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Saxophonist & Social Activist Fred Ho Chronicles Transformation into "Radical Cancer Warrior"
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Chris M. Slawecki
DIARY OF A RADICAL CANCER WARRIOR: Fighting Cancer and Capitalism at the Cellular Level by Fred Ho; Foreword by Magdalena Gómez; Introduction by Cynthia Franklin “It's not every day you run into a musician who joins a protean range of talents—as a composer, saxophonist, writer, and bandleader—with a commitment to Marxist ideology." —The New Yorker “Pioneering." —Los Angeles Times “[Ho] achieves his cross-cultural goals with skill, grace, and humor...[he] has an audacious integrity." —The New York Times Civilization as we ...
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Stve Slagle "Scenes, Songs & Solos"
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Chris M. Slawecki
Scenes, Songs & Solos: A Composition and Improvisation Workbook for the Creative Musician by Steve Slagle “Steve Slagle speaks of things that need to be heard."—Joe Lovano “Full of fresh, original, and inspirational ideas about music and life."— Randy Brecker “I loved this book! And I'm not even a professional musician."—Sue Mingus Master jazz saxophonist, educator (Manhattan School of Music), award-winning composer and arranger Steve Slagle draws on years of experience to create—in one song-packed, illustrated workbook—an original guide to ...
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Blues Musician/ Horror AuthorThomas Malafarina's Short Story Collection "Gallery Of Horror" Published By Sunbury Press
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Just Roots PR
Sunbury Press has released Thomas M. Malafarina's latest book Gallery of Horror, a short story collection based on the dark art of Keyser, West Virginia's Nunzio Barbera. About the Book: From 1970 to 1973, the television network NBC aired a program called “Night Gallery" hosted by Rod Serling who was best know for the series “The Twilight Zone" during the 1950s and 1960s. Each week, the show started with Rod standing in front of a work of disturbing artwork displayed ...
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Jazz & Blues Florida September 2011 Online Edition Now Available
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Michael Ricci
Jazz & Blues Florida, the free, online guide to live jazz & blues across the state of Florida, has posted the August edition at JazzBluesFlorida.com . The artists featured, that all have shows in Florida during the month of August, are: WINNING SPIN: Silvano Monasterios Paulette Dozier Daryl Sherman and Jay Leonhardt Nate Najar Trio Shannon Powell Quartet Troy Roberts Double Quartet Hot Tuna Doug Deming ...
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Veteran Publicist Cheryl Hughey Teaches Emerging Music Artists Tricks of the Trade in New Ebooklet
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Cheryl Hughey Promotions
Veteran music publicist Cheryl Hughey has just released a new ebooklet, “Music Promotion for Everyone, Volume 1." Designed to fit the growing needs of music students, this short collection of essays covers the subjects of leadership, salesmanship, marketing, communication skills, roles of industry professionals, appearance bookings and social media. “The lessons are designed to give the developing artist a solid foundation in the key business skills needed to survive in the highly competitive entertainment marketplace," said the author. “Music Promotion ...
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Lessons from a Street-Wise Professor: From Music Student to Entrepreneur
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HypeBot
Ramon Ricker's book Lessons From a Street-Wise Professor: What You Won't Learn At Most Music Schools seeks to fill the void in professional music programs related to not just surviving but thriving in the world beyond academia. Many of the issues addressed are the same for musicians who don't attend music school and provides common ground in the understanding that one has to take charge of one's career and treat it as a business. Lessons from a Street-Wise Professor Lessons From ...
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Massachusetts Issues Free MassJazz Travel Guide, Available at Visitor Centers and Jazz Venues
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MassJazz: Jazz in Massachusetts
Massachusetts has issued its 3rd annual MassJazz Travel Guide, a compendium of jazz festivals, outdoor and indoor concerts and campus events, plus live jazz and weekend brunches at hotels, restaurants and nightclubs across the state from July to November 2011. The 40-page color magazine is available free to visitors and residents, and can be picked up at tourist centers and jazz venues. See Distribution List for details. The MassJazz initiative was launched in summer 2009 and is supported by the ...
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New Blossom Dearie Songbook from Hal Leonard!
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Jim Smith
Hal Leonard has produced a lovely new personality folio featuring the music of Blossom Dearie. From her years at Verve in the 50s, Fontana in London in the 60s through the most important songs on Blossom's own label, Daffodil Records, this folio is definitive. A new biography starts out the songbook and the following songs are included: Bring All Your Love Along, Bye-Bye Country Boy, Deed I Do, I Like You, You're Nice, I Won't Dance, I'm Shadowing You, Inside ...
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