The Skinny

The Skinny Release "Dig On It" Today!

Source: Pete Zimmer
October 9, 2012

The Skinny is: Kyle Asche guitar; Ben Paterson Hammond B-3; Jake Vinsel electric bass; and Mike Schlick drums. Formed in 2005, The Skinny became a band in the wake of bassist Jake Vinsel’s inspired association with the legendary James Brown funky drummer Clyde Stubblefield. Guitarist Kyle Asche, one of the most active guitarists on Chicago’s rich Hammond Organ trio scene, brought influence and repertoire from Grant Green, George Benson and Melvin Sparks to the band. Mike Schlick, a longtime cornerstone ...
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The Skinny on Promotional Packages and Booking Agents

Source: MusicianWages.com
September 7, 2011

OK, you're ready to get out there and perform. You have the skills, you have a promotional kit and you can visualize yourself working five nights a week and making pretty good bread. Your plan is to network with other musicians at jam night and find out who's gigging where and how much they're getting paid. You then cold-call club owners, hotels, event planners and drop off or e-mail your promotional material. They never call you back. You cringe as ...
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Improvising Duo Skinny Vinny Interviewed at AAJ

Source: All About Jazz
February 10, 2010

Andrew Eisenberg is the percussionist for the Boston, Mass. duo Skinny Vinny--and a conceptual mastermind. Equally adept with hammer, saw, trash can, pots and pans, or what have you, he can make you think, or muse, by knocking together a table, or banging a stick against a window. An early piece, a big white room with a steel door, was titled “The Answer to Everything." The answer was enclosed within the room. But the door was locked...

No, Skinny Vinny ...
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