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"Big Step Forward in Music Revolution" Hailed as EMI Drops Copy Protection
Apple chief Steve Jobs welcomes opening up of market, but consumers face higher charges Music group EMI yesterday scrapped copy protection on all its digital tracks in a move that was immediately hailed by Apple chief executive Steve Jobs as “the next big step forward in the digital music revolution". For the first time, downloads by ...
The Jazz Session (Podcast): Misha Piatigorsky
On the new episode of The Jazz Session, Jason Crane interviews pianist Misha Piatigorsky. Misha fled with his family from Russia during the height of the Cold War and ended up in New Jersey. A classically trained pianist, he discovered jazz and fell in love with the music, ending up at Rutgers studying with Kenny Barron. ...
The Jazz Session: Toru Dodo
On the new episode of The Jazz Session, Jason Crane interviews Japanese pianist Toru Dodo. Born in Tokyo, Dodo started playing piano at age 4, then gave up his dream of concert piano for the economics department at Tokyo's Meiji University. He found jazz at Meiji, and eventually came to the United States to study at ...
New Joe Zawinul Unofficial Fans Website Launched
A new graphical version of the Joe Zawinul Unofficial Italian Fans Website has been launched a few days ago. In the new website you can find a lot of information about Zawinul, Weather Report, Wayne Shorter, Jaco Pastorius etc., and a new interactive platform with forums, polls, chat sessions, photo galleries, etc. Click the link below ...
PlayJazznow.com Releases Innovative Play-Along Tracks for Drummers
PlayJazznow.com, a website featuring downloadable, play-along tracks for instrumentalists and vocalists, has announced the addition of play-along tracks for jazz drummers and percussionists. Since its inception last June, PlayJazzNow.Com has offered downloadable play-along tracks for jazz musicians who want to hone their improvisation skills by working out with a live trio. Now it aims to reach ...
The Jazz Session: Francis Jacob
On the new episode of The Jazz Session, Jason Crane interviews French guitarist Francis Jacob. Jacob's career has taken him around the world: France, Switzerland, Boston, Brazil, Paris and now New York. Along the way, he's picked up a gift for improvisation and a taste for West African music. On his new CD, Side By Side ...
The Jazz Session: John Abercrombie
On the new episode of The Jazz Session, Jason Crane interviews guitarist John Abercrombie, whose forthcoming record is The Third Quartet (ECM, 2007). Abercrombie has been on more than 50 ECM recordings as a leader or sideman, including sessions with Charles Lloyd, Kenny Wheeler, Jack DeJohnette, Dave Liebman and Dave Holland. This interview features several excerpts ...
Thomas Chapin: Remembering a Force
Multi-reed instrumentalist/composer Thomas Chapin on the anniversary of his 50th birthday, Friday, March 9, 2007 They said he had “monster chops," that he blew two solos in every one, and that he played fast and furious, packing in everything as if in a rush to say it all. And in the end, he was. With lightning-rod ...
The Jazz Session: Luis Perdomo
On the new episode of The Jazz Session, Jason Crane interviews pianist Luis Perdomo. Since coming to New York from his native Venezuela, Perdomo has blossomed as a player. As a student at the Manhattan School of Music and at Queens College, he studied with pianists Harold Danko and Sir Roland Hanna. As a professional musician, ...
