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Latin Jazz Conversations: Benny Velarde (Part 2)

June 24, 2011

Experience changes a young musician, and in many cases, it eventually turns them into bandleaders. Their early entries into music are all about exploration; they need to learn the fundamentals of music and how to work with other artists. Along the way, they find their way around the business of music and hopefully find a way ...

Buddy Holly Reconsidered

June 24, 2011

Today in the Wall Street Journal (go here) I review Rave OnBuddy Holly, an album that will be released this coming Tuesday. It pairs 19 contemporary and established rock artists with songs associated with rock's least-known and most misunderstood founder. The result is expressionistic and interpretive, much in the way that If I Were a Carpenter ...

A Musician's Guide to Linkedin

June 24, 2011

Though LinkedIn may be a top social network, it's probably not the first place a musician might go to connect with others. Sure, business people and people looking for jobs should be on LinkedIn, but artists? While it is true that LinkedIn is not for everyone, its status as a lower noise space for business networking ...

Shazam! The Echo Nest, 7 Digital Take Music ID Open Source with Echoprint

June 24, 2011

Music intelligence company The Echo Nest has launched Echoprint, an open-source music fingerprint service which  enables the development of apps that identify songs on the go. The Echo Nest is partnering with 7digital to launch with a resolvable catalog of 13 million songs, a number that should grow with the addition of partners. With Echoprint, music ...

Jazz Hang: Tangabrazo. Wow!

June 24, 2011

By Katy Bourne As a writer, it is sometimes very difficult to capture the riveting loveliness of an experience and translate it into mere words. This is the dilemma that I am confronted with now as I attempt to write about a very enchanting band that I had the pleasure of hearing last night at Bake's ...

Sunny Murray Meets Sonic Liberation Front on High Two CD

June 25, 2011

The student of the music we call jazz at some point must come to terms with the impact of the avant-garde from the '60s onwards. Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, Albert Ayler, later John Coltrane, and the musicians who associated with him brought about a vast infusion of musical vocabulary and ways of speaking into improvisational practice. ...

The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Jazz, June 24-30

June 25, 2011

I can make this task much easier this week—just go to the Twin Cities Jazz Festival, starting with Jazz Night Out tonight (6/23) and going through the post-festival gig at the Artists Quarter Sunday night (6/26) with bass heavyweights, John Patitucci and our own Billy Peterson. In between, it's Gary Burton's New Quartet (6/24) and Danilo ...

Twin Cities Jazz Week in Review: Festival Preludes

June 25, 2011

I barely had one foot out of Bryce Canyon and had to hit the “ground" running. Between music venues. I think I get most of my exercise that way these days. But it was worth the rather sudden mind shift—e.g., nearly two weeks without any live music followed by one gig after another. It was sort ...

The Traneumentary: Sonny Rollins

June 24, 2011

Sonny Rollins is a legendary musical force, and like Trane, inspires people to this day with his masterful improvisations and amazing wizardry on the saxophone. Sonny is a true legend who respected John Coltrane and also had a beautiful friendship with him. In 1956, Sonny and Trane recorded a track entitled “Tenor Madness." It would be ...

The Jazz Session #285: Ike Sturm

June 25, 2011