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When Bing Was King
As a music-loving teenager from Massapequa, Ray Osnato haunted antiques shops and the offices of music publishers in Manhattan looking for original band arrangements from the era he loved most the 1920s and 1930s, when the syncopated rhythms of jazz insinuated themselves into the previously staid sounds of society dance music. Some publishers “were rather amused ...
Backatown by Trombone Shorty
Backatown, the latest release from New Orleans brass prodigy Trombone Shorty (aka Troy Andrews,) takes the explosive musical milieu of New Orleans to a new level, bringing New Orleans jazz, funk and whatever else goes on down there into a sound he calls “supaphunkrock." The result is an intensely funky party album that manages to be ...
Dogfish Head Bitches Brew Honors Miles Davis
Dogfish Head Craft Brewery has announced the release of Bitches Brew to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the legendary jazz-funk-rock-fusion masterpiece Bitches Brew by jazz legend Miles Davis. Delawares Dogfish Head Craft Brewery has created its own Bitches Brew a bold, dark beer thats a fusion of three threads imperial stout and one thread honey beer ...
Oberg/ Thewes/ Griener - Lacy Pool (Hatology)
One measure of a composition's longevity is its relative receptiveness to reinterpretation. Steve Lacy's songbook was largely neglected during his lifetime, but the dearth of interpreters was more a function of a paucity of transcriptions than any reflection on rigidity or recalcitrance in his tunes. The German trio Lacy Pool proves conclusively the malleable properties of ...
Why Your Right to Sell Promo CDs Matters
This guest post is by Fred von Lohmann, the Senior Staff Attorney of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. On Monday, a federal court of appeals in Seattle will consider whether it is legal to resell “promo CDs." You've seen them, the CDs mailed out for free by record labels to industry insiders, reviewers, and radio stations, each ...
Value-Added Music Gets a Logo
Music industry trade group NARM has created a promotional icon and messaging program dubbed “music + more“ to support the sale of physical, digital and mobile music that contains value-added or enhanced content. An October 2009 Deluxe Products Survey showed that 60% of respondents believe that consumers are “more likely" to purchase deluxe product over the ...
Jazzwax List: With Voices
Adding a vocal choir behind a jazz instrumentalist probably dates back to May 25, 1953, when Charlie Parker was teamed with the Dave Lambert Singers for a Clef recording session (see my two-part post here). A failed experiment (there were simply too many voices), the concept began to catch on again in the late 1950s and ...
Composer/Bandleader Roland Vazquez Proudly Announces the Release of Roland Vazquez Band: The Visitor
Composer/Bandleader Roland Vazquez Proudly Announces The Release of Roland Vazquez Band: The Visitor The Visitor is Vazquez' tenth album as composer/leader, his first studio recording in thirteen years, & a 19-piece all-star Afro Latin “big band" project made possible thru a grant from The Aaron Copland Fund For Music. The Roland Vazquez Band featuring: Aaron Heick, ...
Berklee Students the Jazz Tellers Give Concerts and Clinics in Hong Kong, China, and the U.S.
The Jazz Tellers, a group comprised of Berklee College of Music scholarship students Nate Wong (drums), Clay Lyons (alto saxophone), Lee Dynes (guitar), and Robert Kang (guitar) embark on an ambitious summer tour of clubs, cultural arts centers, and music education institutions that includes 10 performances in Hong Kong, and Shenzhen, China; educational clinics; and concerts ...
Preview "The New Song and Dance" by The Clayton Brothers
With the release of The Clayton Brothers second fan-funded recording “The New Song and Dance" just around the corner, ArtistShare and The Clayton Brothers invite you to preview “The New Song and Dance" project experience by clicking here. This preview contains images from the recording session, an interview and solo performance from John, as well as ...
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