Results for "AAJ Staff"

Interview: Marcos Valle (Part 2)

May 18, 2011

Marcos Valle has a way with a melody, whether he's singing in Portuguese or English or simply playing the piano. Three albums are perfect evidence of his poetic ability: Braziliance! (1967) Samba '68 (1968) and Viola Enluarada (1968). In each case, you hear how Marcos baits a melody line to seduce the listener. Even songs with ...

Cibo Matto Reunite, Announce Headlining Tour

May 18, 2011

DUO WORKING ON NEW MATERIAL FOR NEW ALBUM IN 2012 Cibo Matto, the ground-breaking and genre-bending duo of Miho Hatori and Yuka C. Honda, happily announces their reunion with two short “sneak preview" tours this summer. The first, from June 21-26, will be on the West Coast, with a second East Coast/Midwest run July 11-20. Miho ...

4 New Sites Combine Music with Daily Deals

May 18, 2011

The runaway success of daily deal sites like Groupon and Living Social, which focus on a wide range of local deals at deep discounts, has spawned a mini-industry of copycats and niche services including some focused on music. While copycats of hot web properties are eventually sorted out with most falling by the wayside, niche sites ...

A Musician's Minimum Sustainable Scale

May 18, 2011

This guest post comes from Fava, who blogs as The Cynical Musician. How big must you be to call yourself successful? I have no idea—it all depends on your definition of success. I propose to answer an easier question here: how big must you be to be sustainable? Unless we define success in really awkward ways, ...

Were Major Labels Right to Stay Away from the Cloud ... and Should We Too?

May 18, 2011

David Greenberg,  Cyde Smith and I recently shared our thoughts on the launch of cloud music services from Amazon and Google. Today, Robin Davey (@mr_robin_davey), a musician, artist and Head of Music & Film Development at GROWVision Media weighs in. With the recent launch of Amazon and Google's music in the cloud services, the press embraced ...

Liberty Hotel in Boston Has Acoustic Jazz with Daniel Bennett Group on Wednesday, May 18

May 18, 2011

Karlowicz (1876-1909) and His Rebirth Symphony

May 18, 2011

There's good reason why you probably have never heard of composer Mieczyslaw Karlowicz. He was on the verge of international recognition and full musical maturity when he was killed in an avalanche while on a skiing trip. Fortunately for us he had created a small but very interesting body of work in the late-romantic vein. His ...

Lalo Schifrin "Pussycat, Pussycat, I Love You"

May 18, 2011

First, a little history. In 1965, Woody Allen's comedy What's New Pussycat? became a surprise hit, boasting an all-star cast including Peter Sellers, Peter O'Toole, Romy Schneider, Capuchine, Paula Prentiss and Ursula Andress. Tom Jones' performance of Burt Bacharach's title song also became a hit, goofy as it is, becoming even more memorable and enduringly campy ...

Bruce Ricker, Documentarian, RIP

May 17, 2011

Bruce Ricker, the producer-director of a series of documentaries about American musicians, has died. He succumbed to pneumonia on Friday, May 13, at a hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was 68. Ricker's most recent release was last year's Dave Brubeck: In His Own Sweet Way. Among his other films were the stories of Jim Hall, Tony ...

Return to Forever, Zappa Plays Zappa to Perform Thursday, August 25 at the Fox Theatre

May 17, 2011

This just in: A new lineup of the seminal fusion band Return to Forever (pictured) will hit the road for 32 dates in the USA this summer, including a performance on Thursday, August 25 at the Fox Theatre in St. Louis. Zappa Plays Zappa, the Frank Zappa repertory ensemble headed by the late guitarist and composer's ...