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News: Recording

The Codona Trilogy (ECM 2033-35)

May 16, 2011

Don Cherry Nana Vasconcelos Collin Walcott The CODONA Trilogy Don Cherry trumpet, doussn'gouni, flutes, organ, melodica, voice Nana Vasconcelos berimbau, cuica, talking drum, percussion, voice Collin Walcott sitar, tabla, hammered dulcimer, sanza, timpani, voice When my mother had gone to Canton market to shop, her wallet had unfolded like wings.... ...

News: Radio

Brilliant Sketches: Herb Alpert

May 13, 2011

The brilliant Miles Davis recording Sketches of Spain turned 50 in 2009 and on behalf of Legacy Recordings, who reissued a special collector's edition CD that same year, I produced a podcast series celebrating this masterpiece. For this series it was important to find artists who could speak with authority, not only about the impact of ...

News: Radio

The Jazz Session #267: Slumgum

May 15, 2011

Slumgums new album is Quardboard Flavored Fiber (Accretions, 2011). In this interview, the bands Jon Armstrong talks about how the diverse backgrounds of the members lead to a fascinating array of compositional ideas; why the band chose its unique name; and how the use of humor and improvisational games leads the music down interesting paths. Oh, ...

News: Technology

Bjork: New Interactive Website

May 14, 2011

ICELAND'S FINEST HAS A NEW PLAYGROUND Bjork has re-launched www.bjork.com as a brand new website to tie in with the start of her groundbreaking 'Biophilia' campaign; her forthcoming exploration of music, nature and technology. Using the very latest HTML5 technology the site is heavily animated and interactive. It features a unique immersive 3D galaxy with versions ...

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News: Music Industry

Co-Founder and Former Ceo Chris Dewolfe Hints at Buying Back MySpace

May 15, 2011

"I'd love to work with Myspace again," concludes a wide ranging BusinessWeek interview withMySpace co-founder and former CEO Chis DeWolfe. But will the current CEO of gaming company MindJolt actually try to buy Myspace back? “It's a confidential process—but it's the biggest property for sale at what, in this market, would be a somewhat reasonable price," ...

News: Video / DVD

A Look at Creation of Amazing Danger Mouse, Jack White, Norah Jones HTML5 Video

May 15, 2011

(UPDATED) “3 Dreams of Black" is Chris Milk's new interactive film, created in WebGL with Google for Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi's ROME, featuring Jack White & Norah Jones. The project is a Chrome Experiment which pushes the boundaries of HTML5 and showcases the potential of video on on modern browsers. Watch the “Creation Of" video: ...

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News: Performance / Tour

TourIntel Offers Free Look at Live Show Data

May 15, 2011

TourIntel offers “Concert Business Intelligence" and accounts are currently free for a limited time. TourIntel claims to provide data on over 15,000 artists performing at over 7500 venues for more than 10 years of history. Such data offers a potentially powerful tool to gain a sense of trends over time, as well as to evaluate how ...

News: Music Industry

Protect IP Act Seeks to Eliminate Due Process, Industry Organizations Applaud

May 14, 2011

A draft version of the already controversial “Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act of 2011," aka the PROTECT IP Act, leaked was introduced on Thursday by bipartisan leaders of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, Senators Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa). This effort follows last ...

News: Festival

Fourth Annual Bellevue Jazz Festival Starts June 1

May 15, 2011

By Hugo Kugiya While not yet a time-honored tradition, the Bellevue Jazz Festival is starting to become a regular habit and a familiar scene each spring in downtown Bellevue, whose bars, restaurants, museums and hotels become stages for dozens of free concerts by celebrated, local musicians. Anchoring each day of the five-day festival will be a ...

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News: Recording

Gerald Clayton - Bond, the Paris Sessions (2011)

May 14, 2011

Like Joshua Redman, Ravi Coltrane, Anthony Wilson and all those Marsalis brothers, Gerald Clayton followed in his father's footsteps to become an accomplished jazz musician in his own right. The son of bassist John Clayton and nephew of saxophonist Jeff Clayton, Gerald studied classical piano from the age of 6 all through high school before enrolling ...