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Torrentfreak Apologizes to Music Expert Avalon, but Disses Indie Artists
TorrentFreak issued an apology— sort of. The P2P site keeps picking a fight with a leading music expert. But why? Their readers don't respect words like “expert" anymore than they do words like, “intellectual property." Meanwhile TorrentFreak and their readers seem to think that Indie labels and their artists are insignificant when it comes to who ...
Paul Simon - So Beautiful or so What (2011)
By Nick DeRiso Paul Simon's new record, his first since 2006's dense Brian Eno-collaboration Surprise, is a career-spanning, sometimes duskily ruminative, quirk-splashed triumph—simultaneously bold in its constructions and timeless in its themes. There's a freedom, perhaps, that comes from going it alone: After 30 years with Warner Bros., Simon paid for the lengthy sessions that eventually ...
Exploding Star Orchestra - We Are All from Somewhere Else (2007)
By Tom Johnson Tortoise alum Rob Mazurek had a big concept behind this project. As we all know, sometimes big concepts pay off, sometimes they simply lead to big letdowns. Exploding Star Orchestra's We Are All From Somewhere Else was a big concept that luckily actually paid off. Either way, feel free to simply ignore the ...
Take Your Time, Do It Right - Five Essential Steps to Self-Releasing a Record
Most bands put a lot into making their records. They spend tons of late nights in the studio, arguing over things like whether the snare should be louder or softer; they fuss over the creation of artwork, the selection of the packaging, the creation of the liner notes. Often, the entire process takes months. Despite limited ...
John Zorn - Interzone (Tzadik, 2010)
To call John Zorn a saxophonist and composer really limits the scope of his music His vision derives from many sources, from art to film, to in this case the literature of William S. Burroughs. The author became famous in the early to mid 1960's for his technique of “cut up" storytelling; a process that Zorn ...
Anthony Branker and Ascent, "Dance Music" a Treat for the Ears
Anthony Branker's ensemble Ascent serves as a vehicle for his jazz writing and arranging. At the time of his new recording Dance Music (Origin 82579) it consisted of seven instrumentalist and a vocalist. What they do is modern jazz that has roots in the music McCoy Tyner and related players were doing in the early '70s, ...
The Accessible Brad Mehldau: Live at the Dakota
The temptation to compare Brad Mehldau to Keith Jarrett can be irresistible. For better or worse, usually better. Both seemed to materialize fully formed, highly praised, with their first recordings. And unlike some who have been lauded early and then forgotten (or at least, ignored), both Jarrett and Mehldau maintained and surpassed their first successes with ...
Celebrating CTI Records' 40th Anniversary - Part Three
Masterworks Jazz continues the 40th anniversary celebration of the legendary CTI Records legacy that began last October with an additional four titles issued this week: George Benson's Beyond the Blue Horizon, Freddie Hubbard's First Light, Don Sebesky's all-star Giant Box and Stanley Turrentine's Salt Song. While each of the releases have had previous American CD issues, ...
Q&A: Dave Schroeder
By day, Dave Schroeder is the Director of New York University's Steinhardt Jazz Studies program and by night, he is the leader and one of the featured instrumentalists of the New York City based eclectic group Combo Nuvo (a group comprised of some of Schroeder's esteemed NYU faculty). Combo Nuvo combines influences from blues, jazz, classical ...
Meet Olaf Polziehn
Researching key signatures in performances of “Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams," I made a discovery. Everyone else out there may have known about Olaf Polziehn, but he was new to me. After I heard him play the piece (in E-flat), further research turned up these facts: Polziehn is 40 years old. He was born in Ludwigsburg, ...
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Arcanum at Victoria Nasjonal Jazzscene, Oslo
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