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How to Get a Booking Agent to Book Your Band
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HypeBot
Finding venues to perform and scheduling performances can be tedious. On Music Think Tank, Dave Cool has a simple answer to people looking for a professional booking agent. He states that, "By far the best way to get a professional booking agent is for bands to book themselves until the point where they are selling out shows on a regular basis on their own." This is easier said than done. He gives advice on building up your career to get ...
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"Jazz Notes" by Sanford Josephson
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Gapplegate Music Review by Grego Edwards
The 197 pages of Sanford Josephson's Jazz Notes: Interviews Across the Generations (Praeger) go quickly when you are reading. Admittedly it is a short book. It consists of twenty principal interviews conducted years ago by the author, then supplementary follow-up interviews of artists who either played with the person originally interviewed, or who are admirers of that person. So we have for example an interview with Duke sideman Norris Turney, then supplementary interviews with Art Baron, Joe Temperley, Virginia Mayhew, ...
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Jazz & Blues Florida June 2011 Online Edition Posted
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Charles Boyer
Jazz & Blues Florida, Florida's source for information on the live jazz and blues scene, online edition is now available. The June 2011 online edition of JAZZ & BLUES FLORIDA has been posted at JazzBluesFlorida.com. This month's preview features include: Winning Spin: Kurt Elling's The Gate Brad Vickers and His Vestapolitans B.B. King Jr. Drinkwater and the West Side Blues Band Ira Sullivan Stephanie Jordan Duwayne Burnside
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Eric Dolphy Graphic Novel seeking funding
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Keith Henry Brown
Keith Henry Brown, illustrator, writer and occasional contributor to AllAboutJazz.com, is on a personal mission. “Eric Dolphy is someone whose music and persona I've always liked and admired. This project to me is a true labor of love. Just something I feel I have to do." This “labor of love" is a graphic novel about the 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 ...
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How Not to Soundproof Your Basement Studio
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We All Make Music
Regardless of which environment you choose for your studio space, your two main challenges will always be soundproofing and acoustic control. Adhering to some very basic principles can get you as much as 90 percent of the isolation found in a big-time commercial studio. The problem is that it'll cost you. Soundproofing is the expensive part of building any kind of studio, and adding even a small fraction of extra isolation can raise costs significantly. However, the easiest way to ...
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Glorious Days and Nights: A Jazz Memoir By Herb Snitzer
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Lucy Clark
Glorious Days and Nights: A Jazz Memoir By Herb Snitzer University Press of Mississippi ISBN 978-1-60473-844-5 Hardback, $35 Herb Snitzer tells the story behind iconic photographs of jazz greats Nina Simone, Miles Davis, Thelonius Monk, Dizzy Gillespie, and more “For any jazz lover who has ever wished to have been around in the Golden Age, Glorious Days and Nights offers a wonderful glimpse of what it must have been like." —Colette Bancroft, ...
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One of the Best Drummers in Los Angeles takes Drums, Drummers, and Drumming On A Quantum Surge with New Book "The Footiments"
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Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
Los Angeles—When you think of double-Bass/double-Pedal drummers names like Terry Bozzio, Vinnie Colaiuta, Ginger Baker, Mike Portnoy, Neil Peart, and Chris Adler obviously spring to mind. Yet one drummer has taken the science of double-bass/double-pedal drumming to a new level of intensity with his new book 'The Footiments.' For the drummer in the know, the name Rick BooM Steel is a respected innovator in the field of music education. BooM is a successful drummer with a unique style and sense ...
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Wax Poetics - Issue 46
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Sound Insights by Doug Payne
The great Wax Poetics has come out with one of its best ever issues with its marvelous 46th. This issue's theme is “Jazz's Mad Men"—presumably tied to guys who came out of the '60s when TV's Mad Men takes place—and has any number of features of interest that nearly all of today's jazz press avoids completely including features or interviews with the cover's Georges (Benson and Duke) as well as Billy Cobham, Norman Connors, Tom Browne, Bernard Wright, Don Blackman, ...
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