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Julie Tippetts: Didn't You Used To Be Julie Driscoll?
by Duncan Heining
The respect in which Julie Tippetts is held by her fellow musicians and fans is truly heartening--and truly deserved. Back in the late sixties, then Julie Driscoll, she gave up a very different career trajectory in music, one that had begun with Steampacket and continued with Brian Auger & The Trinity, to follow a journey characterised ...
Sonny Rollins: Holding the Stage: Road Shows Vol. 4
by Chris M. Slawecki
At this point in his long and storied career, tenor saxman Sonny Rollins is probably incapable of releasing genuinely bad music (which isn't as obvious a statement as it may seem if, for example, you've tried to listen to Bob Dylan's Shadows in the Night Sinatra homage). Still, some sets are better than others, and Sonny ...
From Microtones to Mauro to MFSB
by Chris M. Slawecki
Dave Fiuczynski Flam! Blam! Pan-Asian Microjam! RareNoise Records 2016 Simultaneously dedicated to 20th century classical composer Olivier Messiaen and legendary rap and hip-hop producer J Dilla, Flam! Blam! Pan-Asian Microjam! is a musical adventurer's dream and a purist's nightmare. But anything more conventional from conceptualist, composer and guitarist ...
Duane Allman at 70: A Reflection
by Alan Bryson
The actor James Dean once said, If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live after he's died, then maybe he was a great man." James Dean is perhaps the charter member of a modern subset of such individuals who, due to modern technology, live on in the consciousness of ...
Things We Like: Ottobre 2016
by AAJ Staff
Finito il mese di ottobre, riprendiamo la vecchia rubrica Things We Like," dove, un po' per passione e un po' per gioco, descriviamo le cose (musicali e non) che ci rimarranno impresse del mese appena trascorso. Alberto Bazzurro Ottobre, mese pre-referendario per eccellenza (non quel referendum...), si porta generalmente appresso una caterva ...
"…that wild mercury sound." The Significance of Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize
by C. Michael Bailey
During high school and college, I got interested in the Nobel Prizes. At the time, I was not interest in all of them: only the prize for Literature. I have been a reading geek as long as I have been a music geek and I have always mixed the two passions liberally. In the early 20th ...
Bill Frisell's "Guitar in the Space Age" at the Blue Note
by Peter Jurew
Bill FrisellBlue Note New York, NY October 4, 2016 It's one month before what is shaping up to be an epochal presidential election; the national mood is tense, nerves are fraying, anxiety is high. And just in the nick of time, here comes guitarist Bill Frisell to save our sanity! He's ...
Bob Dylan Pandora Station Adds Spike 1825%
After Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize For Literature on Thursday, his week over week new station adds on Pandora spiked 1825%. Dylan streams on Spotify jumped 512%. Some individual track increases: It Ain’t Me Babe is up 166,833% Went To See The Gypsy is up 4,533% Mama, You Been On My Mind is up 2,566% Hard ...
Dylan Spotify Streams Jump 512% After Nobel Announcement
After yesterday's announcement that Bob Dylan had been awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature, his streams increased 512% on Spotify globally. The most listened-to song in reaction to the news was Like a Rolling Stone," which saw streams increase by 258%. Even President Obama reacted to the award: Congratulations to one of my favorite poets, Bob ...
"Their technologies don't and won't last. Our art - if we do it right - will." - T Bone Burnett's AmericanaFest Keynote
Bashing Spotify and YouTube is easy. But T Bone Burnett did much more than that during his keynote address given at AmericanaFest, the Americana Music Festival & Conference last week in Nashville. He issued a call to arms, while reminding his fellow creators that art is a holy pursuit." T Bone Burnett's keynote address given at AmericanaFest, ...


