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Boyce Justice Griffith Displays The Beauty And Necessity Of Being Grounded In One’s Principles With 'The Point'
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Outside in Music
Saxophonist and composer Boyce Justice Griffith emphasizes the beauty and necessity of being grounded in one’s principles with his concept album, The Point. No matter one’s age, demographic, nationality, religion, or political affiliation, each human being undeniably has some treasured personal tenets that are held dear and are paramount to one’s definition of self. Likewise, each individual’s central values have in some way been informed by a series of experiences, relationships, and ideologies that have uniquely and organically played out ...
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South Jersey Jazz Society Announces Lineup for the Pat Martino Celebration of Life Experience Set for November 3-6 in Somers Point, NJ
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DL Media
South Jersey Jazz Society presents a Celebration of Life and Legacy of the great jazz guitarist Pat Martino at this year’s Jazz @ the Point Festival, which runs from November 3 through 6 at Gateway Playhouse and Gregory's Restaurant in Somers Point, New Jersey. Artists performing at the festival include influential musicians and jazz icons who have interacted with Martino throughout the guitarist’s illustrious career that spanned more than five decades before he passed away in 2021. The four-day event ...
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Bobby Cole: A Point of View
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Like Bobby Troup and Bobby Scott, Bobby Cole was a songwriter, arranger and lounge pianist-singer. But unlike the other two Bobbys, Bobby Cole is virtually unknown today. That's largely due to the year Cole came up, in 1960, and his decision to pass on recording opportunities with major labels because of the junk they wanted him to sing and their refusal to let him record songs he wrote. In retrospect, Cole was right. [Photo above of Bobby Cole] Want proof? ...
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Gary McFarland: Departure Point
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
In the late 1950s and early '60s, a new breed of jazz arranger began to surface. Some were deeply influenced by modern classical orchestral music. Others such as Johnny Mandel, Manny Albam, Johnny Pate and Oliver Nelson were swayed by the drama and subtle incidental melodies of television and the movies. Among the latter group, the most innovative and musically dashing was Gary McFarland. Born in Oregon in 1933, McFarland was something of a savant, teaching himself to play boogie-woogie ...
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OceanFirst Bank Jazz @ the Point 2018 Festival brings the best of jazz to South Jersey: Thursday, October 11 through Sunday, October 14. Get your all access pass!
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All About Jazz
The South Jersey Jazz Society has once again put together a lineup of incredible Jazz artists to perform at this year’s OceanFirst Bank Jazz @ the Point Festival Thursday, October 11 through Sunday, October 14. Shows will be presented throughout various venues in Somers Point, New Jersey for fans of this great American art form to enjoy. Featured Jazz artists performing at this year’s festival include Javon Jackson; The Four Freshmen; 3 of A Kind featuring Michael Pedicin, Larry McKenna ...
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Award-Winning Saxophonist Tony Kofi And The Organisation Release "Point Blank" On The Last Music Company Label on August 31
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The Last Music Company
“I don’t think I set out to create a retro concept, but it’s mostly what I hear in my head. Because I grew up in the 1970s, the music of that era which I love is deeply rooted within my musical ear,” says saxophonist Tony Kofi of this latest collection, which features the classic organ sound of The Organisation throughout. The quartet on these recordings first emerged in 2010 when Kofi, fresh from recording with Ornette Coleman in New York, ...
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Digital Music Distributor Symphonic Scores $4 Million Investment From Ballast Point Ventures
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HypeBot
Tampa based Symphonic Distribution has secured a $4 million investment from Ballast Point Ventures (BPV). Symphonic will use the investment to add to its sales force, bolster its marketing and enhance its product capabilities. After 10 years as a bootstrapped company, Symphonic Distribution found a venture capital firm that it wanted to partner with. The digital music distributor has secured a $4 million minority investment from Tampa based Ballast Point Ventures (BPV). Symphonic digitally distributes music to over 300 retail ...
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Comparing Artists To Start-Ups Lazy, Unhealthy, Beside The Point.
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HypeBot
As music and technology become increasingly closely intertwined, there is often a compulsion to compare bands and artists to startups, a comparison which Emily Gonneau considers to be limited in its accuracy and benefit. Guest post by Emily Gonneau on Medium This is a follow up post from the great “Artist as a Start-up?” panel at the Sonic Visions conference in Luxemburg I was recently invited to debate on. Comparing artists to start-ups is a trend that has emerged this last ...
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Music Streaming Reaches A Tipping Point
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HypeBot
It seems the industry has finally reached a point where music streaming revenue has become the greatest contributor of royalties for both artists and labels and, as purchases continue to drop, this increasing prominence of streaming will reshape many other aspects of the industry. Guest Post by Glenn Peoples on Medium Takeaways: Streaming will soon represent over half of all recorded revenue in the United States. The revenue from purchases are already equal to revenue not derived from purchases. The growing role of streaming ...
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Artist Development: What Is Your Unique Selling Point?
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HypeBot
Whether or not an artist chooses to try and get signed to a record label or promote themselves independently, having a unique selling point is important to their development, as they work to stand out from the legions of other musicians competing for the same fans. Guest Post by W. Tyler Allen from W. Tyler Consulting This is a story I’ve told time and time again — and here I am telling it again: The industry is FULL of artists, ...
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