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Appetite for Self-Destruction
2008 was another bleak year for record labels, but their problems began years earlier. On today's show: A look at the secret deals, corporate backbiting and poor decision making that led to the decline of the record industry. Also: Tenor saxophonist Tim Ries joins us to talk about interpreting the Rolling Stones in the Jazz idiom and performs live.
How the Giants Fell
With his behind-the-scenes access to the most influential names in the recording industry, music journalist Steve Knopper was able to craft “Appetite For Self-Destruction: The Rise and Fall of the Record Industry in the Digital Age," a sweeping history of the industry over the past three decades, from the birth and popularity of the CD to file-sharing to iTunes to the failure of the Powers That Be to recognize the lucrative potential of the Internet. He joins us to discuss the turnaround of the industry at the mercy of file-sharing and the possibilities for its future.
Soundcheck Blog: John Schaefer on music-industry dinosaurs
CD Picks of the Week
Three outstanding new releases, as picked by the Soundcheck staff. Read the full reviews here.
"DG Concerts: Shostakovich & Mosolov, In the Shadow of Stalin," Los Angeles Philharmonic, Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor (Deutsche Grammophon) --picked by Brian Wise
Bill Alves, "Imbal-Imbalan: New Music for Gamelan" (Spectral Harmonies)--picked by John Schaefer
Various Artists, “Johnny Cash Remixed” (Compadre) --picked by Joel Meyer
Jumpin' Jack Jazz
Grammy Award-winning saxophonist and composer Tim Ries has created a career out of the creative fusion of classical and jazz idioms. Over the last decade, he has taken a dip into the world of rock and roll with a world tour with the Rolling Stones, an experience that provided inspiration for his release Stones World: Rolling Stones World Music Project. Ries joins us live in the studio to discuss the process of adapting the Jagger-Richards canon into a jazz idiom and to perform live in the studio.
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