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The Music Bay - A Good Reason to be Scared

January 25, 2011

The Pirate Bay crew has a surprise for the music industry. A few years back they registered a domain name, themusicbay.org, but haven't done anything with it. That could change soon. In an interview with TorrentFreak, a Pirate Bay insider warned, “The music industry can't even imagine what we're planning to roll out in the coming months. ...

News: Trends

#Midem 2011: Like It or Not, It's a D.I.Y. World

January 25, 2011

It was a busy Sunday at MIDEM. Making contacts and doing deals on the trade show floor was the focus for many. Others went looking for answers and presenters in an overcrowded Midem Academy and MidemNet Lab did their best to provide answers. From Berklee's Dave Kusek to the newest startups, the tools, tips and tricks ...

News: Performance / Tour

Trish Hatley at Eastside Jazz Club

January 25, 2011

Tuesday February 8th 2011 7.30pm. Trish Hatley Quartet Vocalist Trish Hatley is one of the most beloved and enduring figures on the Northwest music scene. Known for her easy sense of swing, beautiful tone and innate sensitivity to the music, she effectively balances technical mastery with genuine accessibility, making her extremely popular among jazz fans everywhere ...

News: Performance / Tour

Charles Lloyd Quartet Performs at UMass/ Amherst on Tuesday, January 25

January 25, 2011

Legendary jazz saxophonist Charles Lloyd is appearing with his dynamic new quartet at Bowker Auditorium at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst on Tuesday, January 25, 2011 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets to the concert are $25 and $15 general admission, and $10 for college students and youths under seventeen, and tickets can be purchased online. The ...

News: TV / Film

Miles Plays Miles

January 25, 2011

Dingo is a little Australian-French film released in 1991 that would probably be lost in obscurity except for one fact—it stars Miles Davis. In the first image of the film, we see John “Dingo" Anderson (played by Colin Friels) playing his trumpet in the Australian outback, which sets up the tension between his life in the ...

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News: Recording

Elton John - Greatest Hits (2002)

January 25, 2011

By Nick DeRiso The truth is, she never really left me. We would ride around, listening to eight-track tapes—or else pull a stereo speaker outside and swing on the back porch—then sing. We listened to Elton John, me and Mom. “They say Spain is pretty," I can hear her echoing, in a high voice, one summer ...

News: Recording

Peter Hum - A Boy's Journey (Self-Released, 2010)

January 25, 2011

Keyboardist and composer Peter Hum leads a dual life as both a journalist and blogger and a jazz musician. His new album has a deep narrative sense, like a prose writer linking together a set of interconnected short stories. He is joined on this album by Kenji Omae on tenor saxophone, Nathan Cepelinski on alto and ...

News: Rights

The Bloody War with Activist Pirates...

January 25, 2011

Casual piracy is a multi-billion-dollar mess for the music industry, and an issue that may never get resolved. But major labels, Hollywood, and other major media companies have someserious enemies, often with unknown and completely untraceable identities. And, ones that are motivated to take extreme measures to disrupt, cause harm, and frustrate. That includes a splinter ...

News: Performance / Tour

Experimental Music in the Twin Cities: Improvising over Dis-Chordant Changes

January 25, 2011

The changing commitment at the Clown Lounge was bad enough. Now one of the few remaining homes for experimental music in the Twin Cities is changing its focus as well. Café Maude, that neighborhood restaurant in Southwest Minneapolis that has offered a surprising range of avant-garde jazz and broad-reaching improvisational music for several years, will discontinue ...

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News: Recording

Celebrating CTI Records' 40th Anniversary - Part Two

January 25, 2011

Sony's Masterworks Jazz imprint continues its 40th anniversary celebration of the legendary CTI Records legacy with an additional six titles, issued this week: Deodato's Prelude, George Benson's White Rabbit, Milt Jackson's Sunflower, Jim Hall's Concierto, Paul Desmond's Pure Desmond and Ron Carter's All Blues. Two of the discs are among CTI's most historic and essential releases ...