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Latin Jazz Conversations: Annette Aguilar (Part 1)
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The Latin Jazz Corner by Chip Boaz
Our community has a major impact upon our lives, shaping our cultural awareness and the paths that we take to express it. Interactions with parents, friends, extended family, teachers, and other community members give us clues about their values and the traditions that they cherish. From birth, we learn by imitation, so we naturally gravitate towards the same types of activities and priorities. These values become an important part of our lives, but at some point, they eventually come into ...
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Interview: David Meerman Scott, Author of Marketing Lessons from the Grateful Dead (PT. 2)
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HypeBot
Read Part One.
Kyle Bylin: There were many interesting subgroups wondering along as part of the larger odyssey that was the Grateful Dead Experience—whom only served further shape and define it for everyone else.
In this respect, what can artists nowadays learn from the Grateful Dead?
David Meerman Scott: The Grateful Dead kept an eye out for sub-groups of fans such as the spinners who would twirl in ecstasy to the music in a quiet hallway in the venue. So ...
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Interview: Little Richard
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
My conversation with Little Richard in today's Wall Street Journal (go here or pick up a copy) was a mind-opener. This is the guy who started rock 'n' roll as we know it, for goodness sake. With his first hit Tutti Frutti in 1955, Little Richard single-handedly unleashed a new form of music that to this day continues to influence musicians worldwide. Virtually every major rock and rap act since 1955 owes a debt to Little Richard—and all have said ...
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Damian Erskine: Playing the Groove
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Jazz en Dominicana by Fernando Rodriguez
Bassist Damian Erskine has released two albums as a leader over the past couple years, including So To Speak (Self Produced, 2010), a fusion album with Latin underpinnings. He's also been playing with his uncle, Peter Erskine, in the veteran drummer's New Trio, performing a series of concerts during 2010 south of the border, in the Dominican Republic, Chile and Argentina.
The bassist has also recently published a companion book of charts and a play-along version of So to Speak ...
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Jazz en Dominicana Interviews Vardan Ovsepian
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Jazz en Dominicana by Fernando Rodriguez
Vardan Ovsepian is an Armenia-born pianist/composer who most recently appeared as part of the Peter Erskine New Trio in the World Jazz Circuit Latina America 2010-2011 season. His education includes the Yerevan State Conservatory, the Estonian Music Academy, the Helsinki Jazz Conservatory, and Berklee College of Music. A recording artist who has released 4 CDs with the Barcelona-based “Fresh Sound New Talent" label, plus an independent release of Vardan Ovsepian Chamber Ensemble (VOCE), he performs with musicians like Peter Erskine, ...
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Jazz en Dominicana interviews Peter Erskine
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Jazz en Dominicana by Fernando Rodriguez
As promised, our last of three interviews prior to the upcoming Peter Erskine New Trio concert featuring Damian Erskine & Vardan Ovsepian to be held in Santo Domingo on July 28th concert would be with Peter Erskine; the previous two with Damian Erskine and Vardan Ovsepian. Peter began his professional career with the Stan Kenton Orchestra in 1972, 3 years later joined Maynard Ferguson and in 1978 Weather Report forming a formidable rhythm section with legendary bassist Jaco Pastorious, after ...
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Interview: David Meerman Scott, Author of Marketing Lessons from the Grateful Dead (PT. 1)
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HypeBot
Read Part Two.
Recently, I spoke with David Meerman Scott, who is a well-known blogger, speaker, marketing thought-leader, and best-selling author of The New Rules of Marketing & PR and most recently co-author of Marketing Lessons from the Grateful Dead: What Every Business Can Learn from the Most Iconic Band in History.
First and foremost, like everyone else, you've watched what I've come to call “the plight of the record industry the digital age." Quite unlike the rest of us ...
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Rene Thomas: Meeting Mr. Thomas
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Like many of his Belgian jazz-musician peers in the early 1950s, guitarist Rene Thomas had a swinging lyricism that was distinctly European and infectious. With the rise of the LP in Europe and post-war rebound of the French economy, Thomas, Bobby Jaspar, Francy Boland, Christian Kellens, Jacques Pelzer and other Belgians migrated south to Paris. Nearly all gravitated to the bohemian St. Germain-des-Pres section, where work at neighborhood jazz clubs was plentiful. By 1954, St. Germain hosted the hippest jazz ...
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