MSN Music Debuts First Exclusive Tracks From Monterey Jazz
Festival
MSN Three-Year Agreement With the World's Oldest Jazz Festival
Offers Live Performances For the First Time Anywhere Through MSN
Music
REDMOND, Wash. -- Sept. 16, 2004 -- MSN Music and the Monterey Jazz
Festival, a three-day celebration of the best in jazz, are giving
music fans something to sing about. MSN has teamed up with the
world's longest-running jazz festival to offer new and archival
recordings not available anywhere else -- online or offline -- of
live performances by some of jazz's biggest names, including Blue
Note Records' Don Byron Ivey-Divey Trio, the Terence Blanchard
Sextet, the Bill Charlap Trio and other famed artists.
Six live performances from the above Blue Note artists recorded at
this year's festival will be available to purchase as downloads
beginning in October at http://beta.music.msn.com. the fully
functional preview version of the new music service that debuted
Sept. 1 in the United States. In addition, nearly a dozen more
tracks from the Monterey Jazz Festival archives will be available
over the coming year from artists who have performed over the past
46 years at the festival.
Laptop Battery "The relationship that MSN has with The Monterey Jazz Festival
is a great example of our commitment to delivering the best music
content to our customers," said Rob Bennett, senior director of MSN
Entertainment. "We will continue to add new and exclusive content
on a regular basis to help ensure that fans of all types of music
can find and discover music they love on MSN Music."
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Microsoft MSN and the Monterey Jazz Festival have struck a three-year deal
to offer six exclusive tracks from each year's festival, along with
six to 12 exclusive archival tracks from the past 46 years of
festivals. Each will be available exclusively on MSN Music for 12
months. The first six tracks will be from this year's festival,
which takes place Sept. 17--19, and will consist of two tracks each
from the following:
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* Don Byron Ivey-Divey Trio with Jason Moran and Jack
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* Bill Charlap Trio with Clark Terry and Frank Wess
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Laptop Computer "This exclusive relationship with MSN Music allows us to share
the music of the tremendous performers who appear each year at
Monterey Jazz Festival with the massive MSN online audience," said
Tim Jackson, general manager of the festival, who will select all
the Festival tracks available through MSN Music. "We can't think of
a better way to help bring an art form conceived in the 20th
century into the 21st century."
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Notebooks The Monterey Jazz Festival tracks will be available to download
for 99 cents each. The sound quality of the Monterey Jazz Festival
tracks also should be music to the ears of audiophile jazz fans,
especially those who have avoided online downloads because of
questionable sound quality. All MSN Music downloads are encoded in
the Windows Media format at an average rate of 160 kilobits of
information per second (Kbps) and a peak rate of 256 Kbps, offering
the industry's highest-fidelity audio in a compact file size.
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Hard Drive The Monterey Jazz Festival is the longest-running jazz festival
in the world. The festival features more than 500 top-name jazz
artists playing on seven stages for three nights and two days of
nonstop jazz entertainment. The Festival takes place on the 20-acre
Monterey Fairgrounds site, which has been home of the festival
since its inception in 1958. Founded as a nonprofit educational
corporation, the Monterey Jazz Festival invests its proceeds in a
world-renowned series of jazz education programs.
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