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News: Technology

Musician Website Quick Fix #2: Lose the Intro Page

November 9, 2011

This quick fix is a matter of opinion, but in my opinion—I don't think Intro pages add much to a website's value and can actually work against you. Top 3 reasons why you should use an Intro page on your site: 1. You are promoting something in the short term, like a CD which is being ...

News: Trends

Digital Music Sales on Track to Rise 7% in 2011

November 9, 2011

Digital music revenues are on track to rise about 7% globally to $6.3 billion according to a new study be respected research firm Gartner. But revenues from declining CD sales are not expected to make up for the rise in digital revenue led by iTunes and the growing momentum of digital streaming services like Spotify and ...

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News: Performance / Tour

November 12 - Diane Schuur at Northshore Performing Arts Center

November 9, 2011

Two-time Grammy Award winner and one of contemporary jazz's leading vocalist/pianists, Diane Schuur brings her distinctive jazz styling to the Northshore Performing Arts Center (18125 92nd Ave. NE, Bothell). Schuur and her band will perform in concert Saturday, November 12 at 7:30 PM. A longtime disciple of Dinah Washington and other legendary jazz singers of the ...

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News: Recording

Pat Metheny - One Quiet Night (2003)

November 9, 2011

One night back in the late 1970s, me and my cousin Andy were playing a game of backgammon (cripes, that really was a long time ago ... I remember there was a Styx Grand Illusion poster on the wall and ... uh, anyway) ... he had this album playing on his turntable. The record itself had ...

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News: Recording

Rez Abbasi - Suno Suno (Enja, 2011)

November 9, 2011

Guitarist and composer Rez Abbasi has been developing a unique conception of the song form and improvisation that draws from a wide variety of influences, including Qawwali is a form of Sufi devotional music. Joining him on this album is a band consisting of: Rudresh Mahanthappa on alto saxophone, Vijay Iyer on piano, Johannes Weidenmuller on ...

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News: Recording

Curtis Fuller, "The Story of Cathy and Me," 2011

November 9, 2011

Mr. Curtis Fuller, a giant of the trombone, the hard-bopping master on countless sessions from the '50s on... He is still doing it, though not as energetically and not as consistently as in his prime. Hey, he is not a young man. And with age comes a kind of reflective wisdom that you can dig for ...

News: Interview

Interview: Jordi Pujol

November 8, 2011

Don't recognize the name? Jordi Pujol is the owner of Spain's Fresh Sound label. Since the 1990s, Fresh Sound has specialized in releasing American jazz albums from the 1950s that U.S. labels have all but ignored, overlooked or forgotten. In this regard, Fresh Sound has performed a heroic task, rescuing jazz's greatest decade from the dumb ...

News: Video / DVD

UMG Global Digital Chief Rob Wells Loves Spotify, Calls Pandora "Dumb" [video]

November 8, 2011

On a new episode of This Week In Music, Ian Rogers interviews Rob Wells, Universal Music Group's President of Global Digital Business. Wells was an early champion of Spotify and streaming services: “its incremental revenue not cannibalistic revenue." He sees them able to monetize younger fans and create scale to generate significant revenue. “They provide an ...

News: Recording

Tarfala Trio, "Syzygy": Live in Belgium, 2009

November 8, 2011

The Tarfala Trio is a hot avant trio commodity. It's Mats Gustafsson, tenor and alto fluteophone (?), Barry Guy, acoustic bass, and Raymond Strid on drums. You might well know Matt via his association with Brotzmann's Chicago Tentet. He is a blazing gamer and has big ears to shout or whisper as needed. Barry Guy is ...

News: Opinion

Big Mistake? Pandora Currently Has No Plans to Integrate into Facebook...

November 6, 2011

A Spotify-style Facebook integration is not on the roadmap for Pandora—and may never be—according to founder Tim Westergren. Instead, the company is pushing a strategy that prioritizes Pandora's homegrown social networking tools, while still enabling some push updates and connectivity options through Facebook, Twitter, and email. “We're going to watch how [those tools are] embraced and ...