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News: Award / Grant

The Tenth Independent Music Awards Nominees Announced

February 18, 2011

The nominees for the 10th annual Independent Music Awards were announced yesterday. Everybody who loves to complain about how the musical landscape has fractured, how the Grammys are too indie, or aren't indie enough has no excuse not to celebrate the IMAs. Plus, by voting, you'll (kinda) be joining a panel of judges that includes Tom ...

News: Radio

Boom: Sirius is Now Bigger Than Netflix...

February 17, 2011

It's great to get out of the woods—and even better to beat Netflix on the way. According to stats shared by the company, Sirius XM Radio subscribers now stand at 20.19 million, a record for the company. That beats Netflix, also a developing platform, which finished the year with just over 20 million. Let's face it—Netflix ...

News: Interview

George Shearing: Both Good and Popular

February 18, 2011

George Shearing, who died on Monday, was a great jazz pianist. For much of his long lifetime, he was also one of the 20th century's most successful entertainers, a purveyor of supersmooth easy-listening music that was distinguishable from Muzak only because he played it with perfect taste. That was part of what made him so admirable ...

News: Interview

Nancy Wilson on Shearing

February 18, 2011

I am particularly fond of The Swingin's Mutual, the album that singer Nancy Wilson recorded with the George Shearing Quintet in June 1960. Her six tracks with Shearing represented a crisscrossing over at the time for both artists. For Nancy, being accompanied by just Shearing's group rather than a big orchestra created a special intimacy that ...

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News: Recording

Booker T. Jones: the Road to Memphis

February 18, 2011

WITH BACKING FROM THE ROOTS AND GUEST VOCALISTS MATT BERNINGER (THE NATIONAL), YIM YAMES (MY MORNING JACKET), SHARON JONES AND LOU REED Booker T. Jones' historic life in music has brought him international fame, awards (he's a three-time Grammy winner and Rock & Roll Hall of Famer), and iconic status as one of the architects of ...

News: Performance / Tour

James Montgomery Performing at Back Page, a New Jazz Club in Lowell, on February 18

February 18, 2011

Blues legend James Montgomery and his band officially open the new Back Page Jazz & Comedy Club in Lowell, Massachusetts on Friday, February 18, 2011 at 8:00 p.m. Admission is $15 at the door, first come, first served. Considered one of the most dynamic blues performers today, Montgomery learned from the masters in his native Detroit—James ...

News: Video / DVD

Vintage Dizzy

February 18, 2011

Dizzy Gillespie: Livein '58 & '70 (2006), part ofthe Jazz Icons series of DVDs, presents another gem with these two concerts ofDizzy Gillespie. In the earlier date from Belgium, Gillespie is in a smallgroup setting—a fantastic quintet with Sonny Stitt on sax, Lou Levy on piano,Ray Brown on bass, and Gus Johnson on drums. The hip ...

News: Video / DVD

George Shearing, Ebullient Jazz Pianist, R.I.P.

February 18, 2011

George Shearing, the ebullient jazz pianist who wrote the standard “Lullaby of Birdland" and had a string of hits both with and without his quintet, has died. He was 91. Shearing, blind since birth, died early Monday morning in Manhattan of congestive heart failure, his longtime manager Dale Sheets said. Shearing had been a superstar of ...

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News: Recording

Rova Saxophone Quartet - Planetary (2011)

February 18, 2011

By S. Victor Aaron Imagine a conversation with three other people where topic...a theme if you will...is selected and all four of you are to converse on that topic at certain points in time. And then at other times, a random topic is chosen, but everyone has to be conversing on topic together. And the topics ...

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News: Event

Plans Set for Gil Evans' 100th Birthday Celebration - And You Can Join In

February 18, 2011

By Something Else Reviews Composer/producer Ryan Truesdell on Wednesday launched the Gil Evans Centennial Project at GilEvansProject.com. There's news: Truesdell, the first person outside of the Evans family to have full access to his musical archives, has uncovered a series of rare compositions, from before and after Evans' celebrated collaborations with Miles Davis. “Gil was an ...