Home » Search Center » Results: AAJ Staff
Results for "AAJ Staff"
Rdio and the Echo Nest Partner to Encourage Music App Development
Music intelligence platform The Echo Nest has partnered with on-demand streaming music service Rdio to open a catalog of 8t million licensed songs and data to app developrs. To showcase the partnership, they've released Music Maze, a steerable music streaming service that traces similarities between millions of artists. Integration Rdio and The Echo Nest allows app ...
In Boston, Live Jazz at the Langham Hotel on Wednesday, May 4 with Ada Pasternak
Violinist Ada Pasternak is performing on Wednesday, May 4, 2011 at BOND Lounge at the Langham Boston Hotel from 7:00-10:00 p.m. Born in Moscow, Russia, Pasternak moved to the United States and studied with her aunt, Aysa Meshberg in New York. She received a Presidential Scholarship to Berklee College of Music, where she studied performance. Located ...
A Treasure Trove of Jazz from Norman Granz
Norman Granz was the producer of the famous Jazz at the Philharmonic concert series, a constantly changing all-star jazz band that toured the United States and Europe from 1945 to 1959 and at one time or another included just about every significant jazz artist of the day. He was also a record producer and founder of ...
Do Dropping Record Sales Signal the Death of the Modern Music Producer?
TweetRecord producer's income has always been based on upfront advances and percentages of sales, which, on a successful record would generate income for many years. With the new model for music revenue, based on licensing and advertising revenue (i.e. money a producer rarely sees) how can a producer still make a living? The following is an ...
Bill Frisell - The Intercontinentals (2003)
By Tom Johnson Bill Frisell has become one of the most easily recognizable guitarists in jazz, and it's not without an effort to incorporate himself into as many styles as one person could in a lifetime. Few guitarists in any genre could pull off the feat of having played in nearly every style imaginable—metal, ambient, acoustic, ...
Harriet Tubman - Ascension (Sunnyside, 2011)
Harriet Tubman's Ascension is an intriguing mix of DJ/dub textures, jazz, sci-fi sound culture and Sun Ra style cosmology. Interesting stuff, definitely along the lines of Sun Ra's late 70's recordings like Lanquidity and Media Dreams and Greg Tate's Burnt Sugar ensemble. It is an interesting feat of collective improvisation and sound-scape making that blends together ...
Sunny Murray in Duet with Sabir Mateen: "We Are Not at the Opera," 1998
Many if not most of the readers of this blog will know that drummer Sunny Murray is the godfather of “free" drumming. He played with critically important improvisers of the new thing musical explosion in the early sixties (like Ayler, Taylor) and he developed a uniquely effective “freetime" style, one that rarely stated an overt pulse, ...
Wax Poetics - Issue 46
The great Wax Poetics has come out with one of its best ever issues with its marvelous 46th. This issue's theme is “Jazz's Mad Men"—presumably tied to guys who came out of the '60s when TV's Mad Men takes place—and has any number of features of interest that nearly all of today's jazz press avoids completely ...
Julian Lage Unplugged
I recently had the pleasure of producing a video interview with the exciting guitarist Julian Lage for his latest recording Gladwell. After we completed our interview session, I asked Julian if he would be into performing one of the album's tunes on his vintage Gibson acoustic guitar for sort of an unplugged version and he happily ...
East St. Louis High School Jazz Band to Play Thursday, May 5 at Jazz at the Bistro
The East St. Louis High School Jazz Band (pictured) is preparing to head to New York later this month as one of only 15 high school jazz ensembles from across the USA taking part in Jazz at Lincoln Center's Essentially Ellington competition and festival. The Essentially Ellington events will be held May 12-14 in New York ...
Trending
Interview
Bill Bruford And Pete Roth: A One-Of-A-Kind Juxtaposition
Interview
Scott Kinsey: Thought Distortions and the Art of the Left...
Groove Orbit
801 Live at 50: A Short-Term Experiment with a Long-Lasting...
From the Inside
The Quiet Cruelty of the Music Business
Live Review
Arcanum at Victoria Nasjonal Jazzscene, Oslo
Phil Schaap's Jazz Room
Franc Williams: Live From The West End
Interview
Enrico Rava: The Secret Corners of a Master
Featured Video
VOTE!
