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News: Technology

5 Important Things to Know About Bittorrent Stats

January 6, 2011

BitTorrent has reached a milestone; they now have 100 million monthly users. In addition, the company has also disclosed that it has over 20 million daily active users and over 400,000 daily client downloads. Depending who you are, those stats either make you cringe or leave you gleeful. My bet is that it makes you cringe. That users ...

News: Economics

Rootmusic Gets $2.3 Million to Help Musicians Build Better Facebook Pages

January 6, 2011

(UPDATE) According to a filing with the SEC, RootMusic has recieved a total of $2.3 million in funding to build out its popular application that helps musicians design more robust Facebook pages. The company has not yet named the source of the investment. (Update: Funding came from Mohr Davidow Ventures with David Feinleib. It's BandPage app ...

News: Technology

Free Trip: Send a Music Tech Company to SXSW

January 6, 2011

SoundCtrl, in conjunction with Pepsico, are sending five music tech companies to SXSX—free of charge. This is the second installment of their FlashFWD program. With it, SoundCtrl crowd-sources their readers to nominate innovative music tech companies. Once a company receives 50 nominations, they are added to a list of which 5 are chosen as winners by ...

News: Radio

Jim Wilke's Best Northwest Jazz CDs of 2010

January 6, 2011

Each year I publish a list of jazz CDs issued in the past year that I found most interesting and enjoyable. The list is selected from among the thousand or so CDs received in an average year. It also represents music that I have played frequently on Jazz After Hours and Jazz Northwest. The Best NW ...

News: Recording

Jake Fryer/Bud Shank Quintet - In Good Company (2011)

January 6, 2011

By Pico Just prior to kickoff for the Fiesta Bowl played the other day between the Oklahoma Sooners and the Connecticut Huskies, the sad story was told about the starting UConn cornerback who was senselessly stabbed to death during the prior football season. The night before to his murder, Jasper Howard and his teammates celebrated a ...

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News: Recording

Noah Preminger - Before the Rain (Palmetto, 2011)

January 6, 2011

Tipping a subtle reference to John Coltrane's hauntingly beautiful song “After the Rain," saxophonist Noah Preminger makes his Palmetto debut with a collection of well crafted performances focusing on subtle and graceful ballad playing. He is joined on this album by a classy group including Frank Kimbrough on piano, John Hebert on bass and the always ...

News: Recording

The Official 2010 Numbers Are In: Albums Down 12.7%, Physical Down 19%...

January 6, 2011

But are we at the bottom yet? Here are the official 2010 numbers, as tallied by Nielsen Soundscan and shared with Digital Music News late Wednesday afternoon. These are US-based figures, and cover the 52-week period ending January 2nd, 2011. All percentages are calculated against 2009 totals. Albums, Overall*: 326.2 million units; Down 12.7% Albums, Physical**: ...

News: Interview

A Jazz Legacy, Taylor-Made

January 6, 2011

I only heard pianist and NEA Jazz Master Billy Taylor in one live performance—at the “Witness" concert at Ordway in St. Paul in early 2009. This program was part of the Vocalessence season, their annual celebration of African American history and culture. For the second half of the afternoon, Vocalessence welcomed the Billy Taylor Trio. A ...

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News: Recording

Tom Van Der Geld "Path"

January 6, 2011

Although not billed as such, this album is the third of what has become known as American ex-pat vibraphonist Tom van der Geld's four “Children at Play" recordings, captured between 1973 and 1980. Path was recorded in Ludwigsburg, Germany a year and a half after van der Geld's previous Patience, during February 1979, with a trio ...

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Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Vladimir Vysotsky

by AAJ Staff
January 5, 2011

Meet Vladimir Vysotsky: Vladimir Vysotski (b. 1982) is a pianist, composer, songwriter and producer. He studied classical and jazz piano at Helsinki Pop & Jazz Conservatory and Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre. Received the Nokia Young Talent Award in 2004. Today, Vysotsky participates in several jazz and experimental bands in the Estonian Music scene. He ...