Results for "Michael Ricci"

Too Much Kind of Blue? The Case for Giving Overexposed Masterworks a Rest

June 1, 2010

*Absolutely worth a read this holiday weekend. Hope everyone is doing well! Richard Williams recently wrote a book called The Blue Moment: Miles Davis Kind of Blue and the Remaking of Modern Music. I haven't yet read Mr. Williams study of the great jazz trumpeters best-known album, and to be perfectly honest, I doubt I'm going ...

One Person's "Modern"

June 1, 2010

When I was in graduate school, we knew that “modernism" began around the First World War; we are now in post-modernism," although the name makes me itchy, especially when it's collapsed into pomo." I feel a kinship to “modernism" as practiced by Woolf, Joyce, Kandinsky, Stravinsky, and so on. Looking at the world through rose-colored glasses ...

Kenny Clarke and Ernie Wilkins

June 1, 2010

I purposefully left my favorite Hank Jones record off my top-20 list last Sunday to talk about the album here in full. This record is a rare and rather obscure date from March 1955 for Savoy, when a&r chief Ozzie Cadena was producing some amazing music at the label. You probably would never know about this ...

Amazon and Walmart Tie for #2 U.S. Music Retailer

June 1, 2010

iTunes Still #1 As Digital Grows iTunes continued to be the top retailer of music with 28% of all music purchased by U.S. , up 4% since Q1 2009 according to researcher NPD. Amazon gained 3% to tie Walmart's shrinking music department for second position at 12% Sales of digital tracks and albums accounted for 40% ...

Super Bad Sunday: Stevie Ray Vaughan

May 30, 2010

GONE TOO EARLY BUT LEFT SUCH A LEGACY Our weekend triple-shot goes to simply one of the greatest blues-rock singer-guitarist-songwriters of all-time, Mr. Stevie Ray Vaughan. Not many evoked Hendrix, Buddy Guy, Muddy Waters and other touchstone guitarists and vocalists with such resounding authority and individual stamp. His music transcends even the finest superlatives so we'll ...

Gerry Mulligan - "Walking Shoes" (1956)

June 1, 2010

The Stryker/Slagle Band - Keeper (2010)

June 1, 2010

By PicoIf you has happened to follow this site long enough, you know the drill: The Stryker/Slagle Band puts out a new record, I listen to said new record, then I write about how great it is. Keeper, the newest by the Stryker/Slagle Band that goes on sale tomorrow, offers me no reasons to ...

Quickies: New Release Roundup 2010, Vol. 3 (Jazz-Only Edition)

June 1, 2010

By PicoIt's catch up time again.In what is becoming a frequent tradition for me on Something Else, I'm taking a batch of CD's and doing pocket reviews on them, in order to get you all caught up on what's been getting the spins lately. Whereas the prior two release roundups (Vol. 1 ...

Will MySpace Music Stay Free? It's up to the Labels

June 1, 2010

At yesterday's TechCrunch Disrupt conference, MySpace co-presidents Jason Hirschhorn and Mike Jones were interviewed about the future of the struggling social networker. On falling numbers -“We have 120 million unique visitors worldwide. US numbers have been fairly flat. Page views are down... substantially by design. MySpace used to have processes that took 10 page views ...

A Record Collection of Links

June 1, 2010

Collecting In The Age Of Streaming Music The guest essay comes from Robbert van Ooijen, a graduating master student New Media & Digital Culture at the Dutch University of Utrecht. It's based on a research paper he wrote at the wonderful Dutch start-up Twones and asks what remains of the intimate relationship ...