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News: Opinion

Soundscan R.I.P.?: Big Champagne Rivals with a New Type of Hit Chart. or Do They?

August 10, 2010

CEO Garland challenges the Old Guard to the seminal question: is a chart based on electronic metrics more relevant than one based on actual sales? Does a song with 100,000 CDs sold deserve more notice than one with 500,000 streams/downloads, regardless of if they are legal or royalty generating? Last week the data monitoring service Big ...

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News: Festival

Newport En 'La Vanguardia'

August 10, 2010

La Vanguardia publica en su edición de hoy un amplio reportaje sobre el CareFusion Newport Jazz Festival. Este legendario certamen, fundado en 1954, está todavía hoy en manos del empresario pionero George Wein, padrino del Voll-Damm Festival Internacional de Jazz de Barcelona, que inauguró el pasado 17 de mayo con un concierto en el Gran Hotel ...

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News: Recording

Dick Oatts - Two Hearts (Steeplechase)

August 10, 2010

Ballad projects can be dangerous prospects for the sentiment-sensitive saxophonist. Dip too deep into the romance bag and the results run a strong risk of coming across as treacly or trite. Constrict the emotive spigot and the outcome can be construable as bland or aloof. Midwestern mainstay Dick Oatts is well-acquainted with negotiating such obstacles of ...

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News: Recording

Michael Dease - Grace (2010)

August 10, 2010

By PicoCurtis Fuller, one of the greatest living trombone players of all time declared “I predict that Michael Dease will become one of the world's great trombone masters." And when you hear Dease's fluid, lush style, it's not hard to see the young phenom as the legitimate successor to Fuller.Yet, Dease, who ...

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News: Opinion

The Cortex and the Booty

August 10, 2010

This is Your Brain on MusicThe brass band I play with has been talking about the Asphalt Orchestra. In their they seem to be having a great time, engaging the crowd, playing interesting, offbeat music (apart from New Orleans stuff, arrangements of Zappa, Bjork...). On the other hand, a band-mate saw them on the ...

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News: Performance / Tour

What to Do when You're Playing to Eight People, and How to Make It Important

August 10, 2010

[Editor's Note: This post was originally published on Musformation. It has been edited for content and clarity, and it appears here with permission from the original site and author.] If you had to identify the major reason most musicians are so miserable, it would have to be the the immense disappointment that comes from playing for ...

News: Festival

Review Newport Jazz Festival

August 10, 2010

Newport Jazz Festival: A study in contrasts By Steve Greenlee NEWPORT, R.I.—The eclectic mix of styles that is the hallmark of the Newport Jazz Festival couldn't have been displayed any better than it was mid-afternoon yesterday. As trumpeter Wynton Marsalis took his quintet through an hour of buttoned-down, straight-ahead jazz on the main stage, saxophonist ...

News: Recording

Recent Listening: Dana Hall

August 9, 2010

Dana Hall, Into The Light (Origin). Drummers who flaunt their technique can be enemies of music when their busyness becomes the center-ring distraction in a band. Dana Hall is a busy drummer, but in his case that's a compliment. He accompanies with waves of rhythmic patterns surging and swelling behind, under and around soloists. This 40-year-old ...

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News: Interview

Oliver Nelson Revisited

August 9, 2010

In his few years, Oliver Nelson achieved major success as a composer and arranger in jazz and in the Hollywood studios. His first big band collection, Afro-American Sketches (1961), made it clear that he was an important new talent. His Blues And The Abstract Truth with an all-star septet that included Bill Evans, Freddie Hubbard and ...

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News: Radio

The Jazz Session #189: Eric Hofbauer

August 9, 2010

Eric Hofbauer is using the solo guitar to explore American identity on a trilogy of albums that began with American Vanity (Creative Nation Music, 2004) and continues with American Fear (Creative Nation Music, 2010). In this interview, Hofbauer talks about the pop tunes he covers on this record; how he uses improvisation to lead to composition; ...