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So Texting is Out...But What About Jazz and Driving?
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Groove Notes
Beginning today in Washington state, using a cell phone while driving becomes a primary offense, and if caught, you can receive a ticket for $124.
I have read and heard a variety of reasons as to why using a phone on the road is a bad idea. The most glaring might be the comparison of texting while driving safety-wise being the equivalent to having a blood alcohol content somewhere between a .08 and a .13.
This lead me to wonder ...
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A2IM Hosts NYC Indie Week, Celebrates 5th Anniv.
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HypeBot
Keynote From Pandora's Tim Westergren
Indie label trade organization A2IM is celebrating its5thanniversary year and hosting Indie Week in NYC from June 16 - 18th. This week long event will feature conferences, panels, meetings and sponsored events circling the main theme of how labels can adapt to the evolving music market place.
Starting Wednesday, the A2IM Tech Day and Licensing Day will take over The Recording Academy's offices in New York City. Then on Thursday, there will be a 3-hourIndependent ...
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Rerun: The Isley Brothers "Summer Breeze" (1973)
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Something Else!
Marvin Isley, the youngest of the Isley Brothers and one of the great, underrated R&B bass players of all time, died Sunday morning in a hospital in Chicago after long suffering major complications from his diabetes. He was 56 years old. In memory of his passing, we re-post an article about a song he and his brothers masterfully covered during their peak years in the 70s: By PicoWith summer now in full swing, it's time for summer tunes.
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Neil Young: New Tour Dates
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JamBase
TOUR BEGINS JULY 11 IN OAKLAND CA
Neil Young After having just completed a two week run with british folk pioneer Bert Jansch, Neil Young will be touring solo on his Twisted Road Tour in select cities in the US and Canada throughout July. Check out http://tix.concertmaps.com/neilyoung for the latest info on how to get your tickets.
Neil Young Tour Dates Sunday, July 11 Fox Theater Oakland, CA Monday, July 12 Fox Theater Oakland, CA ...
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Woe is Jazz: If We Build It, Will They Come Back?
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Between the Grooves with Philip Booth
With the JJA (Jazz Journalists Association) Awards next week, and an abundance of high-profile shows--including Herbie Hancock's 7oth-birthday salute and summer jazz festivals in New York, around the U.S. and worldwide, jazz seems to be grabbing the spotlight.
More good signs:
The first conference held by the Jazz Education Network brought more than 1,150 participants to the St. Louis event in late May. The second conference, slated for January in New Orleans, could turn into a worthy successor to the ...Continue Reading
We'll Take the High Road
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Brilliant Corners, a Boston Jazz Blog
No one seems happy about the fact that consciousness-altering substances have been at the center of American popular music for the past 100 years or so-and have probably played a role in 'classical' music as well-no doubt our scholarly respondents will fill in the details.The Silent Majority (still a great expression-thanks, Spiro) doesn't care for this. It represents a lifestyle that is-choose one or more: amoral, immoral, loathsome, sinful and, no doubt, too evocative of the Shadow Within... ...
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Can't Call It 'Culturally Unique'?
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Visa Views
Let me tell you about a recent problem encountered by a client.
A very reputable U.S. venue booked an Argentine band that fuses Jewish Klezmer music with tango. We thought the case was a slam dunk for the “Fiesta Hanukkah" concert. But that was before immigration checked out the petition and came up with its own new definition of “culturally unique". Immigration claimed: “The evidence suggests the group performs a hybrid or fusion style of music... ...
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