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If You Share a 30 Second Song Sample on My Facebook Wall, We're No Longer Friends.
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HypeBot
We're all well aware that Facebook lacks music functionality. Music WithMe is a music app, recently upgraded, that seeks to circumvent this situation. Trouble is that Music WithMe does a terrible job at it. If you don't use iTunes, the app is useless. If you haven't yet downloaded the song that you desire to share, the app is useless. Most of all, why in the world would I ever want my friends—which by the way, I would have to spam ...
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The Music Publishing Sham
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Brilliant Corners, a Boston Jazz Blog
By Steve Provizer On the more-or-less 143rd anniversary of the invention of the phonograph, the right to physically publish sheet music has become largely irrelevant-especially for jazz musicians. Yet “publishing" continues to exist as an anachronistic impediment to the recording careers of musicians. The imposition of publishing into the process of making a recording is a vestige of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when the sale of sheet music was the preeminent means of making money via music ...
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How to Waste Five Dollars, End of Year Edition
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We All Make Music
Regular readers know that we like Sonicbids, that we like The Deli magazine, and that we favor creative schemes to get publicity for your band. We do not, however, like this. As you can see in the above picture, The Deli magazine is accepting submissions for its End of Year poll. For the first few days, these submissions were free. Today, they cost $5 through Sonicbids. Some experts caution against investing too much time and money in Sonicbids, and this ...
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The Transition.
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Brilliant Corners, a Boston Jazz Blog
By Matt Lavelle Whew! You have to hit the ground running when you're in the midst of the grand transition.In an attempt to create an actual functioning life of music I'm dashing through the snow to leap over old worn out rope bridges over caverns to try and reach my holy grail.An actual stable life in music. It's OK though,.I have a plan. Having just spent 2 weeks in Europe with Sabir Mateen's OMNI-SOUND,.I have seen things I previously only ...
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A Little Softer, Please?
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Jazz Lives by Michael Steinman
Although I am not traditionally religious, I think jazz and creative improvisation are holy.
One of the great puzzlements for a devout jazz listener like myself is that some people in bars and clubs where musicians are playing talk through performances.
Given the greater formality (and higher ticket prices) of a concert hall, this is less likely to happen. Of course, there are the coughers and unwrappers of candy. I once met an erudite devotee of classical music who told ...
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Did Folk Music Kill Jazz?
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Over the past few weeks, jazz writers and researchers once again have been burning up the web with a Hatfield v. McCoy perennial: Is jazz dead or dying? Those who argue that jazz is on the ropes point out that album sales and audience knowledge and interest have been steadily declining. They also point out that no new jazz forms have emerged in some time and that live jazz can't possibly compete with the visual and sonic excitement generated on ...
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Forbes Gets Around.
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Brilliant Corners, a Boston Jazz Blog
The Outpost Chronology was a hit and now I'm looking over web video snippets for other area notables. Forbes Graham is engaging in a run of performances over the course of December at the Outpost and he was recently featured in a piece by Gordon Marshall at All About Jazz. In many ways Mr. Graham is a consummate participant. He explores possibilities in situations from noise bands to big bands. We begin with a St. Louis Kayo Dot outing in ...
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Jazz needs more... fun.
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Tim Tamashiro
Michael Kaeshammer is an artist that has a lot of fun during his shows. The audience has fun too. His approach is a win/win for both him and the audience and that earns him an induction into The Fun Jazz Society. It's the very first induction ever. Congratulations sir! Medals are being made. Wheeeee! So what's Michael Kaeshammer's secret? How does he have so much fun with his audiences while many other jazzers bore their audiences to death? My wife ...
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