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News: Music Industry

Adjust for Inflation and Decline in Music Sales Looks Worse Than We Thought

February 22, 2011

There were all kinds of questions and comments about a chart published last week that offered “A Graphic Look At 25 Years Of Music Sales." Some of the controversy around the chart is answered with a new infographic that adjust music sales for inflation. The resulting snapshot is even uglier. According to the new chart, music ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Femi Kuti and the Positive Force, Yael Naim and Dave Liebman Join the Jazz All-Year Round Roster

February 22, 2011

Montreal, Monday, February 21, 2011—Organizers of the Festival International de Jazz de Montréal, presented by TD, are proud to add concerts by Afrobeat king Femi Kuti (with The Positive Force), Franco-Israeli revelation Yael Naim and American saxophonist Dave Liebman to the roster of the Jazz All-Year Round series. Furthermore, add in the name of R&B sensation ...

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News: Award / Grant

The Ten Best Moments at the 53rd Annual Grammys

February 22, 2011

Before this year's Grammy awards are incorrectly written off as a series of acrimonious disappointments and bizarre twists, it's important to quickly note several very good things that happened. Not that it's easy to overlook the Grammy for Record of the Year going to a country band's tune that could well become subject to a plagiarism ...

News: Performance / Tour

Samantha Farrell Performing at Bond Restaurant and Lounge on Wednesday, February 23 in Boston

February 22, 2011

Samantha Farrell is performing at the new jazz series at BOND Restaurant and Lounge at the Boston Langham Hotel on Wednesday, February 23, 2011 from 7:00 to 10:00 p.m. “She possesses a liquor-honey voice, deft guitar work and slightly melancholic tones that meld to form an aching and elegant aural tapestry," wrote Ben Evans about Farrell ...

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News: Recording

Matthew Shipp - Art of the Improviser (2011)

February 22, 2011

By Mark Saleski The music of jazz composer/pianist Matthew Shipp isn't fairly described as “avant-garde," mostly because to a great many people, that categorization can be read as “I don't understand this music, can we please leave now?" This wouldn't be fair to Shipp because over the course of his career, he has spent a lot ...

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News: Recording

Delfeayo Marsalis - Sweet Thunder (2011)

February 22, 2011

By Nick DeRiso For all of the many wonders of Duke Ellington's Such Sweet Thunder, the 1957 ode to the writings of William Shakespeare left plenty of room to tinker. Many of the compositions, which explored literary familiars from Othello to Hamlet, were but brief bursts of sound. That opens the door for an interesting reimaging ...

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News: Radio

"Boston Jazz Radio and Government Funding" by Steve Provizer

February 22, 2011

Looks like the NEA will cut the Jazz Masters program and government funding for PBS and NPR is in jeopardy. How will such cuts effect jazz? I'll just bite off a small piece of it and focus on Boston media. There's little jazz on TV. Public television has a small stake, carrying awards ceremonies at the ...

News: Music Industry

$17.5 Million Later, Rdio's Complaining About Apple Percentages...

February 22, 2011

Add Rdio to the list of Apple haters, but do the rules change for the rich kid? Just ahead of the weekend, Rdio CEO Drew Larner joined the highly-vocal protest against upcoming subscription app fees. “I would echo what the heads of some of my competing companies have said," Larner told paidContent. “From a financial standpoint, ...

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News: Recording

Stan Getz on Clef and Norgran

February 21, 2011

On Friday, November 14, 1952, tenor saxophonist Stan Getz caught a break. The demand for tickets to a Carnegie Hall concert celebrating Duke Ellington's 25 years in the music business was so strong that a second midnight show had to be added. Fortunately for Getz, he was given a 40-minute slot on stage in each of ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Jazz Bassist Buster Williams Performing at Iron Horse Music Hall in Northampton on Tuesday, February 22

February 21, 2011

Legendary jazz bassist Buster Williams performs with his quartet at Irish Horse Music Hall in Northampton, Massachusetts at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, February 22, 2011. Tickets are $17.50 in advance and $20.00 at the door, and can be ordered online. A veteran of jazz for his whole life, Williams has played with McCoy Tyner, Miles Davis, ...