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Two Siberians: Five Free Albums and a Live Video
by Mark Sabbatini
AUTHOR'S NOTE: AS OF MARCH 10 I HAVE BEEN INFORMED THE MP3 PART OF THIS SITE IS NOT FUNCTIONING. I AM DETERMINING IF THIS IS DELIBERATE. It's a good thing I don't speak Russian, or I'd be screaming “Are you nuts?" That might cause Two Siberians to remove the free copies ...
Yo Miles!: Live At The Fillmore - Oct. 21, 1999
by Mark Sabbatini
There's no definitive proof, but it seems safe assuming Henry Kaiser is the only professional musician to use the actual South Pole as a guitar slide. Kaiser, part of the Yo Miles! ensemble seeking to capture the trumpeter's 1970s improvisational spirit, achieved the feat a few years ago while trying to become the first ...
Art Blakey & Thelonious Monk: Atlantic Studio Sessions May 14-15, 1957
by Mark Sabbatini
Don't play this in the presence of anyone except a hardcore jazz fan unless you enjoy having people think you're insane. Insanity is sometimes defined as doing the same thing over and over, and expecting different results. So maybe it's best to spell out early what's in this collection of alternate and incomplete ...
Magnatune: Open Source Record Label
by Mark Sabbatini
Imagine wrecking your new Ferrari, but meeting your future spouse while walking to the repair shop. Sometimes pleasant surprises are possible even during complete disaster such as, hypothetically, a digital music fanatic whose entire collection is threatened by a hard drive crash. It possible that person takes a deep breath and, trying to ...
It's About Music.com: Jazz Sampler Albums 1 and 2
by Mark Sabbatini
Two clicks, two free albums. That's good marketing. Some labels charge for sample collections, others provide free excerpts and a few of the most generous offer full songs as free downloads. It's About Music.com stands out even among the latter category by posting several albums in various genres, including the two jazz collections, as ...
Transient: Over The River And Through The Woods
by Mark Sabbatini
It's one of the top 10 online albums of 2004, according to a co-founder of perhaps the Internet's largest source of free music. In the rapidly exploding world of public domain recordings, that seems as close to a Grammy as one gets. And like music scribes almost always finding fault with the real hardware, ...
Mark Williams: In The Beginning
by Mark Sabbatini
Mark Williams In the Beginning Self-released 2004 Try as one might, the age factor can never be overlooked on albums like this--and here the geeks at Apple Computer virtually pound listeners on the head with it. Guitarist Mark Williams, “12 years old" (that actually appears as ...
NFL Films Music: Selections from Autumn Thunder
by Mark Sabbatini
"From the 'Some Idiots Apparently Will Buy Anything' file, the NFL will be audio selling recordings of the conference championship games for replay on Apple iPods." ~ profootballtalk.com Great. I guess I'm an idiot. With the week of Super Bowl XXXIX here, Apple's iTunes Music Store is setting the mood with ...
Live Archive: Drop Trio
by Mark Sabbatini
It's late at night in a strange city, anyone's guess as to what's worth doing and cash is running low. But it's one of those rare occasions when luck strikes, as some promising riffs drift out from some obscure club that turns out to have no cover charge or drink minimum. Think of this ...
Hacking the Holidays: Obscure and Unusual Albums from Online Stores
by Mark Sabbatini
After a while, even Bob Rivers' Twisted Christmas series doesn't seem novel any longer. Holiday recordings are usually either safe albums designed to maximize annual sales to mainstream audiences or outlandish experiments designed to generate quick (if not lasting) sales through shock and/or wit. Finding quality artistry, or even stuff that's lousy because it ...
