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News: Award / Grant

Apologies Will Get You Nowhere: Steve Stoute and Neil Portnow's Joint Grammy Statement

March 5, 2011

People have been making fun of the Grammys for years. It's been called out of touch, irrelevant, worthless and stupid by both pros and joes, and this has been going on for so long that the very debate about the Grammys' relevance is itself irrelevant. So why has the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Christian McBride Uses Music to Honor Civil Rights Heroes

March 5, 2011

Bassist Christian McBride, one of Philadelphia's finest musical sons, used his original compositions to celebrate the ancestors, praise the wisdom of the elders, acknowledge the contributions of the middle-aged and encourage the hope and promise of youth during Saturday night's performance of “The Movement, Revisited." J.D. Steele served as musical director for the Philadelphia premiere of ...

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News: Recording

Rob Brown - Unexplained Phenomena (Marge, 2011)

March 5, 2011

Recorded live during the fifteenth Vision Festival in June of 2010, this group features Rob Brown on alto saxophone, Matt Moran on vibraphone, Chris Lightcap on bass and Gerald Cleaver on drums. They achieve a nice, fresh and appealing free-bop feel, akin to the open ended music recorded by Blue Note Records in the mid 1960's. ...

News: Radio

Pandora's Biggest Advertising Deal Yet...

March 5, 2011

If your model is largely ad-supported, then it's always nice to score colossally huge advertising deals. And, that's exactly what Pandora just did with Toyota. The companies are already holding hands on a major dashboard deal, but this takes things to an entirely new level. “The campaign will be the largest in scope and span to ...

News: Music Industry

NARAS: We're Listening, Steve Stoute...

March 5, 2011

So, $40,000 well spent? What started with a biting full-page ad in the New York Times has now turned into a discussion. And, Steve Stoute's open-letter strategy may even generate some change in the way the Recording Academy selects winners (maybe). Here's a statement (or some would say, non-statement) shared just hours ago by NARAS, aka ...

News: Recording

Mark Applebaum and the Metaphysics of Notation

March 5, 2011

Mark Applebaum has entered a new world of his own making with his The Metaphysics of Notation project. It is documented on a recent DVD of the same name (Innova 787). Only a DVD could begin to cover the scope of the project with justice, because the work combines visual art, installation, performance art and musical ...

News: Performance / Tour

The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Jazz, March 4-10

March 5, 2011

Big voices on small stages rule this coming week, with the Dakota hosting Patti Austin and Simone, Orchestra Hall featuring Michael Feinstein, and local songbirds Maud Hixson, Lucia Newell, Rhonda Laurie, Charmin Michele, Vicky Mountain and more in the clubs. Highlights, Last Week The Dakota Combo at the Dakota (2/27). Hot off their “Mingus Spirit" performance ...

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News: TV / Film

Tom Scott "The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat"

March 5, 2011

The 1974 sequel to Ralph Bakshi's bizarre 1972 animated film Fritz the Cat is this equally wacky film, confusingly dubbed The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat. Directed by Robert Taylor—a storyboard artist who has since gone onto things like The Flintstone Kids, Ducktales (1988) and The Rugrats Movie (1998)—this sequel is a trip, both as ...

News: Video / DVD

Frishberg, Wellstood and Sullivan, Restored

March 4, 2011

The Rifftides staff discovered, by chance, that an essential element in a two-and-a-half-year-old entry about Dick Wellstood and two other pianists had suffered the slings and arrows of outrageous YouTube fortune. The video of Wellstood playing was removed by whoever posted it. We managed to find an even better one, so here is the reconstituted piece, ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Metrotix, Fox Theatre Offering Presale of Steely Dan Tickets on Friday, March 4

March 4, 2011

Metrotix and the Fox Theatre are offering online buyers a presale of tickets to the concert by Steely Dan on Wednesday, August 24 at the Fox. Tickets go on sale to the general public at 10:00 a.m. this Saturday, March 5; the presale begins at 10:00 a.m. Friday, March 4 and continues until 10:00 p.m. that ...