Results for "AAJ Staff"

Life is Good Festival: Avett Bros, Ray Lamontagne, Levon, Spearhead

June 10, 2011

FULL ARTIST SCHEDULE ANNOUNCED FOR SEPTEMBER BENEFIT FEST Life is good has announced the lineup for the 2011 Life is good Festival. Set to take place September 24-25 in Canton, MA, a suburb of Boston, the multi-faceted fundraiser combines world-class headliners and nationally known musical talent on three stages, including several of today's most popular children's ...

Tumblr Improves as Tool for Musicians and Marketers

June 10, 2011

Microblogging service Tumblr has been around since 2007 yet, though a variety of corporate entities now use it, Tumblr still feels fresh and youthful.  A number of recent developments have increased its usefulness for marketing music and related content including the introduction of the Tumblr share button, their integration with Soundcloud and their creation of new ...

Sing Along with Horace

June 10, 2011

Woke up this morning (no, that is not going to be the beginning of a blues lyric)... ...and made this the background music to preparations for the day. I chose it because I wanted something that had solos I could sing, hum and whistle along with as I fixed breakfast. Every note of Horace Silver's second ...

Monterey Jazz Festival Single Day Arena Tickets on Sale June 17, 2011

June 10, 2011

Monterey, CA—Single Day Arena Tickets for the Monterey Jazz Festival go on sale Friday, June 17 at 10 a.m. PST. Friday's Single Day Arena Tickets are $66 and include three performances; Saturday or Sunday's Single Day Arena Tickets are $132 and include five Arena performances. Performing in the Arena on Friday, September 16 will be Hiromi: ...

Latin Jazz Conversations: Pedro Giraudo (Part 3)

June 10, 2011

In order to truly express their artistic personality, a musician sometimes needs to look beyond cultural norms. This is not an easy task—the collective power of popular culture can exert a tremendous pressure upon a modern artist. It can dictate everything from form to style, and in the long term, shape a musician's complete output. While ...

Frank Sinatra: Ring-a-Ding-Ding!

June 10, 2011

Ring-a-Ding-Ding! was Frank Sinatra's first album for his newly formed Reprise label. Recorded in December 1960, Sinatra brought in Johnny Mandel to arrange after hearing his swinging work for Vic Damone at the Sands in Las Vegas. For years, the analog and digital releases have had a paper-thin sound and annoying echo. Now Concord has reissued ...

Reed Trio - Last Train to the First Station (Kilogram Records 2011) ****a1/2

June 10, 2011

By Paul Acquaro Ken Vandermark is frightfully prolific. This recent release, 'Last Train to the First Station' by the Reed Trio is just one of the many current albums and groups in which he is a member. The Reed Trio is Vandermark on clarinet, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone, Mikolaj Trzaska on bass clarinet, alto saxophone, c-melody ...

Do Social Networks Really Help Musicians?

June 10, 2011

On Music Think Tank, Dan Morgan writes about the problem of overcrowding and social media. It's hard to catch the attention of A&R reps with overcrowding, but Dan looks at three websites that can help artists reach the industry.  “This overcrowding, or “noise" makes it harder for talented musicians to get spotted (because it makes it ...

Roy Haynes on David Letterman Show

June 10, 2011

One Track Mind: Bill Summers on "God Make Me Funky," "Watermelon Man," Others

June 10, 2011

On this special edition of Something Else! Reviews' One Track Mind, we hand the reins over to percussionist Bill Summers. As he and the rest of the Headhunters are set for the June 14 release of Platinum—a multi-faceted new release that blends jazz, funk, hip hop and Afro-Cuban sounds—Summers remembers a previous Headhunters reunion, then looks ...