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The Traneumentary: Ashley Kahn

Source: Jazz Online By Joseph Vella
April 14, 2011

Writer Ashley Kahn is one of the most profound authorities when it comes to John Coltrane. He has written three well researched and enjoyable books that feature John Coltrane among others: The House That Trane Built: The Story of Impulse! Records, Kind of Blue-The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece and A Love Supreme-The Story of John Coltrane's Signature Album. On the first of two Traneumentary episodes, Ashley puts Coltrane's musical force and legacy into perspective. He presents a brief ...

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Spreaker: Artist Marketing Tool or Waste of Time?

Source: HypeBot
April 12, 2011

(UPDATED) Spreaker is a free and straightforward online radio and podcast service with resources like video tutorials to make it easy to use. Set up a show, upload media files and record audio directly into a mic. You specify the sequencing and Spreaker mixes it together on their end. Sounds like a simple and effective tool that artists and others can use to communicate with their fans; or is it? The limit to the free version is one hour of ...

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XM Settles, Agrees to Pay Indepedent Labels $3.6m

Source: HypeBot
April 12, 2011

Independent music agency Merlin and other members of the indie music community have agreed to a settlement of $3.6 million in a long-running dispute with XM Satellite Radio over the Pioneer Inno recordable radio receiver. Out of court settlements had been reached with the four major record labels between 2007 and 2008. As a result of the class action settlement, Merlin members and all other independent record labels that had their sound recordings transmitted by XM Satellite Radio between March ...

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The Jazz Session #256: Fay Victor

Source: AAJ Staff
April 12, 2011

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JazzWeek Radio Chart: April 4, 2011

Source: Michael Ricci
April 12, 2011

TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 1 1 Kurt Elling The Gate (Concord Jazz) 239 244 -5 1 59 1 8 2 2 2 Various Artists Disney Jazz, Volume 1: Everybody Wants To Be A Cat (Disney Pearl Series) 231 218 +13 0 55 2 9 3 3 22 Monty Alexander Uplift (JLP) 211 193 +18 0 54 3 3 4 8 12 Yellowjackets Timeline (Mack Avenue) 188 160 +28 0 57 4 5 5 5 6 ...

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Pandora Caught Transmitting Personal Info and User Location to Advertisers

Source: HypeBot
April 9, 2011

(Updated) After Pandora revealed in an IPO filing that it was subpoenaed by a grand jury investigating smartphone apps, the team at Veracode decided to do a little digging and found that both Pandora's Android and iPhone apps transmitted information about a user's age, gender, location, and unique identifiers for the phone to advertisers. Pandora gathers age and gender when a user register. As the number of apps grow, so will the information gathered. “In isolation some of this data ...

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The Jazz Session #255: Marc Miralta

Source: AAJ Staff
April 8, 2011

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Riverwalk Jazz presents William Warfield This Week

Source: Don Mopsick
April 7, 2011

This week on Riverwalk Jazz, the late theater legend William Warfield joins The Jim Cullum Jazz Band in an encore presentation, combining Mr. Warfield's masterful readings of Langston Hughes' poems with musical selections by Duke Ellington and James P. Johnson. The hour-long radio show is distrubuted across the US by Public Radio International and worldwide on Sirius/XM sattelite radio, as well as streamed on-demand via the Riverwalk Jazz website. Langston Hughes has been called the “Poet Laureate of black America," ...

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