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News: Performance / Tour

Jazz Singer Samantha Farrell Performing at Bond Lounge in Boston on Wednesday, August 24

August 24, 2011

Rising star Samantha Farrell has a return engagement at BOND Lounge at Boston Langham Hotel on Wednesday, August 24, 2011 from 7:00-10:00 p.m. The singer/songwriter, originally from Boston and now living in Los Angeles, has been described by Ben Evans of the Huffington Post as possessing “a liquor-honey voice, deft guitar work and slightly melancholic tones ...

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News: Recording

Roland Hanna - Colors from a Giant's Kit (2011)

August 24, 2011

Why wasn't Roland Hanna, a first-rate piano improviser and brilliant accompanist, more famous? Newly unearthed sessions for the IPO Recordings release Colors From a Giant's Kit, again first-rate, again brilliant, don't do anything to solve the riddle. You hear Bud Powell, perhaps the most obvious influence here, in Hanna's restless complexity. You hear Tommy Flanagan, in ...

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News: Recording

John Hiatt - Dirty Jeans and Mudslide Hymn (2011)

August 24, 2011

Productive and consistently good are two attributes that don't usually go together in the record making business, but it's been John Hiatt's hallmark for a while, now. Particularly at the start of the new century, from Crossing Muddy Waters (2000) on, Hiatt has made a shiny fresh disc of new tunes every year or so and ...

News: Opinion

Why Labels Insist on Drib-Drab Layoffs...

August 24, 2011

August 12th: Island Def Jam cuts more than 30 in a Friday layoff round. Rumors of cuts at Universal Music Group UK soon surface. August 16th: Sony Music Entertainment lets more than 20 go. August 19th: Warner Music Group slots 'turnaround specialist' Stephen Cooper as CEO. ...and that's just in the last few days! But why ...

News: Opinion

Welcome to HMV, Your Technology Superstore...

August 24, 2011

It's sad: if you want your music retailer to survive, it probably helps to sell less music. This is a diversification process that started years ago, but the disastrous plunge in CDs is causing drastic product shifts at larger retailers like HMV (and even indie shops). In the latest stab at survival, HMV is nowopening 150 ...

News: Music Industry

PledgeMusic Scores Top 10 Fan Funded Hit

August 23, 2011

(UPDATED) The Charlie Simpson album 'Young Pilgrim,' currently at number 6 on the UK album charts, has become the first release funded through PledgeMusic's direct-to-fan platform to crack the UK Top Ten. The achievement comes despite release stock being destroyed in the recent Sony PIAS warehouse fire. 500 fans generated the funds to record the new ...

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News: Recording

Barry Harris: Luminescence!

August 23, 2011

In April 1967, pianist Barry Harris assembled a magical sextet for what would turn out to be one of his most exciting record dates. The album for Prestige was called Luminescence! and it featured trombonist Slide Hampton, tenor saxophonist Junior Cook, baritone saxophonist Pepper Adams, bassist Bob Cranshaw and drummer Lennie McBrowne, with Harris on piano. ...

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News: Performance / Tour

String Cheese Incident Fall Tour

August 23, 2011

THE STRING CHEESE INCIDENT HIT THE ROAD IN NOVEMBER FOR “Roots Run Deep 2011" FALL TOUR String Cheese Incident The String Cheese Incident have announced their return to the road this fall. “After several years away from life on the road, we are really excited to finally get back on the bus and bring an Incident ...

News: Performance / Tour

Baaba Maal: Speaking Tour

August 23, 2011

BAABA MAAL BRINGS TALES FROM THE SAHEL TO THE U.S. THIS OCTOBER; SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS ON ISSUES FACING AFRICA AND BEYOND This October, Baaba Maal will be coming to the US to headline a series of speaking dates moderated by renowned music journalist and author Chris Salewicz (The Sunday Times, the Independent, Bob Marley: The Untold Story). ...

News: Video / DVD

JFJO: 'The Burning' Video

August 23, 2011

LATEST CLIP FROM OUTSTANDING NEW ALBUM Tulsa's finest, Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey are about to embark on an extensive Fall Tour with special guests horn wizards Peter Apfelbaum and Mark Southerland (and later in the tour, Steven Bernstein) and have offered up another sample of the intricate, engaging work inside their latest album, The Race Riot ...