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News: Music Industry

Revenue Innovation for the Indie Musician

July 13, 2011

I recently wrote about Revenue Innovation For The Music Industry with a couple of related examples of how musicians can apply these ideas to their own activities. However, I'd like to get more specific for those musicians interested in how the work of researchers at IBM might relate more directly to their revenue opportunities. Though not ...

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News: Technology

Shoutomatic's Upgrades Include Great Tools for Music Marketing

July 13, 2011

ShoutOmatic is a free audible status update service that allows you to create short messages or “shouts" that can be linked from Twitter, played on Facebook or heard on your ShoutOmatic page. In an interesting approach to monetization, ShoutOmatic offers celebrities the opportunity to sell shouts to individuals or brands. Though the celebrity accounts on ShoutOmatic ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Jazz Canvas - "A Fusion of Arts"

July 13, 2011

By Katy Bourne The premise for Jazz Canvas is simple: A swingin' jazz trio, a guest performer and a visual artist share the stage for a two-hour performance. Throughout the course of the show, the band does its thing and the artist creates a painting in response to the music being played. Both the music and ...

News: Performance / Tour

Sax Player Jesse Scheinin Performs at Bond Restaurant | Lounge at Langham Hotel in Boston on Wednesday, July 13

July 13, 2011

Standout saxophonist Jesse Scheinin is performing at BOND Restaurant & Lounge in downtown Boston on Wednesday, July 13, 2011 from 7:00 to 10:00 p.m. A native of Santa Cruz, California, Scheinin is at the Berklee College of Music and a regular performer on the Boston jazz scene. BOND Jazz Experiment is held every Wednesday night. It ...

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News: Recording

Irvin Mayfield - A Love Letter to New Orleans (2011)

July 13, 2011

Putting together a luxe coffee-table book honoring the city of his birth clearly got Irvin Mayfield in a nostalgic mood. Those unfamiliar with Mayfield's intriguing blend of Afro-Cuban and straight-ahead jazz with island and Mardi Gras Indian polyrhythms are the beneficiaries, as Mayfield also compiled a greatest-hits CD of his work under the same title—A Love ...

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News: Recording

Pat Metheny Group - The Way up (2005)

July 13, 2011

By Mark Saleski Much like those pointless negative reviews where the writer (read: attacker) has never liked the band in question, I sometimes wonder if maybe it's just not right to go on about my favorite artists. Let's face it, I own just about every recording Pat Metheny has ever produced. Solo records. Sideman projects. Film ...

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News: Recording

Mathias Eick - Skala (2011)

July 13, 2011

Mathias Eick's warm, pure trumpet tone sounding almost like a brassier counterpart to fellow Norwegian Jan Garbarek makes Eick a perfect addition to the Scandinavian squadron of the ECM army. Skala follows by three years his debut, also on ECM, The Door. Eick had already recorded for the label as a sideman, including Manu Katché's excellent ...

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News: Recording

David Weiss - Snuck out (Sunnyside, 2011)

July 13, 2011

Trumpeter David Weiss and his band Point of Departure (named after a famous Andrew Hill album) look to the inside/outside music of the mid to late 1960's as an inspiration and bring that aesthetic into the present with the second in a series of live albums. Recorded at the Jazz Standard in New York City, Weiss' ...

News: Opinion

What This Economy is Doing to Creativity...

July 13, 2011

There's a dark theory about great, lasting art. Some of the greatest and influential music has sprung from pockets of desperation, poverty and struggle, and a desire to escape these confining elements. It's why Robert Johnson will be remembered long after the Strokes; why Eminem started in a trailer and not a mansion; why the funniest ...

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News: Recording

Walt Weiskopf's Quartet Captured Live and Fired Up

July 13, 2011

Walt Weiskopf occupies a place among the very best but perhaps lesser-known post-Trane tenors. That does not mean that he (or the others) sound like Trane in a direct way. They just have an essential quality to their playing that has some of the Trane hardness, speed of inventive thought and intensity. There's his first live ...