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News: Recording

Brent Canter - Urgency of Now (2011)

August 11, 2011

With a tone resembling Kurt Rosenwinkel's but with the soft touch of Jim Hall, Brent Canter's soulful maneuverings display the lessons he learned first hand from Kenny Burrell. And by the way, who won this year's ASCAP Young Jazz Composer Award? That's right, Brent Canter. The L.A. native who attended UCLA on a music scholarship (where ...

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News: Recording

Bill Frisell - Unspeakable (2005)

August 11, 2011

By Mark Saleski Big ears: usually a none-too-nice description of some poor kid on the elementary school playground. In the jazz world, “big ears" is a good thing. The musician with big ears has an advantage when responding to band mates and improvising against them. The big ears concept can also be extended to a musician's ...

News: Trends

Indies Now Have the Largest Album Marketshare...

August 11, 2011

Did indie marketshare just multiply—overnight? And, trump every major label in the process? According to A2IM, the answer is definitely yes, thanks to a successful US-based recategorization by Soundscan. “Soundscan finally revamped their analysis by adding marketshare breakdown by label ownership," an A2IM representative told Digital Music News today. “It reveals that independent labels collectively lead ...

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News: Recording

Daniel Bennett's "Peace and Stability Among Bears:" Small-Group Musical Tapestry

August 11, 2011

Daniel Bennett writes music that winds out in long, permutat- ing phrases. His Peace and Stability Among Bears (Bennett Alliance 009) is a CD-length sample of that music in all its originality. The Daniel Bennett Group (Bennett, alto, flute, clarinet; Chris Hersch, electric guitar; Jason Davis, acoustic bass; and Rick Landwehr, drums) takes over your music ...

News: Performance / Tour

The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Jazz, August 12-18

August 11, 2011

A short version this week which in no way reflects the local jazz scene, just my time which will largely be out of town this coming week. So I can let you know what I will miss.... Highlights This Week This weekend (8-12-13), I'll miss the Atlantis Quartet, which tends to play at the Artists Quarter ...

News: Performance / Tour

New Music Circle Announces 2011-12 Season Schedule

August 11, 2011

New Music Circle has announced their 2011-12 season schedule, confirming preview information released earlier this summer and covered by StLJN here. To reiterate the bottom line of that post, “it looks to a very impressive season, balancing improvised music and free jazz, intermedia performances, and contemporary composed music," and now all the particulars have been finalized. ...

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News: Recording

Craig Taborn - Junk Magic (2004)

August 10, 2011

by Tom Johnson Another slab of envelope-pushing jazz from Craig Taborn, one that relies heavily on the strong improvisatory skills of the band backing his keyboards and piano. The result is a slightly more ambient atmosphere than one would normally associate with Taborn, but it does not come across feeling foreign or forced, possibly due to ...

News: Music Industry

Century Media Pulls All Labels from Spotify to 'Protect Artists'

August 10, 2011

Heavy metal and hardcore label group Century Media has pulled all its labels from Spotify, according to the company, “to protect the interests of their artists". Labels include Century Media and associated labels InsideOutMusic, Superballmusic, Ain't no Grave Records, Hollywood Waste and People Like You. “Spotify in its present shape and form isn't the way forward," ...

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News: Recording

Johnny Richards: Kiss Her Goodbye

August 10, 2011

In the summer of 1958, Johnny Richards took his orchestra into a Warner Bros. studio in New York to record the soundtrack for a low-budget film that was being shot in Cuba. The movie was Kiss Her Goodbye, starring Elaine Stritch as a young woman who loses her sanity. Richards asked David Allyn to sing the ...

News: Career

Executive Changes: Orchard, Blue Note, Sony, RIAA

August 10, 2011

The Orchard has named Peter McCarthy SVP of Marketing. McCarthy was formerly of Random House. Producer and musician Don Was has been named Chief Creative Officer of EMI's Blue Note Records label. The RIAA has named Cary Sherman its Chairman & CEO, effective September 1st as Mitch Bainwol exits. Sherman has served as RIAA President since ...