Results for "AAJ Staff"

VibeDeck Adds Direct-to-Fan Music Sales on Youtube

August 16, 2011

VibeDeck, a direct-to-fan ecommerce platform for music, has added a YouTube integration to go along with its SoundCloud and Facebook integrations. This is a nice extension of a service that has focused on keeping it simple and keeping it free. Selling Music on YouTube with VibeDeck— Hypebot sponsor VibeDeck's free ecommerce platform continues to develop by ...

UK Vinyl Record Sales Jump 55% so Far This Year, U.S. Vinyl Sales up 37%

August 16, 2011

(UPDATED) Sales of vinyl records totalled 168,296 units for the first half of 2011, according to new data released today by Retail Gazette. That's a 55% rise compared to the first six months of 2010. Radiohead's King of Limbs was the most popular vinyl album release in the last six months of 2011 for the format ...

Restaurant Week Boston is Here!

August 16, 2011

Restaurant Week Boston—one of the most popular culinary occasions in New England—kicks off on August 14-19 and August 21-26 at dozens of great restaurants throughout greater Boston. The semi-annual event, held for two weeks each March and August, is brought to you by the Greater Boston Convention & Visitors Bureau (GBCVB) and American Express. In addition ...

Untempered Ensemble - Untempered Ensemble (2011)

August 16, 2011

Bill Cole, a multicultural multi-instrumentalist, is one of the guys at the top of the hierarchy in the improvised music scene, having been at it in earnest since at least the late 70s. Earlier this year I marveled at his mastery of Eastern reed instruments in his one-on-one with violinist Billy Bang, in what proved to ...

William Parker - Solo Bass/Crumbling in the Shadows is Fraulein Miller's Stale Cake (Centering/Aum Fidelity, 2011)

August 16, 2011

William Parker is one of the premier bassists of modern jazz, and this special boxed set features him in a lengthy series of unaccompanied improvisations. Upright, acoustic bass must be one of the most difficult instruments to play solo, demanding a level of physicality and dexterity to keep the music moving forward. Parker demonstrates total command ...

Nicole Mitchell's "Awakening": Flautist on Top

August 16, 2011

In case we need proof, Nicole Mitchell's Awakening (Delmark 599) shows us that Ms. Mitchell has become one of the premier flute players today. It's a swinging quartet date with well-chosen players, some of Chicago's very best. And it's about as close to straight-ahead as you are likely to hear from Nicole. Now don't make the ...

STLJN Audio Archive: Quartette Tres Bien - Boss Tres Bien

August 15, 2011

Today's Audio Archive post features the Quartette Tres Bien's debut recording for a national label, and comes to us via the blog Soundological Investimigations. QTB were one of the better known groups of St. Louis' Gaslight Square era, and were sometimes compared with Ramsey Lewis, the Three Sounds, and other piano-based groups playing groove-oriented music. The ...

The Jazz Session #301: Jamie Saft

August 15, 2011

7 Easy Steps to Teaching Music Lessons Online

August 15, 2011

When I was asked to write this article, it gave me the final impetus I needed to grow my teaching business. In recent months, several of my students have moved interstate and some requested that I teach them online. I was hesitant because, as a singing and piano teacher, I wasn't really sure how I was ...

David S. Ware - Live in the World (2005)

August 15, 2011

By Mark Saleski There's this notion in the world of sculpture that the artist is merely freeing the shape locked within the raw source material. This always seemed like a great way to describe the mystery of a particular piece of abstract art. The artist begins with a big chunk of rock and starts to chisel, ...