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News: Video / DVD

Ian Rogers Interviews MOG CEO David Hyman [video]

November 15, 2011

(UPDATED) On a new episode of This Week In Music, filmed last week from New Noise Santa Barbara, Ian Rogers interviews MOG founder David Hyman on future plans for the company, the business of streaming, how its changed since the Facebook integration, and his early job at MTV whcih he calls one of “the worst experiences" ...

News: Performance / Tour

Jazz Saxophonist Tia Fuller Performs at UMass/Amherst on November 16

November 15, 2011

Jazz saxophonist, composer and educator Tia Fuller is performing with her Quartet at Bowker Auditorium, Fine Arts Center at University of Massachusetts in Amherst on Wednesday, November 16, 2011 at 7:30 p.m. Reserved seating is $15-$25, tickets for students of the five colleges, and for students under 17, are $10. These can be purchased online. Fuller ...

News: Recording

Will Martina - The Dam Levels (2011)

November 15, 2011

Erik Friedlander and Tom Cora are two legends of jazz cello, true pioneers an standouts as there are so few cellists with such an improvisational jazz bent and fewer still who regularly have gone for the jugular as those two. Out of Australia is another cello player who turned onto jazz and is creating another approach ...

News: Music Industry

MSMW Live: In Case the World Changes Its Mind

November 15, 2011

This is a live collection from jazz guitarist John Scofield collaborating with John Medeski on organ and keyboards, Billy Martin on drums and Chris Wood on bass. The music was drawn from the source material of their previous collaborations John Scofield's A Go Go and MSMW's Out Louder. Their lengthy 2006 tour together provided the music ...

News: Music Industry

Since 1998, CD Baby Has Paid $200 Million in Artist Royalties...

November 15, 2011

The company just shared the impressive threshold with Digital Music News, while also pointing to a clientele of 250,000 artists. The $200 million royalty number is cumulative, thoughthis is a quickly-ramping figure: CD Baby is now paying approximately $40 million per year, and expects to hit the quarter-billion-mark sometime next year. And this is money paid ...

News: Recording

Marc Ducret, Tower, Vol. 2: Vladimir Nabokov's "Ada" as Avant Jazz Continues

November 15, 2011

Guitarist Marc Ducret returns with his second volume of Tower (Ayler 119), a musical commentary on Vladimir Nabokov's novel Ada. I reviewed the first volume on my Gapplegate Guitar and Bass Site (www. gapplegateguitar.blogspot.com) several months ago. I review volume two here to ensure that the news of this project reaches the bulk of my readers. ...

News: Radio

STLJN Audio Archive: Charles "Bobo" Shaw and Lester Bowie - Bugle Boy Bop

November 14, 2011

For this installment of the StLJN Audio Archive, we tune into Bugle Boy Bop, an album of duos recorded by drummer Charles “Bobo" Shaw and trumpeter Lester Bowie issued on the Muse label in 1983. The original LP (pictured) was recorded live at saxophonist Sam Rivers' NYC loft venue Studio Rivbea on February 5, 1977, with ...

News: Recording

Roy Ayers: Soul Vibes

November 14, 2011

Back in the early 1970s, Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke, Tony Williams and John McLaughlin leveraged Miles Davis' new electric approach to jazz and created different streams of jazz-rock fusion. At the same time, vibraphonist Roy Ayers went off in a separate direction—pioneering electronic jazz-funk, which Herbie Hancock would build on with Headhunters in 1973. This Thursday, ...

News: Radio

Neil Cowley Trio - Radio Silence (2011)

November 14, 2011

As the poignant, expressive piano voice behind both of Adele's albums, Neil Cowley has a sound that seems immediately familiar. Yet he doesn't simply rely on that famous association to push along Radio Silence. As often as he performs with a similarly recognizable delightful grace (as on the title track and the “Portal"), Cowley also displays ...

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News: Recording

Ivo Perelman - The Hour of the Star (Leo Records, 2011)

November 14, 2011

South American saxophonist Perelman has been a fixture on the free jazz scene for decades now, recording albums in a variety of musical combinations for a variety of record labels. This is the best one of his I have heard, he is in rare form and the band is absolutely stellar: Matthew Shipp on piano, Joe ...