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News: Event

Topspin's Incredibly Ambitious SXSW Splash...

March 8, 2011

Topspin is aggressively going DIY, and making a very serious splash at SXSW. That basically boils down to three days of tutorials, case studies, mixers, and even a contest with a star-studded judging panel. The move is all part of an ever-crowding space of DIY-focused companies, and that's good news for artists—at least those that can ...

News: Trends

Music Just 36% of Sales at Trans World Entertainment...

March 8, 2011

Sure, it's surviving, but this hasn't been a 'record store' for quite some time. According to the latest financial disclosures, just 36% of Trans World Entertainment revenues are now derived from music, up a percent from last year. Trans World owns f.y.e. (for your entertainment), among other properties. So what is the new mix? Well, videos—ie, ...

News: Technology

Technology is Cooler Than Content, and It's Costing Us Billions...

March 8, 2011

The content industry has lost its cool, and this is now a major concern for Hollywood as well. Over the past ten years, technology has become the new rock star, and that's affecting everything from consumer behavior to Capitol Hill legislation. Don't believe me? Go tell someone at a party that you work at Google, or ...

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News: Recording

The Kronos Quartet Performs "Uniko" with Kimmo Pohjonen and Samuli Kosminen

March 8, 2011

There are musical works that come along now and then that go beyond what categorical pigeonholing comfortably handles. Such music is all-the-more welcome in the sense that it expands the boundaries of possibility for music as we understand it in the present tense. Such is most assuredly the case with the new Kronos Quartet offering Uniko ...

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News: Interview

Terry Gibbs on Benny Goodman

March 7, 2011

"[In 1950, when I was in Benny Goodman's Sextet], Benny used to bug me every time I would start to play my jazz choruses. He would let me play for about eight bars, and if I started swinging, he'd immediately pick up his clarinet and join me in playing. But first he'd put his cigarette down ...

News: Education

What's Your Make-up Lesson Policy and How Strictly Do You Enforce It?

March 7, 2011

When I first started out as a musician I spent a few years teaching lessons. One of the most frustrating parts was establishing and enforcing a re-scheduling policy. It felt like scheduling the lessons sometimes took longer than actually teaching the lessons! It was difficult to be tough with the parents because, first, tough isn't really ...

News: Video / DVD

A Cup of "Ko-Ko"

March 7, 2011

"Ko-Ko“ was a songrecorded on this date in 1940 by the famous Blanton-Webster version of the DukeEllington Orchestra (bassist Jimmy Blanton and saxophonist Ben Webster werefeatured soloists). Ellington said that the song was meant to evoke CongoSquare in New Orleans (where Louis Armstrong Park is now), a place whereAfrican-Americans gathered on Sundays in the pre-jazz days ...

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News: Recording

Aaron Neville - I Know I've Been Changed (2010)

March 7, 2011

By Nick DeRiso With a voice that's axiomatically compared with winged messengers from God, Aaron Neville's gospel records ought to form the cornerstone of his resume, right? Instead, the New Orleans singing legend's two previous attempts felt too forced, like being dragged into church. Not this one. Neville, paired with producer Joe Henry (Elvis Costello; Rodney ...

News: Recording

After Midnight - Live at the Sacramento Jazz Jubilee (2011)

March 7, 2011

By Nick DeRiso Clarinetist Roger Campbell has turned an enduring passion for swing legend Benny Goodman into a sizzling six-piece jazz project called After Midnight. It's perhaps no surprise, then, that a new live effort finds him slithering his way through “Memories of You," legendarily performed by Rosemary Clooney with Goodman in the mid-1950s. That's Campbell ...

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News: Music Industry

Coca-Cola: Our Next Major Label?

March 7, 2011

Lady Gaga needed Interscope to blow her up worldwide, and manager Troy Carter isn't confused about the benefits of a major label relationship. But who's gonna blow up artists tomorrow, at least to these same heights? Well, the answer may be no one, and who really cares? Music fans aren't begging for 'global success stories,' and ...