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News: Video / DVD

D.I.Y. Bootcamp: Rightsflow Licensing and Royalty Service [video]

March 9, 2011

EXCLUSIVE: Scion A/V has produced a video series that provides a tour of the tools that make a D.I.Y. music career work. Hypebot will feature one a day for the next few weeks; and today Michael Kauffman of Rightsflow explains his mechanical licensing and royalty payment technology platform for online music services, record companies, distributors and ...

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News: Festival

A Peek at the 32nd Edition... and It Already Feels Like Summer!

March 9, 2011

Robert Plant, Regina Carter, Youssou N'Dour, Brad Mehldau and Joshua Redman, Peter Frampton,Caravan Palace, Ana Moura,Return to Forever IV with Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke,Lenny White, Jean-Luc Ponty Tickets on sale this Saturday at noon Montreal—Welcome to a slate of new concerts added to the 32nd edition program-and yes, the Festival International de Jazz de Montréal is ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Jazz Singer/Pianist Yvonne Aubert Playing at Bond Restaurant in Boston on March 9

March 9, 2011

Yvonne Aubert, an up-and-coming jazz singer and pianist from New Hampshire, is performing with her trio at BOND Restaurant & Lounge at the Langham Boston Hotel on Wednesday, March 9, 2011 from 7:00-10:00 p.m. Aubert is joined by Mark Zaleski on acoustic bass and Shinya Fukumori on drums. It's part of the BOND Jazz Experiment taking ...

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News: Recording

Bobby Selvaggio - Grass Roots Movement (2011)

March 9, 2011

By S. Victor Aaron For a serious post-bop performer to take a leap into Grooveland, it can often be a risky bet. Will they be able to keep their artistic integrity? Will they even care? A couple of years ago, alto saxophonist Bobby Selvaggio made his second album (his first for the Arabesque Recordings label), leading ...

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News: Recording

Ginger Baker - Horses and Trees (1986, Reissue)

March 9, 2011

By Nick DeRiso Fusion in the most complete sense of the word, Ginger Baker's all-too-brief Horses & Trees melds jazz, funk, world music, electronica, reggae, hip-hop and something noiser still. Issued in 1986 on the New York-based art-dance label Celluloid label, this angular, deeply challenging effort was produced by Bill Laswell, who also appears on bass. ...

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News: Interview

Interview | Vijay Iyer

March 9, 2011

On Saturday, March 12, for the second night of Ars Nova Workshop’s Composer Portrait: Fieldwork, pianist Vijay Iyer, drummer Tyshawn Sorey, and saxophonist Steve Lehman will play in trio. The following night, pieces composed by Iyer and Lehman will be performed with the JACK Quartet. As Pitchfork wrote in a review of Iyer’s 2010 release, Solo, ...

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News: Music Industry

How to Build a Good Digital Sound Studio on the Cheap...

March 9, 2011

There is a saying in the photography world: The person behind the camera matters more than the camera. The same applies to making great audio recordings—the person behind the gear matters more than the gear. This doesn't mean that the gear doesn't matter, because it does. But merely owning the most expensive, elite audio equipment won't ...

News: Technology

Soundcloud: If Only Playing by the Rules Wasn't Such a Drag...

March 9, 2011

The daringest startups break all the rules, and people start music companies to shake things up. But sooner or later, growing startups find themselves bowing to the music industry's maze of complicated rules. Everyone needs to get paid, but from theperspective of the entrepreneur and music fan, this can be such a buzzkill. And, it's rarely ...

News: Music Industry

Grooveshark Inks Agreements with Merge, Ultra Records...

March 9, 2011

It's not Universal Music Group, but Grooveshark has just inked agreements with both Merge and Ultra Records. Merge counts Arcade Fire among its ranks, and the Ultra roster includes deadmau5. Both are opting into an earlier Merlin agreement, inked just months ago. “Grooveshark has been an exciting new partner for Ultra," explained Eliott Walker, senior director ...

News: Recording

Dave Liebman Plays the Blues a la Trane

March 9, 2011

With a long and exceptional career already behind him Dave Liebman shows no sign of flagging. Quite the opposite. His latest, Lieb Plays the Blues a la Trane (DayBreak 75978), is a sax-bass-drums trio in a live setting, an ideal way to hear Lieb. And of course he returns to his roots on this album to ...