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Backgrounder: Johnny Richards Something Else
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
One of my very favorite big band albums is Johnny Richards' Something Else. Recorded for Bethlehem in Los Angeles in August 1956, the album features Richards compositions and arrangements and a band that will make West Coast jazz fans gasp. Waltz Anyone featured Pete Candoli, Buddy Childers and Maynard Ferguson (tp); Stu Williamson (tp,v-tb); Tommy Pederson, Frank Rosolino and Milt Bernhart (tb); John Cave (fhr); Albert Pollan (tu); Charlie Mariano (as); Richie Kamuca (ts); Ronnie Lang (bar,pic); Bill Holman (bassax); ...
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Something Else! Vincent Herring Septet Honors Cannonball Adderley At Birdland from September 6-10, 2022
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Scott Thompson Public Relations
Something Else!, will launch at Birdland on September 6-10, 2022 with two sets a night at Birdland Jazz Club and Birdland Theater. The shows will feature Vincent Herring, alto saxophone, James Carter, tenor sax, Jeremy Pelt, trumpet, Russell Malone, guitar, David Kikoski, piano, Essiet Essiet, bass and Johnathan Blake, drums. Something Else! is the only Blue Note album by Cannonball Adderley recorded and released in 1958 and became an iconic masterpiece presenting funky, soulful and bluesy Jazz which was the ...
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Perfect Album: Something Else
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
I was going to post today about a “Hot Track" but decided instead to simply start a new feature called “Perfect Album." Yesterday I was listening to Johnny Richards' Something Else, one of my absolute favorite big-band albums. Something Else was recorded for Bethlehem in Hollywood on August 2 and 3, 1956. What made Richards (above) special as an arranger was his fiery romanticism and percussive moodiness. A highly progressive writer, Richards thought big. Really big. And he loved his ...
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Facebook Outage Reveals People Still Read News Other Ways, Would YouTube Outage Reveal Something Similar About Music?
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HypeBot
While YouTube has certainly moved in on the music industry in a major way, carving out a huge swathe of listens and views, a recent news outage at Facebook has suggested consumers may not be as dedicated to these major sites as was at first thought, and that, were YouTube to disappear, consumers would have no trouble moving on to greener pastures in order to get the music they crave. Guest post by Chris Castle of Music Tech Solutions I ...
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All Laid-Off SoundCloud Staffers Are Being Offered $10,000 From WeTransfer "To Start Something"
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HypeBot
After 173 SoundCloud employees were laid off a few weeks ago, the outpouring of support led to a “Hire a SoundClouder” Google doc to connect them with new jobs. Now, WeTransfer has shown their respect for the laid-off innovators with the offer of a $10,000 check, with almost no strings attached. In an open letter, Damian Bradfield, the president of WeTransfer, shared the genesis of his offer of $10,000 to each of the 173 people just recently laid off from ...
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Gary Burton: Something's Coming
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Vibraphonist Gary Burton has had an extraordinary career. The four-mallet pioneer and jazz-fusion trailblazer has won seven Grammys and continues to make superb music in the States and abroad. I've always been fond of his 1960s recordings. Through these albums, you can hear jazz transition in the hands of one young artist, shifting from jazz-pop (Groovy Sound of Music) to jazz-samba (with Stan Getz), jazz-pop rock (Time Machine), jazz-country (Tennessee Firebird), Latin-jazz with George Shearing, jazz-fusion (Duster) and beyond. One ...
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The Metronomes: Something Big
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
To stand out and survive, jazz vocal groups in the 1950s and beyond had to have a certain amount of commercial appeal. Much of their success as recording artists and performers depended on their ability to harmonize, sound hip and connect with pop-minded audiences. This was as true of the Ink Spots and Mills Brothers in the 1940s as it was of the Four Freshmen, the Hi-Lo's and Lambert, Hendricks and Ross in the 1950s and the Manhattan Transfer and ...
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Soaring Music Launches Bassist Greg Nathan's Website in Support of "I'll Think Of Something"
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Greg Nathan
Greg Nathan, son of Charles Nathan, (songwriter who penned the music to Perry Como's 1953 hit, “Say Your Mine Again,") and Tonie Nathan, (the first woman in history of the United States to receive an electoral vote for U.S. Vice President while running on the 1972 Libertarian Party ticket,) has opened a website to facilitate holiday sales of the acclaimed CD I'll Think of Something, named after a song from Charles Nathan's musical “Where the Heck's the Plot?" produced in ...
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The Start of Something Big
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Like you, I often find myself fixated on a single song. Some songs are like that. For me, Steve Allen's This Could Be the Start of Something Big knocks me out, no matter who records it. The punchy, uplifting song has a swinging, “let's put on a show" feel, and I can't get enough of it. Published in 1956, Allen wrote it for a TV musical production of The Bachelor. Then it became his theme on the Tonight Show until ...
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Crowdtilt Expands DIY Crowdfunding and Ecommerce with "Sell Something"
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HypeBot
Crowdtilt launched as a way for groups to pool money and has grown into a multifaceted service for pooling money, fundraising and selling things all of which share elements of crowdfunding. Earlier this year they launched Crowdtilt Open, an open source platform for DIY crowdfunding, and yesterday they launched Sell Something, a platform for selling anything that uses a crowdfunding approach to determining demand. For a limited time, it's also free to use with no commission or credit card fees. ...
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