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Lyor Cohen Takes the Cake by Joining the Google Empire [Op Ed]

Source: HypeBot
October 9, 2016

Google's hiring of industry insider Lyor Cohen as YouTube's Global Head of Music is “no grounds for celebration" says musician and activist Maria Schneider in a new op ed. “And who better to prevail over the majors than the very guy who helped lead those majors into the back alley where they now find themselves." By Grammy winning composer, bandleader Maria Schneider You can be sure that in order to woo Lyor Cohen into the Google empire, they offered him a pretty nice slice of cake ...
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The Tony Digregorio Sextet releases "I Love Pancakes!"

Source: Tony DiGregorio
February 21, 2014

Tony DiGregorio has just released his second CD on the Bovine Bop label entitled I Love Pancakes! The album is a study in lyricism and dissonance performed by the composer on guitar along with Tim Hays on alto, Nathan Paris on trombone, two virtuoso bassists in Hill Greene and Joe Peterson and Andy O'Neill on the drums. These artists are among the finest jazz musicians active in New York today. The recording is available at CD Baby as well as ...
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Blues Queens, Cakewalkin’ Babies & Songbirds: A Riverwalk Jazz Salute to Women’s History Month

Source: Don Mopsick
February 28, 2012

This week on Riverwalk Jazz, Carol Woods portrays women who were seminal figures in jazz with dialogue based on their first-person accounts, and Carol interprets important songs from their careers. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM satellite radio and can be streamed on-demand from the Riverwalk Jazz website. It may have been a man's world in the early days of jazz, but tell that to Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday—not to mention artists ...
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William Parker - Solo Bass/Crumbling in the Shadows is Fraulein Miller's Stale Cake (Centering/Aum Fidelity, 2011)

Source: Music and More by Tim Niland
August 16, 2011

William Parker is one of the premier bassists of modern jazz, and this special boxed set features him in a lengthy series of unaccompanied improvisations. Upright, acoustic bass must be one of the most difficult instruments to play solo, demanding a level of physicality and dexterity to keep the music moving forward. Parker demonstrates total command of the instrument both plucked and bowed, creating buzzing and undulating soundscapes that are hypnotic in their improvisational acuity. There are two CDs of ...
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Green River Festival: Low Anthem Cake, Ozomatli, Old Crow

Source: JamBase
May 7, 2010

STRONG LINEUP GATHERS IN MASSACHUSETTS

Located in Greenfield, Massachusetts, and presented by the Franklin County Chamber of Commerce, the annual Green River Festival combines music on multiple stages, local food, crafts, a dance tent, a wide array of kids' activities, and is the only music festival in Massachusetts that features hot air balloons and balloon rides. This two-day festival takes place July 17-18, 2010. Here's the lineup:

Ozomatli Saturday, July 17 Ozomatli Old Crow Medicine Show ...
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Cakewalk Tells History Through Mystery

Source: Michael Ricci
April 5, 2010

Cakewalk is an historical novel destined to be a new classic not only because of its riveting murder mystery, but also because it unlocks a deeply hidden chapter of American musical, cultural and business history. In the 192-page book, debuting April 17 at Marcus Books, 1712 Fillmore Street in San Francisco during Jazz Appreciation Month, author John William Templeton overcame his own skepticism to go against the grain of a century of conventional wisdom about the origins of jazz music. ...
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The Dead Video IV: Frosting on the Cake

Source: JamBase
January 30, 2009

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John Costelloe 'Sopranos' Johnny Cakes Dead in Suicide

Source: All About Jazz
December 26, 2008

Police: 'Sopranos' actor who played gay cook 'Johnny Cakes' dead in apparent suicide in NYC

Police say the actor who portrayed the gay lover of a closeted mobster on The Sopranos has died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in New York. Police spokesman Lt. John Grimpel says John Costelloe was found dead in an apparent suicide at his Brooklyn home on Dec. 18. Police were called to his residence after family members were unable to reach him. The ...
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Renowned Jazz Label Candid Records Launch New Label Imprint Cake

Source: All About Jazz
February 19, 2008

Press Release - Feb 08 London based label, Candid Records have launched a new imprint as a platform for new dynamic bands and artists at the forefront of the British jazz music world. Cake reflects a new A & R strategy and move towards instrumental jazz that is forward thinking with a contemporary edge and includes artists such as The Blessing and The Neil Cowley Trio. The Blessing are four seasoned musicians who have ...
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