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Images: Kenny Barron Quintet
by John Kelman
Pianist Kenny Barron is usually thought of more as an accompanist than a leader, and that’s odd; with around forty albums to his name over the past thirty years, he’s had no shortage of opportunity for direct exposure. But with over three hundred recordings as a guest, including work with Dizzy Gillespie, Stan Getz, Freddie Hubbard and Ron Carter, he may be second only to Mulgrew Miller as the hardest working pianist around. And it’s easy, with that kind of ...
read moreStunning Originals Featured On Pianist Michika Fukumori's "Piano Images" - Solo Project Produced By Steve Kuhn
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Mouthpiece Music
Michika Fukumori, a native of Japan, has been living in jny: New York City since 2000. A soulful pianist, she was drawn to the U.S to study jazz and become involved in the New York jazz scene. Piano Images (Summit Records, June 22, 2018) is her third CD release since coming to States. The CD is a solo project, featuring Fukumori on piano playing mostly stunning original compositions as well as several of her favorite jazz standards. Fukumori has played ...
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Artist Images: A New Chapter In Revenue
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HypeBot
Here long-time industry entrepreneur Kevin Arnold writes about how the direction of his company, OpenAura, marks a shift in the music industry, with revenue being earned from artist's images, something has traditionally been free, instead of from their music. Guest Post by Kevin Arnold on Medium This week my company, OpenAura, made an announcement that signals the beginning of a new era for the music industry: previously artists got paid for their music, now we are helping them get paid for ...
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The Echo Nest's Dynamic Music Data Adds Getty Images Premium Musician Photos
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HypeBot
The Echo Nest's Dynamic Music Data solution aggregates music news and content with Echo Nest music data to create a real-time feed. Customers include MTV, Nuance, the BBC and Yahoo Music. Now The Echo Nest is enriching the stream with curated photos from Getty for the top 10,000 musicians which are then available for licensing by publishers. Instead of making do with Wikipedia portraits and dated stock images, publishers can have updated, curated, tagged pics for their use. Yesterday The ...
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All About Jazz Photo Gallery Tops 40,000 Images
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Michael Ricci
The AAJ Photo Gallery continues to gain in popularity passing 40,000 uploaded images. Launched last October, All About Jazz has developed a photo gallery that allows professionals to safely promote their work and for enthusiasts and musicians to share their photos with AAJ's growing community of jazz fans. Paintings, illustrations, posters and other images are also welcome. We continue to make enhancements to the gallery to improve functionality, website integration, and image protection and our 'photo of the day' widget ...
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Purvis Young, Folk Artist Who Peppered Miami with Images, Dies
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Michael Ricci
Purvis Young, a self-taught painter who emerged from prison as a young man and by dint of his striking, expressionist vision of urban life and mammoth output over more than three decades transformed a forgotten Miami neighborhood into a destination for contemporary art aficionados, died on Tuesday in Miami. He was 67. An untitled painting on paper and mounted on cardboard by Mr. Young. Many of his works were made on found materials. The cause was cardiac arrest and pulmonary ...
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'Las Vegas Studio: Images from the Archives
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Michael Ricci
Exhibition review: 'Las Vegas Studio: Images From the Archives of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown' at MOCA-PDC
The photographs on display in Las Vegas Studio: Images From the Archives of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown" have been rescued, in essence, from the cutting-room floor. It just happens to be one of the richest, most revelatory cutting-room floors in architectural history. The exhibition, at the Museum of Contemporary Art's branch at the Pacific Design Center through June 20, features ...
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AAJ's New Photo Gallery Tops 30,000 Images in Three Months
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Michael Ricci
All About Jazz photo gallery quickly becomes the central source for jazz photography, paintings and illustrations on the web. Launched on October 11, 2009, All About Jazz has developed a new photo gallery that allows professionals to safely promote their work and for enthusiasts and musicians to share their photos with AAJ's growing community of jazz fans. We've already made several enhancements to the gallery to improve functionality and image protection and we recently released a 'jazz photo of the ...
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Rare Images Mean Big Money for Labels
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All About Jazz
As CD sales sink, Sony BMG and Warner open their art archives
Amid drastic drop-offs in CD sales, the major labels have discovered new sources of revenue -- by looking in their basements. Sony BMG recently launched Icon Collectibles, a line of rare photos from the label's archives, with candid, unpublished shots of artists from Miles Davis to Bob Dylan, and Warner label Rhino Entertainment just started selling reproductions of concert posters for bands like the Grateful Dead and Jefferson ...
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Getty Images Will Troll Flickr for Usable Shots
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PC Magazine
You know all those artsy" photos of your cat or the MySpace-esque bathroom self-portraits littering your Flickr account? They might actually be worth something. Getty Images will be trolling the online photo site in order to find shots worthy of a commercial licensing deal. In the next few months, Getty will extend invites to Flickr members, who will then have the opportunity to participate in a collection created by the photo house. Getty will become the exclusive commercial rights manager ...
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Classic Bay Area Funk Images at the New Bruce Steinberg Gallery!
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All About Jazz
Discover the new Bruce Steinberg Gallery -- live and in living color!
If you're into the funk-music scene that exploded out of the San Francisco Bay Area in the '60s and '70s, and would like to experience up-close-and-personal visual images and stories of some of the artists and albums most closely associated with that timeless music, this is a site you'll definitely want to visit!
As a young photographer and designer coming up in the middle of that scene and ...
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