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The artist formerly known as Prince releases a free CD via a Sunday paper, and retailers and his music label go ballistic. So…shall we conclude that one should not give music away if one wants to?

Jazz in New York this weekend.

★ THE BAD PLUS (Tomorrow) With its fifth studio album, “Prog” (Do the Math), this trio ventures further along a distinctive and adventurous path; the bassist Reid Anderson, the pianist Ethan Iverson and the drummer David King sound as committed as ever, and their alchemy of masscult allusions and highbrow […]

Tomorrow’s Baltimore performance of Louis Moholo-Moholo and Marilyn Crispell is previewed.

Marilyn Crispell and Louis Moholo-Moholo perform at 8 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Saturday at An die Musik Live, 409 N. Charles St. Tickets are $20 ($18 for seniors and students). For more information, call 410-385-2638 or go to andiemusiklive.com.

From NewMusicBox:

Ornette Coleman and the late Andrew Hill were the two big winners of the 2007 Awards of the Jazz Journalists’ Association (JJA), an organization comprising 400 journalists, editors, broadcasters, and photographers working internationally. JJA President Howard Mandel presided over the afternoon awards ceremony which took place on June 28 at the Jazz Standard in […]

From DMG:

THREE DISCS from PSI: EVAN PARKER QT, EVAN PARKER/RUTHERFORD /SCHLIPPENBACH, FORCH (w/ BUTCHER, LOVENS & MINTON), ‘SLAVA’ GANELIN & VLADIMIR VOLKOV, TRIO OF DOOM [JOHN McLAUGHLIN/JACO PASTORIUS/TONY WILLIAMS], MUSHROOM w/ EDDIE GALE,
JOEL HARRISON [w/ NGUYEN LE & DAVID BINNEY], DONNY McCASLIN, ALDO CLEMENTI, THE LOW-COST ENGINE LABEL w/ WARREN SMITH, ANDREW LAMB, MALACHI THOMPSON […]

From AGP:

The Avant Garde Project is a series of 20th-century classical-experimental- electroacoustic torrents digitized from LPs whose music has in most cases never been released on CD, and so is effectively inaccessible to the vast majority of music listeners today. This is wild stuff, so check it out if you’ve never heard this sort of […]

From Musique Machine:

Ov - Noctilucent Valleys
Noctilucent Valleys submerges the listener in heady and psychedelic world made up of synth drone craft, lo-grade electro beatscapes, free form folk/ improvised rock traces , with the odd touches of dreamy & hazed of male & female vocals here and there.
Jazkamer - Balls the Size of Texas,Liver […]

From Bagatellen:

Nagl, Bernstein, Akchoté, Jones - Big Four Live - 28 Jun 07
MIMEO - Sight - 28 Jun 07

This week’s ICP show is reviewed.

From AAJ:

29-Jun-07 Lydian Sound Orchestra
Back to Da Capo (Alma Music (Italy))
29-Jun-07 Andy milne
Andy Milne: M-Base & Dapp Theory Radical Unplugged
29-Jun-07 The Nels Cline Singers
Draw Breath (Cryptogramophone)
29-Jun-07 Underground Jazz Trio
Radio Free Europa (Leo Records)
28-Jun-07 simakDialog
Patahan (Moonjune Records)
27-Jun-07 Adam Lane
Adam Lane & Ken Vandermark: 4 Corners and New Magical Kingdom (Clean Feed Records)
27-Jun-07 Jason Smith
Tipping Point (Moonjune […]

This upcoming show is previewed:

Ken Vandermark, Tim Daisy — USC School of Music Recital Hall: Tuesday, July 3
In a sense, jazz music has been dumbed down by being academically intellectualized — the emphasis (or over-emphasis, perhaps) on theory has stagnated creation and innovation, yielding compositions that are either painfully intellectual academic headaches or abhorrently insipid […]

From Detroit’s Bohemian National Home:

Saturday, June 23: Fiberglass Freakout 2007
Straight-up Detroit style rock and roll, featuring: Bad Faces Clan, Friends Of Dennis Wilson, Wildcatting, The Pizazz, The Amnio Acids, The Questions, The Birddogs, and Heroes and Villains. Doors at 8:00 pm; $7.
6/29 secret party…
6/30 Shadiamond Le Freedom and Paradise
9/4 Keefe Jackson’s Fast Citizens
9/6 Eye Contact
9/14 […]

A commentator notes the plethora of modern classical on Youtube, and subsequent comments suggest some folks think this is a very good thing.

From Cadence Jazz Records:

No Lesser Evil - Mat Marucci (Primary), Doug Webb (Primary), Kerry Kashiwagi (Primary)
Nothing But Blue Sky - Chris Humphrey (Primary), Matt Wilson (Drums), Martin Wind (Bass), Mark Shilansky (Piano)
Buffalo- Adam Lane (Primary), Vinny Golia (Tenor, Soprano Saxophones), Paul Smoker (Trumpet), Vijay Anderson (Drums)
Live at The Guelph Festival - Lou Grassi (Primary), Marshall […]

Download “Caved-in Heart Blues” (mp3) from “Draw Breath”by The Nels Cline SingersCryptogramophone

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