Results for "Michael Ricci"

Angel City Art's Presents: Wadada Leo Smith's Golden Quartet in Hollywood

March 7, 2010

Well, Rocco's at it again and this time he is presenting Wadada Leo Smith's Golden Quartet in their first performance in LA since their Redcat performacne a couple of years ago.Quartet includes the high rising pianist Vijay Iyer, and veterans John Lindberg on bass and Pheeroan Aklaff on drums. There will also be a ...

Yes and Peter Frampton Tour

March 7, 2010

GRAMMY AWARD WINNERS YES & PETER FRAMPTON ANNOUNCE NATIONAL CO-HEADLINE SUMMER TOUR TO KICK OFF THIS JUNE Peter Frampton Two of the most influential and ground-breaking artists of the 1970s YES and Peter Frampton are reuniting for a twenty-five city national co-headline summer tour, which kicks-off in early June and runs through the middle ...

The Echo Nest Gets $500,000 Grant from National Science Foundation

March 7, 2010

Music recommendation platform The Echo Nest has been awarded a $500,000 Phase IIB SBIR grant from the National Science Foundation. Since 2005, The Echo Nest has been indexing and analyzing music fan activity across the web. The NSF-funded project, entitled “Automated Community and Sentiment Mining for Global Media Preference Understanding" will augment the company's existing “Fanalytics" ...

The State of the Internet

March 7, 2010

RIAA Tells Fans to Stop Nibbling

March 7, 2010

In a post on the RIAA blog, VP of Reaserach Joshua P. Friedlander titled “Nobody Stole The Pie“ argues that the decline in music sales is like the story of the same name by Sonia Levitin. In it the town of Little Digby annually bakes a giant lollyberry pie. When one year the celebrated pie is ...

Overheard at Billboard's Music and Money Symposium

March 7, 2010

Vevo Pres/CEO Rio Caraeff replaced L.A. Reid as the morning keynote. “Vevo creating new programming directly with brands and bands. 30 second music videos for new artists, brought to you by a brand." “When there's no money, people get smart" - Cynthia Sexton (EMI) Hot Topic chief music officer John Kirkpatrick: “We've almost completely moved ...

Chris Berry Trio with Kimock | 03.01 | Ukiah

March 7, 2010

Words by: Zack Sampsel | Images by: Rob Burgess Chris Berry Trio with Steve Kimock :: 03.01.10 :: Ukiah Brewing Company :: Ukiah, CA Kimock & Berry - CB3 :: 03.01 :: Ukiah, CA The Chris Berry Trio returned to the certified organic confines of the Ukiah Brewing Company once again, this time with guitar ...

Disney Pulls NY TV Signal on Eve of Oscar's

March 7, 2010

Walt Disney Co. silences WABC-TV for many New York City-area viewers on the eve of the Oscars, part of an ongoing dispute with Cablevision Systems Corp. over carriage fees. Potentially leaving millions of New York City-area homes unable to watch Sunday's Oscar telecast, Walt Disney Co. pulled its WABC-TV signal off Cablevision Systems Corp. at ...

Sharel Cassity - Relentless (Jazz Legacy Productions)

March 7, 2010

Despite the global proliferation of jazz, New York City remains the foremost proving ground for the music's practitioners. Making it in the Apple still ostensibly means making it on the world stage. Classically trained, with diplomas from both the New School and Julliard, saxophonist Sharel Cassity's credentials are not uncommon to the caliber of player competing ...

STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Spotlight on Jamie Cullum

March 7, 2010

This week, let's take a look at three clips featuring pianist and singer Jamie Cullum, who will be in St. Louis next Sunday, March 14 to perform at the Roberts Orpheum Theatre. Though he writes a lot of his own material, Cullum's performances and recordings also ...