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Tonic: It Ain't Over 'til the Fat Man Swings
by Dan McClenaghan
These are some snazzy sounds, and given this is Christmas music, the “fat man" in the title would be, of course, Santa Claus.At the risk of sounding Scrooge-ish, you have to pick your holiday sounds carefully in order to avoid the sap factor. The members of Tonic--a group comprised of vocalists Steve and Karen Multer, Paul Langford, and Jennifer Chada--have no sap in their systems. What they do have is some serious swing, crystalline four-part harmony, and a ...
read moreMusic Tectonics Conference To Bring Together Music, Tech
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HypeBot
Music and technology PR firm rock paper scissors has announced the launch of the first annual Music Tectonics Conference. Designed to sit at the intersection of music, technology and business, the day long event will be held on on October 29 at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles. Music Tectonics will bring thought leaders and industry insiders who work at the epicenter of music and technology. Confirmed speakers include Cherie Hu, the award-winning music tech journalist (Billboard, Music Business ...
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Throw Away Your Real Book: Tonic Wants You To Lose The Baggage And Improvise Like A Child Again
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Scott Hughes
"Tonic", a card game that helps all musicians learn to improvise without theory or advanced training, is now available on Kickstarter. Designed to teach students and seasoned players how to relax and improvise freely and naturally, Tonic is an unconventional approach rooted in the free jazz and modern classical movements. It takes the form of a card and dice game that requires no theory or prior experience to play. Instead, each card has a prompt that challenges players to create ...
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Getonic: Buy Music Directly on Any Facebook Wall. No Credit Card Required
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HypeBot
The focus for musicians to sell directly to their fans continues to intensify, and looks like it won't slow for the foreseeable future. By bypassing the labels and traditional distribution channels, artists are able to take home a bigger profit and form a better, longer lasting relationship with their fans. With this trend comes an increase in services to facilitate the sales. Some obvious ones come to mind like Bandcamp and Topspin, but there's a long list of startups in this space. That ...
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Diatonic Interval Ear Training
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Bill Rinehart
Updated Lesson Just Released: Diatonic Interval Ear Training In this lesson, learn to identify the seven diatonic intervals by associating each one with the first two notes of a jazz standard. Test yourself with five randomized quizzes to gain speed and accuracy in hearing these most basic intervals. Updated with lots of new under-the-hood improvements: new streaming video, more music examples, table of contents (new feature!), searchable closed captioning (new feature!), five new quizzes built on a completely revamped quiz ...
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epitonic.com Relaunches, Original Founders at Helm
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HypeBot
Music editorial site Epitonic.com is being relaunched by its original founders. Established in 1999, the company sought out the create a destination where even the most geographically challenged fans could discover new artists. At its peak, Epitonic.com had hundreds of thousands of monthly visitors. However, the beloved site fell on hard times and was bought by Palm Pictures; it then went dormant in 2004 and everyone involved moved on. “Starting Epitonic was amazing and chaotic," said Justin Sinkovich, original co-founder ...
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What, Me Worry? McCoy Tyner and the Pentatonic Scale
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Brilliant Corners, a Boston Jazz Blog
It may be the most ubiquitous scale in the world and arguably the oldest. Anywhere in the world, when someone carves a flute, plucks a string or twangs a piece of metal they inevitably stumble into some variation of a 5-note-pentatonic-scale. It sounds good. It offers simplicity, yet potential for tension and relaxation. You can use it to create chants, melodies and twist it to suit your fancy. The blues, early jazz, then rock, are all about the pentatonic, with ...
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Otis Taylor:Pentatonic Wars and Love Songs
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JamBase
By: Dennis Cook
The most exciting, creative new voice to emerge from the blues world in the past decade continues to confound expectations on his tenth album, Pentatonic Wars and Love Songs (released June 23 on Telarc). As the title implies, the theme of love swirls in this latest baker's dozen, but the ribbons, bows and romance novel cliches are ditched for a harder, sturdier kind of love full of heat and calloused endurance.
For a musician known for sussing ...
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Otis Taylor's 'Pentatonic Wars and Love Songs' Due out June 23
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conqueroo
No one ever accused blues singer/composer/multi-instrumentalist Otis Taylor of overindulging in the happier aspects of the human condition.
His songs are often peopled with characters whose emotional landscapeno matter how raw or dark is laid bare for all to experience, and the story is often less than pretty.
But if love in any or all of its joyous and painful variations is somewhere amid that confusing emotional swirl, he’ll go there too. The result will by no means be syrupy ...
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The Oscillators Debut Release: "Beat Tectonics"
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All About Jazz
The Oscillators have just released their debut album titled Beat Tectonics. The Oscillators features Ostle on drums and electronics, bassist Glen Oliff, as well as Three Stars alums Matt Rippetoe and the ubiquitous John Lee on saxophone and guitar, respectively. The recently profiled Rob Coltun, musician and owner of the Bossa Bistro & Lounge, acted as executive producer of Beat Tectonics while Doug Derryberry, who has worked with everyone from O.A.R. to Bruce Hornsby, engineered the recording. The album is ...
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Marco Benevento 'Live at Tonic' 3-CD Set on Ropeadope Coming This Summer
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All About Jazz
MARCO BENEVENTO - LIVE AT TONIC A Three CD Set Documenting A Month Long Residency At The Late Great NYC Music Mecca
Featuring MIKE GORDON (Phish); DAVE DREIWITZ (Ween); CLAUDE COLEMAN (Ween); STEVEN BERNSTEIN (Sex Mob); MATT CHAMBERLAIN (Tori Amos); REED MATHIS (JFJO); JOE RUSSO (Benevento/Russo Duo); BOBBY PREVITE (COTW); MIKE DILLON (Les Claypool); BRAD BARR (The Slip) and SCOTT METZGER (Rana)
Available August 7 on Ropeadope
Marco Benevento is best known as one half of the Benevento/Russo ...
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