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Jack Conte Of Pomplamoose And Patreon Looks Back At 2014
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HypeBot
Jack Conte, multi-instrumentialist of Pomplamoose and co-founder of Patreon joins us today to Hypebot.com's year end virtual panel. When asked about effect of ubiquitous music online and what the “Taylor Swift Debate" means for music streaming he says “No - the debate won't change anything, but artists pulling out of Spotify will." Conte goes on, “So many financial models are crumbling for artists right now - they're going to go where they get paid, as they should." Continue reading for more from Jack ...
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Nicola Conte "Love and Revolution"
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Sound Insights by Doug Payne
For more than a decade now Nicola Conte has scored brilliantly as a DJ, promoter, producer, compiler and recording artist. From his earliest recording, 2000's still remarkable Jet Sounds (also issued in the US as Bossa Per Due), Conte has also displayed a retro appreciation for the lounge appeal of bossa nova combined with a soulful groove informed by his love of all things jazz. He even waxed a record for the vaunted Blue Note label in between regular forays ...
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Luis Conte's "En Casa De Luis" Features The Many Sides Of The Powerful Percussionist
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Heather Noonan
LOS ANGELES—Luis Conte, most famous as a masterful percussionist, has announced the release of his latest album, “En Casa de Luis," out March 8th through BFM Jazz. Conte can play virtually any style of music and has performed with a very wide range of major artists, including James Taylor, Madonna, Barbara Streisand, Phil Collins and Pat Metheny, to name a few. Conte is also an important bandleader, and a very skilled songwriter and singer. His many musical talents are on ...
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Jazzsnap: Buddy and Conte (1947)
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
JazzWax has come into possession of some amazing digital jazz photos from the 1940s. What makes these images special is that many were snapshots taken by a woman named Betty who was and remains crazy about jazz and jazz musicians. In fact, Betty was friends with many of her subjects. She also had a remarkable eye for composition, and she positioned her camera lens up close. Through her photos, you get a vivid sense of her subjects' ambition, charm and ...
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Nicola Conte "Rituals" CD Available on May 19
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All About Jazz
Decca Records presents Rituals, the third album from Italian musician Nicola Conte, available on May 19th! Audio Stream: Love In Awakening 2008 is the year of “Rituals," which confirms the multifaceted talent of the artist and instrumentalist from Bari. Recorded between the end of 2005 and the October of 2007, also this work first of all develops around the historical faithful team which follows the artist in the live shows. Here we find again Pietro Lussu, Pietro Ciancaglini, ...
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Conte Candoli: Best from the West
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Some of the finest West Coast jazz combo playing of late 1954 appears on Best From the West: Modern Sounds from California (Vols. 1 and 2). These albums were issued by Blue Note as a pair of 10-inch LPs. Frankly, there isn't a drop of filler here, and the playing and compositions, many of which are by Shorty Rogers, swing with a special richness and aggression. As Leonard Feather writes in the original album's liner notes, “this is a wailing ...
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Conte Candoli: Top West Coast Trumpet Soloist
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All About Jazz
Conte Candoli made his debut in the Woody Herman Orchestra while still in high school, and went on to establish a deserved reputation as the major jazz trumpet player on the West Coast. He worked often with his brother, trumpeter Pete Candoli, and enjoyed a 20-year residence in the studio band for Johnny Carson’s celebrated Tonight Show. He was born Secondo Candoli. His father was an amateur trumpet player, and encouraged his sons to play music ...
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