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News: Music Industry

Bjork to 'Takeover' eMusic

October 11, 2011

This summer eMusic debuted eMusic Radio featuring staff curated streaming music channels. Now Bjork is helping eMusic launch their new Artist Takeover program featuring Bjork's editorial selections in celebration of the release of her Biophilia album Bjork's new album, Biophilia, caught a lot of attention earlier this year for her decision to release mobile apps for ...

News: Recording

Allen Lowe's Three-CD Gigantisaurus "Blues and the Empirical Truth"

October 11, 2011

Allen Lowe is a provocative, original cat. He has strong ideas about the music, its history and his place in it. Now up in Portland, Maine, spending time working on some comprehensive musical anthologies and no doubt occupying more than one brown study thinking about it all, he re-emerges with a heady three-full-CD set devoted to ...

News: Performance / Tour

Next to Take the Exodus to Jazz Stage ... Contemporary Jazz Artist Lao Tizer's Tizer with Karen Briggs

October 10, 2011

Continuing the diverse lineup of Exodus to Jazz, contemporary jazz keyboardist Lao Tizer with his band TIZER, joined by international violin star Karen Briggs, will hit the ETJ stage on October 22nd at 8:00 pm at the Lutheran Church of the Reformation. Lao Tizer is among an group of instrumentalists who are playing for diverse audiences ...

News: Performance / Tour

Pablo Ablanedo Octet Performs at Regattabar on Tuesday, October 11

October 9, 2011

Argentinean composer and pianist Pablo Ablanedo and his octet perform at the Regattabar Jazz Club at the Charles Hotel in Harvard Square, Cambridge, on Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets to the show are $15 and can be purchased online. Ablanedo has a distinctive sound that is influenced by his Argentinian roots and by ...

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News: Recording

Gordon Grdina, Gary Peacock and Paul Motian - Think Like the Waves (2006)

October 10, 2011

By Mark Saleski In his essay, “Listening To Music," composer John Cage offers a possible definition of music and a framework for its evaluation: “I have talked with several musicians who have seriously claimed that music is not made of sound, but rather of the relationships of the sounds, and that in order to appreciate it ...

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News: Recording

John Zorn - At the Gates of Paradise (Tzadik, 2011)

October 9, 2011

When I was in college I had to take one humanities class to fulfill a requirement for graduation. I took a class on the visionary poet and engraver William Blake. I found it fascinating, although I admit that some of his more complex later works were a bit beyond me. Blake's work has had an effect ...

News: Event

Music for Lifelong Achievement (MFLA) Seeking Musical Instruments, Cash Donations

October 10, 2011

Once again this fall, Music for Lifelong Achievement (MFLA) will be seeking donations of musical instruments for its annual drive, which will take place from Monday, October 17 through Sunday, November 20. MFLA is a not-for-profit organization based at the Sheldon Concert Hall in St. Louis that donates used and new musical instruments to school and ...

News: Recording

MAXJAZZ to Release David Budway's a New Kiss on Tuesday, November 8

October 10, 2011

MAXJAZZ has set Tuesday, November 8 as the offical release date for A New Kiss, pianist David Budway's debut recording for the St. Louis-based independent label. A veteran performer and educator who plays classical and rock as well as jazz, Budway has played and/or recorded with many well-known musicians over the course of his career, including ...

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News: Recording

Chico Hamilton: Revelation

October 10, 2011

For whatever reason, drummer Chico Hamilton isn't taken seriously enough today. Nor is he celebrated nearly as often as he should be. My guess is that much has to do with his West Coast jazz lineage and that jazz heads don't view him in the same league as hard bop drivers or fusion bangers. Or perhaps ...

News: Festival

Voodoo Exp. to Reveal Set Times in Real Time on FB and Twitter

October 9, 2011

REVEAL WILL MIRROR ACTUAL SET TIMES FOR OCTOBER 28, 29 AND 30 IN NEW ORLEANS CITY PARK This year The Voodoo Experience will once again change things up with a weekend-long reveal of the 2011 set times via their social networks. In another first, Voodoo producers Rehage Entertainment have formed a unique partnership with Red Bull ...