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Live Nation to Sell Tickets at Remaining Blockbuster Locations
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All About Jazz
Live Nation and Blockbuster announced a three-year contract that will put the promoter's large-scale ticketing system exclusively in 500 or so brick-and-mortar Blockbuster locations.
As part of the deal, blocks of tickets to shows ticketed by Live Nation will be available only at Blockbuster locations for the first four hours that they're on sale. The plan will go into effect after Live Nation's Ticketmaster contract expires at the end of the year, as part of the rollout of its own ...
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Happy Birthday Jaco Pastorius!
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JamBase
INSTRUMENTAL HEAVYWEIGHT WOULD HAVE BEEN 57 TODAY
Once in a spell music finds new languages, fresh dialects drawn from the same Rosetta Stone that everyone thought well studied, known terrain. Jaco Pastorius was one of these rare individuals, opening up forever the possibilities of the electric bass guitar and eroding the calcification that occurs when any genre becomes set in its ways. A fearless innovator, he is perhaps the only jazz bassist known worldwide simply by his first name, ...
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Three Octets
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
As I pointed out here and here earlier this year in surveys of medium-sized bands,
Six to eleven pieces allow arrangers freedom that the conventions and sheer size of sixteen-piece bands tend to limit. Medium-sized groups have been important since the beginnings of jazz.
They continue to be important. Here are three recent, quite different, examples.
Felipe Salles, South American Suite (Curare Records). Salles performs on several reed instruments. He is exceptional in his tenor saxophone solos, but ...
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Indictment Dropped Against Dick Cheney
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Michael Ricci
Cheney and former Atty. Gen. Alberto Gonzales were included in a Texas prisoner-abuse case, Cheney because he invests in a company that invests in prison firms.
Reporting from Raymondville, Texas -- A judge dismissed indictments against Vice President Dick Cheney and former Atty. Gen. Alberto R. Gonzales on Monday and chastised the southern Texas prosecutor who brought the case. Three of the eight indictments returned Nov. 17 targeted private prison operator the GEO Group, state Sen. Eddie Lucio Jr., Cheney ...
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Koch Records Signs Trumpeter Dominic Farinacci
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All About Jazz
KOCH Records is happy to announce the newest addition to its burgeoning jazz roster, trumpeter Dominick Farinacci. Having previously recorded six albums as a leader on Japan's M&I label, the 25-year-old Juilliard School graduate is set to release his highly anticipated debut U.S. album, “Lovers, Tales, and Dances" on February 24th, 2009. The album features some of the greatest players in jazz, including Kenny Barron, James Genus, Marc Johnson, Lewis Nash, Jamey Haddad, Joe Lovano, and Joe Locke. The record ...
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Ticketmaster Live Nation Battle Void Left by Labels
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All About Jazz
When Live Nation announced they would be launching their own ticketing initiative, many in the industry thought that would mean the end of Ticketmaster.
Instead, Ticketmaster struck back by buying an interest in Front Line Management, essentially putting them in competition with Live Nation not just for concert ticketing but also for album sales, downloads and merchandising opportunities.
Its a seismic shift, in terms of whats occurring with the retail of tickets. But its far bigger than that. Its going ...
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Modded Pianos Delight Indie Audiences Classical Buffs
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All About Jazz
Ten-year-old Volker Bertelman couldn't afford a synthesizer, so he modified the family piano to sound like a harpsichord by pressing metal tacks into its hammers. Mom was not amused, but she couldn't have known that her little boy would soon make a living doing more or less the same thing.
Bertelman has become an accomplished player of the “prepared" piano a piano that has been modified by any number of hardware additions under the name Hauschka. For a typical piece, ...
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The Sound of Change: Can Music Save Cuba?
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All About Jazz
CUBA. Vintage taxi's pick up passengers at the Hotel Nacional. The capital citys glut of old American Bel Airs, Corsairs and Corvairs has less to do with nostalgia than with the crippling economics of the U.S.M
If this were a music video, it would start in this living room in Havana, with a tight shot of the skinny kid in the white tank top at the keyboard. He counts it off from four, and with a sort of animal ease, ...
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