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News: Book / Magazine

Iverson on Sandke and Race in Jazz

February 1, 2011

Recently my friend who shares a Hall Overton jones, Ethan Iverson, posted two long blog entries about race and jazz, based on Randy Sandke's recent book. I'll let Ethan's pieces speak for themselves. The discussion is important. I admire Ethan's willingness to stick his neck out. I don't know Sandke—I've enjoyed his trumpet work on a ...

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News: Recording

Jamaaladeen Tacuma - For the Love of Ornette (Jazzwekstatt, 2010)

February 1, 2011

Jamaaladeen Tacuma is an underrated electric bassist who came up playing the unique harmolodic music of legendary saxophonist Ornette Coleman. On this album, he pays tribute to Coleman's influence with a set of wonderfully invigorating original music that plugs into the electric music Coleman created with his Prime Time band. Starting off with a touching spoken ...

News: Rights

Embrace This? 23.8% of All Internet Traffic Involves "Digital Theft..."

February 1, 2011

Let's be honest. Can this really be embraced? According to the latest study, conducted by NBC Universal alongside Envisional, 23.8 percent of global internet traffic involves “digital theft." That is, trading via BitTorrent, cyberlockers, and unauthorized video streaming sites, among other channels. In the US, the figure drops to 17 percent. “Bottom line, according to this ...

News: Career

The Death of the Non-Technical CEO...

February 1, 2011

Can a non-technical CEO lead a successful music company these days? Of course, everyone has a patchwork of different experiences and skills, but many of the big, rising stars haveserious technical prowess. That certainly includes guys like Ian Rogers (TopSpin), Daniel Ek (Spotify), Eric Garland (BigChampagne), and Michael Doernberg (ReverbNation), all of whom are leading front-running ...

News: Rights

Still? 100,000 P2P Lawsuits Filed in 2010...

February 1, 2011

The RIAA's legal crusade against file-swappers was called off in 2008. But despite a hideous legacy of consumer alienation andanger, other entertainment sectors love the concept. In fact, according to details published by Torrentfreak, nearly 100,000 P2P-related lawsuits have been filed over the past year in the US alone, primarily by the film industry. And, that ...

News: Trends

Is Hope Over? The Darker Tone of 2011...

February 1, 2011

The party line used to involve catch-phrases like 'this is the most exciting time' and 'music consumption is up,' etc., etc. But why are executives suddenly shifting their rap? Perhaps this is simple realism setting in, though a few statements at Midem were strikingly different—and darker—in tone. “We're on an edge of whether this business falls ...

News: Opinion

The Historical Accident of Artists Getting Paid...

February 1, 2011

Is the era of artists getting handsomely paid for their work over? Or, getting paid at all, for that matter? Was it just a fleeting moment that's now getting handed back? “You have to remember that it's only a few hundred years, if that much, that artists are working with money," Francis Ford Coppola recently expressed ...

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News: Obituary

John Barry - R.I.P.

February 1, 2011

The film world lost one of its greatest composers with the death of John Barry, who died yesterday in New York at age 77. Barry, who had long lived in New York, is said to have died of a heart attack. But official details have not yet been released. John Barry, born November 3, 1933, in ...

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Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Mike DiRubbo

by AAJ Staff
January 31, 2011

Meet Mike DiRubbo:Born on July 25, 1970 in New Haven, Connecticut, Mike DiRubbo began his musical life as a junior high school clarinetist, and switched to alto saxophone at 12. A primarily self-taught saxophonist, he developed into a talented instrumentalist drawn inexorably to the notion of improvising. At a high school band concert, Mike ...

News: Video / DVD

Neat Trick

January 31, 2011

Leave it to the piano players to know who the piano players are. Slightly more than a year ago, Alan Broadbent introduced Rifftides readers to Chris Dawson. Now, Alan alerts us to Stephanie Trick of St Louis, Missouri. She studied classical piano from the age of five. When she was 10, her teacher introduced her to ...