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SXSW Accelerator Names Music Tech Finalists

February 15, 2011

More than four hundred companies submitted their web-based products to the third annual SXSW Accelerator presented by Microsoft BizSpark. It was the first year that SXSW created a special music tech category and I enjoyed being on the panel of judges that chose the eight finalists and two alternates. If you're heaed to SXSW (and if ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Michael Shrieve Resumes Monday Night Residency Tonight

February 15, 2011

Drummer Michael Shrieve and his group Spellbinder resume their Monday night residency at White Rabbit, which is the new club in the space formerly occupied by Tost. Every Monday, The White Rabbit, 9:30pm 513 N 36th St Suite E Seattle, WA, 98103 Also, Shrieve was recently voted the the #10 Drummer of ...

News: Award / Grant

What Would You Call It?

February 15, 2011

Bizarre. That's the only word that seems to fit this year's primetime Sunday night glitz that was the 53rd annual Grammy Awards. If you saw it, you know what I mean. If you missed it, you didn't miss much, trust me. Sure, there were scattered poignant moments—beginning with the opening tribute to the ailing Aretha Franklin. ...

News: Performance / Tour

Jazz Jam at the Island Merchant in Hyannis with Bart Weisman on February 20

February 15, 2011

A live jazz jam hosted by drummer Bart Weisman takes place on Sunday, February 20, 2011, at The Island Merchant at 302 Main Street in Hyannis, Cape Cod. The music goes from 4:00 to 7:00 p.m. and there is no cover charge. Weisman, a well known jazz musician on Cape Cod, started the annual Provincetown Jazz ...

News: Award / Grant

Berklee's Esperanza Spalding Wins Grammy Award for Best New Artist

February 15, 2011

Jazz singer and bassist Esperanza Spalding won the Best New Artist of the Year award at this year's 53rd Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, California. A graduate of the Berklee College of Music, Spalding is an inventive composer and performer whose latest recording, Chamber Music Society, is influenced by classical, jazz, folk and world music. The ...

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News: Recording

Nordic Connect - Spirals (2011)

February 15, 2011

By S. Victor Aaron Nordic Connect is a grouping of musicians from Canada (Ingrid Jensen, trumpet; Ingrid's sister Christine Jensen, alto and soprano saxophones), U.S.A. (Ingrid's husband Jon Wikan, drums), and Sweden (Maggie Olin (piano, Fender Rhodes; Mattias Welin, acoustic bass). The name points up to the Scandinavian ancestry of all its members, and the shared ...

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News: Recording

Mark and Glenn Zaleski - Duet Suite (2011)

February 15, 2011

By Mark Saleski One of the markers of high-level instrumental interplay is the perception of intimacy. We see this again & again in review language—that the musicians seemed as though they were “of one mind," that their communication was “telepathic." There are plenty of recorded examples that come to mind: Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock's An ...

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News: Recording

George Shearing Quintet with Nancy Wilson - The Swingin's Mutual (1961)

February 15, 2011

By Nick DeRiso One of the smartest things Nancy Wilson ever did was start singing at the Blue Morocco in New York City, just after she blew in from Columbus, Ohio. In was there, while Wilson still had her day job, that John Levy caught this smoking-hot 20-something's act. Levy, once a bassist with George Shearing, ...

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News: Recording

Guilty Pleasures: Jeff Lynne and the Electric Light Orchestra

February 15, 2011

By Something Else Reviews It's true, as Randy Newman once impishly sang, they were six fine English boys who knew each other in Birmingham. After that, things got tricky for the Electric Light Orchestra. Despite an impressive string of 1970s hits, they became an easy target. People knocked the strings. The Beatlemania. Jeff Lynne's spaceman fro. ...

News: Music Industry

How to Market Your Music, According to the Grammys

February 15, 2011

In 2011, everybody is very much past caring whether or not the Grammys are relevant. (After all, we figured out the answer to that question way back in 2007) But it doesn't matter what you or I think. The Grammys are going to be here for a while, and they're going to continue to do what ...