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Chris Massey Signs with the Spectra Jazz Record Label
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Michael Ricci
Not often does a drummer start off a career with high praise and reviews from jazz critics—nor does a drummer provide the sort of recorded listening experience one leaves on continual play, but you'll have to hear drummer Chris Massey's New Jazz Project CD “Vibrainium"to believe it! We here at Spectra Jazz have kept Massey's CD in our rotation for the last two weeks and are very proud that Chris has signed with the Spectra Jazz label. The talents of ...
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How to Launch a Music Startup: Establishing Key Metrics
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HypeBot
This post is part of the How To Launch a Music Startup series by Brenden Mulligan, which focuses on building a company that creates online products for musicians. Mulligan founded ArtistData, which was recently acquired by Sonicbids, and can be found on Twitter at @bmull. Before starting this series off, I thought it'd be useful to lay out some fundamental truths I believe exist which have an enormous effect on the potential success of building a product to sell to ...
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269 Pensioners Could Bring EMI to Its Knees
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HypeBot
Piled on top of all of the money that EMI owes to investors and CitiGroup are the needs of 269 former employees owed pensions by the company. The shortfall in EMI's fund is estimated to between £115m (178 million US) and £217m ($336 million US). In its recent annual report, EMI admitted that the deficit was one if the major factors that cast “fundamental uncertainty" over the company's future. Only 269 members are served by the fund which was closed ...
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Celebrities Don't Dig Jazz
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Jazz Loft Project by Sam Stephenson
Tuesday afternoon I had a meeting at the Albert Schweitzer Fellowship at the Harvard's Beth Israel complex and I spent that night at a hotel nearby. Fenway Park was three blocks away. The Tampa Bay Rays are my team because their AAA club is the Durham Bulls, who might be better than some bottom feeding MLB teams. The Red Sox are a big spending rival of the Rays. But if I'm three blocks from a game in Fenway I will ...
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It's Not the Size of Your Collection That Matters...
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HypeBot
Or Does It? The Biggest Crisis In Music Fandom. Remember the days when you could judge a music fan by the size of their collection? When I started out, it was the matter of filling that 20 disc case. That's like between $250-300 worth of music; a rather sizeable sum for a teenager to come up with. But, it didn't take long before I started eyeing the 100 and then 250 disc cases. By the time my final years of ...
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Stevie Nicks and the Overconsumption of Music
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HypeBot
Before I continue my deconstruction of the viewpoints expressed by Steve Nicks in a recent interview with the NY Daily News, I wanted to take a moment and point you to a fantastic essay that crossed by desktop yesterday. A regular reader here and commenter over at Music Think Tank, T. D. Ruth—who is an entertainment attorney in Nashville—sent in this great piece; it adds an alternative perspective in regards to the one I've expressed here the day before and ...
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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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