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Rerun: The Isley Brothers "Summer Breeze" (1973)

Source: Something Else!
June 9, 2010

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

Source: JamBase
June 10, 2010

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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TuneCore Launches Distribution to MOG, iLike, Tesco

Source: HypeBot
June 10, 2010

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Woe is Jazz: If We Build It, Will They Come Back?

Source: Between the Grooves with Philip Booth
June 10, 2010

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 ...

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We'll Take the High Road

Source: Brilliant Corners, a Boston Jazz Blog
June 8, 2010

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'?

Source: Visa Views
June 10, 2010

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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Does Spotify Already Have 30,000 Users in U.S.?

Source: HypeBot
June 8, 2010

And WMG The Reason It Has Not Launched Here?

Spotify already has 30,000 users in the U.S. according to chatter from the Stockholm (Spoitfy's home) tech scene and first reported TechCrunch. So why not just launch the damn thing in the U.S. officially? Not so fast, says Spotify, the report is “completely factually incorrect".

But Glenn Peoples at Billboard.biz makes the point that you don't have to be a U.S. citizen to use Spotify in the country. Travelers and expatriates ...

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Findings of the Institute

Source: Brilliant Corners, a Boston Jazz Blog
June 10, 2010

In 2008, the Rex Stewart/Jabbo Smith Meme and Trope Institute undertook a multiple year study of the increasingly distant proxemics, gestural and spatial relationship between the jazz performing cohort (expanding) and the jazz audience (contracting). This is a prcis of our findings.

The Institute initially proceeded under the supposition that the jazz performer-audience relationship could be viewed through the lens of the larger cultural zeitgeist, i.e., economic, sociological and political pressures. However, no pattern emerged that would allow a viable ...

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