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Alleged RIAA, Sony Hackers Anonymous Arrested

July 20, 2011

At least 14 alleged members of hacking group Anonymous were arrested by the FBI on Tuesday.  Anonymous had claimed responsibility for disrupting Sony sites for weeks, as well as,hacking the RIAA, MPAA, CIA and other. An offshoot group also attacked Universal Music and others. Their most common tactic was a denial of service attack, in which ...

Massachusetts Issues Free MassJazz Travel Guide, Available at Visitor Centers and Jazz Venues

July 20, 2011

Massachusetts has issued its 3rd annual MassJazz Travel Guide, a compendium of jazz festivals, outdoor and indoor concerts and campus events, plus live jazz and weekend brunches at hotels, restaurants and nightclubs across the state from July to November 2011. The 40-page color magazine is available free to visitors and residents, and can be picked up ...

Kickstarter Now Has 10,388 Successful Projects. and 3,110 Are Music-Related...

July 20, 2011

Kickstarter is now celebrating its 10,000th successfully-funded project—and 3,110 of them are music-related. In fact, music is the most successful category, just barely edging out film and television. So, jump right in and get some cash? Not so fast: it turns out that 13,113 projects were failures, and never met their funding goals (a 44 percent ...

Pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba's Intimate and Engaging Solo Album "Faith"

July 20, 2011

Anyone who has followed the career of Cuba's pianistic dynamo Gonzalo Rubalcaba no doubt has some favorite recordings they especially like of his. Since his wider exposure as an artist to the world there have been many very good and some great ones. But to my knowledge there has been nothing that compares with his recent ...

Band Members Need to Build Individual Brands

July 19, 2011

Members of bands typically have weaker brands than the band as a whole. Even highly prominent members, such as singers and lead guitarists, often have difficulty developing a strong following after leaving popular bands. The ideal approach to thriving long term in the music industry is to build one's own brand, not by trying to grab ...

Recent Listening: Kenny Wheeler

July 19, 2011

Kenny Wheeler, One Of Many (CamJazz). Wheeler, on flugelhorn, penetrates the album's air of thoughtful melancholy with the pungency of his interval leaps, harmonic adventures and shadings of tone. Seventy-six when this was made (he is now 81), his daring was as undiminished as his rapport with pianist John Taylor. Their collaborations have involved big bands, ...

The Jazz Session #293: Adam Rudolph

July 19, 2011

Giacomo Gates Sings Scott-Heron

July 19, 2011

Last Friday in the Wall Street Journal I reviewed jazz singer Giacomo Gates' new CD, The Revolution Will Be Jazz: The Songs of Gil Scott-Heron (go here). It's one of the most exciting and intelligent vocal albums I've heard in some time. Giacomo doesn't try to cute-up Scott-Heron nor does he over-hip the songs. Instead, he plays ...

Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey: Fall Tour Dates, New Video

July 19, 2011

Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey have announced Fall tour dates in support of new album The Race Riot Suite, which is out August 31. For a taste of what to expect, check out out the live clips below of the band performing “Black Wall Street" and “Grandfather's Gun" off the new album. Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey Tour ...

Ariel Hyatt Interviews Panos Panay of Sonicbids

July 19, 2011

This interview that Ariel Hyatt of Cyber PR did with Sonicbids founder Panos Panay isn't new, but so much of what these two veterans of independent music spoke about rang true that we're republishing it. A while back I started writing a book about entrepreneurial leaders in the music business for Music Industry and Music Business ...