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Grammy Winners 2014: The Full List
Daft Punk's “Get Lucky" won record of the year and the duo's “Get Lucky" won the year's top album, at last night's 56th Annual Grammy Awards. Rising stars were rewarded as well, with Lorde, Kacey Musgraves and Macklemore & Ryan Lewis taking home key awards. Album of the Year Daft Punk, Random Access Memories (Julian Casablancas, DJ Falcon, Todd ...
Tommy Flanagan: Germany, 1999
In the summer of 1999, pianist Tommy Flanagan appeared at the Jazz Baltica Festival—held on the grounds of the Salzau Palace near Kiel, Germany, and a few miles from the Baltic Sea. With Flanagan were Lewis Nash on drums and Peter Washington on bass, with appearances by Bobby Hutcherson on vibes and Johnny Griffin on tenor ...
STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Six from Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey
This week, let's look at some videos featuring Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, who are coming back to St. Louis to perform next Saturday, February 1 at The Demo. Formed in Tulsa, OK in 1994, JFJO are celebrating their 20th year as a band with, among other things, a set at the recently completed Winter Jazzfest in ...
SoundCloud Closes $60 Million Round, in Talks with Major Labels
Audio platform SoundCloud has closed a series D funding, raising $60 million ot a total valuation of $700 million. The round was led by led by Institutional Venture Partners along with the Chernin Group. In an statement, SoundCloud said it will use the money “to grow more rapidly in product, personnel and expansion in mobile efforts,” but the company also likely ...
IOU Music Launches to Support DIY Musicians Throughout Their Careers
IOU Music is a new service for artists that launched this week in beta. They're building a platform to support DIY music monetization and marketing. For example musicians can use their accounts to sell music, crowdfund, accept donations and create subscription services with more features on the way. I spoke with Founder and CEO Rob MacArthur ...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, January 24-30
You can find jazz in all sorts of venues this week, from classic club settings to hotel lounges to the tiniest gallery space. And you can also find some jazz memorabilia to reinforce your memories of perhaps the most beloved venue of all. Big Gigs This Week Friday, January 24. Whenever Patty Peterson is on stage, ...
Analyzing Music Taste to Improve Group Learning at Play with Your Music
From The Echo Nest Blog. The folks at MIT Media Lab, NYU, and Peer 2 Peer University recently set out to teach the world how to manipulate music with a computer and a browser through interactive classes on PlayWithYourMusic.org. When 5,282 people registered for the course, their suspicion that people would be interested in this were ...
Lively Raises $2 Million for Concert Recordings Available After the Show
Lively's concert recording service allows bands to offer both audio and video recording of the show after it's over using a mobile app for delivery. They'd already raised half a million over the summer and now they've added to their investments with another 2 million or so. A number of services have related offerings and it ...
Ben Webster: Europe, 1967
In 1967, Dutch director Johan van der Keuken filmed tenor saxophonist Ben Webster when he lived in the Rivierenbuurt section of Amsterdam. In Big Ben: Ben Webster in Europe, we see Webster performing, sitting in a cafe and talking to his landlady. In other words, it's not a conventional documentary but more like slices of life, ...
Why Indie Musicians and Indie Radio Stations Should Work Together
In the fall Paul Riismandel wrote an “immodest proposal" in the hopes of encouraging indie radio stations and indie musicians to work together. He points to a natural fit between non-commercial radio and indie artists and proposes at least one possibility for connecting the two. The larger point is that indie radio and indie musicians could ...
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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
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The Quiet Cruelty of the Music Business
Phil Schaap's Jazz Room
Franc Williams: Live From The West End
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