the Attorney General investigates you for 400 million counts of computer trespass, and then finally, when Hollywood casts you as ...
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Is Music Helping Shred a Senseless Cold War Remnant?
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Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes
After all these years, is there anything more senseless than the U.S. trade embargo against Cuba? I think not, but some are bound to disagree. But the arts are thawing the iceberg a bit—and jazz is at the forefront of that relaxation. Larry Blumenfeld had a riveting two-part coverage in the Wall Street Journal in early October of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra's six-day residency in Havana that involved both concerts and clinics for young Cuban musicians. The visit, ...
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Why the Whole Music World Should Not Go Digital
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HypeBot
Vinyl records have resurged; it is no secret. The bigger question that looms is why have they? Tye L. at The Music Cycle thinks it is because of two factors. First, records produce a sound that is unique to them. They are richer or more natural sounding than their digital counterparts. In addition, they give fans a sense of ownership that files stored on a computer do not. It is a piece of music and it is theirs. The packaging ...
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Not Making Enough Money on the Road? Try Selling Underwear...
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Digital Music News
(#cmj, #musicindustry, #music) If you wanted lots of direct-to-fan tips, there was no better place to be last week than CMJ. But is any of this really healthy for musicians? Showcases have always been a crapshoot, though the daily panels featured endless amounts of 'expert advice' that steered away from the most serious issues affecting musicians today. In fact, it could be causing musicians to steer their careers in the wrong direction entirely, and ultimately compromise their most important asset—their ...
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Another Robert Johnson Mystery
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Brilliant Corners, a Boston Jazz Blog
Below see the semi-decipherable conversation between professor Chalfen and myself vis a vis the mystery of whether the recordings of blues giant Robert Johnson were recorded at the wrong speed and hence play back at a faster speed than they should. This is important because, if true, it implies Mephistopheles may have been less involved than was heretofore believed. Briliiant Corners readers with views on the subject are welcome to comment. Go here to listen to the demo yourself: http://bit.ly/b5oECMTO ...
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