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News: Recording

Beastie Boys: New Album Spring 2011

October 19, 2010

HOT SAUCE COMMITTEE PART 1 DELAYED INDEFINITELY Beastie Boys have stated via their website that previously announced album Hot Sauce Committee Part 1 will “continue to be delayed indefinitely" as the hip-hop trio fine-tune that record, while Hot Sauce Committee Part 2 “will be released on time as originally planned in Spring of 2011. Check out ...

News: Music Industry

MTT: A Fragmented Music Community

October 19, 2010

Dante Cullari posts about how music is spread out all over the Internet. The fragmented nature of the Internet has produced hundreds of music websites. Artists can benefit from eliminating several different websites and focusing on one website for their music. By using one website, fans will be able to access your music easier and potential ...

News: Economics

Artist Revenue Opportunities Without Playing Live

October 19, 2010

This guest post is by Bobby Owsinski. Triangle Exception, a winner of the Hypebot Hit Song Contest got to pose two questions to him as their prize.* In most cases, recorded music has always been somewhat of a promotion for the live show. It's a little known fact that most musical artists have always made as ...

News: Music Industry

Victory Records Funds Worst Anti-Piracy Psa Ever

October 19, 2010

Victory Records hired comic Gilbert Gottfried to star in an anti-piracy PSA where he repeatedly tells music pirates to go fuck themselves. It's hard to say where this plan went wrong. One writer noted that there's quite a a bit of irony behind the company funding a video to tell fans that they need to start ...

News: Music Industry

Berklee, MIDEM and Harvard Found Rethink Music Conference, Offer $50,000 Innovation Prize

October 19, 2010

Berklee and MIDEM are launching the Rethink Music conference on April 25-27 in Boston, and have issued a call for new ideas with a $50,000 prize attached. Presented in association with Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet & Society and Harvard Business School the Rethink gathering will examine the business and rights challenges facing the music ...

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News: Recording

Pianist/Composer Dan Tepfer Releases Trio Album "Five Pedals Deep" on Sunnyside Records - October 26, 2010

October 19, 2010

Album features Dan Tepfer (piano), Thomas Morgan (bass) and Ted Poor (drums) CD RELEASE PERFORMANCE @ Jazz Standard October 26, 2010 (7:30 & 9:30pm) In his forthcoming trio release, Five Pedals Deep on Sunnyside Records, wildly inventive pianist Dan Tepfer plumbs the depths of conventional harmony, engaging pop modalities, minimalism, ...

News: Performance / Tour

Guitarist Kevin Eubanks Performing at Berklee on October 21 in Boston

October 19, 2010

Master jazz guitarist Kevin Eubanks is performing a special concert at the Berklee Performance Center on Thursday, October 21, at 7:30 p.m. Tickets to the concert are $10 and can be purchased online or at the door. Eubanks is a Berklee alumnus and well-respected musician, composer and recording artist with over 100 recordings to his credit. ...

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News: Opinion

Dance Music and the Joys of the No BS! Brass Band

October 19, 2010

"Jazz is dance music," Wynton Marsalis wrote in program notes earlier this year. “If it doesn't sound good, people won't want to dance to it. And if you can't dance to it, then it's not jazz." The statement, separating jazz and “not jazz," is the kind of shot-across-the-bow that Marsalis delights in lobbing at hostile parties, ...

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News: Recording

Vincent Herring, "Morning Star" (CD Review)

October 19, 2010

I recently reviewed alto saxophonist Vincent Herring's Morning Star for Jazz Times. Click here to go directly to the review, which appeared in the magazine's September issue, or read the full text below. Vincent Herring & Earth Jazz, Morning Star (Challenge) Shades of the Headhunters, Weather Report, the Crusaders and, not surprisingly, Cannonball Adderley's electric-jazz releases ...

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News: Recording

Howard Wiley and the Angola Project - 12 Gates to the City (2010)

October 19, 2010

By Pico Howard Wiley's The Angola Project (2007) created a lot of buzz and put his name firmly on the jazz map. It wasn't so much for the tenor saxophonist's playing or inventing a whole new style of jazz. Rather, the acclaim came from the attention he brought to the spirituals of Louisiana's state prison at ...