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It is About Who You Don't Know on June 15th of the Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival (Well Mostly...)

June 6, 2011

Wednesday's artists (at least those who are not active on the local and regional scene) at the Rochester jazz festival are, for the most part, squarely in the “who I don't know" part of festival music director's John Nugent's “It's not who you know, it's who you don't know" catchphrase for the XRIJF.However, that does not ...

News: Music Industry

D&C's "Jazz Stories" Begin for the 2011 XRIJF

June 6, 2011

Every year one of the treats that comes out of the Democrat & Chronicle's ever-growing coverage of the Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival is the series of photo essays by Will Yurman and the “Jazz Stories" videos. The first of those videos, by Annette Lein, was just released (I think today), with a short profile of ...

News: Recording

Zoot Sims and Dick Nash

June 6, 2011

You're in for a huge treat, but you don't know it yet. Back in the 10-inch LP days, on February 14, 1955, tenor saxophonist Zoot Sims was in Los Angeles cutting a four-track session for Jump Records, a Hollywood label founded by Clive Acker and Ed Kocher in 1944 just after the first AFM recording ban ...

News: Career

The Talent Myth

June 6, 2011

Robert recently asked a very insightful question in the forum. Essentially, he wonders what effect talent has on getting work as a musician in the real world. For our purposes here, let's define talent as a mix of natural aptitude, exhaustive training and years of practice that, when looked at objectively, distinguishes a musician as an ...

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News: Recording

Solomon King - Medicine (2011)

June 6, 2011

Over the course of the striking, stripped-down Medicine, former Detroit autoworker Solomon King returns to that moment when the blues moved inexorably away from the uplift that defined gospel music, and ultimately toward rock 'n' roll and then hip hop. The blues sought, at first, to define every-day concerns, but there were no easy answers. As ...

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News: Recording

One Track Mind: Richard Nelson Large Ensemble, "Strive" (2011)

June 6, 2011

In most big bands, the guitarist functions as nothing more than a member of an expanded rhythm section—and for a while it seems like Richard Nelson (even though it's his band, and all) had fallen into the same role on his forthcoming album, Pursuit. Then comes “Strive," the final large-ensemble piece. As the track begins, an ...

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News: Festival

Freihofer's Saratoga Jazz Festival is Killer

June 6, 2011

Freihofer's Saratoga Jazz Festival (check it ouuuuut ) in Saratoga Springs, NY, is a great event every year, the ultimate jazz picnic, good-time hang of any festival you'll find. Anywhere. People who show up year after year, are great music fans with great loyalty to the fest. They'll enjoy it no matter what. This year, producer ...

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News: Recording

Jon Lundbom and Big Five Chord - Quavers! Quavers! Quavers! Quavers! (Hot Cup, 2011)

June 6, 2011

Hot Cup Records can always be counted on to build a refreshingly post-modern view of jazz, whether it is the ironic beauty of Mostly Other People Do the Killing to the country/jazz experiment Pretend It's the End of the World. Irony and irreverence are the key to their aesthetic, but never at the expense of the ...

News: Technology

This Hacking Thing Seems a Little out of Control...

June 6, 2011

This sort of seems like the Wilder West, and it could totally change the way companies and consumers interact with the web. Because if someone hates your company, hates your size, or just wants to expose a security flaw, then your sites and systems are vulnerable. And, it now seems like lots of companies are not ...

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News: Opinion

C'mon: Is Soundscan Really Undercounting the Little Guy?

June 6, 2011

One thing's clear: Nielsen Soundscan doesn't count every last album sale. That would be impossible. But are they somehow missing this vast number of unsigned and indie albums (and singles), and grossly skewing our picture of who's really winning? That's been a longtime argument from two of the front-running digital distributors, Tunecore and CD Baby. In ...