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OK Stop: Marketing and Music Videos

Source: HypeBot
June 10, 2010

Since the launch of MTV in 1981, the music video has played a central role in music marketing. So much in fact, that even back then there was large cache of artists, ranging from Adam and the Ants, Duran Duran and Madonna, who owed a great portion of their commercial success to the rapid-fire editing and sexual nature of their videos. However, over the years, the music video has evolved.

In 1985, Dire Straits released the video for “Money ...

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Video: Truth Finally Comes Out

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
June 8, 2010

The YouTube contributor who posted the Dave Brubeck-Paul Desmond-Gerry Mulligan “All The Things You Are" video we brought you last month promised that there would be more. He is as good as his word. The piece that Brubeck announces seems likely to be from his 1972 oratorio Truth Is Fallen, or in preparation for it. The work was inspired by a passage from Isaiah: “And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen ...

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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Just Wild About Harry

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
June 5, 2010

Go looking online for video clips of Harry Connick, Jr., and you'll find him in all sorts of places doing all sorts of things - hanging out with the First Lady and speaking to kids at the White House, hoofing on Broadway, teaming up with Branford Marsalis to raise funds and awareness for for Habitat for Humanity's Musicians Village development in New Orleans, and plenty more - and that's not even counting ...

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Super Bad Sunday: Stevie Ray Vaughan

Source: JamBase
May 30, 2010

GONE TOO EARLY BUT LEFT SUCH A LEGACY

Our weekend triple-shot goes to simply one of the greatest blues-rock singer-guitarist-songwriters of all-time, Mr. Stevie Ray Vaughan. Not many evoked Hendrix, Buddy Guy, Muddy Waters and other touchstone guitarists and vocalists with such resounding authority and individual stamp. His music transcends even the finest superlatives so we'll let it speak for itself.

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Gerry Mulligan - "Walking Shoes" (1956)

Source: Riffs on Jazz by John Anderson
June 1, 2010

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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Previewing the Peter Martin Trio

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
May 31, 2010

Today, let's take a look at some videos featuring the St. Louis-based pianist Peter Martin, who will perform with his trio next Friday, June 4 at the Sheldon Concert Hall. The show will be the third installment in the Peter Martin Music series at the Sheldon, and will focus on compositions drawn from the catalogs of Billy Strayhorn, Stevie Wonder and Thelonious Monk.The series' first concert in February featured Martin ...

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Twitter Explodes as Video Discovery Engine

Source: HypeBot
May 28, 2010

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Crate Digging with Bill Milkowski

Source: The Independent Ear by Willard Jenkins
May 28, 2010

A recent edition of DownBeat magazine detailed in part a new project to release Newport Jazz Festival performances online. The project is being undertaken by a company called Wolfgang's Vault, and they've had the good sense to engage longtime jazz scribe Bill Milkowski as their intrepid “crate digger", trolling through the rich archives of recorded Newport performances for viable nuggets for online availability. The news seemed to require a bit broader investigation than was afforded by the item in DB, ...

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