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News: Technology

Sony's Music Unlimited's Big Secret: It's Powered by Gracenote and Omnifone

January 26, 2011

Gracenote and Omnifone used MIDEM to announce that their tech is driving the back-end of “Music Unlimited," Sony's new cloud digital music service designed to take on both iTunes and music streamers. Consumers may not care, but competitors and the industry certainly do. All four major labels have signed on to this new Sony network designed ...

News: Music Industry

#Midem 2011 - Music Hack Day, More Deals and News

January 26, 2011

Updated. A Music Hack Day at the music industry convention most heavily influenced by the major labels? It happened because MIDEM brought the Hack Day team to Cannes; and an eclectic group of international hackers showed an overflow crowd the kind of fun and useful music tech that can be created in 24 hours. Key to ...

News: Award / Grant

2010 Earshot Golden Ear Award Nominations

January 26, 2011

The nominations for the 2010 Earshot Golden Ear Awards have been released in the February issue of Earshot Magazine. Pick up a copy at your local record store or jazz club, or download a PDF version from Earshot's website. The awards will take place, Sunday, March 20 at 7pm at Tula's Jazz Club. NW Recording of ...

News: Festival

Newport Goes Nonprofit, Not for Nothing

January 26, 2011

Last summer, founding producer George Wein said he wanted to find a way to keep his two legacy music festivals going well into perpetuity. This week, Wein, 85, in his sixth decade as a festival producer, made good on it. The Newport Jazz Festival, which began in 1954, and the Newport Folk Festival, which started five ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Singer Michelle Cruz Performing at Cafe Tatant in Roxbury on Thursday, January 27

January 26, 2011

Singer, songwriter, pianist and guitarist Michelle Cruz is appearing at the new Cafe Tatant supper club at the Roxbury Center for the Arts on Thursday, January 27, 2011. The Providence-based singer, nominated for a New England Music Award, blends jazz, rock, folk and blues. Her debut album, The Recovery, is available on Nevaeh Recordings. The doors ...

News: Education

Irish Musicians and Poets Performing at Berklee College in Boston on January 27

January 26, 2011

A line-up of great Irish traditional musicians are performing at the David Friend Recital Hall at Berklee College of Music in Boston on Thursday, January 27, 2011 at 7:30 p.m. Admission is free. Berklee instructor and champion mandolin player John McGann leads an all star line-up that includes Sean Gannon, All-Ireland champion on the button accordion. ...

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News: Recording

Forgotten Gems: Songs We Still Love by Prince

January 26, 2011

By Something Else Reviews OK, there was the symbol thing. And the awful attempts at hip-hop phrasing. And the Sheena Easton thing. And the using of a certain ubiquitous letter of the alphabet ("Take Me With U," “I Would Die for U," “U Got the Look," “I Wish U Heaven," “Nothing Compares 2 U," so on) ...

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News: Recording

Big Sam's Funky Nation - King of the Party (2010)

January 26, 2011

By Nick DeRiso Big Sam's Funky Nation, all brass and sass, opens its latest CD with a floor-rattling invitation to shake every thing you've got. For all of its musical prowess, that remains the one and only goal of this fun-loving, funky-butt recording by New Orleans-based trombone-playing bandleader Sammie Williams, formerly of the Dirty Dozen Brass ...

News: Book / Magazine

"Stereotypes in Black Music" by Alan Kurtz, Reviewed by Steve Provizer

January 26, 2011

Author Alan Kurtz's thesis is: since at least the turn of the 20th century, African-American performers have been fulfilling and/or re-inforcing stereotypes of the naturally-rhythmic primitive savage-i.e., sustaining “white ethnocentric fantasies"-to advance their careers. Episodes include: Minstrelsy, the “coon song" craze, vaudeville, popular black theater ("In Dahomey," Shuffle Along," etc), Ellington's “Jungle Music," Louis Armstrong, Fats ...

News: Recording

Short Takes

January 26, 2011

Matt Blostein/Vinnie Sperrazza Band—Paraphrase (Yeah-Yeah, 2011) This is an interesting young quartet with a lineup of Blostein on alto saxophone, Sperrazza on drums, Jacob Garchick on trombone and Geoff Kraly on electric bass. The rather unique setting gets an interesting sound with the saxophone and trombone on the front line without piano or guitar to support ...