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Source: HypeBot
June 15, 2010

Kyle Bylin,Editor --(@kbylin)

I. The Rise of a Rebel

In August 2008, Bruce found me. At the time, I was twenty-year-old college student and an intern at an indie record label in Minneapolis, MN. I had just published my second blog post--ever. My readership was small--which is a polite way of saying that the blog I wrote for was only viewed by the other people who worked at the label--about ten people. Though the sequence of events is ...

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Pipe Organ Returns to Alice Tully Hall

Source: Michael Ricci
June 15, 2010

Skepticism stirred when Lincoln Center spirited the pipe organ out of Alice Tully Hall before the building's renovation in 2006, promising its eventual return. The skepticism only grew when the renovated hall reopened in early 2009 with no sign of the organ.

But Lincoln Center promised all along, and now it has delivered. The 19-ton instrument, 4,192 pipes strong, returned to Tully Hall on Monday morning aboard two semitrailers. Employees of the manufacturer, Orgelbau Th. Kuhn of Mnnedorf, Switzerland, and ...

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Playing in the Pits

Source: All About Jazz
June 15, 2010

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to play in the orchestra pit for a West End musical?

Christopher Fish, the cellist who plays in Oliver, has been playing in West End shows for nine years. He's played in 6 shows back to back. You'll find his name on the CDs of the cast recordings of My Fair Lady, Mary Poppins, The Witches of Eastwick and, of course, Oliver. When I got in touch with Chris to ask ...

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Tonys Celebrate Commerce, Not Art

Source: Michael Ricci
June 15, 2010

In Tony Awards voters' eyes, box-office potential and Hollywood celebrity trump quality and innovation.

Awards should be aspirational, validating excellence and originality even though each and every one of us knows that commercialism rules the day. But far be it from the ever-insecure Tony's the geeky glee club representative of the major entertainment awards to bite the hand that feeds it. For the third year in a row the best musical award went not to the work that deserved it ...

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Jazz Venue Chronicles -- Part One

Source: The Independent Ear by Willard Jenkins
June 14, 2010

Following on the heels of our recently concluded series Ain't But a Few, conversations with African American jazz and music writers, we begin a series of conversations with African American and other black folks who have presented jazz music on their stages. Historically, as my current research project on jazz venues in Brooklyn courtesy of the Weeksville Heritage Society clearly indicates, as well as anecdotal evidence from Lost Jazz Shrines across the country, there have been many examples of African ...

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"Playing the Room"

Source: Groove Notes
June 12, 2010

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A Lament for the Blues in Their Backyard

Source: Michael Ricci
June 11, 2010

Buddy Guy said he was worried about the blues. He worried even as he oversaw the finishing touches on the new location of his club, Buddy Guys Legends, which is part musical venue, part museum.

He is worried that his club cannot provide enough exposure for all the musical talent that comes through Chicago, and worried that young people are not exposed to the music he has loved all his life. He is worried, in short, that the city's long, ...

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The Death of Jazz: Greatly Exaggerated

Source: Michael Ricci
June 11, 2010

With His New Undead Jazz Fest, Brice Rosenbloom Makes It Plain That the Historic Genre Is Still Taking Vital Breaths In a city known for the world's greatest summer jazz festivals, few entrepreneurs launch a new one without sounding a little bit nervous. So Brice Rosenbloom's confidence is novel. As the moving force behind the Undead Jazzfest, which debuts this weekend at venues in and around Bleecker Street, the promoter has a track record. And a clear agenda. “The one ...

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