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Jazz and Metal, Riffs in Arms

Source: Michael Ricci
January 3, 2010

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

Source: Seattle Jazz Scene
January 3, 2010

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!

Source: Michael Ricci
January 2, 2010

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

Source: Michael Ricci
January 1, 2010

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

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
January 1, 2010

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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Bands Have an Official Life Span of Nine Months

Source: HypeBot
January 1, 2010

"As of '09, bands have an official life span of about nine months dating from the launch of their MySpace pages, thanks to the comically accelerated, DSL-enhanced hype cycle. Faster than you can tweet “Serena Maneesh," entire genres of music are “discovered" by attention-starved writers; bloggers engage in hilarious slap-fights about who was there first; magazines feel pressured into writing clueless, hackazoid, late-pass trend pieces; bands get elevated to a critical mass of attention they can't possibly handle; and the ...

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The Artist as an Entrepeneur and Vice Versa

Source: HypeBot
January 1, 2010

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Jazzwax Mindblowers (Vol. 8)

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
January 1, 2010

At the end of each quarter, I go back through my posts of the past three months and pull the best quotes from my interviews. I do this so you have a bunch of great quotes from jazz legends all in one place and a taste of what the full interview holds. Full interviews can be accessed at JazzWax by scrolling down the right-hand column to “JazzWax Interviews." For the other seven entries in this series, scroll down the right-hand ...

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