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Music Crowdfunding: GWAR Restaurant, Miles Davis Movie, Wearhaus Arc Headsets
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HypeBot
Music crowdfunding campaigns of note include a new campaign from GWAR for a GWAR-themed restaurant featuring such delights as GWAR-B-Q. Don Cheadle is also leading a new campaign for a film about an episode in the life of Miles Davis that he will direct. Plus there's great news from Wearhaus whose $75,000 crowdfunding campaign for Wearhaus Arc Headsets was a big success. While Cheadle's film is a clear example of crowdfunding a project as opposed to a business, the other ...
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Guitarist Matt Panayides Releasing 2nd Album With Rich Perry
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Matt Panayides
Celebrated NYC Jazz Guitarist Launches Second Studio Album on Kickstarter New York—Jazz musician and composer Matt Panayides announces the launch of his group’s second album which is currently seeking funding on Kickstarter. “I’m excited about this release because the band has had an opportunity to perform this music live and is excited to channel that energy into a recording,” said Matt Panayides, guitarist and group lead. “We’ve put in countless hours to make this album a joy to listen to ...
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Bojan Z & Julien Lourau Seek Crowd Funding For New Recording
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All About Jazz
After 25 years of lively collaboration and friendship, pianist/keyboardist Bojan Z and saxophonist Julien Lourau are going to record their duo! The duo was created at the Pannonica Club in Nantes, France, at the end of last century, in 1997 to be precise. Some of you still remember this perhaps. 17 years later, it seems relevant to us to fix these moments in a club as well – in this case at the Triton in Les Lilas, Paris – in ...
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Help Create Janine Santana's Next Latin Jazz Project. All Legends!
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Janine Santana
Lady Colorado Jazz artist has attracted top Latin legends to innovative recording project Boulder, Colorado: Janine Santana’s Next Latin Jazz Project has the attention of many of the best composers and musicians in the genre. With legendary artists David Amram (composer, author and multi instrumentalist), Pianist/producer Ricky Gonzalez (Mark Anthony, Jennifer Lopez and many salsa legends),Ray Vega (Machito, Tito Puente)Jose Madera (Tito Puente and current leader of the Mambo Legends Orchestra), Luques Curtis ( bassist for Eddie Palmieri ), Bobby ...
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NEA Jazz Master Bill Holman To Be Film Subject
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Kathryn King
Kathryn King Media has announced a Kickstarter campaign to fund the production of Charting Jazz: The Mastery of Bill Holman, a documentary about the National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master. The film will shine a light on the extraordinary Mr. Holman, a tenor saxophonist, bandleader, arranger and composer long deeply respected and revered by his fellow musicians but not as well known to the general public as other accomplished musical innovators of his generation. The campaign was launched on ...
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Announcing The Archive Of Future Ancient Recordings By Ancient Future: Celebrating 35 Years Of World Fusion Music With New Fan Funded Tracks And Youtube Video
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Matthew Montfort
Ancient-Future.Com Records Presents: The Archive of Future Ancient Recordings (A.F.A.R.) Fan Supported Recording Series by Ancient Future Celebrating 35 Years of World Fusion Music Ancient Future performed its first concert on February 11, 1979, at the Sleeping Lady Cafe in Fairfax, California. Since then, the band has gone on to perform hundreds of concerts nationally and internationally and release seven full length recordings that have established Ancient Future as the trendsetting pioneers of world fusion music, a term coined by ...
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Legendary Jazz Group Weather Report Rises With Legacy Project
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Braithwaite & Katz Communications
Documentary “Calm Before The Storm" to be directed by Tony Zawinul Seminal jazz group Weather Report rises again with the Weather Report Legacy Project and crowdfunding initiative. The new project, launching December 9, 2013, will support the creation of a documentary, “Calm Before the Storm." The film documents the group from its beginnings in 1970, through their 16 year and 17 album career, anchored by legendary founders and jazz legends Joe Zawinul and Wayne Shorter. The Weather Report Legacy Project ...
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Monday Night With Tony Vitti: The Class Is Back, Baby!
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Tony Vitti
Tony Vitti, French jazz singer now living in New York City, broadcast live on prime time in front of more than 2 million people on French TV and Michelle Kawka, New York's rising star in photography and Queens NY native, are launching a crowfunding campaign on Indie GoGo to create the first Musical Webseries based on the 50s-All-Hollywood ambiance, mixing jazz music and retro-TV show. Michelle will direct the show in creating a signature show that is truly American in ...
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