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Read More | 07/22/2008 - Dr. Michael White speaks in Washington D.C. on behalf of internet radio Folks,
Dr. Michael White is a busy man, but not too busy to take time out of his hectic schedule to speak on behalf of SaveNetRadio.com. On top of that, check out what else has been going on with the good Dr.
Dr. White will be interviewed next week on Voice of America.
Dr. White will be featured on American Routes the week of August 20th.
Dr. White will be on the cover of OffBEAT Magazine in August.
Dr. White was recently featured in a cover story of Gambit Weekly and in the Lagniappe Section of The Times Picayune.
Dr. White was recently featured in a great piece by Larry Blumenfeld in Jazziz.
Dr. White will be performing at Satchmo Summerfest in New Orleans on Sunday, August 3rd.
Dr. White was just named a recipient of the NEA's National Heritage Fellowship Award.
Check out the following link for more information
Save Net Radio Read More (opens in New Window) | 07/10/2008 - email back up Folks,Email has been restored
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Mark... Read More | 07/09/2008 - Steve Allee on the making of Dragonfly ... Read More | 07/01/2008 - Mack Avenue Records signs Kenny Garrett
Mack Avenue Records Announces the Signing of
Saxophonist-Composer Kenny Garrett Garrett to Release Sketches of MD, Recorded Live at the Iridium
featuring Pharoah Sanders, on September 23 Mack Avenue Records announces the signing of saxophone sensation and Detroit native Kenny Garre...
Read More | 06/17/2008 - Dixon/Rhyne Project video
Check out this clip of Rob Dixon, Melvin Rhyne, Kenny Phelps and Fareed Haque performing "Mind's Eye" off of their new Owl Studios recording "reinvention"
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Read More | 06/12/2008 - Judge Rules: Promo-Only Discs Can Be Resold* Judge Rules: Promo-Only Discs Can Be Resold
Can promotional CDs be resold in the open market? Last year, Universal Music Group sued Troy Augusto for reselling its promotional discs, arguing that advance CDs remain the property of the issuing company. Labels traditionally affix printing onto promotional discs that warn against resale, though the case raised serious questions about the first sale doctrine.
Earlier this week, a federal judge ruled against Universal Music Group. "Augusto's actions are protected under the first sale doctrine," opined US District judge S. James Otero. The case was dismissed in summary judgment, a quick-and-dirty end to the matter.
Augusto was backed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which joined the case alongside law firm Keker & Van Nest. "The right of first sale also protects libraries, used bookstores, and businesses that rent movies and video games," explained EFF staff attorney Corynne McSherry. "This ruling affirms and protects the traditional balance between the rights of copyright owners and the rights of the public."
Click here for the decision
Click here for the decision in pdf form
* while you may not get prosecuted by law, I'd warn anyone in radio or print against selling promos. It seems like a sure way to get removed from service lists
Read More (opens in New Window) | 06/10/2008 - Retailers giving vinyl records another spin
PORTLAND, Oregon (AP) -- It was a fortuitous typo for the Fred Meyer retail chain.
This spring, an employee intending to order a special CD-DVD edition of R.E.M.'s latest release "Accelerate" inadvertently entered the "LP" code instead. Soon boxes of the big, vinyl discs showed up at several stores.
Some sent them back. But a handful put them on the shelves, and 20 LPs sold the first day.
The Portland-based company, owned by The Kroger Co., realized the error might not be so bad after all. Fred Meyer is now testing vinyl sales at 60 of its stores in Oregon, Washington and Alaska. The company says, based on the response so far, it plans to roll out vinyl in July in all its stores that sell music.
Other mainstream retailers are giving vinyl a spin too. Best Buy is testing sales at some stores. And online music giant Amazon.com, which has sold vinyl for most of the 13 years it has been in business online, created a special vinyl-only section last fall.,,,
Read More (opens in New Window) | 06/09/2008 - Bennie Maupin: The Rebirth Of
by Don Heckman
An Excerpt from the June 2008 issue
Bennie Maupin says he's only learned a few phrases in Polish. But he's discovered firsthand that the language of jazz can transcend all boundaries. And his new recording, Early Reflections (Cryptogramophone), recorded in Warsaw with a band of Polish musicians, is a definitive display of what can happen when improvisation becomes the ultimate form of communication.
