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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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Eric Dolphy Graphic Novel Seeks Funding
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Keith Henry Brown
Keith Henry Brown, illustrator, writer and occasional contributor to AllAboutJazz.com campaign through Kickstarter is nearing an end. It will be concluded on June 16. The novel, about influential multi-instrumentalist Dolphy, who's known for his work with John Coltrane, Charles Mingus and Chico Hamiliton as well as his own incomparable recording efforts as a leader. Through colorful drawings, narrative and dialogue, Brown tells the story of his favorite musical artist. “I come from a comic book background and I also love ...
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CD Baby Founder Derek Sivers Releases Book: "Anything You Want"
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Friend of independent music and CD Baby founder Derek Sivers released his first book today, Anything You Want㬤 Lessons In Being An Entrepeneur on Seth Godin's new Amazon imprint Domino. Anything You Wantis a compilation of lessons Sivers learned as a self-taught businessman. I devoured it in a single 90 minute sitting, and now consider it a must read for anyone starting or running a business, including every musician who cares about their future. I'll be writing more about Anything ...
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Books: R. Crumb - Draws the Blues (1993)
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Something Else!
By Derrick Lord Occasionally jazz and blues fans need to be reminded that we don't have to limit ourselves strictly to musical recordings. Keep in mind there is plenty of great artwork available that would be a nice addition to any collection or music room. Of particular interest to me is the work of Robert Crumb. Most are aware of Crumb as a founding father in the underground comics movement in the 1960s or perhaps are familiar with his work ...
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New Atlantis: Musicians Battle for the Survival of New Orleans
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Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes
John Swenson, my music writing collaborator for many years at UPI, is out with a gem. “New Atlantis: Musicians Battle for the Survival of New Orleans" (Oxford University Press) captures the determination of New Orleans' stylistically varied music makers to survive after Hurricane Katrina and to help keep the city's soul alive. John has been writing almost exclusively about New Orleans and its musicians since the late 1990s, principally for Offbeat magazine, and has come to understand his adopted city ...
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Books: Out of the Vinyl Deeps
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Music and More by Tim Niland
Out of the Vinyl Deeps: Ellen Willis on Rock Music by Nona Willis Aronowitz The career of Ellen Willis as a rock music critic was comparatively brief, spanning the late 1960's to the early 1970's, but during that time she wrote some of the most insightful and thought provoking essays on rock and roll to date. As a radical feminist writing about a male dominated music for male dominated media, it took strong will and opinions to get her ideas ...
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