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John Coltrane - A Love Supreme (Impulse! 1965)

January 18, 2011

Saxophonist and composer John Coltrane's “humble offering to Him" has become one of the most revered albums in jazz and indeed all of American music. A deeply spiritual man who claimed to have experienced a religious epiphany that allowed him to cast aside alcohol and drugs and fully commit himself to a musical and spiritual quest ...

News: Trends

Waiting: It's Not Something Music Fans Understand Anymore...

January 18, 2011

You'll wait for the headliner to hit the stage. But are you willing to wait for a download? Looks like the days of windowing and withholding are totally over, and the majors are sadly still getting the memo. Just recently, both Universal Music Group and Sony Music in the UK decided to release digital singles on ...

News: Music Industry

Why Labels Abandoned A&R...

January 18, 2011

The following is a guest post by Ritch Esra of the Music Business Registry. Esra attempts to answer the question: whatever happened to traditional A&R? “My take is that the traditional A&R process as we've known it is dying for a few reasons; (1) The major labels are hiring fewer and fewer A&R executives because the ...

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News: Recording

Bill Evans His Piano and Orchestra Play Theme from the V.I.P.S and Other Great Songs

January 18, 2011

Like many controversial films or books that take some effort or expense to understand properly, some records are better known by their reputation than by their actual merit. This particularly unwieldy album, bearing a significantly unwieldy title, certainly ranks among these. As a pianist, Bill Evans (1929-80) was seldom captured in orchestral situations. When he was, ...

News: Video / DVD

Sunday Eye Candy: Can

January 17, 2011

A PRIMARY ANCESTOR IN MODERN ROCK MUSIC We'll return this feature to its usual Saturday spot next week but felt like mixing it up... For a lot of folks under the age of 30, Germany's Can are an unknown factor in rock's DNA. Rules breakers, pioneer jammers and melders of disparate elements, Can whispers in the ...

News: Music Industry

All the President's Jazz 2010

January 17, 2011

For the second year in a row, I have been sending CD compilations of jazz music (12 total) to Reggie Love, President Obama's personal aide, to put on the president's iPod. (How much of it has made it onto the iPod playlist I don't know.) As I stated a year ago when I posted the 2009 ...

News: Video / DVD

Happy Birthday, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

January 17, 2011

On the Importance of Jazz Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Opening Address to the 1964 Berlin Jazz Festival, WPFW News (Washington), On the Importance of Jazz, [23 August 2002] God has wrought many things out of ...

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Gregg Allman - Low Country Blues (2011)

January 17, 2011

By Nick DeRiso You can't fault Gregg Allman his nostalgia on Low Country Blues. Legendarily restless, he's still a man, and the leader of a band, that's been through a great deal. Just as importantly, this record's hat-tips to blues, R&B, gospel and jazz only underscore how each provided uniquely American spices in the Allman Brothers ...

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Crowdfunding: Allison Tartalia - Sweet and Vicious EP (2011)

January 17, 2011

Photo by Vicki BlankenshipBy Mark Saleski The phenomenon of crowdfunding is not entirely new, but it appears to be gaining momentum. I first became aware of it a few years ago when jazz artists such as Cuong Vu, Jim Hall, and Maria Schneider created projects through artistShare. The concept is quite simple: the musician needs funding ...

News: Recording

Raphe Malik Quartet Live at the Willow-PT.1

January 17, 2011

I recorded this 20 years ago, on 1/21/91 at the Willow Jazz Club in Ball Sq., Somerville. The musicians are: Raphe Malik-trumpet Glenn Spearman-sax Dennis Warren-drums Larry Roland-bass The passing of time only seems to make this material stronger. There is such fire and intelligence at work here. This tune ...