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Music and the Creative Class: Why Place Matters to Music and Music Matters to Place
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HypeBot
(Part 3) In previous installments of Music & The Creative Class, I explored the importance that musicians and the business that follow them play in the growing Creative Class that is reshaping America and much of the developed world. Not only does music add flavor to a neighborhood or city, as they have in Nashville, Memphis or New Orleans; but musicians are also often “fruit fly indicators" or harbingers of future growth as they have been from Austin, Texas and ...
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The 10 Commandments of Music 2.0
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HypeBot
Thou Shalt Not Worship False Prophets - Neither a record deal or auto-tune are your saviors. Thou Shalt Worship Only One God - He (or she) is called The Fan. Thou Shalt Giveaway Free Music - Like Jesus and the loaf of bread, give your flock a gift that multiplies as they pass it around. Thou Shalt Not Steal - Borrowing a beat is one thing, but stealing... Thou Shalt Blog ...
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Tina Marsh, Austin's Avant-Jazz Leader, Gravely Ill
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Jazz Beyond Jazz by Howard Mandel
The founder of the Creative Opportunity Orchestra, a musicans' cooperative of composer-improvisers on the model of Chicago's AACM, is suffering late stage breast cancer. Beautiful Tina Marsh, age 55, whose disease was successfully treated in the '90s but recurred in 2008, is resting in a private home, with friends close by. A pure-voiced vocalist who employs extended techniques in dramatic interpretations of songs such as Ornette Coleman's “Lonely Woman" with brilliant control for deep affect but who has also ...
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An "Understated" Report from NARM
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HypeBot
Guest Post from Scott Cave of Red Velvet: The tone at this year's NARM conference is understated when compared to last year's 50th anniversary gathering, yet another indicator of the depressed economy. While decreased sponsorship dollars may have put a damper on the amenities and glitz of the event, the quality of the content and opportunity to establish new relationships remains as valuable as ever. At the half-way marker for the conference, I've already generated a ...
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Jazz Attuned to the Pace of a Calm, Steady Heartbeat
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Michael Ricci
The South African jazz pianist Abdullah Ibrahim harbors no fondness for disruption. A calm, steady heartbeat nourishes his music, fulfilling a meditative urge. When he works in a solo setting — as on “Senzo,” a gorgeously recorded album released last year on Sunnyside — the result is usually a flowing experience, proceeding without pause from beginning to end. Mr. Ibrahim did his part to transport that aesthetic to Jazz Standard on Tuesday, in his first of three evenings of solo ...
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Jazz This Week: Peter Bra Tzmann, St. Louis Stompers, Linda Presgrave, "Simply Sinatra," Adaron "Pops" Jackson, and More
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Whether you like your jazz to be old-school, modern or free-form, there's something for you this weekend somewhere around the St. Louis area. Here's a brief look at the local jazz and creative music highlights for the next several days:Tonight, the St. Louis Stompers will perform traditional New Orleans-style jazz in a free concert for the Whitaker Music Festival at the Missouri Botanical Garden.Tomorrow night, the summer Jazz at Holmes series gets underway with a free ...
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Notes from the Net: Miles on Myspace; Zorn Bio Analyzed; the Wages of Swing; Plus News, Reviews and More
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Here's the latest compilation of assorted news briefs and links related to jazz, improvisation, and creative music in St. Louis, including news of musicians originally from the Gateway City, recent visitors, and coming attractions, plus assorted other items of interest:* In keeping with this feature's tradition of starting with a Miles Davis-related item or two, it seems there's now a page for the trumpeter on MySpace. This in itself is no big deal - lots of celebs, dead ...
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Keyboard Legend Larry Vuckovich Defends San Francisco Jazz History
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All About Jazz
Glad to read someone of Larry Vuckovich's stature speak up about the San Francisco jazz-club scene back in the day. In a letter to the editor in the San Francisco Chronicle, the great jazz legend recalls a time when many of the most respected musicians in the world came through town. Although I'd heard about the old clubs, many had closed before my time-- but places like the Jazz Workshop, Basin Street West, and the Keystone Corner were still around ...
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