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Monterey Jazz Festival Receives $300,000 Grant from James Irvine Foundation

October 7, 2011

Monterey, CA and San Francisco, CA—The Monterey Jazz Festival and the James Irvine Foundation have announced that Monterey Jazz Festival is the recipient of a $300,000 grant. The Monterey Jazz Festival's award is part of the James Irvine Foundation's $3.7 million in grants to 13 arts institutions on the California Central Coast. The organizations selected this ...

News: Interview

Interview: Brian Wilson on Smile

October 7, 2011

Last week I traveled to Los Angeles to spend time with Brian Wilson at his home in Beverly Hills. My interview with Brian is in today's Wall Street Journal (pick up a copy or go here if you're a subscriber). As the founding member of the Beach Boys and the musical wizard behind the group's most absorbing ...

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A Chat with Pink Floyd's Nick Mason

October 7, 2011

By Dennis Cook Pink Floyd's music is WAY beyond mere entertainment or distraction. It's a skeleton key to unlocking things that are hard to put into words, and thus something fans keep close to the breast, cherished for its real world value and depth of understanding of the human condition. To call the band influential sells ...

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News: Festival

Portland Jazz Fest: Branford, B. Frisell, Roy Haynes, C. Hunter

October 7, 2011

FEBRUARY 17-26, 2012 AT VARIOUS VENUES IN PORTLAND; TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW The 2012 Portland Jazz Festival will be held Friday, February 17 through Sunday, February 26 at venues throughout Portland. The 9th annual 11 day festival will include jazz education and outreach along with a series of concerts featuring an eclectic mix of internationally recognized and ...

News: Recording

B. Laswell Method of Defiance: New Remix Album

October 7, 2011

REMIX AND DUB VERSIONS OF TRACKS FROM JAHBULON & INCUNABULA FEAT. REMIXES FROM SCIENTIST, PREFUSE 73, MAD PROFESSOR AND MORE On October 11, Bill Laswell's MOD Technologies presents the brand new Method of Defiancerelease, Dub Arcanium Arcandrum. This new album offers remix and dub style versions of tracks that originally appeared on the 2010 Method Of ...

News: Technology

Ian Rogers on the Evolution of Web Distribution, a Mass of Niches and the Era of Trusted Brands

October 7, 2011

On Thursday afternoon, Topspin CEO Ian Rogers was a keynote speaker at Digital Music Forum West. His speech, which follows in its entirity, begins with a quick trip through the evolution of internet distribution and onto where we are now: the era of social distribtuion. Next, Rogers shares where he believes we're headed—a mass of niches ...

News: Technology

Rdio Goes Really, Really Free: Free Music, No Ads

October 7, 2011

Streaming music service Rdio today announced a new free service tier. The new tier and offers access to all the site's 12 million songs. Free users will see a green bar at the top of the screen that lets them know how much free music they have available for the month. As they listen to tracks, ...

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Vimeo Teams with Audiosocket, Free Music Archive for Video Music Store

October 7, 2011

Vimeo's recently launched Music Store provides free music for noncommercial videos, low-cost tracks ($1.99) for use on personal videos and commercially priced tracks ($98.00) for commercial use. It's a service that makes sense for Vimeo to add and it might make a handful of musicians better off though the profits are in the aggregation. Music Store ...

News: Festival

Pittsfield CityJazz Festival (October 7-20) Celebrates Live Jazz in Western Massachusetts

October 7, 2011

The 7th annual Pittsfield CityJazz Festival in Pittsfield, Massachusetts gets underway on Friday, October 7 and runs through Thursday, October 20, 2011 at various concert halls, schools and local restaurants in the Pittsfield area. Headlining this year's festival is the exciting jazz partnership of saxophone legend Phil Woods and rising jazz star Grace Kelly, who perform ...

News: Award / Grant

Grammy Award-Nominated Greats, Joshua Redman and Brad Mehldau Take the Stage in a One-Night Collaboration as the Annenberg Center Kicks Off Its 40th Anniversary Season

October 7, 2011

Philadelphia, PA: The Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts presents a night jam-packed with jazz, as prodigious tenor saxophonist, Joshua Redman and internationally-acclaimed jazz pianist, Brad Mehldau join forces for one unforgettable duo performance, October 14, 2011 at 7:30 PM. Melding their two adventurous, yet distinctive artistic voices, Redman and Mehldau's duo cuts the extraneous and ...