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Drum! Magazine's Email Neil Peart Editorial Campaign a Hit

Source: JCM Media
March 7, 2009

SAN JOSE, Calif., -- Enter Music Publishing, publishers of hip, drum magazines worldwide, is experiencing a tremendous response rate to its Email Neil Editorial Campaign. Officially launched on February 11, the Neil Peart population has sent questions via neilpeart@drumlink. Additionally, questions have been sent online at http://www.drummagazine.com/features/post/just-ask-neil-yourself/; or by accessing the Questions Page on DRUM!s Youtube site, www.youtube.com.

The result: 1,000 emails from across the globe.

The emailed questions have varied from the most basic to the highly complex in ...

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Lost Mark Twain Story to be Published

Source: Michael Ricci
March 6, 2009

The never-before-published story The Undertaker's Tale by Mark Twain will finally see print next week, in the pages of the mystery quarterly The Strand Magazine.

Twain uses his razor sharp wit to pen a tongue-in-cheek tale about the funeral industry, which could easily have been written today. editor Andrew Gulli

But Twain's story has less in common with the glossy Six Feet Under than something by Charles Dickens: It's got a dirty hungry wretch, who finds solace in ...

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Daily D.I.Y. - Your 10,000 Hours

Source: HypeBot
March 5, 2009

Malcolm Gladwell's latest book Outliers: The Story of Success outlines his belief that success only comes to those willing to practice their craft for more than 10,000 hours.  From The Beatles to Bill Gates, Gladwell provides examples which show that after a certain level of talent or intelligence has provided the opportunity, 10,000 hours of concentrated effort is needed to achieve real success.

During several extended gigs in Hamburg, Germany, The Beatles had to play 8 hours straight, 7 days ...

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Kind of Blue is 50

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
March 3, 2009

Fifty years ago today, the Miles Davis Sextet began recording for Columbia Records the music that ultimately made up the album called Kind Of Blue. To observe the occasion, Jan Stevens of The Bill Evans Web Pages commissioned an essay about that imperishable recording and its most recent CD reissue. The piece, by John Varrallo, is exclusive to the Evans site. It is worth reading.

Evans, who was central to the concept of the music on Kind Of Blue, had ...

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Cafe Society: The Wrong Place for the Right People

Source: Night Lights Classic Jazz
March 2, 2009

At the end of 1938 a former shoe salesman named Barney Josephson opened what would become one of the most legendary nightspots in jazz history. Cafe Society was New York City's first integrated nightclub, and it quickly became a gathering place for artists, intellectuals, leftwing political figures, jazz lovers, and--perhaps inevitably--the very Manhattan sophisticates it meant to mock with its satirical murals and ill-dressed doormen. It was also the place where Billie Holiday debuted her version of the harrowing anti-lynching ...

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AllAboutJazz-New York March 2009 Issue Now Available

Source: All About Jazz
February 28, 2009

We have a new word to add to our collective lexicon: ‘stimulus package’. The financial service sector got one, then the auto makers. Other industries are lining up for their slice of our pie in a time of almost unprecedented economic turmoil.

Well, the next idea is obvious, isn’t it? What needs economic stimulating more than jazz? Producer Quincy Jones has floated the idea of asking President Obama to create a cabinet level Secretary of the Arts position. That’s fine ...

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A Strange and Bitter Crop: Billie Holiday's Song of the Century

Source: Night Lights Classic Jazz
February 26, 2009

When Harry Smith, creator of The Anthology of American Folk Music and dean of American bohemians, received a Grammy just a few months before his death in 1991, he said, “I'm glad to say that my dreams came true--that I saw America changed through music." In the book Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday, Cafe Society, and an Early Cry for Civil Rights, David Margolick proposes that racism--a bedrock element of Americanism--was challenged and ultimately changed by a single song, a song ...

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L.A. Times Unifies Arts and Entertainment Coverage in One Department

Source: Michael Ricci
February 25, 2009

The Los Angeles Times today created a new department that will centralize the newspaper's coverage of arts and entertainment and expand its focus on Hollywood news.

The move will consolidate into one department more than 50 reporters, editors and Web producers who have been handling arts and entertainment for the paper's Calendar and Business sections and for its online site, latimes.com.

“Taking this comprehensive approach allows us to broaden the reach, breadth and depth of our entertainment coverage," Times Editor ...

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