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"get your free(k) jazz on...Saturday Night Live isn't the only reason to stay in and veg out in front of the tv on the weekends. Manhattan Cable Network is one of those wonderfully weird local stations where anyone with video capability can sign up for a show and speak their peace for a half-hour. While you usually get all manner of religious nuts, geeks and esoteric stuff, you also finding winning programs like Abop TV. With their mission of "Bringing the free-garde to your desktop commercial free since 2003!", they present assorted local jazz legends like Sabir Mateen, Roy Campbell and Daniel Carter (all Vision Festival regulars) alongside tributes to Miles, Ornette and blues legend Howlin' Wolf. It's not part of your standard cable package so be grateful that it's available on the web. " Jason Gross, http://yeweiblog.blogspot.com/2008/03/

"Very Nice!...Website of the week!"
Internetvideo.com

"GREAT web site!"
Karen - The International Association for Jazz Education

"Music surely is the primary tool for creating and nurturing new ideas and new sounds. What better way to smooth your idea into something tangible then to listen to some Jazz or in the case of abop-tv to watch and listen to Jazz...a growing site that presents a wealth of music/video to download and listen to. It offers some intriguing cuts that integrate interesting video editing with a mixture of live Jazz. Check it out." 
Craig Independent Jazz radio - http://www.moochill.com/blog/

"besides tuning into the CBGB Lounge on Sunday evenings...another place to get an avant fix is through aboptv.com, a neato new site where you can actually download and watch some fantastic archived performances by some of the best of the new (and old) improvisers out there in jazzland, and for a guy who's been perusing these sounds for nigh on twenny-five years it's a real gas to actually see these legendary (and not-so, at least for now) big-names in a little pond more or less performing rather'n hafta imagine what it looks like in your bean, and imagine it all wrong for that matter. Aboptv's the brainkiddie of Albey Balgochian, not only a member of the fantastic Noistet but the current bassist for none other than Cecil Taylor himself, and the man oughta be commended for his toil in bringing you these rarities... It may take awhile for the program to eventually download (I suggest that you start downloading, then take a long bath, or perhaps talk on the phone for a few hours or go shopping then come back), but when it does you not only get a clear picture w/o any of the usual buffering stops, but an exciting piece of performance that's not only aurally, but visually stimulating. With kicks getting even harder to find these days than they were after the great post-punk collapse of the early-eighties, it's grand to have a site like aboptv.com available and for FREE" 
Christopher - Blog To Comm - http://black2com.blogspot.com/

Abop TV: A Music Channel Actually Offering Music
By Jason Santo, Apr 1, 2004, 07:18 
While not entirely within the context of MicrocinemaScene, news of the on-line music channel Abop TV paints this innovative new website as a cousin to sites such as this. Taking a grassroots approach that allows musicians (for a small fee) to broadcast their concerts over the web, Abop TV debuted on New Year's day, 2004 and has been well-received by an international audience. Documenting improvisational artists who run the full musical spectrum from the avant-garde "Zeitgeist Art Gallery" series, to Berklee Professors, to Handy Award winning country blues singers, Abop TV was created to offer a music scene that is missing from network and cable television. The site runs a different concert every week, each one available 24 hours a day for 4-5 days. Musicians and music lovers interested in checking out such a creature should visit www.aboptv.com.
microcinemascene.com

"your stuff is great man - may it live long and prosper...I can't say enough about aboptv...I look forward to each visit. the quality is superb, the music always real...
beautiful man, you guys are doin' it...don't stop"
Joe Giardullo

"aboptv is also an incredible thing! ... i have been waiting for free live music on the internet forever."
chris - the gear page

"I love it, this has opened me to some new music...There are styles here I never knew existed. "
BadWarDeeds

"Abop tv...Right on!" I watch your cable show every week.
Peace, Ras Moshe 

"I just want you to know that aboptv has recently been instrumental in getting me work in Europe...I am continually gratefull. "
Peace on earth, Eric Z.

"Thanks for your great videos, I'm a fan !"
F. Benreguia

"I'm so comfortable here...I love to sing in this room. We advertised our Abop TV broadcast to our mailing list...in various parts of the world. Everyone who responded had only good things to say, with many people wanting to buy the concert. People really appreciated the sound quality along with the intimacy of the setting."
Paul Rishell & Annie Raines

"What you're doing for the music is great!"
Burton Greene

"Keep up the good work ... I'll be checking your website:-)
Peace and best wishes..."
Donal Fox - composer/pianist

 

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