Results for "AAJ Staff"

Phil Schaap: Charlie Parker (PT. 4)

August 27, 2010

Had he lived, Charlie Parker would have been 90 years old on August 29. In celebration of the alto saxophonist's music and upcoming birthday, I chose a handful of key moments in Parker's recording career and asked Phil Schaap to reflect on them. For those not in the know, Phil is the on-air host of the ...

Bill Laswell's M.O.D. Technologies to Release Three Albums

August 27, 2010

TRILOGY FEATURES ALL-STAR LINEUP AND SPECIAL GUESTS Grammy-winning electric bassist, producer, and re-mixer Bill Laswell has formed the record label M.O.D. Technologies, which is set to release albums this October by the group Method of Defiance and one of Ethiopia's most famous contemporary vocalists, Gigi. In addition, the label is planning releases from Dr. Israel, Gnawa ...

Jambase Questionnaire: Cochemea Gastelum

August 27, 2010

Welcome back to JamBase's baker's dozen to the bright lights of the music world. Last time we heard from These United States. Whether searing the fat off jam music in Robert Walter's 20th Congress, lighting up a Broadway stage as part of the Fela! band, keeping soul music soulful with Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, getting ...

Jerry Douglas: Tut Taylor Tribute Record

August 27, 2010

A TRIBUTE TO THE DOBRO LEGEND There isn't a Dobro player alive who doesn't owe Tut Taylor. Taylor is a towering figure in the world of acoustic music, championed for his flat-picking mastery by generations of fellow musicians and connoisseurs of rural American music. One of Taylor's lifelong devotees is Jerry Douglas, perhaps the most celebrated ...

Fat Freddy's Drop: Live at Roundhouse London

August 27, 2010

NEW ZEALAND ROOTS/DUB/REGGAE/JAZZ ENSEMBLE RELEASE NEW LIVE ALBUM Fat Freddy's Drop, New Zealand's hard-playing, easy-going jam masters, are set to release Fat Freddy's Drop Live at Roundhouse London on September 28, 2010), which captures one crazy night at the storied London venue and picks up where the funky battle with Dr. Boondigga and the Big BW ...

Why Stevie Nicks is Still Wrong (Part 1)

August 27, 2010

A number of you wrote in to say that you disagreed with my off-the-cuff analysis of Stevie Nicks' commentary on the state of rock n' roll and the record industry in general so I thought I would take a moment to give a more serious consideration to what Miss Nicks is saying, try to understand if ...

Video: CD Baby Speaks on iTunes Delivery Times and What Drives Success on Headliner.FM

August 27, 2010

In this next set of footage from the Bandwidth Conference,Danny Dee talks with Brian Felson, President of CD Baby, about the iTunes delivery times controversy that sparked up about a month back. It's quite interesting to hear Felson's viewpoints on this issue and he is quite clever to say that his company does facilitate the fastest delivery time ...

Alt-Rock Hub, Purring with Jazz

August 27, 2010

THE atmosphere at Cafe Racer, a coffeehouse and bar in the University District here, skews distinctly postgrunge, with its scuffed floor and mismatched furniture, its thrift-store paintings on boldly colored walls. One Sunday evening this spring the place was packed mainly with teenagers and 20-somethings in T-shirts and sneakers, all listening intently to a band. Everything ...

Jimmy Cobb and the Kind of Blue Sessions

August 27, 2010

It's eerily appropriate, in a way—Jimmy Cobb is the only musician missing from the photos of the famous “Kind of Blue" recording sessions that decorate his bedroom. He's also the last one still living, a fact he's reminded of every day he awakens and sees his old friends staring back at him—jazz legends John Coltrane and ...

Thursday in Princeton

August 27, 2010