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News: Recording

Destination out Asks Important Questions

November 16, 2010

Destination Out strikes again with an excellent post featuring tracks from the obscure Cecil Taylor album Fly Fly Fly! Fly Fly! They contend that this is one of Taylor's albums that could best introduce new listeners to his occasionally daunting work. “We know countless avant jazz newbies who wanted to explore Cecil Taylor and inevitably picked ...

News: Trends

Is Facebook About to Make Music Marketing Even More Difficult?

November 16, 2010

eMusic has not added any net subscribers since late-2007, according to numbers disclosed to Digital Music News this morning. Company representative Cathy Halgas Nevins pointed to a subscriber tally of “approximately 400,000," which is exactly the same number shared by the company in December of 2007. “We have held our base since the economy went south," ...

News: Trends

eMusic's Subscriber Growth Since 2007: 0

November 16, 2010

News: Interview

Happy Birthday, Hampton Hawes!

November 14, 2010

Hard bop pianist Hampton Hawes was born in Los Angeles on this date in 1928. His father was a Presbyterian preacher and his mother was the church's pianist. His interest in piano may have first begun as a toddler as he listened to his mother rehearsing, and he was already plunking out tunes by the age ...

News: Festival

Buika, el Triunfo de Todos

November 14, 2010

Buika, una de las artistas fetiche del festival de jazz de Barcelona en los últimos años (¡y que dure!), ha ganado su primer Grammy. La artista mallorquina, que regresa a Barcelona el 1 de diciembre para cerrar su año mágico 2010 (cada día quedan menos entradas), explica en este texto sus sensaciones (en castellano a continuación). ...

News: Recording

From the Stacks: Pico's 2010 Stacks, Volume 3

November 15, 2010

By Pico Volume 3 of my Stacks series makes it twenty albums considered and off my “pending" pile this week. This installment, like the prior two, follows no predetermined pattern, although I admit I inserted Barry Harris' latest offering at the last minute when I realized I didn't have any enough of the longtime well-known masters ...

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News: Festival

Amb la Sant Andreu Jazz Band

November 15, 2010

«Extraordinari, una gran idea». D'aquesta manera definia Bruce Lundvall, president de Blue Note recent arribat a Barcelona per assistir al concert de Gonzalo Rubalcaba dissabte a la nit (més informació en un post posterior), el concert de la Sant Andreu Jazz Band d'avui al matí al Gran Hotel Havana, ple de gom a gom. «M'ha encantat, ...

News: Recording

Bruce Springsteen: The Promise: Darkness on the Edge of Town at the Paramount Theatre (2010)

November 15, 2010

By Mark Saleski Springsteen fans have been waiting years for the 30th anniversary release of Darkness On The Edge Of Town. Waiting, and waiting, and... And then the anniversary passed, with rumours and speculation fueled by smokes signals emanating from Camp Springsteen about how the set was “nearly complete." Of course, since these smoke signals never ...

News: Obituary

Henryk Gorecki: 1933-2010

November 15, 2010

by Mark Saleski I don't have the language to properly describe most pieces of classical music, so you will rarely (if ever) see me employ words such as “sonata," “fortissimo," and “canon." Besides, with this week's passing of Polish composer Henryk Górecki, many megabytes (and ink!) have been spilled with the various re-visitations of the technicalities ...

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News: Opinion

Grandpa's Rainbow.

November 15, 2010

By Matt Lavelle Just how and why does anybody dedicate their lives to Art in a fallen world? To make such a choice in 2010 would be over the top from my perspective.When I was a kid in the 70's I had no idea that the gentrification express was all ready rolling along and that standards ...