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News: Music Industry

Not Free: Revenue Innovation for the Music Industry

June 25, 2011

Saul J. Berman's “Not For Free: Revenue Strategies for a New World“ offers a solid approach to understanding revenue innovation in a constantly shifting digital landscape. Berman discusses revenue innovation with numerous examples from media companies which he considers canaries in coalmines. Though his examples focus on larger enterprises, the message which should resonate with anyone ...

News: Opinion

Rick Rubin: Music Biz Could Be Bigger Than Ever

June 25, 2011

Recorded music sales continue to struggle and the leadership at the top of Sony Music is shifting, but Rick Rubin continues to exhibit the Zen master attitude that's helped to make him a legendary force in music both as a producer and recently as co-chairman of Columbia Records. The music industry “could be a bigger business ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Earth, Wind and Fire Performing in Boston and Tanglewood This Weekend

June 25, 2011

Earth, Wind and Fire, the legendary jazz-funk-soul band, is performing two shows in Massachusetts this weekend, as part of its 40th anniversary World Tour. On Friday, June 24 at 8:00 p.m. the band performs at the Bank of America Pavilion along Boston's waterfront. Tickets to the show are $45—$100 and can be purchased online or at ...

News: Recording

Terence Blanchard - Malcolm X: The Original Motion Picture Score (1991)

June 25, 2011

If, during the opening strains of your DVD copy of “Malcolm X," you stop eating popcorn mid-munch, that's just fine with trumpeter Terence Blanchard. His original score for the 1991 Spike Lee film was designed to be anything but background music. Melancholy then snap-bean jazz and then jack-boot ominous, his score can only be described as ...

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News: Recording

Jerry Granelli Trio - Let Go (2011)

June 25, 2011

verytime I've examined a Jerry Granelli record, like Song I Thought I Heard Buddy Sing or News From The Street, I've marveled at how a guy who drummed for all those Charlie Brown children's TV specials with Vince Guaraldi ended up being such a creative risktaker as a leader. At the same time, I think it's ...

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News: Recording

BB and C - The Veil (Cryptogramophone, 2011)

June 25, 2011

BB and C is a cooperative group consisting of alto saxophonist Tim Berne, drummer Jim Black and guitarist Nels Cline. This music is taken from a from a live recording at made at The Stone in New York City. This was a very exciting and continuously engaging album to listen to, moving between avant-garde squalls of ...

News: Recording

Ken Peplowski Keeps It Fresh and Vibrant with "In Search Of. . . "

June 25, 2011

For someone who is playing within a tradition, it is important to keep inspiration high, to keep yourself challenged and contributing on a high level. Where perhaps some have fallen victim over time to a kind of creeping fungus of the repertoire, the same tunes played in the same ways time and again, Ken Peplowski has ...

News: Radio

Jazz Backstage: Charlie Haden

June 25, 2011

The legendary bassist and bandleader Charlie Haden has had no shortage of excellent work lately. His duet recording with Keith Jarrett Jasmine was critically acclaimed across the globe, his latest Quartet West outing Sophisticated Ladies is being heralded as one of 2011's best jazz recordings and his recent collaborative effort with Lee Konitz, Brad Mehldau and ...

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News: Interview

Loren Stillman Shares a Killer Practice Routine and Much More

June 25, 2011

A glitteringly inventive saxophonist and composer, Brooklyn's own Loren Stillman spins sonic worlds of wonder. With impressionistic shades of traditional jazz punctuating his utterly modern playing and compositional sensibilities, his multiple recordings have garnered rave reviews from publications such as The New York Times, Cadence, Jazz Times, Jazziz Magazines and Downbeat. Stillman comes armed with an ...

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News: Award / Grant

The New NEA Jazz Masters

June 24, 2011

The National Endowment for the Arts today named the 2012 NEA Jazz Masters. As announced in the NEA's news release, the winners are: Jack DeJohnette Drummer, Keyboardist, Composer Von Freeman Saxophonist Charlie Haden Bassist, Composer, Educator Sheila Jordan Vocalist, Educator Jimmy Owens ...