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Jazz Expos
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All About Jazz
Have you ever heard of the New York Jazz Museum? Most people have not. Yet between 1972 and 1977 it was the most significant institution for jazz in the world! With the opening of the Lincoln Center jazz facility and the recent large federal grant for the National Jazz Museum in Harlem this book looks back to present the story of a Lost Museum.
It was situated in its own two-story building in mid-town Manhattan and had a small staff, ...
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Inside A&R - The Musician's Guide to Pursuing a Major Label Record Deal
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All About Jazz
If you're serious about getting a major label record deal, this is the book for you! Ken Krongard and Evan Sanchez are veteran recording industry professionals with more than 17 years of combined experience working in A&R for some of the leading labels, including Atlantic, Arista and Epic Records.
Together, they have written a current guide that tells you everything you need to know about how to get signed in today's climate.
You'll find out:
* What the major labels ...
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"The Artist's Role in Waging Peace" Leads Fall Signal to Noise
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All About Jazz
SIGNAL to NOISE: the journal of improvised & experimental music is pleased to announce the publication of our fall 2004 issue. STN #35 is highlighted by “the Artist's Role in Waging Peace", a transcript of a panel discussion held at the Vision Festival in New York City in May, in which William and Patricia Parker, Dave Burrell, David Budbill, Kidd Jordan and others discuss the topic of music and social change ... plus supplementary essays by Eugene Chadbourne, Jack Wright ...
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Free Jazz and Free Improvisation: An Encyclopedia by Todd S. Jenkins
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All About Jazz
The free jazz revolution that began in the mid-1950s represented an artistic and sociopolitical response to the economic, racial, and musical climate of jazz and the nation. In parallel with the American civil rights movement, free jazz exemplified an escape from the restrictive rules of musical performance with an emphasis on individual expression and musical democracy. A handful of major individual artists opened the gateway to intense personalization of performances through astonishing new techniques, and inner-city collectives were formed to ...
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