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2010 Blues Music Awards (all nominees by category)

As I member of the Blues Foundation, I have just received the link to vote for the 2010 Blues Music Awards (BMA / formerly the W. C. Handy…

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Jam Session Finder

Since musicians often learn of jam sessions through word of mouth, I thought I'd start a forum where musicians & fans can share this…

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Jam Sessions are often found by word of mouth. Posting here helps these session & our musician members. Please make sure to identify the type of jam (jazz, blues, rock, etc.).

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Connect with Players. Form a band!

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Holiday Jazz with TomtheJazzman
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This forum is for offering or obtaining music lessons.

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The Funky Fritters new release "Deep Fried Live" now available on Amazon & iTunes
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Nicholas Payton: Live At The Village Vanguard

He found his footing in jazz through its hard-swinging main stem. But after he'd proved his hard-bop mettle, he took a fork in the road toward electric experimentalism. Now, trumpeter Nicholas Payton seems comfortable pursuing a middle ground. Hear his band play live.

The Soft Pack On World Cafe

Tired of the new-wave explosion in their hometown of San Diego, The Soft Pack's Matt Lamkin and Matty McLoughlin got their start after deciding to revive old-school grunge. Later joined by Dave Lantzman and Brian Hill, the group found a knack for writing simple and catchy tunes that hint at the New York underground and subtle '60s California surf-rock.

OK Go Fights For Its Viral Video

Damian Kulash, singer-songwriter-guitarist with OK Go, talks about the group's split with its label as the result of a label policy that kept a popular video the band made from being embedded on YouTube. "This Too Shall Pass" is a viral video that took a month to make; it displays an elaborate two-story Rube Goldberg device timed to the song.

Midlake: In Tune With Nature

"If all that grows starts to fade, starts to falter / Oh, let me inside, let me inside not to wake," Midlake's Tim Smith sings in "Acts of Man," which surrounds his meditation on man and nature with dense harmonies and the rich sounds of a folk-pop orchestra.

Voice From The Darkness: Johnny Cash's Final Record

Seven years after the death of Johnny Cash, producer Rick Rubin has selected 10 more songs among the many he produced for Cash late in the singer's life. Rock critic Ken Tucker examines the end result, the album American VI: Ain't No Grave.

NYTimes Music

Archive and Historical Society Exhibition for Grateful Dead

An exhibit at the New-York Historical Society is the first large showing of items from the Grateful Dead archive.

Arts, Briefly: Lady Antebellum Returns to Top of Chart

Six new albums entered the Billboard Top 10 this week, but none could best the two titles that have dominated the chart for the last five weeks.

Music Review | Grawemeyer Players: Award-Winning Works by Lutoslawski, Kurtag and Currier

The Grawemeyer Players, a faculty ensemble from the University of Louisville, performed works by winners of the university’s annual composition prize at Weill Recital Hall.

Music Review | Ying Quartet: Barber’s Centenary Celebrated at Morgan Library & Museum

On Tuesday, the centenary of Samuel Barber’s birth, the Ying Quartet performed the composer’s Op. 11 String Quartet in Gilder Lehrman Hall at the Morgan Library & Museum.

‘The Nose,’ and the Eye and the Ear, at Metropolitan Opera

Three critics for The New York Times discuss the music, the art and the literary threads of the Metropolitan Opera’s production of the Shostakovich opera “The Nose.”

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