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News: Radio

Pandora Adds Genre Stations, Celebrates Birthday

August 26, 2010

(UPDATED) Happy Birthday To Pandora, Happy Birthday To... Okay, I'll Stop. Just when you thought that you already had 101 reasons why Pandora is pretty awesome, they've gone and added genre stations to the mix too. These carefully curated genre stations have proven to be a hit with their users and apparently a number of these ...

News: Economics

Top Ten Government Mandates Needed to Save the Record and Music Industries from Ultimate Ruin

August 27, 2010

Whether or not you agree with U2 manager Paul McGuinness's analysis on how to save the music industry might be beside the point, but it does serve as an opening into the discussion of if we really need to “protect" it in the first place. If you're in radio, the current plan seems to be to ...

News: Interview

Interview: Chris Vinson and David Dufresne, Founder/Cto and Ceo of Bandzoogle (PT. 3)

August 26, 2010

Kyle Bylin: This new economy for music won't be just about the music itself, but about music as art. From the perspective of urban studies theorist Richard Florida, “Music was one of the first industries to experience the brutal effects of the digital transition, and it's clear that the ability to make money has shifted—even for ...

News: Technology

Video: How Grooveshark Leverages Their Audience to Help Music Artists and Ted Cohen on the Napster

August 26, 2010

In this next set of footage from Bandwidth Conference,Hypebot corespondent Danny Dee talks to Grooveshark's Label Relations team: Aaron Ford and Jack DeYoung; they give some great insight to their latest initiatives, relating to how they help market arists and the benifits of having a built-in audience to market to. ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Mark Turner and Tony Malaby Step in at Village Vanguard

August 26, 2010

Joe Lovano, the tenor saxophonist, couldn't make it to the Village Vanguard this week. It was the beginning of an annual two-week stretch with the trio he's played in for 25 years, with the guitarist Bill Frisell and the drummer Paul Motian. But Mr. Lovano double-booked himself, so he had to be in Edinburgh, soloing with ...

News: Recording

Even More Savory: "Never Before Heard Clips"

August 27, 2010

I find the media coverage of the discovery of the Bill Savory jazz collection simply amazing—and am both grateful and astonished. It would appear that the world has gone jazz crazy now, at least for a minute. Here's the latest story from NEWSWEEK, complete with music from Mildred Bailey, Jack Teagarden, Bobby Hackett, Vernon Brown, George ...

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News: Video / DVD

Esperanza Spalding, Herbie Hancock, Robert Glasper and More in Icons Among Us: Jazz in the Present Tense + MP3

August 27, 2010

When you ask most people, “name a jazz musician today," 9 out of 10 times you will get the name of someone who is already dead. But jazz today is undergoing some monumental changes and in this documentary film—Icons Among Us: jazz in the present tense, by filmmakers Michael Rivoira, Lars Larson and Peter J. Vogt, ...

News: Performance / Tour

On November 7 @ The Cornelia Street Cafe Catch the NYC Premiere of Saxophonist/Composer Greg Ward's Fitted Shards - South Side Story

August 27, 2010

"Greg Ward has brought together his superb ability to reflect not only his personality but the current times in his debut album, Fitted Shards. Opening a solo career with this strong of a statement in the jazz world can only lead to inevitable success throughout his lifetime."—C. Janus, Author of The New Face of Jazz (Random ...

News: Recording

Bits from the Savory Collection

August 27, 2010

Further evidence has come in verifying the value of that cache of previously unheard recordings in the Savory Collection at the National Jazz Museum in Harlem. Proof is posted on Newsweek's web edition—tantalizing solos from the late 1930s and early '40s by Mildred Bailey and Jack Teagarden; Lester Young with Count Basie; Roy Eldridge; Herschel Evans; ...

News: Interview

Latin Jazz Conversations: Hilario Duran (Part 1)

August 27, 2010

Sometimes an activity grabs our passions so completely that it becomes an obsession, capturing every last ounce of our attention. Regardless of our previous priorities and commitments, once we discover that all encompassing passion, we head out onto an unstoppable path. All of our time and energy goes into that one activity, as we constantly seek ...