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10 Promotional Strategies for Indie Musicians
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HypeBot
Disc Makers recently released 10 Effective Strategies to Get Your Music Noticed by Randy Chertkow and Jason Feehan authors of The Indie Band Survival Guide. It's a nice free guide that actually shares more tactics than strategies for getting your music noticed and building your fanbase. But let's not quibble over such details when there's good advice to be had and a world to be won. 10 Effective Strategies to Get Your Music Noticed is available as a free download ...
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August '58: Great Day in Harlem
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
In the early 1960s, I grew up in New York's Washington Heights with photographer Art Kane's son Jonathan. I was pretty young then, but I still recall Jonathan's dad as a hip, relaxed guy in a photographer's vest, longish hair and large glasses. Art Kane, of course, took the famous “A Great Day in Harlem" photo for Esquire magazine. In August 1958, he called as many jazz musicians as he could and asked them to show up on 126th Street ...
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The Kitano New York Opens Manhattan’s Newest Supper Club
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Michael Ricci
JAZZ at KITANO Offers a Fresh Take on New York City Jazz Venues NEW YORK, NY: The Kitano New York, Manhattan’s first and only Japanese-owned hotel, will showcase the city’s best jazz with the opening of a new supper club, JAZZ at KITANO. Located in a historic former Rockefeller Family townhouse adjacent to the hotel, JAZZ at KITANO builds upon The Kitano’s long history of presenting world class jazz performances. It features a full schedule of entertainment along with a ...
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Gumroad's 19 Year Old Founder Raises $8.1 Million for Music Ecommerce
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HypeBot
Gumroad wants to empower musicians, in fact everyone, to “sell" as easily as they “share"; and so far its 19 year old founder has raised $8.1 million to make his goal a reality. After angel funding og $1.1 million in February, Sahil Lavingia - already an ex-member of the Pinterest team - just landed another $7 million in Series A round led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Mike Abbott is joining the board. CrunchFund, Raymond Tonsing, and all of ...
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Jazz Soul Seven: Curtis Mayfield
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Singer-songwriter and guitarist Curtis Mayfield (1942-1999) isn't nearly as well known today as he should be. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Mayfield, like Sly Stone, leveraged the assertive music and messages of James Brown—whose Say It Loud (I'm Black and I'm Proud in 1968 launched a socially conscious soul music revolution. After leaving the Impressions in 1970, Mayfield wrote sweeping and critical orchestral works that were developed for LP rather than the singles market. Starting with the album ...
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Lifeforce Jazz to Release James Leary New CD Release
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Craig Neely
On Tuesday May 8th, 2012 Lifeforce Jazz releases a stellar CD of original compositions and arrangements, Together by James Leary, recorded in two outstanding recording sessions. After years with the Count Basie Orchestra winning two Grammy's along the way, Sammy Davis Jr. Bobby Hutcherson, Max Roach, Randy Weston, and Dizzy Gillespie to name a few James Leary delivers with grand excellence! Tracks 1-7 were originally released on vinyl that featured a host of Bay Area legends including Joe Henderson, Eddie ...
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Shapeshifter Lab: A New Music Venue In Brooklyn, NY
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Fortuna Sung
SHAPESHIFTER LAB GRAND OPENING CELEBRATION – JUNE 2012 The Art Space that ShapeShifts Music and Creativity Brooklyn, NY: In today’s fast evolving music industry it’s not just the musicians and the marketplace that need to be flexible and adaptable; music venues also need to accommodate every conceivable audio-visual need. Thus ShapeShifter Lab, Brooklyn’s newest and most exciting live music venue, is set to take all aspects of live and recorded performance interactivity to a new level. With in-house ...
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Wes Montgomery: Holland, 1965
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Touring in the Netherlands in April 1965 with Clark Terry, guitarist Wes Montgomery was captured in a studio warming up Dutch musicians for a radio show recorded later on that day. The tunes they used to limber up were I Love Blues, Nica's Dream and End of a Love Affair. Fortunately, the Dutch cameramen were warming up as well. When you view the session below, dig Montgomery's command on the instrument and swing from the opening notes on each song. ...
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