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Jimmy Buffett is Cashing in on Margaritaville
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All About Jazz
Singers fortune expands thanks to numerous products, marketing deals. Jimmy Buffett, who turned 62 on Christmas Day, has long been an icon of certain baby boomers, who tapped into his tropical party vibe as they toiled in cubicles and offices. But in the past decade this chronicler of Margaritaville has really cashed in on his image.
LAS VEGAS - It's like the world's biggest beach party, hosted by the world's richest beach bum. The 15,000 fans packing the sold-out MGM ...
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The Culture of Scarcity
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Michael Ricci
Will the current economic crisis lead us to embrace restraint and disdain excess?
We shopped. Then we dropped. Then we started making culture again -- dancing on the rubble of our own excesses, stitching together art from the ragbag of our desires. Every generation or so, throughout modern American history, the culture of hardship has followed hard on the heels of the culture of consumption and prosperity. The financial shifts and shafts of the late 1800s spurred Mark Twain's skeptical ...
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B.J. Jansen Joins Red Holloway, Donald Harrison, James Carter and Azar Lawrence as an International Woodwind Artist
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JM Creative
Happy Birthday, John Paul Jones!
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JamBase
ZEPPELIN'S BASS GOD IS A HEARTY 63-YEARS-OLD TODAY
The “quiet one" in Led Zeppelin was also the one responsible for many of that band's innovative nuances, not to mention his strata shaking low end brilliance. We adore every little thing about John Paul Jones - his musicianship, his versatility, his gentlemanly ways. JPJ is everything good about serious rock musicians, and he embodies much of the underlying philosophy here at JamBase, where a dedication to great music - of whatever ...
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W.C. Handy Said It
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
"Then the depression came, and white people suffered the pinch along with their darker brothers. With us, of course, being broke and low-down is an old story. With us there has never been anything else but depression. We have known for years how to laugh under trying circumstances, how to go on living with nothing but song to sustain us. But it took a woeful depression to teach this trick to white America.
“Now there seems to be a much ...
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3 Great Reasons for Musicians to Sleep Late
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All About Jazz
3 Smart Things About Sleeping Late
1. You may need more sleep than you think. Research by Henry Ford Hospital Sleep Disorders Center found that people who slept eight hours and then claimed they were “well rested" actually performed better and were more alert if they slept another two hours. That figures. Until the invention of the lightbulb (damn you, Edison!), the average person slumbered 10 hours a night.
2. Night owls are more creative.
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The Dead to Tour In '09
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JamBase
From dead.net:
The Dead will be touring for the first time in more than four years, with nearly twenty shows spread across a month from mid-April through mid-May.
The lineup for this edition of The Dead will be the same one that rocked the house at Penn State last fall at the Obama benefit: The Core Four of Phil Lesh, Bob Weir, Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann, joined by guitar monster Warren Haynes and RatDog keyboard ace Jeff Chimenti (both ...
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Bill Ramsay, Octogenarian Swinger
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
LISTENING TIP
Bill Ramsay is a veteran saxophonist widely admired in jazz circles across the US but little known to the public outside the Pacific Northwest. Accomplished on alto and baritone saxes, he co-leads the Ramsay-Kleeb band and is the baritone sparkplug of the Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra. Ramsay has been a first-call sub on the Count Basie band for decades. His good-natured jousting partnership with tenor saxophonist Pete Christlieb never fails to produce hard swing and spontaneous standup comedy. ...
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