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News: Recording

Iola Brubeck Digs Disney

May 27, 2011

Following my post yesterday on Dave Brubeck's Dave Digs Disney (1957), I heard from Iola Brubeck, Dave's wife. The album has been newly remastered and reissued by Sony/Legacy in mono and stereo versions plus alternate takes. If you were ever a kid, you'll love the new release, which is brimming with childlike optimism and energy. [Pictured: ...

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News: Music Industry

Canadian Chanteuse Does Nina Proud

May 27, 2011

Nina Simone was one of the more thoroughly unique and singular artists of the 20th century. Her legacy lives on in many corners; radio programmers such as WPFW's Miyuki Williams ("A Sunday Kind of Love") steadfastly and earnestly uphold and celebrate that legacy. The stories from those who knew her are legendary. There was no one ...

News: Interview

Plenty of Celebration on the 85th Birthday of Miles Davis

May 27, 2011

Miles Davis would have been 85 years old today, and the birth of the legendary trumpeter is being celebrated in several ways and places around the country today. LIFE.com just posted never-before-seen photos of Miles from 1958. According to LIFE.com: When LIFE photographer Robert W. Kelley snapped a few rolls of film at an intimate ...

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News: Music Industry

BOBCOM Offers "Fasttrack" for Indie Musicians

May 27, 2011

BOBCOM is a new platform for indie musicians designed to allow musicians to upload and sell their music to fans who rate and share those same tunes. Though there are many similar platforms, BOBCOM is distinguished by networking, performance and other opportunities for musicians who build fan support to take what the site calls the “Fasttrack," ...

News: Technology

mSpot Launches Combined Cloud Music Locker, Streaming Radio

May 27, 2011

With Google, Amazon and likely Apple getting into the cloud music business, mobile music provider mSpot might have a hard time competing. So today the upstart launched Radio Spotter Beta - the first service to combine a cloud music and storage locker service with streaming radio. Radio Spotter is available Android users in the US. The ...

News: Opinion

Jonathan Coulton on His Business Model and How Now is Best Time Ever to be a Musician

May 27, 2011

NPR's Panet Money recently featured successful d.i.y. musician Jonathan Coulton (@jonathancoulton), dissecting his success and asking if other musicians could follow a similar path, Hypebot's look at the interview “How Jonathan Coulton Made $500,000 Last Year As A D.I.Y. Musician“ received heated comments and questions that he's agreed to answer. But first, we wanted to share ...

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News: Recording

The New Gary Burton Quartet - Common Ground (2011)

May 27, 2011

Vibraphonist Gary Burton's entire career as a musician has been about thinking outside the box and exploring new frontiers in jazz music. When he was only seventeen years old, his first recording date was with country and western guitar great Hank Garland making a (gasp!) jazz album (Jazz Winds From a New Direction (1961), and damned ...

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News: Recording

One Track Mind: Michael Wolff on Songs with Cannonball Adderley, Warren Zevon, Others

May 27, 2011

On this special edition of Something Else! Reviews' One Track Mind, we hand the reins over to jazz pianist Michael Wolff. He shares insights into an Indian-inflected collaboration with Charlie Hunter, the lasting allures of funk classics like the Temptations “Papa Was a Rolling Stone," the friendship that grew from collaborating with Warren Zevon and what ...

News: Opinion

Have the Grammys Become Racist? Take a Look...

May 27, 2011

At first blush, it seemed like cutting categories was a smart path for the Grammy Awards. But instead of cutting the fat, a lot of important ethnic genres were eliminated—and that is stirring a growing consortium of concerned musicians. “The biggest and most irresponsible cut to us is that you have eliminated Latin Jazz," Carlos Santana ...

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News: Recording

David Borgo, with and Against, 1998

May 27, 2011

I've been covering David Borgo's music on these pages with a number of postings (do a search in the search box to find the others). That's because I find him one of the important West Coast voices today, as tenor-soprano stylist and as composer-conceptualist. If I retrace steps today to go back to one of his ...