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100 Answers to 50 Questions on the Music Business
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Moses Supposes
Tweet 100 Answers to 50 Questions on the Music Business is truly the first book for every music business professional, established or aspiring. The guide book is structured to take you from garage to Grammy. Each section addresses the issues and challenges faced in the five basic phases of every recording career. (Including: I Just Joined a Band, I Just Made My First Lousy Deal, I’m About to Sign My First Real Deal, I Want Out of This Deal, and Will ...
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Enter Music Publishing's Drummies Hit Hard: 4600 Drummers Cast Votes Since March 10
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JCM Media
San Jose, Calif., Enter Music Publishing, publishers of hip, drum/percussion magazines, worldwide and online, is reporting very strong voting returns during the initial voting period for its 16th Annual Drummies. According to surveymonkey, approximately 4600 drummers have cast votes in the 42 categories that comprise the Drummies since March 10, 2011. This strong voting return should result in a new Drummies record for participation as compared to last year since there are still three weeks of voting time. As noted ...
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Cross-Post: Jazz and Food
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Music and More by Tim Niland
One of my colleagues is an avid foodie, with an excellent blog called Oh! You Cook! She recently uncovered a cookbook called Jazz Cooks and asked me if I would like to cross-post with her about jazz and food. The recipes she picked from the cookbook belong to jazz legends Joe Henderson, Stanley Turrentine and Rashied Ali. Since I can't seem to cook anything without the fire department becoming involved, I'll leave the cooking to her, and concentrate on the ...
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Grammy-Award Winning Jazz Musician, Irvin Mayfield Sends "A Love Letter To New Orleans"
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Lura Belle Productions
Deluxe multi-media coffee-table book and CD package chronicles Mayfield's artistic quest and development into one of America's most promising young jazz musicians. A Love Letter to New Orleans is also available as a CD. A Love Letter to New Orleans will be released nationally through Amazon and select retailers on April 26, 2011. A series of local book release parties will be held at the Tennessee Williams Literary Festival on March 27 at The Palm Court Jazz Café in New ...
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Recent Jazz Books
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Music and More by Tim Niland
Where the Dark and Light Folks Meet by Randall Sandke: To say this book has been controversial among the jazz scene would be quite an understatement. Commentary by Ethan Iverson and Chris Kelsey have thrust this book into the spotlight. It's a much needed conversation, too. Jazz has always been split with racial (and gender) fault lines throughout its history, and Sandke's thesis is that the music has really been integrated since the beginning, in opposition to the oft-cited view ...
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License to Lie - What Made Music Magazines Great
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HypeBot
It is no secret that music magazines, like many publications, are in decline. Part of the reason for this appears to be straightforward—information on artists and their music is now abundant. From music blogs to Wikipedia to an artist's Twitter account, fans now have unlimited access to the updates of an artist and will likely hear their new music weeks before a magazine can write about it. So, why subscribe to a publication that aims to update you about things ...
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Enter Music Publishing Presents: The 16th Annual Drummies With Voting Now Open
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JCM Media
San Jose, Calif.,—It's that time of year, yep, Enter Music Publishing's Annual Drummies Awards/Poll programs is now officially open for voting. Having gained respect from the drum/music industry as the most comprehensive Award/Polling events, drummers, fans and anybody else interested can now cast their votes online until May 1 at drummagazine.com. Enter Music Publishing, publishers of hip, drum percussion magazines, worldwide and online, expects very strong voting returns as was experienced last year. In 2010, approximately 6500 drummers participated in ...
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Creative Music Studio Book Reissue to Coincide with CMS Day at Columbia
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Bob Sweet
Creative Music Studio Book Reissue to Coincide with CMS Day at Columbia The book that tells the story of the legendary Creative Music Studio—Music Universe, Music Mind: Revisiting the Creative Music Studio, Woodstock, New York (Ann Arbor: Arborville Publishing, ISBN 0-9650438-4-3)—is being reissued. The reissue coincides with events in 2011 designed to help cement the legacy of CMS as the twentieth century's premiere study center for creative, improvised music. Music Universe, Music Mind is a fascinating account of the opportunities ...
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