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For Sale

Gil Evans Project Live Album, Lines Of Color, Now Available For Download

Source: Prawit Austin Siriwat
February 18, 2015

The Gil Evans Project's live album, Lines of Color, is now available for download from the ArtistShare site and available for pre-order on iTunes. The band was nominated for three Grammy awards in 2013, and their first album, Centennial, won Gil a Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement. The ensemble also won two JJA Jazz Awards, record of the year and Large Ensemble of the Year. This new live recording took place May 13-18th, 2014, for the Gil Evans Project’s ...

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Recording

Maria Schneider’s Thompson Fields Project Nears Completion

Source: Prawit Austin Siriwat
January 16, 2015

Three-time Grammy Award-winning composer Maria Schneider is nearing the finish line for her newest ArtistShare project, The Thompson Fields. As the projects comes closer and closer to completion, ArtistShare participants can listen to short clips of the project, giving them a glimpse of the Maria Schneider Orchestra’s first studio album in seven years. The record exemplifies Maria's compositional approach, with pieces descriptive of her home in Minnesota, to being inspired by first time she heard Samba in Rio. There is ...

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Crowdfunding Campaign

ArtistShare Launches The Titanes Del Trombón Project Featuring Eddie Palmieri Alumnus Doug Beavers

Source: Prawit Austin Siriwat
November 17, 2014

NEW FAN-FUNDED ALBUM BY GRAMMY WINNING TROMBONIST, ARRANGER, AND COMPOSER DOUG BEAVERS Titanes del Trombón will feature renowned musicians Oscar Hernandez, Edsel Gomez, Luisito Quintero, Luques Curtis, and many more. Grammy award winning trombonist, composer, and arranger Doug Beavers, known primarily for his work with Eddie Palmieri and Spanish Harlem Orchestra launches his new fan funded project, Titanes del Trombón, on ArtistShare. The project shares his artistic vision and pays homage to greats of both jazz and Afro-Cuban idioms through ...

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Crowdfunding Campaign

ArtistShare Launches The Requinte Trio Project

Source: Prawit Austin Siriwat
November 10, 2014

NEW FAN-FUNDED ALBUM FEATURES GRAMMY AWARD WINNING VOCALIST, JANIS SIEGEL, WORLD-RENOWNED BRAZILIAN MUSICIAN NANNY ASSIS, AND MULTI-GRAMMY NOMINATED PIANIST JOHN DI MARTINO The Requinte Trio is a fusion of Brazilian and American Jazz, forming a creative combustion of music Nine time Grammy Award winning vocalist Janis Siegel, Brazilian multi-instrumentalist Nanny Assis, and Multi-Grammy Nominated pianist John Di Martino are each recognized as masters of their craft. With the Requinte Trio, they each bring their love for American Jazz and Brazilian ...

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Crowdfunding Campaign

ArtistShare Launches The Bop Project

Source: Prawit Austin Siriwat
November 10, 2014

NEW FAN-FUNDED ALBUM BY JEFF LORBER AND CHUCK LOEB TO HELP FUND THE POLYCISTIC KIDNEY DISEASE (PKD) FOUNDATION The BOP project features Jeff Lorber, Chuck Loeb, and many special guests. BOP is a one-of-a-kind traditional bebop album that brings together world-class musicians, conceived by Grammy nominated keyboardist/composer/producer, Jeff Lorber, and guitarist, Chuck Loeb. The concept was brought to life at the Berk’s Jazz Festival in Philadelphia, at which Loeb conducts the bebop jam sessions. They organized and co-produced the record ...

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Award / Grant

BlueNote/ArtistShare Submits Its First Albums For Consideration In The 57th Grammy Awards

Source: Prawit Austin Siriwat
October 23, 2014

New records from Blue Note/ArtistShare artists Fabian Almazan and Jon Cowherd, as well as ArtistShare artist Steve Wiest to be considered for Grammy Awards This year ArtistShare has submitted the first recordings from the new BlueNote/ArtistShare label, a partnership forged by ArtistShare Founder and CEO Brian Camelio, Bruce Lundvall, and Don Was, President of Blue Note Records. Blue Note/ArtistShare is the first collaboration between a crowdfunding model and a major label. Bruce Lundvall (Chairman Emeritus of Blue Note) refers to ...

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Music Industry

ArtistShare Founder And CEO Speaks At George Mason University Intellectual Property Conference

Source: Prawit Austin Siriwat
October 11, 2014

George Mason University's Center for the Protection of Intellectual Property (CPIP) Conference, Common Ground: How Intellectual Property United Creators and Innovators explored the relationship between creative and innovative industries. Camelio spoke on panel entitled Creative Upstarts and Start-Up Firms: Sources of New Innovation and Creative Works with, Ron Katznelson, President of Bi-Level Technologies, Prof. Sean O’Connor, University of Washington School of Law, Prof. Sean Pager, Michigan State University School of Law, and moderator Matthew Barblan, George Mason University School of ...

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