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John Escreet - Exception to the Rule (Criss Cross, 2011)

November 5, 2011

British expatriate pianist and composer John Escreet has made quite a name for himself as a leader and a sideman, recording for Davis Binney's Mythology Records and also the Dutch Criss Cross label. On this album he takes a shifting approach to the jazz paradigm, adding spots of electronics and breaking up his longer improvisations with ...

Hillary Clinton Says Anti-Piracy and Internet Freedoms Are "Mutually Consistent..."

November 5, 2011

Can you clamp down on piracy, without clamping down on free speech and internet freedoms? In a recent letter sent to Representative Howard Berman (D-California), Secretary of State Hilary Rodham Clinton offered her strong support, while underscoring that “internet freedoms" and “intellectual property protections" were “mutually consistent." Berman is a co-sponsor of the tough Stop Online ...

Opus 5 Release New CD on Criss Cross Jazz

November 4, 2011

Introducing Opus 5 Seamus Blake (Ts) Alex Sipiagin (Tp / Flh) David Kikoski (P / Fender Rhodes) Boris Kozlov (B) Donald Edwards (D) An empathetic power of five is at work in the collaborative project known as Opus 5, working in the long shadow of the great vintage quintets, ala Blakey and pre-electric Miles Davis. On ...

Sinatra: Moonlight in Vermont

November 4, 2011

Benny Golson on the Value of an Interview

November 4, 2011

In our ongoing series of dialogues with artists on their expectations of music critics & journalists, and the publications they write for, NEA Jazz Master Benny Golson—one of the more thoughtful people in this music—weighed in with two essays. Here is the second of Benny's two erudite contributions to the dialogue. The Value Of An Interview ...

Talking Heads: Chronology DVD

November 4, 2011

CAREER-SPANNING DVD OUT NOVEMBER 21 Eagle Rock Entertainment will release a career-spanning Talking Heads DVD, Chronology, on November 21. Beautifully put-together with classic performances and interviews, the viewer gets to see the transition from the early three-piece days (singer/songwriter/guitarist David Byrne, bassist Tina Weymouth and drummer Chris Frantz in 1975) to a quartet (keyboardist/guitarist Jerry Harrison ...

Ani Difranco: New Album

November 4, 2011

WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON? OUT JANUARY 17 Singer/songwriter/guitarist Ani DiFranco has announced the upcoming release of her eagerly awaited new album. Which Side Are You On? arrives via the Grammy-winning artist's own Righteous Babe Records on January 17, 2012. Which Side Are You On? marks DiFranco's first studio album in more than three years. The ...

EMI and Echonest Create First Major Label "Open Sandbox" for Music Apps

November 4, 2011

In an unusual collaboration for a large music rightsholder, EMI and The Echo Nest are working together to put thousands of EMI controlled songs, videos and other music-related content to app developers. This tie-up with The Echo Nest is part of EMI Music's OpenEMI initiative to foster digital innovation and streamline music licensing. The Echo Nest ...

Rez Abbasi's Invocation -- Suno Suno (2011)

November 4, 2011

There's a trance-like euphoria surrounding this emotional, at times indescribably spiritual endeavor. Rez Abbasi, leading a group that also includes Rudresh Mahanthappa and Vijay Iyer, found inspiration for Suno Suno from Pakistani Qawwali, a devotional Sufi music that was popularized in the West by singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. As with traditional gospel music, Qawwali is ...

Japanese Jazz Pianist Hiromi Electrifies at the Annenberg Center

November 4, 2011

Philadelphia, PA: The Annenberg Center continues its thrilling 40th Anniversary Season with the debut of Japanese jazz prodigy Hiromi, November 12, 2011 at 8 PM. With a penchant for taking the stage in a “blow-your-hair-back display of drama and athleticism," Hiromi's infectious and brazen energy defies the conventional parameters of jazz and pushes musicianship and composition ...