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Phil Schaap: Charlie Parker (PT. 3)
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
When Parker's imposed stay at Camarillo State Mental Hospital near Los Angeles ended at the bottom of January 1947, he returned to the West Coast jazz scene briefly, recording for Dial in February and performing at the Hi-Di-Ho Club in March. Upon his return to New York in April, he recorded for Savoy in May. But in August, a strange thing happened: Parker was suddenly a sideman playing tenor sax on a record session led by Miles Davis. For the ...
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Interview: Chris Vinson and David Dufresne, Founder/CTO and Ceo of Bandzoogle (PT. 2)
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HypeBot
Read Part One. Kyle Bylin: “For every institution that failed, for every business model that outlived its usefulness, new and better ones rushed in the fill the void," Richard Florida says in his book The Great Reset. “Past periods of crisis eventually gave rise to new epochs of great ingenuity and inventiveness." He argues that, that crises—perhaps ones much like the record industries'—"are the times when new technologies and new business models were forged, and they were also the eras ...
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Exclusive Giant Step Interview with Esperanza Spalding + MP3
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Giant Step
Esperanza Spalding, the beautiful bassist (and vocalist and songwriter) who just released her album Chamber Music Society graciously gave us a little interview. After working with her idols, rapidly gaining critical acclaim and crafting her latest album to perfection, she's at another turning point in her amazing career. Read the full Q&A and get your free download after the jump, and don't forget to check tour dates. You've already received great attention already from major press to gigs at the ...
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Finding Sonny Clark
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Jazz Lives by Michael Steinman
Sam Stephenson's JAZZ LOFT PROJECT blog is one I visit regularly—not only for its subject matter but for the caliber of Sam's prose. Often the site's subject is the magical and mysterious music and life revolving around Eugene Smith, photographer and thinker and friend of jazz.
But today I was captivated by a black-and-white picture of a first grade class . . . which turns out to have the jazz pianist Sonny Clark in its front row. I'm calling your ...
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Interview: Chris Vinson and David Dufresne, Founder/CTO and CEO of Bandzoogle (PT. 1)
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HypeBot
Recently, I spoke with Chris Vinson and David Dufresne, who are respectively founder/CTO and CEO of Bandzoogle, a company that offers a do-it-yourself website builder and a suite of direct-to-fan marketing tools for artists. At present, they are also working on a yet-to-launch project named Backfed, which they described to me as “a fan-to-artist payment system and a platform to enable and encourage collaborative patronage of artists." This interview is second in a series that I conducted in research for ...
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Phil Schaap: Charlie Parker (PT. 1)
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Like a Nathan's hot dog or Carvel ice-cream cone, Phil Schaap is a New York original. For the uninitiated, Phil, 59, is best known as the host of Bird Flight, a radio show on WKCR that's devoted to Charlie Parker. But that isn't really what's remarkable. What's special is Phil's unrivaled passion for the subject, his nitty-gritty knowledge, and the fact that the show has been on the air every weekday from 8:20 to 9:40 a.m. since 1983. Many people ...
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Trumpeter Taylor Haskins Interviewed at All About Jazz!
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John Kelman
Taylor Haskins is forging more of a career in the jazz world, and it's based on his solid musicianship and flair on the trumpet: a good strong tone, good chops, and a wide array of influences, translating into him being at ease and formidable in many styles, including being plugged-in. In addition to stepping out more on his own as a solo player, he can be found, in recent years, with the likes of Richard Bona, Guillermo Klein, Jamie Baum, ...
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Curlew Founder/Saxophonist George Cartwright Interviewed at All About Jazz
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John Kelman
George Cartwright can't be forgotten. The triple sax threat is part of the archaeology of modern New York. The downtown scene, just like New Orleans or 52 Street, has its mythology, and, as much as John Zorn, Cartwright figures in that, having come to the city fresh out of The Creative Music Studio in Woodstock, New York in the late 1970s, bringing with him his trio featuring the equally crucial percussionist David Moss and reed player Michael Lytle. Curlew came ...
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