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Interview: David Meerman Scott, Author of Marketing Lessons from the Grateful Dead (PT. 1)

Source: HypeBot
August 10, 2010

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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

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
August 10, 2010

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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Oliver Nelson Revisited

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
August 9, 2010

In his few years, Oliver Nelson achieved major success as a composer and arranger in jazz and in the Hollywood studios. His first big band collection, Afro-American Sketches (1961), made it clear that he was an important new talent. His Blues And The Abstract Truth with an all-star septet that included Bill Evans, Freddie Hubbard and Eric Dolphy is one of the most significant jazz albums of the second half of the 20th century. A good saxophonist, Nelson blossomed as ...

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WartaJazz.com's Agus Setiawan Interviewed at AllAboutJazz.com

Source: John Kelman
August 11, 2010

In his book The Miracle: The Epic Story of Asia's Quest for Wealth (HarperCollins, 2009), Michael Schuman writes, “In little more than a generation, Asia has emerged from centuries of stagnation to become the rising force of the global economy—a transformation so spectacular that some have called it a miracle."

Given the sheer number of people—over 4 billion—the booming economies and important social changes, it is not so farfetched when Agus Setiawan, of WartaJazz.com, declares, “The next big thing for ...

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Pianist Mark Soskin Interviewed at All About Jazz

Source: John Kelman
August 10, 2010

In conversation with the immensely talented and engaging pianist Mark Soskin, the word “challenge" arises periodically. It's used in a good sense. Simply put, “I like to be able to be handed a challenge and then rise to it," he said in conversation, earlier in the summer of 2010.

Diversity is also something he likes. The evidence is in the myriad of projects with which he has involved himself since leaving a golden gig with Sonny Rollins years ago, after ...

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Drummer Lenny White Interviewed at AllAboutJazz.com...and More!

Source: John Kelman
August 9, 2010

Since first showing up on the radar on Miles Davis' iconic Bitches Brew (Columbia, 1970) at the age of 19, drummer Lenny White has gone from success to success, most notably for his tenure as a member of Chick Corea's legendary electric group Return to Forever, which launched a successful comeback in 2008.

White always has plenty to say, but he's got even more to say than usual about his first studio release as a leader in 10 years, Anomaly ...

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Looking For Louis, then and Now

Source: Jazz Lives by Michael Steinman
August 8, 2010

But which one? The sound on the records, the iconic image on the television screen, or the actual person?

In the spring of 1967, I was fourteen—someone who had secretly listening to Louis Armstrong records for a few years. And I was fortunate enough to be alive when Louis was popular—HELLO, DOLLY! was still vivid in his repertoire and in people's memories so that he appeared on the Hollywood Palace, with Danny Kaye, alongside Herb Alpert and the Tiajuana Brass, ...

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A Note on Mitch Miller

Source: Riffs on Jazz by John Anderson
August 8, 2010

Jazz fans owe a debt of gratitude to Mitch Miller, who passed away at the age of 99 on July 31. Miller may have been known to many from his shlocky 1960s television show, Sing Along With Mitch, but he played an indirect role in the success of jazz in the 1950s. Miller was an oboist and musical director at Mercury Records, where he produced Charlie Parker with Strings, an album that many people love and probably an equal number ...

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