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An Interview with IMSTA President Ray Williams

September 21, 2010

This Saturday, September 25, the International Music Software Technology Association, or IMSTA, will hold its third annual IMSTA Festa at the School of Audio Engineering in New York. Whether it takes place in Tokyo, Berlin, or New York, each Festa gives the world's top audio software companies the chance to offer their wares, in some cases ...

Noise Storm

September 21, 2010

"Unless played very quietly, analytical thought is thwarted while Merzbow noise occurs, and even at quiet volume, there is still a jaggedness in the cutting, the bursts of sound, the alterations, that hinders the development of analysis," writes Paul Hegarty in his chapter on Merzbow from Noise/Music: A History. In 1923, Dadaist Kurt Schwitter commenced his ...

Breifly Reviewed: Grex - Live at Home

September 21, 2010

GREXLive at Home(SUA) The second part of the AACM dictum of “Great Black Music—Ancient to the Future" surprisingly holds little cross-genre sway. Though groups of many stripes can lay claim to a broad range of influences and an output to match, a true understanding of those forebears is extremely rare, especially when those influences are both ...

Take Five With LaGrand

by AAJ Staff
September 20, 2010

Meet LaGrand:LaGrand has been involved in either playing music or music production since he was six years old. He has a degree in Recording Engineering, and has been engineering and producing professionally since 1992. Having built a solid reputation of professionalism, knowledge, integrity, calmness and more, LaGrand has had many opportunities to ...

Brazil's Beat Seduces Jazz Greats

September 20, 2010

OLINDA, Brazil (AFP)—Brazil's unique tropical blend of samba-rock-guitar known as MPB (Musica Popular Brasileira) has exerted an irrepressible influence on modern jazz, masters of the genre say. “Since I played with John Coltrane in 1961, I started using open intervals on the chords, distributing the notes of each chord broadly on the piano so the other ...

Sudhalter Plays Beiderbecke

September 20, 2010

Richard M. Sudhalter died two years ago today. A superb writer and musician, he was the author of the definitive biography of Bix Beiderbecke and played cornet—beautifully—in the Bix tradition. Here he is with the New York Jazz Repertory Company at a Town Hall concert in the early 1970s, playing Beiderbecke's “Davenport Blues." With him are ...

The Jazz Session #201: Mary Halvorson

September 20, 2010

Super Bad Sunday: Cass Elliot

September 20, 2010

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MS. ELLIOT Despite being gone more than 36 years, Cass Elliot remains one of the iconic female rock voices. A big presence in almost every way, Mama Cass possessed some of the strongest pipes to ever hit the genre, girlish but gutsy like Bessie Smith and delivered with a sleepy-eyed sexiness. She was also ...

Internet Attackers Force RIAA and MPAA Sites Offline

September 20, 2010

Supporters of the net collective Anonymous, which organized an effective takedown 36 hours ago of sites controlled by the Motion Picture Association Of America, have now set there sites on the RIAA.  “Operation Payback," dubbed by Torrentfreak as the “protest of the future" forced both RIAA.com and RIAA.org offline on Sunday. In a statement, the group ...

Chet Baker - "So What" (1964)

September 20, 2010