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Guitar Center Searches for Next Great Blues Musician
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JamBase
Guitar Center Searches For The Nation's Greatest Unsigned Blues Guitar Player
Joe Bonamassa Has the recession left you with too much free time on your hands this summer? Looking for a creative outlet for your energies and possibly a new career path? If you consider yourself a pretty great guitar player (or serious blues guitar fan) - think about checking out Guitar Center's King of the Blues.
King of the Blues is a nationwide search for the next great undiscovered ...
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Leading Questions: Cuong Vu
Source:
Seattle Jazz Scene
Photo and Interview by Steve Korn
Someone once told me that “there’s no money in music!” That’s it. No follow-up to this “heaviness.” What a dumb-ass.
If I could do it all over again, I’d be more fearless in pursuing whatever I wanted. The first reason is that I’ve finally learned that the things I fear about myself…my insecurities…the things that I’ve spent time on in the past, worrying about what people think of what I musically put out, or ...
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Leonard Cohen Collapses Onstage
Source:
Michael Ricci
The singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen is recovering after collapsing onstage in Spain.
Mr. Cohen fainted during a performance of his song Bird on the Wire in Valencia on Friday night, The Times of London reported. The concert was stopped, and Mr. Cohen, who turns 75 on Monday, was taken to a hospital. He was released early on Saturday after suffering from a stomach complaint, tour promoters said.
He is expected to perform the last show of his Spanish tour in Barcelona ...
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Good Business to Take Care Of
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Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes
The jazz community has learned how to take care of its makers--past, present--and way in the past. The greatest examples come out of the the Jazz Foundation of America's Jazz Musicians Emergency Fund, which is run out of New York by a jazz angel named Wendy Oxenhorn. She and the JMEF step in when they hear about a musician, or retired musician who can't make a rent or mortgage payment, is threatened with eviction, needs medical help or had an ...
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The Rebirth, and the Beat, Goes On
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Michael Ricci
At times, central Harlem seems to be an urban scene straight out of central casting: Step off the No. 2 or 3 train at the 116th Street stop one evening, and the air is filled with the snap-snap of double Dutch jump ropes hitting the pavement and girls tensely debating just whose turn it is. Old men hunker down over folding domino tables, and young men preen and spar with one another. But mixed with these Spike Lee-esque vignettes is ...
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A Microcosm of Cutting-Edge Music
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Michael Ricci
At a time when most longstanding jazz festivals are struggling, a relative newcomer, the New Languages Festival, is thriving. New Languages was founded by two saxophonists, Jackson Moore, 32 years old, and Aaron Ali Shaikh, 27. “We began with the intention of shining light on jazz musicians who were of the generation that grew up with the avant-garde as a past occurrence," Mr. Shaikh said in an interview last week. For these musicians, he said, the avant-garde of the '60s ...
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Kanye West Makes a Fool of Himself Interrupting MTV Awards
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Michael Ricci
At least the shocker this year was related to music.
The MTV Video Music Awards are always willfully chaotic, keeping alive the myth of pop as the provenance of rebels by placing a bunch of moderately edgy celebrities within a festive environment and fueling the mood with sexy performances, off-color jokes and “incidents" that are often staged, but good for a thousand Twitter tweets. One of these mostly bogus controversies usually goes a bit deeper, hinting at real issues of ...
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Jay Leno: Television is Dying
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Michael Ricci
Jay Leno's new show is surrounded by drama TV insiders hope NBC's cut-rate alternative to scripted content fails.
When “The Jay Leno Show" premieres tonight in its 10 p.m. weeknight slot, a fair number of industry insiders -- and not just rival executives -- will be rooting for it to flop. Jay Leno knows how to cope with pressure. Which is good, because this week he'll face a public test the likes of which few media personalities have to endure. ...
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