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Notes from the Net: Lester Bowie Reissued; Jimmy Cobb's so What Band Reviewed; Plus News, Reviews, Interviews, and More
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Here's the latest compilation of assorted news briefs and links related to jazz, improvisation, and creative music in St. Louis, including news of musicians originally from the Gateway City, recent visitors, and coming attractions, plus assorted other items of interest.Starting off, as we usually do, with a couple of items about Miles Davis, it seems that Kind of Blue drummer Jimmy Cobb's So What band played last week at the Gem Theater in Kansas City, and the show ...
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NARM Launches a Digital Music Think Tank
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HypeBot
The National Association of Recording Merchandisers has launched a Digital Think Tank task force of NARM members dedicated to resolving issues surrounding the business of digital music. Members include: 7digital, Amazon.com, E1, EMI, IODA, Iris, iTunes, Microsoft, Mix & Burn, Napster, Nokia, The Orchard, Rhapsody, Rhino, Sony, Topspin, Universal, Verizon, WEA, and Wind-up.
At yesterday's kick-off meeting, the Digital Think Tank formally established working groups that will tackle three broadly defined issues identified by the NARM membership: digital supply chain ...
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Five More Worth Following
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HypeBot
Overwhelmed by Twitter-mania? From time to time Hypebot will help you sift through the tweet pileup to find the few music industry, tech and business voices that are really worth following. Here's the second installment of Hypebot's Five Worth Following:
@musicadium - Australian based flat free digital distributor (think Tuncecore Downunder) Musicadium uses its Twitter feed to share what's happening in the new music industry on their side of the worlkd and globally. @cyberpr - The Twitter ...Continue Reading
Jazz and Folk Intermingle - Paying It Forward
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Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes
Louis Armstrong is credited with saying: “All music is folk music; I ain't never heard no horse sing a song." Another variation on the quote is “All music is folk music, because we're all just folk."Quotations aside, there are some interesting jazz-folk synergies at work this autumn. Some may have been surprised when 90-year-old folk troubadour Pete Seeger was featured September 19 in a prime-time performance at the Monterey Jazz Festival. He got a standing ovation when he walked on ...
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Bill Cosby Enters Rap Game
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JamBase
Bill Cosby Enters Rap Game
Bill Cosby, the 72-year-old comedian, sitcom, and Pudding Pop legend, is entering the rap game with Bill Cosby Presents the Cosnarati: State of Emergency. Set for release digitally on October, 20 and physically on November 24, you can hear two tracks right here, right now:
Bill Cosby
According to The Wall Street Journal ...
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When Music Meets Science
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Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes
In addition to their strong musical interests, John Medeski, Billy Martin and Chris Wood share interests in biology and science. The longtime bandmates melded those interests philosophically with their latest, and perhaps most ambitious project, The Radiolarians Series. It is named after the Radiolarian, a type of single-celled marine organism with a very intricate exoskeleton. MMW took an organic, evolutionary approach to the tour and the recordings that have resulted in Radiolarians: The Evolutionary Set, which is being released November ...
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Keeping the Faith, Growing the Jazz Faithful
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Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes
There are examples here and there of jazz clubs, jazz festivals and jazz musicians doing their part to increase the audience and give the jazzfaithful an economic break in these difficult times. Some do it low key, some even anonymously. Wynton Marsalis is doing his part. The trumpeter and Jazz at Lincoln Center artistic director will give back to his fans next mont when he opens the doors of Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola at Jazz at Lincoln Center on November 29. ...
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Michael Jackson's Single 'This is It' Dates to a 1983 Collaboration with Paul Anka
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Michael Ricci
Though officially released less than 24 hours ago, Michael Jackson's first posthumous single, “This Is It," has turned out to not be so new after all.
After rampant speculation Monday that the song has decades-old roots, a representative to the special administrators for the Jackson estate has confirmed that “This Is It" was originally co-written with Paul Anka in the early '80s. Anka tells Pop & Hiss that he recorded two songs with Jackson in 1983, both intended for Anka's ...
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