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Monday Recommendation: Charlie Haden Speaks
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
Woodard and Haden: Conversations with Charlie Haden (Silman-James) Interviews transcribed from tape recordings and transformed into print are often boring substitutes for writing. With judicious editing, however, the technique can be illuminating. Journalist Josef Woodard’s many chats with bassist Charlie Haden (1937-2014) provide valuable insights into what fueled Haden’s musical tastes and goals and the social conscience that was inseparable from his music. Woodard draws out Haden on child stardom in his family’s western band, his key role with Ornette ...
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24 Best Music Tech Conferences: FREE Ebook from PR Firm Rock Paper Scissors
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HypeBot
Music Tech Conferences: A Guide for Startups is available for free. This 31-page guide will help anyone—from startups to seasoned veterans—navigate the many music and tech industry conferences. Music Tech Conferences: A Guide for Startups includes informative articles that provide help in evaluating how these events fit into your business development, investment, and marketing plans. The colorfully-designed ebook includes a calendar with 24 conferences divided into seven categories which include Essential Music Tech Conferences, Artist Conferences, Live Music Conferences, and ...
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Bob Porter on Organ Combos
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
No one knows more about soul jazz and the jazz organ combo than Bob Porter. That's because he produced many of the great recordings of the late 1960s and '70s for Prestige and often wrote the liner notes. He also produced other organ combo sessions in the '80s and beyond. Bob has spent more than 30 years on WBGO-FM in Newark, N.J., hosting Portraits in Blue on Fridays at 6:30 p.m. and Saturdays at 7 a.m. (EST); Saturday Morning Function, ...
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Bob Porter on Soul-Jazz
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Back in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when I was in my early teens and just starting to listen to jazz, the soul-jazz albums I dug most were on Prestige and produced by Bob Porter (above). These included Leon Spencer Jr.'s Louisiana Slim, Sonny Stitt and Gene Ammons' You Talk That Talk and Sonny Stitt and Don Patterson's Tune Up! Over the years, Bob produced nearly 200 albums in all, including reissue sets for Savoy and Atlantic. He also ...
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Recent Reading: Books About Jazz In Four US Regions
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
After jazz emerged—or coalesced—as a distinct form of music in New Orleans in the early twentieth century, it quickly took hold throughout the world. Jazz musicians developed on every continent, even in countries where the spirit of jazz goes against the grain of politics and culture; a jazz community is emerging in China, not an eventuality that Mao Tse Tung is likely to have envisioned. But for all the music’s wide acceptance abroad, the United States was where jazz flourished. ...
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Woodstock To Bali - "Guitarlo" Shares 29 True Stories
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Arlo Hennings
Guitarlo is Arlo Hennings' compelling, and to the heart honest, memoir that takes readers on a decades journey from his challenging childhood, blossoming as a poet, song writer, musician, agent, husband, father... to his current life in Indonesia where he continues to promote and create music. The inspiration that brought him to Bali began at an Occupy protest where he was clubbed and arrested, having lost his job, home, marriage. A dramatic, and very real, event, as are many events ...
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Paying For The Album Does Not Mean The Artist Gets To Own The Album (Why Record Contracts Are Horrible For Artists)
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HypeBot
In this excerpt from Ryan Kairalla's new book Break the Business: Declaring Your Independence and Achieving True Success in the Music Industry, we get an unvarnished look at what it really means to sign a record contract. By Ryan Kairalla, from his new book “Break the Business: Declaring Your Independence and Achieving True Success in the Music Industry." To understand how a record contract imposes a financial burden on the artist, you have to understand the process by which an album ...
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"Jim Marshall: Jazz Festival" Now Available from Reel Art Press
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All About Jazz
Published by Reel Art Press Edited by Amelia Davis, Tony Nourmand. Introduction by Nat Hentoff. Foreword by President Bill Clinton. Designed by Graham Marsh. From Thelonius Monk to John Coltrane, Miles Davis to Nina Simone, Jim Marshall's defining photographs of the 1960s jazz scene Jim Marshall is known as the defining father of music photography and his intimate photographs of the greats of rock & roll, country, folk, blues and jazz are ...
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