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Latin Jazz Conversations: Wayne Wallace (Part 2)

Source: The Latin Jazz Corner by Chip Boaz
January 28, 2011

The evolution of jazz charges into the future with the ferocity of a tidal wave, and the strongest musicians ride the momentum into the future. The conglomeration of musical styles and improvisational approaches that shape emerging trends in jazz push the musician through a test of flexibility and durability. Sometimes the musician successfully sails over the crest of these diverse sounds with immense skill, while at other times they fall into the depths of the sea. Like any good surfer, ...

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UYS Interview: Doug Hammond - "An AmeriEuro Fantasia"

Source: underyourskin
January 27, 2011

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Interview: Loren Janes of Bullitt

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
January 27, 2011

As a kid growing up in New York in the late '60s, I had a thing for the movie Bullitt starring Steve McQueen. While I didn't necessarily understand the plot, I was mesmerized by the car chase. At the local candy store, all of my friends talked obsessively about it, probably because watching the sequence felt like being on one of the amusement park rides we loved so much. The you-are-there sensation owed much to the use of cameras in ...

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BLN.KR - Update Your Band Profiles All at Once

Source: HypeBot
January 27, 2011

If you're a regular reader of Hypebot, chances are, you're already updating your MySpace, Facebook, and Twitter all at once. However, everyone loves options and shiny new artist tools, so I'll hip you to a new site called Bln.ker. It enables you to share all of your new songs—with a single click—across multiple platforms, saving you time and effort. If I'm not mistaken, ArtistData enables you to do the same thing, as do other artist sites like ReverbNation. But if ...

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Latin Jazz Conversations: Wayne Wallace (Part 1)

Source: The Latin Jazz Corner by Chip Boaz
January 27, 2011

Community plays a powerful role in the creation of a musician; individuals evolve into artists through the impact of the world spinning around them. Musical movements often define a region, leaving their mark upon all its inhabitants. Some areas resonate with a single-minded focus upon one artistic direction while other places overflow with different ideas. For the casual listener, these stylistic trademarks of an area leave a fondness; they stamp the serious musician with an unbreakable imprint. The artist may ...

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Cuban Legend Paquito D'Rivera Interviewed at All About Jazz

Source: All About Jazz
January 25, 2011

There is almost nothing Paquito D'Rivera hasn't accomplished since his arrival on the U.S. jazz scene in the early 1980s, when the young Cuban arrived from Spain—the first spot he hid when he defected from his home nation and its Communist rule that denied personal freedoms and forced musicians playing jazz to call it something else in order to avoid punishment. Since then, the 62-year-old reed man (alto saxophone and clarinet)/composer/arranger has won nine Grammy Awards in Latin, jazz and ...

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Why My Band Left MySpace and Facebook - For Good

Source: HypeBot
January 25, 2011

Recently I spoke with Robin Davey who is a musician, director, and producer. His bands include The Hoax and most recently the eclectic pop duo The Bastard Fairies. Davey has directed music videos for Buckcherry, Jet and Drowning Pool and his documentary The Canary Effect won The Stanley Kubrick Award for Bold and Innovative film making at Michael Moore's Traverse City Film Festival. In this interview Davey talks about his bands exodus from MySpace and Facebook and why the music industry ...

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Bassist Matthew Garrison Interviewed at AAJ...and More!

Source: All About Jazz
January 24, 2011

Bassist/composer Matthew Garrison is, without a doubt, one of the most technically gifted musicians of his generation. Over the last two decades he has been employed by such high-caliber leaders as [pianist-keyboardists] Joe Zawinul, Herbie Hancock and Geri Allen; [saxophonists] Wayne Shorter, Michael Brecker and Steve Coleman; [guitarists] John McLaughlin, Pat Metheny, John Scofield; [drummers] Jack DeJohnette, Gary Husband and Terri Lyne Carrington. This impressive list tells only a part of the story, for Garrison is equally feted by pop ...

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