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News: Music Industry

Adonis Puentes Voice of Orestes Vilat's Latin Grammy Nominated Album 'It's About Time'

October 7, 2009

Cuban-Canadian, singer-songwriter Adonis Puentes is the lead vocalist on Master Percussionist Orestes Vilat's album It's About Time, recently nominated for a Latin Grammy Award in the category of BEST TRADITIONAL TROPICAL ALBUM. The milestone 10th Annual Latin GRAMMY Awards will be presented Nov. 5 at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas. This is thrilling ...

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News: Recording

"You Look Like a Movie Star, and I Believe I'm Lucky--Spending Time with You."

October 7, 2009

The new CD Pretty by Whitman Rinaldo has great songs and playful lyrics, in the vein the Kinks, U2, Beatles and UB40. The Northern Virginia/ Washington DC guitarist's CD has been released under the CreateSpace record label. The title track, “Pretty," is a Beatlesque song dedicated to his late mother Mary Anne Rinaldo Her face is ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Latin Jazz Trombonist Luis Bonilla at South Orange Performing Arts Center

October 7, 2009

South Orange Peforming Arts Center (SOPAC) Welcomes Luis Bonilla, Afro-Cuban Latin Jazz. Tuesday, October 20 at 7:30pm Tickets: $25, $15, $8 Contact SOPAC 973.313.ARTS Jazz 'n the Hall Presented by Seton Hall Arts Council, Grammy-winning Afro-Cuban/Latin Jazz trombonist, composer and bandleader, Luis Bonilla, explodes the usual musical structures of both ...

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News: Recording

Classic Artie Shaw Bluebird and Victor Sessions

October 7, 2009

When Franklin Cohen, the principal clarinetist of the Cleveland Orchestra, was to be featured playing Mr. Shaw's Concerto for Clarinet, he listened to Mr. Shaw's recording of the work and said he found his playing unbelievable. “Shaw is the greatest player I ever heard," he said. “It's hard to play the way he plays. He makes ...

News: Performance / Tour

Marsalis Berklee Jams Continues with Dafnis Prieto Si O Si Quartet

October 7, 2009

The special guest for the latest Marsalis Berklee Jams is the Dafnis Prieto Si o Si Quartet, led by Cuban-born drummer, composer, and two-time Grammy nominee Prieto. The band's new album, Live at Jazz Standard, is set to be released next month, and on October 14 and 15 the Si o Si Quartet will be at ...

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News: Award / Grant

Charlie Haden to Receive a Lifetime Achievement Award

October 7, 2009

On Saturday evening October 24 at 8:00 p.m., Juan Alderete, Thomas Pridgen and Omar Rodriguez-Lopez of The Mars Volta will perform at a concert at Hollywood's Key Club which will include a presentation of Bass Player magazine's Lifetime Achievement Awards to jazz legend Charlie Haden and R&B legend Rocco Prestia. Haden (in duo with pianist Alan ...

News: Performance / Tour

Blood, Sweat, and Tears at the Berklee Performance Center

October 7, 2009

Blood, Sweat & Tears, one of the greatest horn bands in popular music, will perform Thursday, October 15, at 7:30 p.m., at the Berklee Performance Center, 136 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston. All ticket sales from the concert will fund the Elsie Monica Colomby Scholarship at Berklee, an award named after BS&T founder Bobby Colomby's mother, who was ...

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News: Interview

Interview: Sonny Rollins (Part 1)

October 7, 2009

To truly understand Sonny Rollins, you need to know something about Westerns. The simple ones from the 1930s that weren't big productions and didn't have elaborate musical scores. Just terse dialogue, tough looks and lots of justice. Sonny loves them. He grew up in Harlem during the Depression and regularly tuned into Westerns on the family ...

News: Music Industry

Is Streaming Bad for the Music Industry?

October 7, 2009

First it was, “Fans want to feel it." Then it was, “Fans want to own it." Now it's, “Why own when I can save?" One of the unforeseen impacts of the global economic downturn on the music industry is the accelerated rate of consumers' adoption of streaming music... And this means trouble for the already wounded ...

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News: Recording

New Ian Wilson Album "Double Trio" Just Released

October 7, 2009

An exciting and imaginative new large-scale work from Irish composer Ian Wilson on Ireland's Diatribe label is a cunning mix of jazz and classical music, resulting in a unique piece making the best of both worlds. 'Double Trio' is written for three improvisers playing saxophone, double bass and drums and three classical musicians playing violin, vibraphone ...