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Topspin's Ian Rogers Launches "This Week in Music" Interview Series

Source: HypeBot
July 21, 2011

Jason Calicanis' This Week In Startups is so popular with the tech tribe that it's spawned its own online network and Topspin CEO Ian Rogers is hosting its newest offshoot, This Week In Music. “It's a pivotal time in the music business and my intention is to explore that with some of the best minds in the business," states Rogers; and he's off to a strong start. In the inaugural episode, Rogers hosted Beastie Boy Mike D and Fenway Recordings' Mark ...

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Interview: Gerald Wilson

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
July 20, 2011

In today's Wall Street Journal (go here), I write about the Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra and a fabulous new box set from Mosaic Records: The Complete Jimmie Lunceford Decca Sessions, featuring material recorded between 1934 and 1945. What makes this box special is that you get to hear swing's ascension before Benny Goodman gave it a mass-market spin in 1935 with the help of arranger Fletcher Henderson. With this new box, you also get to hear the maturation of an astonishing ...

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Ariel Hyatt Interviews Panos Panay of Sonicbids

Source: HypeBot
July 19, 2011

This interview that Ariel Hyatt of Cyber PR did with Sonicbids founder Panos Panay isn't new, but so much of what these two veterans of independent music spoke about rang true that we're republishing it. A while back I started writing a book about entrepreneurial leaders in the music business for Music Industry and Music Business students. I was inspired to do this as a result of guest lecturing at several music industry colleges and universities. It dawned on me ...

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Interview: Mary Vonnie

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
July 18, 2011

Back in May, I posted about a 15-minute documentary made by filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker in 1964 called Audition at RCA. It featured producer George Avakian accompanying Dave Lambert and his new group of vocalese singers while they auditioned new material for RCA that Lambert had written and hoped to record. For whatever reason, RCA suits passed. Then they wiped the tapes, meaning all that remains exists on Pennebaker's film. Sadly, Lambert would be killed on a Connecticut highway two years ...

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Latin Jazz Conversations: Roberto Sierra (Part 3)

Source: The Latin Jazz Corner by Chip Boaz
July 18, 2011

Crossover is an interesting word that provokes a number of different reactions in people. On the one hand, it signifies the ultimate goal of any musician—to seamlessly cross between styles and connect with a multitude of artists. Individuals with the unique insight to see the connection points between musical boundaries find themselves with more opportunities and a world of creativity. Other people view crossing over as a commercial act that sacrifices the integrity of musical styles for financial gain. This ...

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Latin Jazz Conversations: Roberto Sierra (Part 2)

Source: The Latin Jazz Corner by Chip Boaz
July 18, 2011

Any duo of professional musicians can collaborate and produce a high quality product, but it takes a special understanding between two artists to deliver truly memorable music. Every night musicians are thrown together and they make music based upon shared knowledge and professional behavior; it might sound good, but it rarely reaches a level of shared understanding. In order to move music to that higher plane, musicians need to find common ground and build a healthy respect for their background, ...

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The Rise of Seun Kuti

Source: JamBase
July 14, 2011

By Dennis Cook Seun Kuti and Egypt 80 begin their U.S. tour today, July 13, in Solano Beach, CA. Find the full itinerary here. In many ways it does not that Seun Kuti is the youngest son of Afrobeat originator Fela Kuti. Such is Seun's naked passion, political uprightness, musical swing and humanitarian spirit that he'd be a major force with or without his family legacy. A few minutes in his company show him to be clear-eyed in his assessment ...

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Latin Jazz Conversations: Roberto Sierra (Part 1)

Source: The Latin Jazz Corner by Chip Boaz
July 14, 2011

Cultural connections are the key elements that define a musician's artistic output, creating an individual sound through the intersection of these pieces. The meeting between an individual's cultural relationships doesn't happen instantly though; the various musical strains need to float through an individual's life for a while, sinking into the subconscious. Once several different cultural elements become an essential part of the musician's life, the similarities and differences between each one becomes glaringly apparent. At this point, the experimentation begins, ...

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