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Shoudio Offers Free Service for Mobile Audio Recording with Geolocation Networking

July 22, 2011

Shoudio, the “location based audio platform," is an interesting mobile app that for once made me think more about art than about commerce. It's not that Shoudio doesn't offer marketing possibilities but it seems more conducive to having a presence and creating geolocative audio art than about shout outs and promos. Shoudio has a web option ...

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News: Recording

Freddie Hubbard - Pinnacle: Live and Unreleased (2011)

July 22, 2011

The late Freddie Hubbard, whose brilliant technique and warm tone were occasionally obscured by unfortunate settings, is perhaps to blame for his own dimmed star. Recordings like this make his case all over again. Punchy and full of solos that are both demonstrative and then incendiary, Pinnacle: Live and Unreleased was recorded in June and October ...

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News: Recording

Wilco - A Ghost is Born (2004)

July 22, 2011

By Tom Johnson Where I liken 2002's darkly beautiful, but depressing Yankee Hotel Foxtrot to the sound of a man about to hit bottom, 2004's A ghost is born is the sound of someone at the bottom, looking up: It's hopeful, in other words. This analogy seems fitting, as 2004 was the year when Wilco leader ...

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News: Recording

Robert Randolph and the Family Band - Colorblind (2006)

July 22, 2011

By Mark Saleski Inertia. Sure, it's a physics thing, but I like to apply it to music every once in a while. I'm not talking career inertia; the rising star thing. No. It's the music. You hear it and it has an energy that's impossible to resist. That perfectly describes the music of Robert Randolph and ...

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News: Recording

Three from Trumpet Wunderkind Cuong Vu (2011)

July 22, 2011

Cuong Vu is a Vietnamese-born, Seattle-raised trumpet player who can be considered a pretty damned impressive and forward thinking just by looking at the list of bandleaders who he impressed enough to have in their bands: Pat Metheny (Group), Dave Douglas, David Bowie and Satoko Fujii put him in their groups at one time or another ...

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News: Recording

John Coltrane - The Classic Quartet: Complete Impulse! Studio Recordings (Impulse, 1998)

July 22, 2011

The music on this large boxed set contains the studio recordings of one of the great jazz bands of the post-war era, John Coltrane's “Classic Quartet." Featuring Coltrane on tenor and soprano saxophones, McCoy Tyner on piano, Jimmy Garrison on bass and Elvin Jones on drums the group's towering influence continues to be felt to this ...

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News: Recording

Gerry Mulligan "Watching and Waiting"

July 22, 2011

Dave Grusin, like fellow Silver Age film composer Lalo Schifrin, has steadily slowed the pace of his movie scoring down over the last few years. Like Schifrin, Grusin—also a jazz pianist—has devoted more of his attention to other facets of his remarkable musicality. But even as Dave Grusin seems to have moved away from film, he ...

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News: Interview

Daniel Bennett on Creating a Truly Unique Musical Statement and More

July 22, 2011

Generously lauded in publications such as The Village Voice, The Boston Herald, The Boston Phoenix, and the Boston Globe, it's obvious that Daniel Bennett is the toast of his former town (he is now based in New York City). With a list of teachers that includes Jerry Bergonzi and George Garzone, it's easy to see why ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Rootmusic Launches New "Social Touring" Integration for Bandpage

July 21, 2011

RootMusic, the developers of the Facebook music application BandPage, has upgraded their app with a new multi-platform touring integration. By partnering up with touring websites SonicLiving, Bandsintown, and Songkick, the upgrade allows fans on an artist's BandPage to see which of their friends are attending a show, creates the ability to RSVP for the show, and then ...

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News: Recording

Leonardo la Peruta Quartet - The Emotional Touch (2011)

July 21, 2011

Leonardo La Peruta begins The Emotional Touch with a series of skillful runs on the saxophone, almost like a call to arms. “Desperate in Blue" eventually settles into a lithe rhythm signature, but not before La Peruta has served notice: His is a talent boasting skill, precision and some serious swing. As “Desperate" concludes, with pianist ...