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News: Performance / Tour

Rickie Lee Jones Adds Dates

January 11, 2010

RICKIE LEE JONES ADDS FEBRUARY TOUR DATES IN SUPPORT OF BALM IN GILEAD Rickie Lee Jones Rickie Lee Jones has added additional tour dates in February in support of her recently released album Balm in Gilead. The tour includes stops in Chicago, Seattle and Portland, and the set will feature songs from the new ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Bela Fleck: Africa Project Tour

January 11, 2010

BELA FLECK TO TOUR IN SUPPORT OF THROW DOWN YOUR HEART: THE AFRICA SESSIONS PART 2 Bela Fleck Banjo virtuoso Bela Fleck is honored to continue exploring the instrument's roots in 2010 with the help of Bassekouye Kouyate, Anania Ngolia and John Kitime during the 33-city tour, Africa Project: Collaborations with Amazing African Musicians. ...

News: Performance / Tour

Winter Jazzfest

January 11, 2010

If you are puzzling over the course jazz is taking in the second decade of the new century, this would be a good weekend to be in New York at the Winter Jazzfest. The event is packed with young artists making waves that excite fans their ages and younger, and frustrate many older listeners who have ...

News: Technology

Is iTunes Transitioning to the Cloud?

January 11, 2010

Is iTunes slowly transitioning from an application that has to be downloaded to a web based storefront? In November, iTunes launched the web based iTunes preview and now they've added song previews to the site. Apple is using Quicktime to offer song samples encoded at 44.1 AAC 300+ kbits per second. For now at least, you ...

News: Music Industry

Growth in Digital Music Sales Slows

January 11, 2010

An analysis by Billboard's Glenn Peoples of SoundScan data showed that growth in digital music sales is slowing after three years of steady gains. “From 2006 - 2008, annual sales of digital tracks rose between 225 million and 229 million units. In 2009, unit growth fell to 90 million. A similar but less drastic trend is ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Loudon Wainwright III Tour

January 11, 2010

LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III TO TOUR IN SUPPORT OF HIGH WIDE AND HANDSOME: THE CHARLIE POOLE PROJECT Loudon Wainwright III Fresh from his Best Traditional Folk Album Grammy nomination for High Wide and Handsome: The Charlie Poole Project (2nd Story Sound Records), Loudon Wainwright III will tour throughout 2010 to support the highly acclaimed two-CD ...

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News: Recording

New Zappa Live Disc: Philly '76

January 11, 2010

VAULTERNATIVE RECORDS RELEASES FRANK ZAPPA'S DOUBLE CD CONCERT SET PHILLY '76 Frank Zappa On December 21, which would have been Frank Zappa's 69th birthday, Vaulternative Records released Philly '76, a double CD concert recording. The new release continues the Zappa Family Trust's mission to celebrate and protect the legacy of Frank Zappa. Recorded October 29, 1976, ...

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News: Award / Grant

ASCAP Adventurous Programming Awards to be Presented at 2010 Chamber Music America Conference

January 11, 2010

New York, NY, January 11, 2010: The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) will recognize nine chamber music and jazz ensembles, festivals and presenters for their adventurous programming at the annual Chamber Music America (CMA) National Conference on January 17, 2010. The ASCAP Adventurous Programming Awards have been presented for the past 23 years ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Disco Biscuits: Winter/Spring Tour

January 11, 2010

DISCO BISCUITS ANNOUNCE WINTER/SPRING TOUR DATES The Disco Biscuits Fresh off a spectacular five-night run of shows in New York's Times Square, including a legendary New Year's Eve blowout, The Disco Biscuits will be hitting the road throughout February, March and April. The tour will take the band up and down the East Coast for three ...

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News: Recording

Herb Pomeroy: A Splendored Gig

January 11, 2010

Before he became an educator at Boston's Berklee School of Music, trumpeter Herb Pomeroy briefly led a big band in the late 1950s. The band had a solid, swinging sound, like a steam locomotive going at full tilt. While Maynard Ferguson's band during this period was about the sonic impact of the brass section and frenzied ...