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News: Music Industry

Pat Metheny Introduces "What's It All About"

June 8, 2011

After nearly 40 recordings under his own name, this is the first Pat Metheny album where there is not a single Metheny composition represented. But far from being a “covers" album, this a personal view of ten classic songs, some very well known, some less so, filtered through the harmonic and melodic ideology of a modern ...

News: Video / DVD

Living Room Spin: The New Gary Burton Quartet

June 8, 2011

I recently had the great pleasure of hanging out with the new Gary Burton Quartet in support of their recording. To prepare for the video shoot and interview, I listened to the new CD at least five times straight through and the music captured on Common Ground was even better than I expected. The band of ...

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News: Video / DVD

Saxophone Powerhouse Bob Reynolds on Mastery, John Mayer, and More

June 8, 2011

In a very special video piece for Best. Saxophone. Website. Ever., NYC saxophonist and music entrepreneur Marc Plotkin interviews saxophonist, composer, educator and sideman to John Mayer, Bob Reynolds. For those of you who only know him as John Mayer's sax man, you're only getting a small slice of Bob Reynolds' musical world. Michael Bublé, Nellie ...

News: Music Industry

10 Tips to Get Your Music News and Content into Facebook's Top News Feed

June 7, 2011

Since Facebook separated its News Feed into Top News and Most Recent, it's become really important to get into the Top News feed which is the default and where you're most likely to be seen. If not, despite all the fans who liked your account or your band's Facebook Page, much of what you do is ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Bart Weisman Trio Performs at Summer Stock Restaurant in Dennis, Cape Cod on Wednesday, June 8

June 7, 2011

The Bart Weisman Trio, one of Cape Cod's premier jazz groups, is performing at the Summer Stock Restaurant at the Cape Playhouse in Dennis, Cape Cod, on Wednesday June 8, 2011, starting at 7:30 p.m.. There is no cover charge. Founder of the Provincetown Jazz Festival, Weisman is a seasoned jazz drummer who has played with ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Jazz Violinist Ada Pasternak Performing at Bond Lounge in Boston on Wednesday, June 8,

June 7, 2011

Violinist Ada Pasternak is performing on Wednesday, June 8, 2011 at BOND Lounge at the Langham Boston Hotel from 7:00㬆:00 p.m. Born in Moscow, Russia, Pasternak moved to the United States and studied with her aunt, Aysa Meshberg in New York. She received a Presidential Scholarship to Berklee College of Music, where she studied performance. Located ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Natalie Cole Performs at Hanover Theatre in Worcester on Thursday, June 9

June 7, 2011

Nine-time Grammy Award winner Natalie Cole is performing at the Hanover Theatre in Worcester Massachusetts on Thursday, June 9, 2011 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets to the show range from $38- $68 and can be ordered online. Discounts are available. Please call the box office at 877.571.7469 for more information. A legendary jazz singer, Natalie Cole has ...

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News: Recording

James "Blood" Ulmer - Live at the Bayerischer Hof (In+out 1994, 2011)

June 7, 2011

Guitarist James “Blood" Ulmer is one of the most iconoclastic musicians on the modern scene. Equally at home with free-jazz, blues and R&B, Ulmer is at his best when he combines all of the musical aspects of his personality as he does on this excellent live album. Dubbing this band the “Blues Experience" you can tell ...

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News: Recording

Avram Fefer's Trio Blows up a Storm on "Eliyahu"

June 7, 2011

There's more than one way to structure a free date. Stick to a mode or tonality, of course, or have some changes involved that allow latitude, or build numbers around ostinatos, repeating riffs, and center the improvisations around that. There are lots of other ways too, but you get the idea. Avram Fefer's new trio recording ...

News: Festival

Finding My Way Through Thursday, June 16th at the XRIJF

June 7, 2011

My Thursday of the XRIJF finds me starting out with an artist who has returned to Rochester quite a few times and ends with one who is about to leave Rochester, with some Finns, a Norwegian and Canadians in between to get my international jazz thing on. The links below on the artists' name in bold ...