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News: Recording

Pianist-Musicrafter Michel Reis Creates Seriously Interesting Pianistic Ensemble Music on "Point of No Return"

June 21, 2011

Musical artists often take exception to being pigeon- holed by the press and it in part has to do with their wish not to prejudice an audience in advance against their music in any way. Yet of course readers want to have some idea of what to expect from an artist and his or her music. ...

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News: Interview

Lalo Schifrin

June 21, 2011

A very happy 79th birthday to Lalo Schifrin, one of the greatest composers jazz and film has ever known, a damned fine pianist and truly one of the nicest people you could ever want to meet. Born June 21, 1932, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Lalo Schifrin's resume would be impossible to list here (check out my ...

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News: Recording

Nicola Conte "Love and Revolution"

June 21, 2011

For more than a decade now Nicola Conte has scored brilliantly as a DJ, promoter, producer, compiler and recording artist. From his earliest recording, 2000's still remarkable Jet Sounds (also issued in the US as Bossa Per Due), Conte has also displayed a retro appreciation for the lounge appeal of bossa nova combined with a soulful ...

News: Festival

Tailgating and the XRIJF Endgame...Day 9 of the Festival

June 20, 2011

I have a friend that lives near the festival site and met there with some friends on the last day to have a short tailgate party before heading out for our final evening of music. While we may start earlier, this may become a tradition that continues on the last day of the XRIJF... I like ...

News: Video / DVD

Three Chet Baker Clips

June 20, 2011

I came across the following three Chet Baker video clips yesterday. If you're familiar with them, they're worth another look. If not, you're in for a treat. What's fascinating to me is his smoldering intensity and passion. Also haunting is how similar he and Elvis Presley looked in 1956, though Baker appears more morose and a ...

News: Music Industry

Building a Community at musicianwages.com

June 20, 2011

Cameron and I started MusicianWages.com almost 3 years ago now. Over the years we've worked to make the site grow—adding a forum, curating guest posts, building the jobs board, making friends and writing our own articles. It's been really gratifying to see our audience grow, especially in the past year. Last month we broke our traffic ...

News: Obituary

Clarence Clemons (1942-2011): An Appreciation

June 20, 2011

ate last night, I saw the email light blinking on my phone. A single new message had come in from one of my writer cohorts. The subject line read “Blood Brothers" ... and I knew. By the time you read this, thousands of obits will have already been published. The Clarence Clemons' story is well known ...

News: Recording

Burning Gums - Burning Gums (2011)

June 20, 2011

A stylistic tour de force, this self-titled trio effort manages to take in many of jazz music's most notable influences, even tosses in a dash of Pacific island flavor, but it never falls into the rote imitative traps of so many of today's more traditionalist recordings. That's a credit to Burning Gums' executive producer Ron Jackson, ...

News: Opinion

8 Reasons Why Vinyl is Cleaner Than the Cloud...

June 20, 2011

Think digital is actually good for the environment? Less CDs, plastic, paper inserts, and physical shipping are all positive developments, but digital (and its hyped-up cloud) comes with heavy environmental baggage. iPads, smartphones, and Beatsby Dre headphones all get dumped into landfills eventually, and the cloud is arguably filthy: just a few months ago, Greenpeace gave ...

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News: Obituary

Clarence Clemons, 1942-2011...

June 20, 2011

A cornerstone of the E Street Band has now passed away. Saxophonist Clarence Clemons died Saturday evening at 69, just days after suffering a serious stroke. Shortly after news of the death, Bruce Springsteen offered this statement. “Clarence lived a wonderful life. He carried within him a love of people that made them love him. He ...