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Play Along with Records the Right Way with Jammit
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We All Make Music
Some of the greatest musicians of our time learned their instruments by trial and error: playing along with their favorite records, imitating what they heard other players doing, and just trusting their ears.
Today, thanks to Jammit, there's not only an app for that. There's an app that makes that process so much more helpful.
Created by hard rock producer Scott Humphrey, Jammit essentially updates the time-honored tradition of learning a song by listening to it over and over and ...
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#Midem w/ Berklee's Dave Kusek on Future of Music
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HypeBot
Dave Kusek, President of Berklee's online music school and co-author of The Future Of Music, gave MIDEM attendees a look at the music business from the perspective of the creative people working in it and how it works for them. “After all," says Kusek, “that is where music comes from." He also included case studies of alternative music business models. Here are the slides of his MIDEM and NAMM presentation: Kusek Music Business 2011 ...
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Acquired Taste: Wolfgang's Vault Buys Paste Magazine...
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Digital Music News
Do you read Paste Magazine? Or, any paper magazine, for that matter? Well, there's still a crowd for this, and Paste hasa considerable online presence. Certainly, this is a tough space (trust us), though Wolfgang's Vault thinks some opportunity exists here. “The parent company of Wolfgang's Vault... has acquired all assets of Paste Magazine," confirmed Paste cofounder and editor-in-chief Josh Jackson. Those assets include pastemagazine.com, a fairly well-trafficked site that also ties into the @PasteMagazine Twitter account. But the post-acquisition ...
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#Midem 2011 - Music Hack Day, More Deals and News
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HypeBot
Updated. A Music Hack Day at the music industry convention most heavily influenced by the major labels? It happened because MIDEM brought the Hack Day team to Cannes; and an eclectic group of international hackers showed an overflow crowd the kind of fun and useful music tech that can be created in 24 hours. Key to most of the creations was the open API's of a few forward thinking companies like The Echo Nest, Soundcloud, Music Brains and Last.fm. My ...
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Good News For LA's Jazz Community
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Chuck Koton
The jazz community has, too often, endured bad news. This sad reality recently manifested in the deaths of legends James Moody, Lena Horne, Billy Taylor and Buddy Collette, among others. The loss of the music's great instrumentalists and vocalists to the ravages of time and disease is, of course, inevitable, though no less painful. Like these beautiful and talented human beings, night clubs and jazz radio stations, too, have come and gone. The Three Deuces, Birdland, the Village Gate, the ...
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Casting New Lives Signs Gordon Goodwin and The Big Phat Band
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Michael Ricci
Casting New Lives is pleased to announce that we now represent Gordon Goodwin and his Big Phat Band! “We are honored to represent an artist of Gordon's stature," said Brinka Rauh of CNL. Gordon and the Big Phat Band have a new CD being release in April on Concord Jazz. CNL will be booking Gordon's national tour to coincide with the album release. Gordon Goodwin is an Emmy and Grammy winning composer and is leader of the acclaimed Big Phat ...
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The Music Bay - A Good Reason to be Scared
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HypeBot
The Pirate Bay crew has a surprise for the music industry. A few years back they registered a domain name, themusicbay.org, but haven't done anything with it. That could change soon. In an interview with TorrentFreak, a Pirate Bay insider warned, “The music industry can't even imagine what we're planning to roll out in the coming months. For years they've complained bitterly about piracy, but if they ever had a reason to be scared it is now." At the time that ...
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