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News: Recording

One Track Mind: Arild Andersen with Bill Frisell, "Dual Mr. Anthony Tillmon Williams" (1981)

March 25, 2011

By S. Victor Aaron Some time ago...two years and three months ago to be more precise...we raved on the double-bass mastery of the Norwegian ECM Records mainstay Arild Andersen, and noted then that he “may not be the first name that comes up when one thinks of the greatest living acoustic bassists, but he's at least ...

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One Track Mind: Orrin Evans, "Jena 6 " (2011)

March 25, 2011

By Nick DeRiso Turns out, it actually does mean a thing, even if it ain't got that swing. For something like 80 years now, that old Duke Ellington cliche worked as the clarion call of big band music, but its mantra has also become its curse. Subsequent generations moved on to genres with more complexity, a ...

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Monty Alexander - Uplift (2011)

March 25, 2011

By S. Victor Aaron Kingston, Jamaica's own Monty Alexander looms as large a figure in Jamaica's jazz world as Bob Marley does for its homegrown reggae. A virtuosic pianist in the Art Tatum and Oscar Peterson tradition, Alexander often melds Tatum and Peterson with the dancehall, calypso and reggae idioms from his homeland, and nobody does ...

News: Music Industry

The Music Piracy News Roundup

March 25, 2011

It's been an unusually busy week in the great cultural, legal, and ideological battle otherwise known as the file-sharing debate. Market research firm NPD issued a press release this week stating that the shutdown of Limewire significantly curtailed the overall amount of file-sharing. A whopping 56% of all people engaged in music file-sharing were using Limewire ...

News: Performance / Tour

Tina Fabrique Commands the House and Captures the Audience in Ella

March 25, 2011

By Howard Shapiro, Inquirer Theater Critic They called Ella Fitzgerald the First Lady of Song, and was she ever. She became the queen of scat singing in mid-career, reinventing her musical persona as the big-band sound was fading, and by the end she'd made her mark as both an exciting jazz vocalist and a master singer ...

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Grant Stewart - Plays the Music of Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn (Sharp Nine, 2009)

March 25, 2011

Saxophonist Grant Stewart leads a subtle and swinging tribute to the music of pianists and composers Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn on this solid mainstream jazz recording. While he can only touch the tip of the iceberg of these composers voluminous output, the band hits a few high points along the way. Accompanied by Tardo Hammer ...

News: Music Industry

Breaking: Muzak Acquired for $345 Million...

March 25, 2011

If Muzak had an elevator pitch, it took about 77 years to deliver. But now, the exit has arrived, thanks to a monstrous $345 million acquisition by Canadian rival Mood Media Corporation. According to Mood, the combined company will have 470,000 commercial locations across 39 countries, with a combined library of 1.7 million tracks and 30,000 ...

News: Trends

Are Consumers Really Screaming for Better Music Discovery? Take a Look...

March 25, 2011

The music discovery space has always been like crack for brainiac PhD entrepreneurs. It seems like there's always another startup concocting algorithms and space-age formulas to create the perfect discovery engine. But are music fans screaming for better discovery, or are they happy with the music they have? Or, for that matter, simply finding enough music ...

News: Trends

Whoa: 3 Stores = 94.4% of Indie Digital Revenues...

March 25, 2011

Just three outlets—iTunes, Amazon, and Spotify—account for more than 94.4% of indie digital revenues, according to a global estimate by AIM (Association of Independent Music). The rest are fighting over a paltry 5.6 percent. Alison Wenham, head of the UK-based consortium, pointed to a lopsided logjam. “There are now a series of monopolies and it is ...

News: Recording

Brotzmann's Chicago Tentet at Molde, 2007: Ten Years

March 25, 2011

Peter Brotzmann's Chicago Tentet combines some of the finest avant improvisers from the Chicago area (and the USA in general) with a select crew of European out virtuosi. The Chicago Tentet has been a kind of smaller outside big band that continues to thrive (they are touring Europe this April) through the over-the-top excellence of its ...