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News: Music Industry

Look Who's Running for the A2im Board

May 5, 2011

17 candidates are vying for five seats on the board of top U.S. indie music trade group the American Association of Independent Music (A2IM). The list looks like a Who's Who of the indie music business: 1. Joe Parker (ABKCO Records, Vice President) 2. Bruce Iglauer (Alligator Records, Founder/CEO) 3. Martin Mills (Beggars Group, Founder/CEO) 4. ...

News: Video / DVD

Video: Spotify Says Hello to the iPod

May 5, 2011

Spotify today announced major upgrades that make the streaming music service more compatible with iTunes. In fact Spotify's hope is that users will switch to its new platform to manage their iPod and buy tracks from the new lower priced Spotify store. Playlists have always been central to the Spotify experience and today's changes also make ...

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News: Festival

2011 Festival Awards - The Festival International de Jazz de Montreal Honours Sade, Stanley Clarke, Youssou N'dour, Jean-Pierre Zanella and George Wein

May 5, 2011

Montreal—This year, the Festival International de Jazz de Montréal highlights the exceptional contributions to music made by Sade, Stanley Clarke, Youssou N'Dour, Jean-Pierre Zanella, as well as the remarkable oeuvre of George Wein. During this 32nd edition of the Festival, our winners will be presented, respectively, with the Ella Fitzgerald Award, Miles Davis Award, Antonio Carlos ...

News: Music Industry

Jazz-Inspired Cinco de Mayo Celebrations in Boston, Thursday May 5

May 5, 2011

Here are some jazz and Latin gigs in the greater Boston area celebrating Cinco de Mayo on Thursday, May 5, 2011, with a mixture of Mexican food and Latin-inspired jazz: Florencia Gonzalez Duo Avenue One at Hyatt Regency Hotel One Avenue de LafayetteDowntown Crossing, Boston 617 422-5579 Florenciagonzalez ...

News: Recording

Something Else! Sneak Peek: P.J. Pacifico, "Waiting" (2011)

May 5, 2011

By Nick DeRiso With a piano signature that mimics rain water trickling from a downspout, and an easy-going, almost confidential delivery that sounds like a softer Toad the Wet Sprocket (or a tougher Gin Blossoms?), P.J. Pacifico's “Waiting" couldn't seem more confectionary. At first, anyway. Though his subject matter seems firmly ensconced in the golden crushes ...

News: Technology

Behind the Blogs: Wayward Musician

May 5, 2011

Welcome to version 2.0 of our series Behind the Blogs, in which we interview the bloggers and thinkers who are following the music business changes that affect us all. Mike Venti is careful about his choice of words. The man behind Wayward Musician understands that there is a very big difference between a hobbyist musician and ...

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News: Recording

The Cookers - Cast the First Stone (Plus Lion Music, 2011)

May 5, 2011

The Cookers is a collective unit primarily consisting of veteran musicians who came up in the wake of hard-bop and free jazz in the late 1960's and early 1970's. It's a pretty extraordinary unit, all things considered: Billy Harper on tenor saxophone; Eddie Henderson and David Weiss on trumpet, Craig Handy on alto saxophone, Azar Lawrence ...

News: Opinion

Why Sponsorship Proposals End up in the Trash...

May 5, 2011

If your recording, publishing, and touring receipts are through the roof, you can probably skip this article. Otherwise, you've gotten the memo to chase corporate America and diversify your streams. Except, most bands and managers get it wrong, and end up wasting time, losing bids, or missing serious revenue opportunities. And their pitches quickly land in ...

News: Recording

A Welcome Reissue of Heiner Stadler's "Tribute to Bird and Monk" and How Wrong is Right

May 5, 2011

I keep coming back to Ken Burn's jazz series because it towed a particular party line (musically speaking) that I have disagreements with, and because it reached so many people who otherwise would not have gotten some kind of comprehensive overview of jazz in its 100-or-so- year history. (That's good, but that also means that a ...

News: Performance / Tour

Jazz is Back at Cafe Maude

May 5, 2011

It's a rather odd place for modern music and for a while the music disappeared. But Café Maude in southwest Minneapolis is again sporting some of the most innovative sounds in town, once per week for now, and starting off with some of the most consistently creative jazz musicians on the scene. For the most part, ...