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Chris Berry Trio with Kimock | 03.01 | Ukiah
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JamBase
Words by: Zack Sampsel | Images by: Rob Burgess
Chris Berry Trio with Steve Kimock :: 03.01.10 :: Ukiah Brewing Company :: Ukiah, CA
Kimock & Berry - CB3 :: 03.01 :: Ukiah, CA The Chris Berry Trio returned to the certified organic confines of the Ukiah Brewing Company once again, this time with guitar legend Steve Kimock in tow, and gave the Redwood Empire crowd a lesson in feel-good fun and psychedelic exploration.
The evening began with a ...
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Photostory16: Buddy Rich
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
This image of Buddy Rich by Paul Slaughter is a personal favorite of mine. I think it's one of the most dynamic and revealing photos of the drummer. For a brief second, you get to see Rich's intensity, anxiety and aggression in one fleeting glance (or glare).
Let Paul pick up the story:
“On September 20, 1970, I was covering the Monterey Jazz Festival for several magazines. Back in those days, the concert's promoters gave the professional photographers covering ...
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This Music is Sponsored by ...The Music Industry in Free Fall
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Michael Ricci
With the music industry in free fall, musicians turn to corporate advertising and product placement to promote their work. In the music video for Lady Gaga's hit single “Bad Romance, the pop diva vamps across several nightmarish tableaux wearing a variety of barely there lingerie get-ups. The flashy clip caused a sensation when it debuted in November and has racked up 85 million views on YouTube. But perhaps its most striking aspect is the unabashed product placement -- conspicuous visual ...
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David Jassy gets 15 to Life for Beating and Driving over Hollywood Jazz Pianist
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Michael Ricci
The sentencing of John Osnes' killer Thursday was as muted as the victim's death was shocking.
There were no angry words for the man who kicked the Hollywood jazz pianist to death in a brutal act of road rage and no emotion beyond a few choked words and a hand smearing away a tear. “I don't feel compelled to say things that make you suffer more," Osnes' sister Mary Beth Anderson wrote in a letter read in court. “I expect ...
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Euclid Records to Open Store in New Orleans
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Marc Hoffman Selects Blueplate PR for Public Relations Support
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blueplate pr
March 4, 2010 (RALEIGH, NC) -- Marc Hoffman, an acclaimed composer, pianist, vocalist, recording artist, music educator and book author has selected Blueplate PR in Raleigh as his public relations agency of record. Hoffman established himself as a composer of concert, film, theatre, pop, and gospel music early in his career. In the early 1990s he began pursuing his passion for jazz. As a pianist and vocalist, he performs his own repertoire of original jazz as well as his own ...
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Music Coalition Pitches Royalties Support Performance Rights Act on Capitol Hill
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All About Jazz
The music industry and broadcasters amped up their rhetoric in the contentious battle over a proposed performance royalty, pitching lawmakers on Capitol Hill on Tuesday as well as anyone else willing to listen.
At a press conference, the MusicFirst Coalition, which includes artists and record labels, announced the launch of its 2010 campaign for passage of the Performance Rights Act, which would require that broadcast radio stations pay royalties to performers when their music is played over the air. The ...
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Swedish Rapper Gets 15-to-Life for LA Killing
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All About Jazz
A Swedish hip-hop artist who ran down and killed a man at a Hollywood crosswalk has been sentenced to 15 years to life in prison.
David Moses Jassy, who also uses the name Dave Monopoly, was sentenced Thursday for second-degree murder and other crimes.
Prosecutors say the 35-year-old rapper killed John Osnes in November 2008 after the pedestrian activist banged on the hood of his rented SUV when it stopped in a crosswalk. Authorities say the rapper punched the 55-year-old ...
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