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News: Interview

Interview: Aaron Ray, Partner at the Collective PT. 1

August 1, 2010

Recently, I spoke with Aaron Ray who is a Partner at The Collective, Head of New Media. He is currently overseeing all digital initiatives and running all strategies, assets and communities worldwide for artists such as Linkin Park, Avenged Sevenfold, Enrique Iglesias, Big Boi, Staind, and Slash. In this particular interview, we will be focusing on ...

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News: Radio

Live365 Updates Site: Quick and Dirty Net Radio

August 1, 2010

I always find it interesting when new features and website redesigns happen on a site that I actually use. The update takes place, I notice, and then, moments later, I'm issued a press release and reminded that I write about these things every day. One such instance is the internet radio site Live365; it makes good ...

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News: Technology

Google in Your Pocket, Apple in Your Mind

August 1, 2010

Another Chapter in the Double Standard of Music and Technology. Google protects their stuff but the music and content biz should give it up for free? Moses Avalon While Google is hard at work trying to make it possible for the public to steal any creative work you can cache in a browser, they are ...

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News: Recording

Jim Rotondi - 1000 Rainbows (2010)

August 1, 2010

By PicoIt must have been quite a journey for a life that started out in the wide open ranges of Montana and ended up in the hustle and bustle of the New York jazz scene, but trumpet player Jim Rotondi got there with an assist from the late, great trumpet player Clifford Brown. Playing ...

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News: Technology

Is Your E-Mail Open Rate 21.32%?

August 1, 2010

All the experts will tell you that getting fans' e-mail addresses is a huge deal: the fans that part with that information will spend more money on you than those who don't; they will come out to more of your shows; they tell more of their friends to check out your music, etc. But knowing how ...

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News: Interview

An Artist's Perspective on uPlaya: Part One

August 1, 2010

This week's interview with uPlaya's CEO David Meredith put forth a pretty convincing argument as to why the company's hit song science can help musicians. But while Mr. Meredith made a number of great points, skeptical musicians might be better convinced by one of their own. To that end, I spoke at length with David Bell ...

News: Performance / Tour

Al Jarreau to Resume Touring on Aug. 3

August 1, 2010

Jazz star Al Jarreau's management has sought to clarify circumstances surrounding his health and hospitalization on the singer's website. Ihe statement posted, which also indicates that the tour will resume August 3 in Hanau, Germany, at Amphitheatre Schloss Philippsruhe, clarified that 'Jarreau did not collapse during a performance as had been reported in the ...

News: Video / DVD

Desmond a la Francais

August 1, 2010

The French jazz critic Alain Gerber is also a novelist, or vice versa. He published a book in 2007 that may be a biography, a novel, or both. Its title in French is Paul Desmond et le côté féminin du monde, or Paul Desmond and the Feminine Side of the World. That is the extent of ...

News: Recording

New Picks: Summer Listening, Viewing, Reading

August 1, 2010

The Rifftides staff is pleased to announce a new batch of the recommendations known as Doug's Picks. David Weiss & Point Of Departure, Snuck In (Sunnyside). Trumpeter Weiss's heart may be in the 1960s, but he and his young band operate very much in the present. His solo style is largely a bequest from the late ...

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News: Interview

Latin Jazz Conversations: Zaccai Curtis (Part 3)

August 1, 2010

For many jazz musicians, a move to New York represents many things, but all in every way, it symbolizes a step into the center of the jazz world. Vibrant jazz scenes exist across the country and each one produces a significant amount of creative energy that pushes the music into the next era. Musicians dedicate their ...