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News: Technology

MOG Brings On-Demand Music to Mini Dashboard

March 16, 2011

The addition of MOG to the Mini dashboard reveals the potential for on-demand music in the car. Users plug their iPhone directly into the Mini and it automatically recognizes the connection. From there, the in-car app is navigated via joystick. Similar to the mobile app, users can access any song, play radio, and even cache music ...

News: Opinion

Bon Jovi Thinks Steve Jobs is "Personally Responsible for Killing the Music Business."

March 16, 2011

Well, Jon Bon Jovi has learned from his peers how to get press. Just argue that the Internet is destroying rock, liken it to an atomic bomb, or, in this case, declare that, “Steve Jobs is personally responsible for killing the music business." Since Hypebot readers are fully capable of vetting the validly of that quote, ...

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News: TV / Film

The Miles Davis Movie: Filming the Playboy Interview

March 16, 2011

It's a stretch. I grant you that. But we're still so far out on any significant movement for the Miles Davis Movie, a little conjecture is what keeps me going. Alex Haley's 'candid conversation with the jazz world's premier iconoclast' in the September 1962 issue was the first Playboy Interview (Volume 9, Number 9) and the ...

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News: Festival

Jimmy Buffett the Face of This Year's Jazz Fest? Really?

March 16, 2011

I'm late to this news, but ... a young Jimmy Buffett is the face of this year's New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival poster? Really? Really? Who's next, Bon Jovi? I'm no Jimmy Buffett hater, although I believe the guy is vastly overrated. At the start of his career, he turned in some interesting, idiosyncratic singer-songwriter ...

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News: Interview

On Roscoe Mitchell

March 16, 2011

On Thursday, March 17, Ars Nova Workshop presents Archer Spade and Drew Ceccato performing the work of Roscoe Mitchell, a founding member of the Art Ensemble of Chicago and the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM). For this special night in ANW’s Composer Portrait series, Archer Spade, a duo of Philadelphians Nick Millevoi (guitar) ...

News: Performance / Tour

'Ella' Brings Legend's Life to Annenberg Center

March 16, 2011

By Rita Charleston Philadelphia Tribune Correspondent Dubbed “The First Lady of Song," Ella Fitzgerald was probably the most popular female jazz singer in the United States for more than half a century. In her lifetime, she won 13 Grammy Awards, and sold over 40 million albums. And now, “Ella," the ...

News: Recording

Brian Landrus - Traverse (Blue Land Records, 2011)

March 16, 2011

I grew up listening to baritone saxophone hero Nick Brignola play all around the Capital District, so it's nice to hear a younger musician pick up the big horn and continue the tradition of swinging mainstream jazz. On this album, Brian Landrus plays baritone saxophone and bass clarinet, along with Michael Cain on piano, Lonnie Plaxico ...

News: Rights

Obama Officially Backs Performance Radio Royalties...

March 16, 2011

Maybe this was the change that Obama was referring to? Just this afternoon, the White House recommended a number ofchanges related to online piracy, counterfeiting, and on-air broadcasting. That includes support for on-air performance royalties, a major development for labels. And, it also potentially includes felonies for illegal streaming of content, depending on how some very ...

News: Recording

Szilard Mezei and His Szabad Quartet, "Februari Fadontes"

March 16, 2011

Szilard Mezei, Hungarian violist-composer-bandleader has been as prolific as he has been interestingly progressive. A look on his website reveals quite a few albums released under his leadership. I've only heard and reviewed a few for Cadence, but what I heard on those convinced me he was someone to watch. The new one, a limited-edition LP ...

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News: Recording

Barre Phillips: Three Day Moon (ECM 1123)

March 16, 2011

Barre Phillips Three Day Moon Barre Phillips bass Terje Rypdal guitar, guitar synthesizer, organ Dieter Feichtner synthesizer Trilok Gurtu tabla, percussion Recorded March 1978 at Talent Studio, Oslo Engineer: Jan Erik Kongshaug Produced by Manfred Eicher I have said it before and ...