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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 ...
David Sanborn: Closer
by Mark Sabbatini
David Sanborn may never again pack the wallop of his early solo career in the 1970s and '80s, but he's still a strong draw for many serious fusion fans and usually demonstrates enough innovation to keep things at least interesting.Closer continues revisiting his early career styles in the vein of 2003's Timeagain, bringing the ...
Report from CES: A Future Studded with Rhinestones
by Mark Sabbatini
I have traveled into tomorrow. It looks a like lot today, with decorative rhinestones. No radical leaps in the digital music world appear to be coming soon if the 2005 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is any indication. Increasing numbers of companies hoping to cash in on the iPod's success are offering their ...
Soweto Kinch: Soweto Kinch: Conversations With The Unseen
by Mark Sabbatini
The journey from disdain to serious respect takes about twenty seconds. It just requires two minutes to get there.Soweto Kinch opens Conversations With The Unseen with a hip-hop “welcome to the session" rap that might trick new listeners (guilty) into thinking a bunch of self-hyping doo-wop lies ahead. But the alto saxophonist literally blows ...
The New Talent Jazz Orchestra: The Sound Of New York Jazz Underground
by Mark Sabbatini
The New Talent Jazz Orchestra The Sound Of New York Jazz Underground Fresh Sound New Talent 2004 Modern jazz fans could throw darts at a board listing Fresh Sound New Talent albums and probably hit a winner nine times out of ten. So leave it to this label ...
Jake Langley: Diggin' In
by Mark Sabbatini
Sometimes it's nice to get exactly what you expect after reading the cover, no more or less. Guitarist Jake Langley's Diggin' In features organist Joey DeFrancesco and drummer Terry Clarke playing mostly standards in a Wes Montgomery vein. Learning that much by reading the CD cover suggests a contemporary Lee Ritenour-style treatment with enough ...
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