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David Lopato, Solo Piano, "Many Moons"

June 8, 2011

When you do a disk of solo piano improvisations, the spirits of Keith Jarrett and Cecil Taylor loom over your shoulder. They have been so influential that virtually all who have followed after have felt the pull of their respective magnetic zones. David Lopato comes into the fray with Many Moons (Global Coolant 01) and perforce ...

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News: Video / DVD

Viklicky and Printup in Olomouc

June 8, 2011

New video has surfaced from an engagement that trumpeter Marcus Printup played with the Emil Viklický Trio during Printup's visit to the Czech Republic in 2007. YouTube identifies the first piece as “In Holomoc Town," but that is likely a misspelling or alternate spelling of “Olomouc," the name of Viklický's Moravian hometown. And where is Olomouc, ...

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News: Interview

Latin Jazz Conversations: Pedro Giraudo (Part 1)

June 8, 2011

With so many possibilities swirling through the modern world, young people often need to find their way through the contemporary musical landscape towards jazz. Their families exert a strong influence in terms of musical preference, but in most cases, it's not the final word. Popular culture and the sound of the times provide a powerful direction ...

News: Interview

Interview: Berry Gordy Jr. (Part 2)

June 8, 2011

Meeting Berry Gordy Jr. while on assignment for the Wall Street Journal last week was quite a thrill. Having listened to Motown records since I'm a kid, it was quite something to spend an hour and a half with the person who built the label from scratch and developed the talent. And all of those skills ...

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News: Recording

Bernie Worrell: Jazz Standards Album out Now

June 8, 2011

WOO PUTS UNIQUE FUNKED-UP SPIN ON NEW ALBUM RELEASED TODAY JUNE 7 Legendary keyboardist and Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Bernie Worrell will release a remarkable new album of jazz standards on June 7, 2011 on Scufflin' Records. The album, titled Bernie Worrell: Standards, features Worrell alongside an all star line up of renowned musicians ...

News: Technology

Thinkup: Capture, Analyze, Share Your Social Network Activity

June 8, 2011

ThinkUp is an open source software solution for monitoring all that social network activity you've been doing to market your music or on behalf of your music clients. It's available as a free download that you host on your own server. Expert Labs leads development on this project and that's good news because they are a ...

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News: Recording

Erik Friedlander - Bonebridge (2011)

June 8, 2011

Since Tom Cora's tragic passing in 1998, there might not have been a more adventurous cellist on this planet than Erik Friedlander. Friedlander, however, is no Cora, who was at his best at the most freakish sides of jazz and rock. Friedlander seems to follow his muse more often than not to just about everywhere else. ...

News: Music Industry

What You Need to Know About Music Libraries

June 8, 2011

[The following post is the first in a series about music libraries written by veteran composer, studio musician, consultant and writer Eric Jensen. For a brief, eloquent history of music libraries and how producers have used them, click here.] You have probably noticed a number of articles about licensing your music for film and television. But ...

News: Music Industry

It Just Got 10 Times Easier to Ticket at the Door...

June 8, 2011

There's always the wobbly table and bingo-style tickets. But bands have more options than ever for doing serious ticketing at the door—and capturing fan data. That includes everything from the Square mobile credit card reader to Topspin, though Eventbrite really wants to change this game. The company is now preparing to release 'At the Door,' a ...

News: Trends

File-Sharing is Still Surging. then Again, so is Everything Else...

June 8, 2011

Maybe the boom-boom days of file-sharing increases are over, but swapping volumes are still gaining in the double-digits. Then again, so is everything else, including on-demand video and audio, illegal locker sharing, and for that matter, mobile media consumption. In fact, on-demand video is now beating file-sharing growth volumes, according to Cisco's just-published Visual Networking Index ...