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Music Gets Mobile: 34% of U.S. Broadband Users Access Music on Their Phone
While 50% of U.S. broadband households prefer the computer as their digital music access point, the proliferation of smartphones, connected devices and cloud-based services are changing that. In 2010, 34% of U.S. broadband consumers were using their mobile phone as a music player, up from 9% in 2007, according to a new Parks Associates report. That's ...
Documentary to Chronicle the Rise and Fall of Tower Records [video]
Tower Records was cultural icon. If you loved music and lived anywhere near one, Tower was your clubhouse. I remember visiting ToweR on my very first day in Boston to start college. But in 2004, the company filed for bankruptcy and by the end of 2006, founder Russ Solomon had shut nearly every one of its ...
Something Else! Interview: Bill Champlin, Formerly of Chicago
By Nick DeRiso Bill Champlin, who co-founded the legendary Bay Area band the Sons of Champlin, is perhaps best known for his nearly three decades as a member of Chicago. But he had already collected a pair of Grammy awards before joining Chicago, first for “After the Love Is Gone" (a hit for Earth, Wind and ...
Mike Keneally and Metropole Orkest - The Universe Will Provide (2004)
By Tom Johnson I was a little disappointed with guitarist Mike Keneally's initial release of 2004, Dog. It seemed to be lacking a little something physical, some cohesive element, in the music, but where it worked it worked great. It was just too unbalanced by some out of place avant-garde-ish pieces that didn't really fit in ...
Dapp Theory - Layers of Chance (2008)
By Mark Saleski Some people really have the wrong idea about jazz. They think that most of it falls into two very broad categories: traditional, where guys in suits play an introductory theme before taking turns soloing over the developed chord changes; and avant-garde, also known as “cats-on-piano" jazz, where everybody just plays whatever the hell ...
How to Add Isolation to Your Basement Studio
[Editor's Note: This is part two of Bobby Owsinski's series on how to improve a basement studio without busting one's budget. Part one can be found here] Before you begin to place your gear in your basement studio, there's one big question that every musician has to tackle: how do you keep the sound of your ...
Capsule Reviews - Tommy Smith, Chase Baird
Tommy Smith—Karma (Spartacus, 2011) Scottish saxophonist Tommy Smith is much in demand as a soloist (check his extraordinary playing on Arild Andersen's Live at Belleville) and as a well regarded educator. Smith's Karma (no relation to Pharoah Sanders' free-jazz masterwork of the same name) works well, as the band with Smith: Steve Hamilton on piano, synth ...
Muhal Richard Abrams - Sounddance (Pi Recordings, 2011)
Honored as a jazz master by generations of musicians, and co-founder of the influential AACM, pianist Muhal Richard Abrams met two distinguished yet completely unique colleagues for an improvised performance where they were truly walking the high-wire without a net, performing the improvisations live. The first disc is with George Lewis, trombonist and laptop experimenter. It ...
Album Art: Suburban Abstract
Somehow abstract art became popular among the American suburban culture of the late '50s and early '60s. For proof, watch any episode of Mad Men, one of the best ways to see—not really know—what the world might have been like for East Coast Americans of a certain age at certain point in history. (Left: Olga Albizu's ...
Jamie Ruben "Groove-O-Ly-O-Scene"
The musical path of Canadian guitarist Jamie Ruben is surely the story of the road less traveled. Rather than gigging regularly in some urban jazz hotbed, the Toronto-based guitarist made his living for seven years performing jazz full time in the Far East in such places as Katmandu, Bangkok, Shanghai and the even more remote regions ...
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Bill Bruford And Pete Roth: A One-Of-A-Kind Juxtaposition
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Scott Kinsey: Thought Distortions and the Art of the Left...
Groove Orbit
801 Live at 50: A Short-Term Experiment with a Long-Lasting...
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The Quiet Cruelty of the Music Business
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Arcanum at Victoria Nasjonal Jazzscene, Oslo
Phil Schaap's Jazz Room
Franc Williams: Live From The West End
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Enrico Rava: The Secret Corners of a Master
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