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A Framework for Music Marketing in 2010
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HypeBot
Most know Bruce Warila as the glue that holds the Music Think Tank blog together. But he's also an entrepreneur who has been involved in many tech startups over the last 15 years (the last 5 in music tech), and the chart above is the conceptual framework for his next project.
On the chart, the outer boxes guide and constrain each of the inner boxes. Bruce is only hinting at exactly what that means for his new venture. But in ...
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Line for Lyons, Twice
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
Rifftides reader Ty Newcomb sent a link to video of the Dutch singer Fay Claassen doing Gerry Mulligan's “Line for Lyons." After enjoying it, I noticed that YouTube has another version of the piece by The Dave Brubeck Quintet. What to do? Why, show you both, of course.
First, we see and hear the composer with Brubeck, Paul Desmond, Jack Six and Alan Dawson at the Berlin Jazz Festival in 1972. The director goes berserk with reverse zooms out of ...
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The Final Soundcheck-Jazz/Blues Music Deaths in 2009
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JAZZzology by Richard Watters
Here's the full list of jazz, blues and related music industry creative talents that passed in 2009 (ordered by instrument or creative talent)...Accordionist:Mat Mathews (a.k.a. Mathieu Schwartz). Banjoist:Albert Leet (a.k.a. Buddy Lee). Bassists:Leanne Butts, Jeff Clyne, Leopoldo Fleming Sr., Leonard Gaskin, Hugh Hopper, Orlando “Cachaito" Lopez, Sirone (Norris Jones), Fred Williams; bassist and writer Whitey Mitchell; bass guitarist and former NBA star Wayman Tisdale; bassist and singer Joe LaCaria.Clarinetists:Charly ...
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Jazz and Metal, Riffs in Arms
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Michael Ricci
JAZZ is metal. Well, of course it isnt, really. They dont sound alike on their outer layers. And their audiences dont overlap. From the evidence of hundreds of jazz shows Ive seen all over the country this past decade, a whole lot of Americans over 60 feel a tremendous fondness for jazz and help it survive. Most of those same people, Id guess, would feel a virulent loathing for metal, if they ever were forced to encounter it. Currently, making ...
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Brett Watanabe's Top 10 of 2009
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Seattle Jazz Scene
from KBCS' RadioActivity newsletter:
Nicole Mitchells Black Earth Strings: Renegades, Delmark Vijay Iyer: Historicity, Act Music + Vision Charles Tolliver Big Band: Emperor March-Live at the Blue Note, Halfnote Victor Noriega: Fenceless, Pony Boy Matt Wilson: Thats Gonna Leave a Mark, Palmetto Joe Lovano: Folk Art, Blue Note Thomas Marriott: Flexicon, Origin Dr. Lonnie Smith: Rise Up, Palmetto Branford Marsalis: Metamorphosen, Marsalis Music
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Jazz Music is for Everyone!
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Michael Ricci
By Jason Parker [Reposted from his One Working Musician blog]
My wife recently emailed me a link to a blog post by Natalie Christie, The Tiny Soprano. Christie's post is about learning and mastery and resonated with me as a musician. In this post was a link to a TED talk by Benjamin Zander, conductor of the Boston Philharmonic, author and leadership expert. It is this video that inspired the blog post you are now reading. Zander makes so many ...
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Charlie Harrington Invited to Audition for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
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Michael Ricci
The award-winning jazz drummer, Charlie Harrington, has been invited to audition for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra as a percussionist. Under the musical direction of the world-renowned Maestro Riccardo Muti, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, founded in 1891, is considered to be one of the finest in the world. Charlie's playing technique is recognized as being superlative as are his mastery of rudiments. Additionally, he was classically trained as a percussionist as a child and his ability to play all genres of ...
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STLJN 2009 Year in Review
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
On this final day of 2009, let's take a look back at some of the most newsworthy, noteworthy and/or interesting items posted here on St. Louis Jazz Notes over the past 12 months:January 2009Hamiet Bluiett on Freddie HubbardBailing out the artsMore “Best Jazz of 2008" listsJim Manley releases new CDSt. Louis Jazz Club sets 2009 schedule“Peanuts" Whalum featured in Cincinnati's City BeatFree Improv Orchestra to perform Wednesday, January 21 at the Way Out ClubSheldon's “Visions of Sound" ...
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