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News: Radio

Music Labels Want to Break Your Phone, with Radio

August 19, 2010

Music labels and radio broadcasters are lobbying Congress in hopes of making it mandatory for cell phones, PDAs, and other portable devices to have FM radio receivers built in. Rather than adapt to the changing market, it seems as if radio favors the idea of artificially propping up its legacy institution—and business model—by any means necessary. ...

News: Technology

NMS Partners with BigChampagne to Find Artists...

August 19, 2010

That Are “On The Verge" Of Breaking. New Music Seminar has partnered with BigChampagne and their Ultimate Chart Technology to support their Artist on the Verge Project, which, twice a year, at the industry conference, seeks to identify artists that are on the verge of breaking. Three finalists—meeting this unique criteria—are chosen by the NMS Music ...

News: Technology

Carl Jacobson, New VP of Marketing at Nimbit

August 19, 2010

Direct-to-fan marketing platform Nimbit has appointed Carl Jacobson to VP of Marketing. He brings to the table over 15 years of marketing experience through which he brought empowering solutions to music makers and listeners. Prior to this position, Jacobson was the VP of Marketing for the music software and hardware provider Cakewalk, Inc. “The music industry ...

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News: Video / DVD

Moving Pictures: The Blue Note Album Covers

August 19, 2010

This video tribute to the legacy of Blue Note and designer Reid Miles is so awesome I refuse to even waste anyone's time with my writing about it. The piece was conceived to promote a series of summer jazz concerts at the Bella Vista Social Pub in Siena, Tuscany. Okay, so there isn't a Miles Davis ...

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News: Festival

Salem Jazz and Soul Festival This Weekend, August 21-22

August 19, 2010

The fourth annual Salem Jazz & Soul Festival is taking place this Saturday and Sunday, August 21-22, at Salem Willows in the City of Salem. This year's line-up includes the Grace Kelly Quintet, the Northshore Gospel Ambassadors, the Sam Kinninger Band and many other great acts.Salem Trolley is providing service to the Salem Willows from the ...

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News: Recording

Jim Rotondi - 1000 Rainbows (Positone)

August 19, 2010

Contextual questions of excessive repertory fealty are largely moot in the music of Jim Rotondi. A trumpeter who's canny style blends Hubbard-like velocity and clarity with a persuasive lyricism, his fixation on a stripes of hard bop steeped in 60s Blue Note decorum is hardly worth getting bent about, though there are those who would likely ...

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News: Recording

Schlippenbach Trio - Bauhaus Dessau (Intakt)

August 19, 2010

The Schlippenbach Trio's latest release is an album couched in celebratory anniversaries: the ensembles 40th coupled to their chosen venue's 90th. Recorded at the vaunted German playhouse in the fall of last year it recalls their last Intakt outing in that saxophonist Evan Parker leaves his straight horn capped and cased. The resulting focus on tenor ...

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News: Recording

Stephen Gauci/ Kris Davis/ Michael Bisio - SKM (Clean Feed)

August 19, 2010

Operating under the ostensible leadership of saxophonist Stephen Gauci, but still very much an ensemble affair, versatility factors prominently on this straightforward trio set. Gauci and bassist Michael Bisio are well-established colleagues, their associations formed in the last decade on a number of projects for CIMP. Canadian pianist Kris Davis moves in similar circles having worked ...

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News: Recording

One Track Mind: Sun Ra, "It's After the End of the World" (1972)

August 19, 2010

By Mark Saleski Like mystery novels, poetry, or any other form of art, music has a lot of uses. We're sad and pull out those old Son House records. Happy? How about some Speaking In Tongues-era Talking Heads? Is romance in the air? Perhaps some Diana Krall? Naughty? I'd go for Cassandra Wilson. Some people put ...

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News: Recording

Steve Turre - Delicious and Delightful (2010)

August 19, 2010

By Mark Saleski Odd instruments in jazz: pedal steel guitar, theremin, the Samchillian (You'll have to trust me on this one. Its “formal" name is the “Samchillian Tip Tip Tip Cheeepeee." Don't believe me? Look it up), the harmonica, the human voice (if you're Shooby Taylor or Mike Patton), the saw blade. Some of these instruments ...