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News: Special Offers

Product Sale! Meridian's F-80 Tabletop CD/DVD/iPod/Radio Nearly 40% off - Limited Supply

June 22, 2010

All About Jazz has teamed with AudoHigh.com to offer AAJ readers outstanding value on audiophile products. For our first collaboration, we're offering the Meridian F-80 tabletop CD/DVD/iPod/Radio at nearly 40% off. ORDER HERE Meridian's F-80 tabletop CD/DVD/iPod/Radio is a technological marvel. It combines unbelievable sound with Ferrari / Meridian styling. Available in a number of colors ...

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News: Recording

Lee Ritenour's New Album 6 String Theory Featuring 20 Guitar Greats Available June 29

June 22, 2010

On June 29th Concord Records/Monster Music will release legendary Grammy winning guitarist Lee Ritenour's new album 6 String Theory. The album marks Lee's 50th year playing the guitar and to celebrate he assembled a star-studded tribute featuring 20 of the greatest guitarists of our time including George Benson, BB King, Slash, John Scofield, Vince Gill, Keb'Mo, ...

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News: Interview

Randy Weston Interview - "African Rhythms" - Autobiography

June 21, 2010

Randy Weston - Tribute to James Reese/Uhuru Afrika. This conversation is part of the book/dvd project “Under your skin" which includes discussions with Ahmad Jamal, Angelique Kidjo, Melissa Auf der Maur, Chuck ...

News: Music Industry

Digital Music Sales to Outpace Physical by 2011

June 20, 2010

There's been a lot of talk about digital music sales outpacing those of physical recordings. Now there's a well researched study that sheds some light on when that will actually happen. PricewaterehouseCoopers Entertainment and Media Outlook for 2010-2014 projects that digital music sales will overtake physical in 2011. There you have it. It's very likely that ...

News: Music Industry

The Voice of Music

June 21, 2010

I began my jazz life rather innocently as a Listener: a child sitting close to a V-M (The Voice of Music, it said on the inside lid) three-speed phonograph. I can summon up the worn brown felt of the turntable, the pattern of the speaker grille. And as I listened to the record of the moment ...

News: Recording

Quickies: New Release Roundup 2010, Vol. 4 (Unhinged Edition)

June 20, 2010

The thrash-jazz music of Little Women is well off the wall.By PicoIt's time again to take a walk on the wide side. Anybody who plays that unpredictable, elaborate and passionate music called jazz has my eternal respect. If they play it in new and unconventional ways, well, that's usually a ...

News: Music Industry

Pawn Shops and the (Jazz) Underclasses

June 21, 2010

One measure of the way things have been going for the jazz underclasses and the working poor in general over the last 20 years is to look at what's happened to pawn shops.Pawn shops are like tidal wetlands. You take estuaries for granted until a weather catastrophe hits and your split-level gets washed out ...

News: Recording

Older People Buy More Albums. What Does This Mean for Musicians?

June 20, 2010

According to legendary producer David Foster “adults don't steal" because they “don't know how." In context, this quote from The Boston Globe is 100% accurate. Older people don't steal music like younger people do. Many of them don't know how, as Foster says, and those that do know how aren't really comfortable with the whole concept. ...

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News: Recording

Review: Jason Moran's "Ten"

June 19, 2010

June 15th, 2010 - IMN Update: (From The Village Voice) Jason Moran's New Jazz Testament By: K. Leander Williams Published: June 15, 2010 The jazz grind was much the same as it is today when Bandwagon, pianist Jason Moran's trio with bassist Tarus Mateen and drummer Nasheet Waits, formed in late 1999, spun out of ...

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News: Radio

The Jazz Session #179: Emilio Solla

June 21, 2010

Argentinian pianist Emilio Solla calls his band The Tango Jazz Conspiracy, but that's about the only genre label you'll find him using for his music and he's not even sure what “tango jazz" really means. On his album Bien Sur! (Fresh Sound, 2010), Solla is joined by A-list musicians such as Chris Cheek, Richie Barshay, Victor ...