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News: Recording

Carla Bley - Carla's Christmas Carols.

November 18, 2009

On November 3rd, ECM released its very first CD of Christmas music! Carla Bley, one of jazz's greatest arrangers, turns her attention this time to a delightful collection of traditional and non-traditional seasonal fare which she's titled: Carla's Christmas CarolsChristmas music has been an enthusiasm of Carla Bley's for decades, and the pieces she ...

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News: Recording

Tom Talbert: Bix, Duke, Fats

November 18, 2009

I tend to avoid tribute albums. Barring a handful of gems, among them Louis Armstrong's salutes to Fats Waller and W.C. Handy, most miss the mark because they try too hard to one-up or mimic the subject of their adulation. One of the rare exceptions is Tom Talbert's Bix, Duke, Fats. Recorded in 1956 for Atlantic ...

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News: Recording

Live and Living Music November 20 + CD Pick of the Week

November 18, 2009

Pianist-composer-double bassist John Funkhouser is a man of many talents. He teaches “ear training" at the Berklee College of Music in Boston and plays in several ensembles. He has worked with artists and ensembles as far-ranging as vocalist Luciana Souza, Mark Harvey's Aardvark Orchestra and the MIT Wind Ensemble. He and his Trio mates, ...

News: Technology

iTunes Gets More Linkable

November 18, 2009

Apple has changed the links generated on its iTunes store to be directed to a new iTunes Preview site which gives consumers the option of previewing music without launching the full iTunes application. Links to the iTunes Preview page can be grabbed via the store's “Copy Link" feature. Until know, if you didn't have iTunes installed ...

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News: Technology

Which Samartphone Should You Be Developing an App For? Think Again...

November 18, 2009

Worldwide Smartphone Sales to End Users in 3Q09 (Thousands of Units Company Sales Share (%) Sales Share (%) ...

News: Technology

Zenph Gets $10.7m for Musical Re-Performances

November 18, 2009

Badly done cover versions may soon become a thing of the past. Why am I not rejoicing? Zenph Sound Innovations has created a technology that turns music into data “to understand and precisely recreate musical performances" and secured $10.7 million to develop and promote it. The processes turns audio recordings into data sets. Zenph captures musical ...

News: Music Industry

Is It Possible for a Band to Sell out Anymore?

November 18, 2009

"While we might be irked that our favorite band has sold a song to VW or McDonald's, we can instantly decontextualize and remove that song from its annoying commercial counterpart. When we don't buy full albums anyway, when we don't care about album sequence (which is all about intention) or look at the band's artwork or ...

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News: Book / Magazine

Win the New Edition of Passman's "All You Need to Know About the Music Business"

November 18, 2009

Share your favorite music industry advice and win 1 of 3 copies of the updated edition of this industry bible. For nearly two decades Don Passman's All You Need to Know About the Music Business has been regarded as an essential guide to the music industry. Nw in its 7th edition, the book covers a wide ...

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News: Technology

M Music and Musicians: A New Magazine Launches in the Middle of the Recession

November 18, 2009

M Music & Musicians, a new multi-genre print music magazine, is set to to launch in January. In addition to traditional newsstand sales, M will be shipped with customer purchases made through major online musical gear retailer Sweetwater guaranteeing a built-in distribution of 160,000 starting with the first issue. M MUSIC & ...

News: Technology

U.S. Consumers Less Willing to Pay for Online News

November 18, 2009

Consumers are willing to pay about $5 per month to receive online news, but readers in the United States are less likely to pay up than their European counterparts, and a subscription model will not exactly be the newspaper industry's saving grace, according to a Monday report from the Boston Consulting Group (BCG). BCG interviewed 5,000 ...