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News: Technology

Not so Neutral: Google, Bing, and Online Music Market

July 8, 2010

Both Google and Bing are searching for ways to position themselves as the best entertainment discovery tool. While Bing's offering is slightly more robust than Google's; it may not take them long--as recent rumors suggest--to catch up. Since, two weeks ago, the recording industry demanded that Google needs to stop linking to the Pirate Bay; it ...

News: Video / DVD

Video: Tom Conrad of Pandora Speaks at Digg

July 9, 2010

At the end of June, Tom Conrad, the CTO of Pandora, held a talk at Digg, where he outlines the difficulties and windfalls that the company experienced during their transition onto mobile devices. As Blogger Kent Rahman writes, the talk details 5 broad lessons the company learned in this time period, and how they affected Pandora's ...

News: Music Industry

Killola: How to Create Merch That Keeps On Giving

July 8, 2010

Garage-pop rockers Killola, joining forces with Aderra, a digital distributor of live concert recordings, have created USB Dogtags--that not only serve as a unique merch item to sell to their fans, but also provide the group with a another way to instantly connect with them. Fans who purchase a receive not only the band's new album, ...

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News: Radio

The 3 Cohens and "Braid" Featured on NPR

July 9, 2010

One family--one music. The remarkable story of 3 Cohens, Yuval (the older brother), Anat (the middle sister) and Avishai (the youngest sibling), continues with the November 20, 2007 release of their new recording, Braid (Anzic Records). It is obvious that the Cohens would have some sort of telepathy and symbiosis on the bandstand and in the ...

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News: Interview

Other Places: Svend Asmussen

July 9, 2010

Jazz developed in the United States, but it has long been an international music and many of its most prominent players are from other countries. The Dane Svend Asmussen is coming in for even more attention than usual lately. Attention is far from new in the career of the remarkable violinist, but when a musician is ...

News: Recording

Jazzwax List: 6 Broadway Swingers

July 9, 2010

Fifty years ago, jazz and Broadway were friends. Jazz artists routinely recorded swinging versions of the latest musicals or released roundups of new Great White Way tunes. Broadway was a more powerful influence on the culture then, of course, especially when shows destined for the silver screen had movie studios behind them. During this crossover period, ...

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News: Recording

Ira Gitler on Parker's Moods

July 9, 2010

Ira Gitler is a national jazz treasure. Each time we talk (which is often), the esteemed author, liner-notes writer, reviewer and historian sheds light on a jazz recording, artist or event with fresh detail and stories. Like Woody Allen's Leonard Zelig, Ira seems to have been at every major turning point in jazz history, an eyewitness ...

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News: Interview

Fairy Tales Can Come True ... It Can Happen to You

July 9, 2010

Choosing to be a musician is a commitment for the long-term, especially if one aspires to be a jazz musician. For every Jamie Callum or Eldar, there are thousands of determined players woodshedding every day and dreaming of having a hit record. They may have even already recorded the tracks that will break through--and don't know ...

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News: Recording

Foltz/ Turner/ Carrothers - To the Moon (Ayler)

July 9, 2010

Music has long been a useful implement in the evocation of place. That hoary relationship registers at the forefront of this set, recorded at the height of winter in icebound Minneapolis in 2008. Clarinetist Jean-Marc Foltz mentions the “lovely, freezing cold day" that precipitated the completely spontaneous sounds. Cellist Matt Turner, an unsung improviser and native ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Jazz This Week: Boney James, Linda Presgrave, Good 4 the Soul, Mardra and Reggie Thomas, and More

July 8, 2010

It's summer, a time when not only is the livin' purported to be “easy," but also a time when smooth jazz musicians take to the road and free concert series in local parks and elsewhere are in full swing. Here's what's going on this weekend with jazz and creative music in St. Louis: Tonight, ...