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Colbert Lampoons Music Licensing with Black Keys vs. Vampire Weekend Indie Rock "Sellout Off"

January 14, 2011

(Updated) Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert took an only half tongue in cheek whack at the recent glut of music licensing in commercials with a “sellout off“ featuring the Black Keys' Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney and Vampire Weekend's Ezra Koenig. The two heavily licensed indie rock bands each aired commercials featuring their songs in a competition ...

News: Interview

Joe Lovano is the Laughing Buddha of Mainstream Jazz

January 14, 2011

I write today in praise of Joe Lovano, a man whom I called in NYMag's jazz listings “the laughing Buddha of mainstream jazz." Ten years ago—on June 2nd, 2001 to be exact—I went to the Vanguard for the very first time, a 16-year-old discovering the music, taken with Lovano's 1992 release From the Soul. (The copy ...

News: Recording

The Friday Morning Listen: Yes - Big Generator (1987)

January 14, 2011

By Mark Saleski I used to wonder, “Uh...what happened?" It took four years for Yes to come out with a follow up to 1983's huge 90125 and what we got was Big Generator. I'm don't really remember what I was expecting, but it wasn't this. To be fair, the record actually has some fun songs on ...

News: Recording

Shauli Einav - Opus One (2011)

January 14, 2011

By Pico The steady stream of highly talented young jazz musicians continue to flow from Israel to New York. We've gone from Avishai Cohen to, uh, Avishai Cohen and everyone in between, like Amos Hoffman and Oz Noy. Earlier this week, we officially welcomed another Israeli musician into the fold as leading recording artists with the ...

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News: Recording

Big Walter Horton - Blues Harmonica Giant (JSP, 2010)

January 14, 2011

Big Walter “Shakey" Horton was an influential blues harmonica player and singer who recorded as a leader and a sideman for a variety of labels from the early 1950's until the late 1970's. Horton has a huge impact amongst blues players, but was rather reticent himself, preferring to play as a sideman rather than aggressively promote ...

News: Performance / Tour

The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Jazz, January 14-20

January 14, 2011

Snow might have postponed gigs in New York this past week, but we're intrepid in Minnesota! The jazz must go on! Highlights, Last Week For Love of Annie (Dakota): It wasn't a jazz gig per se, but some of the area's heavy hitters joined forces with musicians and entertainers of all ilks for a benefit for ...

News: Recording

Windfall Light: The Visual Language of ECM

January 14, 2011

For those of us of a certain age, buying music was once considered something special. It wasn't only just getting that one song you liked. It wasn't even the excitement of owning someone's latest album. Buying music in the last half of the 20th Century—for me, the 1970s and 80s especially—meant getting a record that introduced ...

News: Music Industry

New Life for the Jazz Bakery

January 15, 2011

There is good news for jazz listeners in Southern California. The Jazz Bakery can stop roaming. That modern-day rarity, a major jazz club in Los Angeles, the Bakery lost its lease in 2009 and has been presenting concerts in a variety of halls, moving from one spot to another. Now it can reestablish itself in Culver ...

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News: Recording

Saxophonist/Composer David Binney Releases New CD on Mythology Records Titled "Graylen Epicenter"

January 15, 2011

Graylen Epicenter is the new 2011 Release from New York Based Saxophonist David Binney. The album is of all new original material and features Guitarist Wayne Krantz along with Chris Potter, Brian Blade, Gretchen Parlato, Dan Weiss, & Ambrose Akinmusire among others. Check out Binney's new masterpiece. Numerous media personal have already deemed this recording the ...

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News: Recording

Violinist/Composer Majid Khaliq Releases New CD Titled "The Basilisk"

January 15, 2011

Majid Khaliq's The Basilisk is a spellbinding and unforgettable compilation of jazz compositions. The album launches into a musical progression that moves through a series of original compositions that will surprise, inspire and intrigue. The recording is an extraordinary connection between master musicians and composition. Majid Khaliq is joined on the project by Jeb Patton on ...