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Monterey Jazz Festival Announces Summer Jazz Camp June 13 - 24, 2011

June 7, 2011

Monterey, CA—The Monterey Jazz Festival is pleased to announce its two-week Summer Jazz Camp for middle and high school students, taking place at Monterey Peninsula College, June 13-24, 2011. This year, 150 students from 30 schools from Monterey County and beyond will have the opportunity to immerse themselves in jazz study and performance with a star-studded ...

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News: Radio

The Jazz Session #277: David Weiss

June 7, 2011

Trumpeter David Weiss is responsible for the formation of The Cookers, whose latest album is Cast The First Stone (Plus Loin, 2010). In this interview, Weiss talks about the tribute show that led to the creation of the band; why its important for him to create working bands rather than one-off shows; and his views on ...

News: Interview

Interview: Berry Gordy Jr. (Part 1)

June 7, 2011

Marvin Gaye's What's Going On (1971) is one of my favorite albums. As I've posted in this space in the past, the album has an unmatched sophisticated and sensitive tribal jazz-soul feel and a powerful socio-political message. For those unfamiliar with What's Going On, the album's vision and success changed soul music, giving artists greater latitude ...

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News: Recording

Peter Tchaikovsky/Victor Kissine "Piano Trio"

June 7, 2011

Gidon Kremer: violin Giedrė Dirvanauskaitė: violoncello Khatia Buniatishvili: piano Two compositions bracketing the history of Russian chamber music. A revelatory account of Tchaikovsky's piano trio op.50, juxtaposed with Victor Kissine's “Zerkalo" of 2009, a work dedicated to performers Kremer, Dirvanauskaite and Buniatshvikli, and inspired by two lines from Anna Akhmatova: “The mirror ...

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News: Music Industry

Craig Taborn "Avenging Angel"

June 7, 2011

Craig Taborn: piano “Avenging Angel" is Craig Taborn's distinguished contribution to the great solo piano tradition at ECM, a powerful, purposeful and rigorous album, which rises to the challenges of the format and transcends them. The disc explores the textural dimensions of sound, builds new structures, uncovers a rugged lyricism. Recorded in the optimal acoustics of ...

News: Book / Magazine

Free Ebook: Peter Spellman on Developing Music Careers in Uncertain Times

June 7, 2011

This guest post comes from Dave Cool, the new Blogger In Residence at musician website and marketing platform Bandzoogle. Peter Spellman has released a free e-book for musicians called “Musician 2.0, 3.0, 4.0... Developing Music Careers in Uncertain Times". Peter is the Director of Career Development at Berklee College of Music in Boston, as well as ...

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News: Recording

Jon Anderson - Survival and Other Stories (2011)

June 7, 2011

Too often, it was like Jon Anderson didn't want to make a solo record that sounded too much like Yes. As interesting as these sideroads no doubt were, they gave few clues to how his own voice fit into the wider topography of the band. And they often were so idiosyncratic that only the deepest, more ...

News: Recording

Dave Douglas - Moonshine (2007)

June 7, 2011

By Tom Johnson I really admire trumpeter Dave Douglas. Not only is he world-renowned as one of jazz's best, he has taken the high and difficult road by setting out to create his own little sanctuary for musicians, a label in Greenleaf Music where they get treated fairly and where listeners can feel the same. My ...

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News: Recording

Tim Berne, Jim Black, Nels Cline - The Veil (2011)

June 7, 2011

Three of the larger figures in the downtown New York avant jazz scene, Jim Black, Nels Cline and Tim Berne, joined forces a couple of years ago to form a trio that find the intersection where the three thrive in. That area of overlap falls in the hinterland where jazz dares not tread because it's too ...

News: Music Industry

Calling Your Fans to Action

June 7, 2011

[Last week, band manager Ryan Sweeney laid out the basics of how a band should treat the members of its e-mail list. Today, he begins diving into the particulars, starting with the Call to Action] A Call to Action (CTA) is a band's way of asking its fans to do something: buy a ticket, download new ...