"I actually met these guys two years before we went into the studio," says the trimly bearded Maupin over a cappuccino in a San Fernando Valley Starbucks. "I knew they could play, even before we got together, because I heard their influences-Bill Evans, Ahmad Jamal, Herbie Hancock, and more."
Like most players in the post-modern, venue-limited jazz world of the 21st century, the veteran multi-instrumentalist and bass clarinet wizard-perhaps best known for his extraordinary work with Miles Davis (the albums Bitches Brew, Jack Johnson, Big Fun, On the Corner), Herbie Hancock's Mwandishi band and the Headhunters, and recordings with Chick Corea, Horace Silver, McCoy Tyner and others-depends heavily upon European tours to fill out his performance schedule. And when Cryptogramophone Records came up with an opportunity to do a second recording (his first for the label, Penumbra, was released in 2006), Maupin decided to record with Polish musicians he had met on one of his many overseas tours. "The way the music business is today," he explains, "you have to have someplace where you can present whatever it is that you want to present-without having to tailor-make your music to accommodate a venue. That can be a problem, and that's why I took the steps I did to record with this band. The young guys in Europe take the music very seriously. They study, they go back and listen to everybody, they're very serious about the evolution of the music. And they do all kinds of gigs, playing every imaginable style."
All of which sounds very much like a résumé of Maupin's own lifetime approach to the music and to his art. And the primary theme that flows through our long conversation-illuminated by Maupin's thoughtful, soft-spoken insights, noisily accompanied by the steaming sounds of the nearby espresso bar-is his dedication to the creative curiosity that has always been part and parcel of his musical identity.
Improvisation is, of course, fundamentally linked to curiosity. And free improvisation creates an environment even more conducive to the unfettered exploration of new ideas. Which is exactly what
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Continued in the June 2008 issue
Read More (opens in New Window) | 06/06/2008 - Dr. Michael White is National Endowment for the Arts Heritage Fellowship Recipient!
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS ANNOUNCES
DR. MICHAEL WHITE 2008 NEA NATIONAL HERITAGE FELLOWSHIP RECIPIENT
Mark Samuels and the Basin Street Records family proudly congratulate Dr. Michael White, who today received the nation's highest honor in the folk and traditional arts - the 2008 NEA National Heritage Fellowship Award.
Awardees are chosen for their artistic excellence and contributions to our nation's cultural heritage and Dr. White, as a primary exponent of classic New Orleans Jazz, is most befitting of this prestigious honor.
Basin Street Records is also pleased to announce the June 10th release of Dr. White's latest CD, Blue Crescent. On Blue Crescent, as throughout his musical life, for which he was honored today, Dr. Michael White keeps New Orleans jazz alive, not only by celebrating the past, but by creating new music in the classic tradition.
(courtesy of Mark Samuels' blog)
Read More (opens in New Window) | 05/31/2008 - Bennie Maupin interview available for download Check out this
This interview with Bennie Maupin was conducted by Richard Paske of Fresh Ears Media. It is in MP3 format, is 20 minutes and 28 seconds in length, and in two parts. Part one is 11 minutes and 14 seconds, and Part two is 9 minutes and 14 seconds. It is in support of Bennie Maup... Read More | 05/10/2008 - KMUD Music Director Passes Away
Written by Cristina Bauss
Kate Klein Known For Her Passion For Art, Dance, Nature
The local arts community lost one of its greatest supporters on April 15, when KMUD Music Director Kate Klein passed away at Jerold Phelps Community Hospital in Garberville. Klein, who turned 56 on April 10, was diagnosed with cancer just three weeks before her death.
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Read More (opens in New Window) | 05/01/2008 - Stanley Jordan on the making of "State of Nature"
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Read More | 04/26/2008 - Willie Nelson and Wynton Marsalis "Two Men with the Blues" Check out this very cool epk on Willie and Wynton's Blue Note recording "Two Men with the Blues" scheduled to be released on July 8th
... Read More | 03/31/2008 - Droppin Science Trivia Contest Winners Announced Congratulations to Michael Valentine of WDNA Miami, Bob Putignano of WFDU-Teaneck NJ and to Aaron Prado of KRTU-San Antonio. Each will receive a BLUE NOTE/ADIDAS jacket, as well as a copy of Droppin' Science on vinyl.Thanks to all who participated. Be sure to check the news section of the GROO... Read More | | View Archives |
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