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News: Music Industry

Converse Rubber Tracks Studio Opens to Support Musicians and Reap Marketing Bounty

July 19, 2011

Converse Rubber Tracks, a free recording studio in Brooklyn sponsored by Converse, has recently opened for business. In addition to being a great thing for artists that get in, Rubber Tracks is an awesome branding move for a company that has rebuilt its position in the sneaker game, in part, by leveraging youth culture and the ...

News: Performance / Tour

Take the a Train to Brooklyn Jazz Clubs

July 19, 2011

from The Seattle Times: When Duke Ellington instructed Billy Strayhorn to “take the A train" to find him in Harlem, the band leader had no idea Billy would immortalize the phrase in a swing-era hit. Of course, that was back in the late 1930s, when Harlem was the hub of the jazz world. If Duke were ...

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News: Recording

One Track Mind: John McLaughlin, "Recovery" (2011)

July 19, 2011

Guitarist John McLaughlin, decades after his audacious late 1960s' stateside debut with Tony Williams and Miles Davis, has lost none of his power, virtuosity and vision—as evidenced by this furious scramble from the new double-disc Abstract Logix Live 2010, to be issued on July 19. The first to make any kind of coherent assimilation of the ...

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News: Recording

Satoko Fujii - Eto, Watershed and Rafale (2011)

July 19, 2011

Our favorite avant gardist from Japan Satoko Fujii is at it again, releasing at once a new batch of records of distinct character. Each are performed by bands she formed whose members render her boundless musical vision within their own voices, ranging from the fifteen member Satoko Fujii Orchestra New York to two quartets with odd ...

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News: Recording

Gutbucket - Flock (Cuneiform, 2011)

July 19, 2011

Another band that skirts the divide between jazz and rock 'n' roll is the Brooklyn based outfit Gutbucket, whose intricate jazz based arrangements are infused with punk rock energy. Gutbucket consists of Ty Citerman on guitar, Eric Rockwin on bass, Ken Thomson on saxophones and Adam Gold on drums. Gutbucket's music isn't as much based around ...

News: Opinion

The Concert Industry vs. the Concert Industry...

July 19, 2011

Is the concert industry at war... with itself? That was the feeling after a Monday conference call with the newly-announced Fans First Coalition, a group that features a number of leading managers, venue owners, and promoters. But Live Nation executives were not part of the call, despite a token listing on the Coalition site. The group's ...

News: Festival

Dancing, Singing, Blowing in the Streets: The 2011 Dakota Streetfest

July 19, 2011

It could have been a disaster. I know the Dakota StreetFest line-up was still in flux a few days out. Between Thursday night and Saturday morning, various parts of the Twin Cities had five or more inches of rain. The forecast was for a chance of storms and temperatures in the 90s. These were not the ...

News: Recording

Zigaboo Modeliste - New Life (2011)

July 18, 2011

New Life arrived amidst much anticipation of something in keeping with drummer Zigaboo Modeliste's mythically groovetastic tenure with the Meters. And, bless him, I got it. But that wasn't all. Take the title track. “New Life" doesn't mimic the expected grease-fire funk of his old band, so much as forceably combine New Orleans syncopations with a ...

News: Interview

Latin Jazz Conversations: Roberto Sierra (Part 2)

July 18, 2011

Any duo of professional musicians can collaborate and produce a high quality product, but it takes a special understanding between two artists to deliver truly memorable music. Every night musicians are thrown together and they make music based upon shared knowledge and professional behavior; it might sound good, but it rarely reaches a level of shared ...

News: Technology

Crowdbooster - The Best Free Social Media Monitoring Tool I've Seen so Far

July 18, 2011

After summarizing some of Dan Zarella's Twitter and Facebook timing data and then checking out some fairly simple Twitter timing tools, I decided to take a look at a service called Crowdbooster. Crowdbooster, which has a free basic account option ideal for DIY'ers, offers a dashboard for keeping up with how well you're doing on Twitter ...