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News: Recording

Sheldon, Metrotix Offering Online Presale of Tickets for Bela Fleck and the Flecktones

February 23, 2012

The Sheldon Concert Hall and Metrotix are offering online customers an advance opportunity to buy tickets for the concert by Béla Fleck & The Flecktones on Thursday, March 29 at the Sheldon. The show is part of a tour that reunites the group's original lineup for the first time in 18 years. Tickets go on sale ...

News: Recording

Paul Williams: Baritone Boogie

February 23, 2012

Bebop wasn't a big deal in many parts of the U.S. until 1948 and 1949, when stronger radio signals in New York allowed jazz stations to reach other cities at night and national magazines began picking up on on Dizzy Gillespie's hipster style and novel sound. But just as bebop was outflanking swing, another form of ...

News: Opinion

Ethan Kaplan: Culture is a Product

February 23, 2012

Guest post by former Warner Bros. Records digital exec Ethan Kaplan of Live Nation Labs. He blogs at Black Rim Glasses. A year ago I walked out of the Warner Bros. Records building, put a box in my car and drove home. I left with a collection of memories, but also a sense of unfinished business ...

News: Trends

Offline Playback Crucial to Future of Music and Media

February 23, 2012

Guest post by Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. It's true, what they say: Our digital lives are moving to the cloud. Whenever we fire up Facebook instead of a local email client, we're taking part in the shift from locally-run software to the networked app world. However, some fairly major parts of those digital lives—our music, ...

News: Performance / Tour

Magic Triangle Jazz Series Presents Two Trombone Trios at UMass/Amherst on Thursday, February 23

February 23, 2012

The Magic Triangle Jazz Series, produced by WMUA-91.1FM and the Fine Arts Center at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, is presenting Two Trombone Trios in concert on Thursday, February 23, 2012 at 8:00 p.m. at Beranson Recital Hall. The double billing features Frank Lacy on trombone; Andrew Drury on drums and Kevin Ray on bass, plus ...

News: Trends

Study: Consumers Overwhelmingly Prefer Ownership Because of The 'Security'

February 23, 2012

The simple version is that physical is going digital, and digital is going towards access. The real version, however, seems to be infinitely more complicated. According to a UK-based study just presented by eMusic and the Association of Independent Music (AIM) this morning, a massive 80 percent of British consumers still buy physical stuff like CDs ...

News: Music Industry

Theo Bleckmann Covers Kate Bush on Hello Earth!

February 22, 2012

ALBUM RELEASE SHOW AT NYC'S HIGHLINE BALLROOM ON APRIL 7 After tackling American maverick composer Charles Ives and receiving a Grammy nomination for it, vocalist Theo Bleckmann now takes on the mysterious songbook of British pop recluse Kate Bush on Hello Earth! out March 13. This project goes beyond merely re-creating Kate's Bush music, taking it ...

News: Performance / Tour

Will Bernard: New Trio Album, Tour Dates

February 22, 2012

NEW ALBUM OUTDOOR LIVING OUT MARCH 20 Guitarist Will Bernard has confirmed plans to release a new trio album, Outdoor Living on March 20 via Dreck to Disk/A-Train. The groove-Centric disc marks the recording debut of Bernard's touring trio with Wil Blades (B3) and Simon Lott (Drums). To support the record, the guys have announced East ...

News: Performance / Tour

Three New Jams Added to Local Musical Menu

February 22, 2012

The jam session has proved to be a durable institution in jazz for a number of reasons. For musicians, a jam session can be a proving ground, a laboratory and a networking opportunity. For listeners, it's a source of novel, spontaneous entertainment. And for bar, restaurant and club owners, a jam session can be a way ...

News: Interview

Marion Evans on Ted McNabb

February 22, 2012

One of the finest (and rarest) big band recordings of the late 1950s is Ted McNabb & Co. for Columbia's Epic label. Arranged and conducted by Marion Evans, the session was recorded over three days in November 1959 and featured the cream of the New York studio scene. On the date were Burt Collins, Bernie Glow, ...