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Interview: RootMusic CEO J Sider on Music Business Success Strategies
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HypeBot
Last week in San Francisco, Musi2k held a Q&A session with RootMusic's CEO and Founder, J Sider. During the conversation, Sider brought up interesting anecdotal information about how he started RootMusic, the trials and tribulations he went through to get the company where it is today, and what musicians and entrepreneurs should keep in mind as they move forward into tomorrow's music space. Here were the highlights: Sider advises that entrepreneurs attend every social event they can possibly go to. With enough ...
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Trumpeter Cuong Vu Interviewed at All About Jazz...And More!
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All About Jazz
New York may be the major incubator for all that's best in American jazz but there are healthy signs that vibrant scenes are emerging in other cities. In Seattle, there's something going on; an exciting scene is developing around a core of young musicians who see the jazz tradition not as one of emulation, but as essentially one of innovation and progress. The emergence of so many like-minded, forward-thinking jazz musicians in Seattle has much to do with the influence ...
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South African Pianist Jason Reolon Interviewed at All About Jazz...And More!
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All About Jazz
South Africa may well be in the midst of its third jazz renaissance. While the late 1950s saw the rise of legendary artists such as Kippie Moeketsi, Abdullah Ibrahim, and Philip Tabane, the early 1990s marked the emergence of trailblazers Moses Taiwa Molelekwa and Zim Ngqawana. The past five years have born witness to a surge of local jazz talent, as charismatic young musicians draw upon a wide range of inspirations and set a new precedent for instrumental prowess and ...
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More from David Sanborn
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Last week, I was able to interview saxophonist and former St. Louisan David Sanborn (pictured) for a story about his concert tonight with George Duke and Marcus Miller at the Touhill Performing Arts Center. You can read the resulting article online at the Riverfront Times' site here, but there was quite a bit of material I wasn't able to fit in and so, given the interest in Sanborn as one of the best-known jazz musicians to come out of St. ...
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Courtney Bryan, Black composer, marches to the beat of her own drum
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Courtney Bryan
By Alicia Hall Moran “Musicians make decisions. They either support the status quo or break down barriers," says Courtney Bryan, a composer, pianist, academic and organist at Bethany Baptist Church in Newark, N.J., who prefers the latter. Born in New Orleans, Bryan soaked up the music of her Caribbean- and West African-based Anglican church and her piano lessons in the European classical tradition. She immersed herself in her marching band and explored firsthand every which way of jazz: New Orleans ...
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Something Else! Interview: Zigaboo Modeliste, Co-Founder of the Meters
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Something Else!
Joseph “Zigaboo" Modeliste, a funky furnace that once powered the Meters, has just released a tour-de-force project aptly titled New Life. It reestablishes, perhaps unsurprisingly, Modeliste's claim to co-ownership of the band's late 1960s/early 1970s string of R&B and rock hits—from “Cissy Strut" and “Fire on the Bayou," to supporting gigs with Lee Dorsey, LaBelle and Dr. John. Perhaps more interestingly, New Life also illustrates the broad spectrum of legacy sounds that Modeliste has both mastered and contributed to, above ...
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Interview: Catherine Howe
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
You're about to learn about one of the finest female folk albums ever recorded. Not many people know about Catherine Howe's What a Beautiful Place (1971), largely because the album produced and arranged by Bobby Scott (A Taste of Honey) barely made a dent after it was recorded in London. The company for which it was made went bust shortly after the album was released, and only a handful of the LPs existed. Then the album disappeared for 35 years, ...
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Latin Jazz Conversations: Jose Rizo (Part 3)
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The Latin Jazz Corner by Chip Boaz
Bringing together a collection of master musicians often requires more than great music, it demands some sort of magnetic force. By the time that most musicians reach a high level of artistry, they've come to their own ideas and conclusions about their approach to performance. The individualized nature of music almost guarantees that a room full of experienced musicians have different beliefs and comfort zones around their music life. Add the fact that they are busily focused upon their own ...
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