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Legendary Count Basie Orchestra Announces New Management
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Dawn Singh Publicity
In agreement with the Trust of William J. Basie and for the first time since 1984, the Legendary Count Basie Orchestra is under new management. Artist Management Productions, LLC will represent the Count Basie Orchestra with its new management team including Bill Hughes, Director; Dee Askew, Booking Manager; Clarence Banks, Manager; Doug Lawrence, Operations Director. “The Count Basie Orchestra has continued to tour consistently over the past 74 years and now, thanks to our new management team, we have even ...
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The Cross-Cultural Chet Baker
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
San Francisco's Company C Contemporary ballet company includes this item in the announcement of its spring season.
Charles Anderson, Beautiful Maladies Music by: Richard Rogers and Lorenz Hart, Hoagy Carmichael, George Benson and others Arranged and performed by: Chet Baker Expanded from last season's You Don't Know What Love Is, Charles Anderson's Beautiful Maladies, is set to seven exquisite ballads arranged and sung by West Coast Jazz legend Chet Baker. Enveloped by Baker's silky smooth sounds, this dramatic ...
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The Jazz Session #128: Dan Scofield on Sonny Simmons
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Michael Ricci
Saxophonist Sonny Simmons is the subject of a new documentary now in production called Just A Guy Who Knows. The filmmakers, Dan Scofield and Mike Ercolini, have so far produced a 20-minute trailer and are raising funds to finish a 45-minute short film on Simmons. The saxophonist has lived a remarkable life, moving from his days as a colleague of John Coltrane and Sonny Rollins to near anonymity as a musician on the streets of San Francisco. Hes now back ...
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Articulate!
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Indaba Music Artist in Residence with Greg Osby
Just a small observation: I find that many saxophone players have very little or no punctuation process in their playing. For some, there isn't a well enough defined attack at the beginning of phrases and sustained tones - at least to my ears. Sometimes complete lines are slurred throughout, which does little to detail the separation between statements. Listening to this kind of playing is reading text by people who write sentences without commas, periods, question marks, exclamation points, or ...
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Freedom of Choice
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Indaba Music Artist in Residence with Greg Osby
To my surprise, the original Jazz Bums blog entry set off a mini-firestorm online as it obviously touched the nerves of a few who are offended by the very idea of looking decent while performing, as well as others who are offended by the sound of my playing and/or music. At this point in my career, I am entirely aware of the fact that some or most of my work will not be considered favorable by many, and as that ...
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Would You Pay for Access? Blazetrak Hopes So.
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HypeBot
Would you pay to have a successful musician, producer, songwriter or choreographer review your portfolio or answer a question about the music industry? Startup Blazetrak thinks so, and has built a platform to make the transaction happen. Most of the professionals charge $100-$200 (R&B star Kenny Lattimore will let you spend the day with him for $7500.) and answer via a short video. The video insures that the response comes from the pro, not an intern; and Blazetrak will give ...
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New Nimbit Marketing Alliance Offers One Stop Direct-to-Fan Services
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HypeBot
Artist services provider Nimbit has just opened a Direct-to-Fan Marketing Services Alliance made up of companies who compliment and extend its platform's existing ability to enable artists and their teams to effectively market and sell direct to fans. Charter members of the Nimbit Direct-to-Fan Marketing Services Alliance include:
Ariel Publicity & Cyber PR HypeGenius Lotos Nile - Media Marketing Music Music Business Solutions MarKyr Media The MuseBox Powderfinger Promotions Radar Music Videos ...Continue Reading...
Jazz This Week: Season's Greetings from St. Louis Jazz Notes
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
With the Christmas holiday on Friday, it's a slow weekend for live music generally in St. Louis, but there are a couple of noteworthy shows happening early next week.On Monday, bassist David Certain, who's played with Eddie Henderson, Gary Bartz and Little Jimmy Scott, leads a quartet at BB's Jazz, Blues and Soups, featuring drummer Stan Hale plus saxophonist “Blind" Willie Dineen and trumpeter Rob Endicott of the Voodoo Blues Band. (Full disclosure: Yr. humble editor has gigged ...
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