We're missing outRossRoss, Alex, `Why do we hate modern classical music', The Guardian, 28th November 2010, (accessed via www.theguardian.com)
You're going out now for a new leg of shows in support ofNew Blue Sun. This tour is different. The venues are arts centers, concert halls, even an opera house or two. Last time it was jazz clubs and the occasional church. How are the audiences different in these sorts of venue...
“Butterflies,” was programmed in Dilla Time — and by the late 2000s they had begun to convert a new generation of serious jazz players. The “Dilla feel” is now ubiquitous in jazz clubs and conservatories and has transformed the way traditional musicians approach their instrume...
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Cropper and Tiven had been working on songs for years with the hopes of finding friendly musicians to give them life. While some found homes, the duo sat on instrumentals for years — until Tiven ran into Billy Gibbons at Trader Joe's. When Tiven told the ...
So the kids who liked electronic music were far more likely to register a “dislike it, hate it” response [chuckle] to perhaps jazz or orchestral music in the first second. This is your brain deciding for you whether or not the stimulus is “the music of you”. “Does this match me...
‘Jeff Beck with the Jan Hammer Group Live’ ebbs and flows through various jazz-rock arrangements, as both master musicians add their distinct flavor to the music. Beck’s playing is especially impressive on “Scatterbrain” and the reggae-like interpretation of the Beatles' "She's a Woman....
Steely Danstarted out from a pretty intellectual place. After all, they memorably named themselves after an obscure sexual aid from William S. Burroughs' 1959 novelNaked Lunch. By the time they released the jazz-inflectedAja, however, the famous writer had become disenchanted. "These people are...
"The philosophy was — don't really touch it. Present it the way it would have been presented back then. If you don't have to mix it, if you don't have to master it, don't do it," Shinoda told Audacy host Nicole Alvarez. "So we stuck very closely to that."...
Hi Mark~ great read here. However since I am a booking agent I often run into musicians blaming ME for not getting bookings or hearing back from venues. I do the dance, which I call the booking process by sending an introduction email on me and the artist I’m trying to book. Then ...