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Guitarist Bob Keefe goes 'Surfin' with Santa' on holiday release
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Lauren Rogers
Santa Claus, take note: Bob Keefe wants a surfboard for Christmas. In case Saint Nicholas isn't listening, Keefe has released a new album, Surfin' with Santa, that should get the bearded one's attention at the North Pole. On Surfin' with Santa, Keefe covers traditional Christmas tunes like “Jingle Bells" and “Silent Night" and gives them the surf-music treatment. It's an unlikely marriage that Keefe manages to pull off effectively, capturing the sense of wonder and spiritual beauty of the originals ...
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New Cindy Blackman Interview with Charles Blass (audio) On the Wedding Day of Cindy and Carlos Santana
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Charles Blass
The following interview with drummer-composer-bandleader-producer Cindy Blackman was conducted on August 28, 2010 in Zürich, Switzerland at the home of her friend, event producer Michaela Fritz. Less than two months' prior, Carlos Santana had proposed to her onstage following a drum solo in Illinois, and she accepted. Today, December 19th is Cindy and Carlos' wedding day, in Maui, and we celebrate the union of two great artists with this previously unheard discussion. Among the topics are: Sonny Sharrock and Alice ...
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36 Exclusive Hypebot Interviews from 2010
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HypeBot
In case you missed them, here's a list of our best interviews from 2010. I'm very thankful that all of these people were kind enough to take their time and answer my numerous questions. If you're at all curious about the issues that the record and music industries will be grappling with in the new year, I highly suggest that you take a moment and read the thoughts from these leading thinkers, writers, artists, and fans. Todd Hansen, co-founder of ...
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Buddy Collette Said It
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
In addition to being a superb reed and woodwind musician, the late Buddy Collette also was a courageous advocate for civil rights in Los Angeles. Up through the late '40s and early '50s, integration was actively discouraged by the city. Even the musicians' union had two locals—one for whites and another for blacks. By 1950, the jazz scene on Central Avenue had all been shuttered by a police force openly hostile to clubs that catered to black and white patrons ...
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Interview with CEO of LyricFnd: On Their New API System and the Most Innovative Lyric Sites
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HypeBot
This is part two of my interview with Darryl Ballantyne. He's CEO of LyricFind, a legal lyric solution provider. In part two of this interview with Ballantyne, he talks about recent developments at his company and the challenges of disrupting lyric pirates. Hypebot: What are some of the most interesting lyric websites that you've seen emerge lately? Darryl Ballantyne: We're seeing a lot of great lyrics-based concepts recently; the unfortunate part is I can't talk about most of them yet! ...
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Interview with OK Go: On File-Sharing, the Major Label System, and Balancing Creativity with Marketing
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HypeBot
This interview is by Miranda Burnett of Pirate Verbatim. Follow her on Twitter. A few months back, Miranda Burnett started a blog called Pirate Verbatim, where she highlights artist's thoughts on file-sharing. Hypebot grew very excited about her efforts, as we had thought it would be great to give artists a voice and enable them to express their concerns about music piracy. Long story short, we gave the gift of “Hypebot Magic" to Burnett and encouraged her to pursue original ...
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Latin Jazz Conversations: Samuel Quinto (Part 3)
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The Latin Jazz Corner by Chip Boaz
The further an artist moves forward in their chosen musical direction, the more they define their artistic identity. It's a process that evolves over the course of years, as the musician moves through a series of milestones. These milestones are the moments that we remember historically, but it's really the events that lead to the milestones that build the artist's identity. All the hard practice and long performances that the musician experiences, as well as the different people and places ...
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Rale Micic Charts New Ground with Crowdfunding
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Rale Micic
New York, NY—Rale Micic, who is being hailed as “one of the most interesting young guitarists on the New York City scene," has turned to crowd funding, a new way of financing independent, creative projects, to produce a high-quality jazz music video for his composition “Serbology." Crowd funding is a grassroots, web-based approach to raising money that allows fans to be directly involved in the creation of new projects. In an all-or-nothing bid, artists establish a financial goal and timeframe ...
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