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Alt-Rock Hub, Purring with Jazz
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The New York Times
THE atmosphere at Cafe Racer, a coffeehouse and bar in the University District here, skews distinctly postgrunge, with its scuffed floor and mismatched furniture, its thrift-store paintings on boldly colored walls. One Sunday evening this spring the place was packed mainly with teenagers and 20-somethings in T-shirts and sneakers, all listening intently to a band. Everything seemed of a piece except the music: sleek, dynamic large-group jazz, a whirl of dark-hued harmony and billowing rhythm. “Split Stream" was the name ...
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Donna's Bar and Grill, longtime home to brass bands, closes
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Michael Ricci
The proprietors of Donna's Bar & Grill have decided to close the North Rampart Street brass band and jazz club, effective immediately. The deteriorating condition of the building, coupled with the landlord's alleged reluctance to make repairs, reportedly factored in Donna Poniatowski's and husband Charlie Sims' decision. Poniatowski opened Donna's in October 1993 and soon presented brass bands six nights a week. In later years, the program included the likes of trumpeter Leroy Jones, drummers Shannon Powell and Bob French ...
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The Shape of ANW to Come
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Ars Nova Workshop
As we begin the next ten years of adventurous and exciting programming, Ars Nova Workshop wants to know a little more about you—what you like, what you want to see, and how you want to see it. We have put together a short survey to help us with this goal, and it would mean a lot to us if you could take a few minutes to fill it out. As a thank you, we are giving away an ANW prize ...
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The Case for the Billboard Top 40 over 40 List
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HypeBot
This last week, Billboard ran their annual 30 under 30 list, identifying the “rising young executives who are driving our business forward with their artistic and business vision." It's a great inventory of up-and-coming power players in the industry, but it's quite ironic that it ran the same week as this story in Newsweek, which effectively argues that most of our long-held assumptions and stereotypes of the youthful, risk-taking, and sharp entrepreneur are actually wrong. How wrong? Citing research by ...
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The Fool's Gold of Paz's Piggybacking Marketing Campaign
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We All Make Music
One of the most important aspects of any marketing campaign is getting yourself in front of the right kinds of people. In the music world, that normally means people who listen to similar kinds of music, or certain groups of people in particular age ranges that have specific sets of interests or hobbies. But more recently, it's started to mean people who want something for free. Last week, a singer/rapper called Paz deployed two campaigns to promote his new mixtape, ...
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Congress's Unsavory Copyright Conundrum
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
Many music lovers intrigued by the National Jazz Museum's collection of newly discovered recordings wonder when they will be able to hear more than the samples on the museum's website. Under current law, there is little likelihood that the music will be generally available in most of our lifetimes. That willchange only if Congress loosens copyright restrictions. As an editorial in today's New York Times explains,Copyright laws are designed to ensure that authors and performers receive compensation for their labors ...
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Free That Tenor Sax
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AAJ Staff
For jazz fans, nothing could be more tantalizing than the excerpts made available by the National Jazz Museum in Harlem of newly discovered recordings from the 1930s and '40s. Nearly 1,000 discs containing performances by masters like Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, Billie Holiday and the long-neglected Herschel Evans suddenly re-emerged when the son of the audio engineer, William Savory, sold them to the museum. The museum is doing its best to clean up and digitize the recordings. But because of ...
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