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Tom Hamilton - Pieces for Kohn/Formal and Informal Music (1976, 1981)
By PicoNot the bass player for Aerosmith, but a musician named “Tom Hamilton" with a more ambitious calling.For more than forty years, the nonpop New Music composer and performer Hamilton has treated music as a laboratory for experimentation, and a pioneer of using electronics for anarchistic, fringe forms of music. Tom's so ...
One Track Mind: Herbie Hancock "Butterfly" (1974)
By PicoHerbie Hancock has enjoyed a long, five-decade musical career that has been both artistically and commercially fulfilling. Not many other artists can boast that of any genre, much less a jazz musician. But 2008's winner of the Album Of The Year Grammy has given us Blue Note modern jazz classics like Maiden Voyage, ...
Sony Says They May Bid for EMI
"We are in a position that allows us to seize every opportunity in the market--including EMI," the head of Sony Music, Rolf Schmidt-Holz, told German Sunday paper Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung. On Thursday Warner Music Chief Executive Edgar Bronfman declined to comment during an earnings call about speculation that he was also eyeing ...
Falco Out, Lahti in as the Jazzman's Wife in L.A. Theatre Works' 'Side Man'
Not too many theater companies can play dial-a-star as readily as L.A. Theatre Works. Case in point: An announcement just came through that Edie Falco, of “The Sopranos" and “Nurse Jackie" fame, won't be able to play her announced role as the jazz man's unstable wife next week in the radio-play company's production of Warren Leight's ...
Other High Minded Sounds and Assorted Festivals
Carole King & James Taylor You've got a friend: The longtime pals come together on their new combo CD/DVD, Live at the Troubadour. While Baby James' easygoing vocals and lyrics are still a little bland, King is a masterful songwriter (and performer) who's composed several lifetimes of memorable tunes, including “Chains," “Up on the ...
FCC Lets Hollywood Turn Off Your Output Jacks
Hollywood will soon have the power to remotely disable the analog outputs on your set-top box, under a decision by federal regulators on Friday intended to prevent home recording of new movie releases. The move by the Federal Communications Commission grants cable and satellite providers the power to block consumers from viewing just-released movies in an ...
After Flooding, Nashville Musicians Assess Losses
NASHVILLE -- The country music star Brad Paisley was one of hundreds of performers who feared for their instruments this week after the Cumberland River overflowed. The water covered large areas of Nashville, flooding the Grand Ole Opry stage with two feet of it, causing heavy damage to the symphony hall and forcing electricity to be ...
Beyond Hefner's Bedroom, a Look at His Legacy
The tale of the Playboy founder's gift to help save land by the Hollywood sign is but one of many stories of his life chronicled in 2,000 scrapbooks. Before I explain how I happened to be in Hugh Hefner's bedroom last week, let me start at the beginning. I bumped into L.A. City Councilman Tom LaBonge ...
Media Moguls on Elevated Pay Scale
While most CEOs of U.S. companies saw their compensation fall in 2009, top executives of TV, movie and cable companies continued to rake it in. When an executive runs a company whose success depends on stars whether they are richly rewarded TV news anchors or generously compensated movie idols it is only fitting that the boss ...
Review: Peter Gabriel at the Hollywood Bowl
It's all too easy in the age of “American Idol" to forget just how profoundly powerful music can be in the hands of an absolute master like Peter Gabriel. The veteran British artist -- one of the select few in the pop music world to whom the term “artist" is wholly appropriate -- brought his orchestral ...
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