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News: Performance / Tour

Jazz Singer Amanda Carr Performing at Boston Pops 4th of July Concert on Esplanade

July 1, 2011

Jazz vocalist Amanda Carr is performing with Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops Orchestra at the annual Fourth of July concert on the Boston Esplanade on July 4, 2011. Amanda is performing 'Til I Come Home,' a song she co-wrote with the evening's host, actor Michael Chicalis. The song is a tribute to the troops. Also ...

News: Performance / Tour

New Eagle Jazz Band Performing in Newburyport on Saturday, July 2

July 1, 2011

New Orleans-style jazz is on the menu tonight at the popular band, the New Black Eagle Jazz Band performs at the Maudslay Arts Center in Newburyport on Saturday, July 2, 2011 at 7:00 p.m. The band has been together for nearly 40 years and has a vast repertoire of over 600 songs, ranging from Scott Joplin ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Jazz Vocalist Anne Walsh Performing at Acton Jazz Club on Friday, July 1

July 1, 2011

Jazz vocalist Anne Walsh is performing with her trio at the Acton Jazz Club in Acton Massachusetts on Friday, July 1, 2011 at 7:00 p.m. Tickets to the show are $12. Born and raised in Worcester in a musical household, Walsh, who is now living in California, received a Grammy nomination in 2009 for her album, ...

News: Performance / Tour

Jazz in July Series Kicks Off in Downtown Boston on Friday, July 1 with Yoko Miwa Trio

July 1, 2011

The popular Jazz in July series of live jazz performances sponsored by Downtown Boston BID kicks off on Friday, July 1, 2011, with a live set by the Yoko Miwa Trio from noon to 2:00 p.m. on Summer Street in front of Macys Department Store. And later that evening, the Andrew Van Tassel Quartet performs at ...

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News: Interview

Something Else! Interview: Delfeayo Marsalis, Producer and Trombonist

July 1, 2011

Delfeayo Marsalis, recipient of the 2011 NEA Jazz Masters Award, stepped out with a rare recording as a leader this year—just his second since the 1990s. Sweet Thunder: Duke and Shak, a canny reworking of Duke Ellington's 1957 suite Such Sweet Thunder on Troubadour Jazz, led to a 36-date theatrical jazz production that ran through May. ...

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News: Recording

Laszlo Gardony - Signature Time (2011)

July 1, 2011

Hungarian-born pianist Laszlo Gardony is an accomplished musician and composer, having graduated from Berklee and serving as a professor there for a number of years. He's mingled with many of the best jazz has to offer: Dave Holland, Miroslav Vitous, David Fathead" Newman, Randy Brecker, Dave Liebman and John Blake are all name artists he's worked ...

News: Recording

ZZ Top - Mescalero (2003)

July 1, 2011

By Mark Saleski If you ever get a chance to see the movie “Dazed And Confused," you'll be treated to a pretty accurate depiction of a typical weekend in late 1970's America. The bad hair, the hiphuggers, the muscle cars, the 8-tracks. Ohhh yeah, the 8-tracks. I don't really have much nostalgia for 'em. I mean, ...

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News: Recording

Hans Zimmer - Inception (2010)

July 1, 2011

By Tom Johnson I found myself entranced by the horn-laden theme that repeatedly roared through the ads for Inception. Less song-like and more a series of massive, rumbling horn crashes, the music seemed as important as it was mysterious. Hans Zimmer's score was no mere backing music. Like the biggest scores we've come to know, it ...

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News: Recording

John Escreet - The Age We Live in (Mythology Records, 2011)

July 1, 2011

With each new release, keyboardist and composer John Escreet has become more adventurous in his outlook toward music. This is his most diverse album yet, hinting at modern fusion while remaining true to his post-bop roots. Performing with him is a stellar lineup including David Binney on alto saxophone and electronics, Wayne Krantz on guitar, Marcus ...

News: Trends

The God-Given, Inalienable Right to Steal Music...

July 1, 2011

Sunday, Monday, Tuesday.... seemingly every day this industry talks about 'competing with free,' and the need to craft better premiums, packages, and non-reproducible experiences. But more than a decade into file-trading and digital content ubiquity, the consumer not only expects free content—they increasingly seem to view it as a right. Just recently, British ISP BE Broadband ...