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Bill Clifton and Bill Evans
Piano jazz in the late 1940s featured around 50 remarkable players, including Art Tatum, Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk, Al Haig, Teddy Wilson, Earl “Fatha" Hines, John Lewis, Erroll Garner, Hampton Hawes, Lennie Tristano, Duke Jordan and Oscar Peterson. But if you move the needle slightly toward the jazz-pop realm, you'll find just as many pianists who ...
Google Has Acquired Songza
After weeks of rumors, its official: Google has acquired mood and activity based streaming music service Songza. Neither side is releasing details of the deal. But originally, reports put the price tag at $15 million. Since then, several other rumored suitors likely pushed the final price higher. Google says it won't make any immediate changes to ...
Denver's BandSwap Creatively Boosts Bands and Builds Community
BandSwap is a unique intitiative from nonprofit SpokeBUZZ that takes Colorado bands on tour to play in host cities and then brings host bands back to Colorado for a festival. BandSwap is entering its third year and is not only successfully helping bands build audiences and connections but also developing related creative and community events both ...
NeonGrid Debuts Database for Crediting All Your Musical Work Across the Web
While some musicians primarily appear in their own media works and can therefore offer what they do via their own channels, other musicians appear in a wide range of creations across the web. Some musicians take multiple roles beyond their own work from backup singer to videomaker. While I think musicians should be documenting all such ...
Canada Drops Onerous International Artists Fees
As part of a plan to crack down on temporary foreign workers, last summer the Canadian government added a $275 processing fee on top of a $150 work permit requirement for each and every member of a band and crew from outside the country playing in Canadian venues. Some non-profit venues and festivals were exempt, but ...
"Jazz Unlimited" to Re-Air Documentary on St. Louis Jazz History Starting Sunday, July 6
Starting this coming Sunday, July 6, Dennis Owsley's “Jazz Unlimited" program will begin re-broadcasting Owsley's ten-part audio documentary on “The Jazz History of St. Louis." “This ten-week documentary is the second longest music documentary in the history of radio and certainly the longest music documentary in St. Louis radio (I did the second longest in St. ...
Chubby Jackson: New York, 1949
In 1944, bebop was virtually ignored by the country's jazz fans—except those in New York, where the new style had first been recorded earlier that year. Viewed initially as unintelligible gibberish and way too fast for dancing, the new style was too complicated. Few musicians could play it authentically, since too few bebop recordings were on ...
Rdio Acquires Tastemakerx, Adds Key Execs
Music streamer Rdio has aquired hipster music discovery and curation app, TastemakerX. Rdio will absorb the entire TastemakerX team, including CEO and co-founder, Marc Ruxin, and co-founder Sandro Pugilese. Ruxin will become COO and head Rdio's corporate marketing, ad sales, brand partnerships and business development. No details of the deal were announced; and which TastemakerX features will make there ...
Music Monetization: Bittorrent Bundle Pay Gates, Youtube Wants You to Play for Tips
We seem to be moving into a phase where even big companies that work with musicians are recognizing that monetization is important and that musicians want to get paid. BitTorrent developed its bundles to help musicians market but they've also been experimenting with monetization all along. They now think that pay gates will work and that ...
How to Write a Hit Pop Song: Comedian Offers Funny, Sadly Accurate Formula [video]
Comedian and YouTube star Brett Domino offers a satirical but sadly accurate lesson how to write a hit pop song. His tips include always keeping it sexy, and when writing lyrics to use the Internet for help. Domino then follows his own formula to create “You Look Sexy When You Do That." Watch the video lesson and ...
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Bill Bruford And Pete Roth: A One-Of-A-Kind Juxtaposition
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Miles Okazaki's Monkathon: The Complete Thelonious...
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Scott Kinsey: Thought Distortions and the Art of the Left...
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Isaiah Collier Plays Coltrane: Live at Jazz Alley in Seattle
Reanimating Conversations Past
John Scofield: Meant To Be
From the Inside
The Quiet Cruelty of the Music Business
Phil Schaap's Jazz Room
Franc Williams: Live From The West End
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